I love this family and just couldn’t be happier for them as they’ve grown from two, to three, to four, and now five in nearly the same speed as my own crew has.

They understand the fun and noise level and mad love and even chaos that we experience on the daily, and so as I was taking these I was flooded with nostalgia…when we were them, welcoming this sweet calm once more against the juxtaposition of the big kids.

I have no doubt Jimmy and Brittany will handle it amazingly, and I can’t wait to see Mikey grow and become his own little person and soon, much too soon, toddling behind Charlie and Maddie.

They don’t stay little for long, and the quiet serene moments are harder and harder to come by.

But with these photos, it feels a bit more like this flash of newness can last forever.

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