"I think I'd miss you even if I had never met you"...some line from some movie I saw once.  When I heard it, I'm sure it stuck in my head for some girlish, entirely romantic reason.  But in the last few years I have come to know that it can really happen!

Three years ago this month, I became an aunt for the first time.  I can remember waiting and waiting all week for the day to arrive for my sister to have her baby.  The first time I held Griffin, I knew I would never be the same!  I don't think I had ever loved anyone so much...

I definitely didn't know you could feel that way TWICE.  But, you guessed it, almost two years to the day, Mackenzie joined our world.  I viewed it on skype, but still couldn't have been more excited.  Holding her 3 weeks later was heaven on earth.  I think I held her every moment possible during my visit home :)

Things I didn't even know I was missing:

• sweet sleepy smiles after a long nap
• belly laughs when you tickle their bellies
• singing the same song OVER and OVER again...and enjoying it
• getting excited over new clothes that are WAY too small for me
• hearing my name from little mouths...even if it's mispronounced
• peek-a-boo via skype
• harmonica solos
• being a refuge to cling to in a room full of strangers
• loving someone when they can give you nothing tangible back!

I can't imagine life without these two kids...I'd keep them if my sister would let me :)  Baby number 3 is coming in August!  (Maybe she'll let me keep just one?????)