Claire & Matthew | Minneapolis Lifestyle Photography
April 6, 2012
Dear sweet, sweet Strawberry Baby,
I wish for you your momma’s hair and your daddy’s smile. I hope your daddy & your Uncle Gavin start teaching you their soccer skills even before you can walk. I hope that you grow-up with a deep love for animals and that one day your dad lets you get a little puppy. I hope your momma sings to you. Often. She has the most perfect voice. I also hope you dance together in kitchen and that you grow up with a deep love for cooking and hosting big family dinners as your Grandma Cain loves to do (and is so amazing at). I wish, for you, a hundred little nicknames. I hope that, one day, your dad shows you his silent scream. I hope that you love music, art and theater like your momma. I wish that you are as hilarious as your Uncles & your Grandpas and as sweet as your Aunts and Grandmas. I hope that you are adventurous and silly. I hope that you have your Aunt Whitney’s laugh and your momma’s love of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But, most of all, I wish that you have a lifelong girlfriend who means as much to you as your momma does to me. I hope you lip sync to boy bands and dance in your bedroom together. I hope that you grow up in the Lord together and encourage each other when you falter. I hope that you survive break-ups, fashion trends and all the drama that being a teenage girl brings with it. I hope you are the maids of honor in each other’s weddings and are able to share in each other’s lives and marriages even when you are far apart. I hope that you ugly cry, laugh, share and grow together, ALWAYS. I hope that one day, you are able to watch her become a mom and see how immensely beautiful that is and that one day you can meet her daughter and wish for her these same things.
I love you little Strawberry baby.
Love,
Auntie Melissa
melissa
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O HOOOO NOO YOU DIDN’T! 3 comments in a row! What does that make me? #whocares Awesome work M!
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heartbreakingly adorable. but not really heartbreaking, more like heart bursting. yep, heartburstingly adorable. there you go, MOho :) xoxo.
Soooo yeah. No surprise you’ve got me in a puddle over here. What a lucky girl, my strawberry baby is, to have you in her life! LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU!
Beautiful and wonderful! =)
and to think it all started going door to door. Love the photos, you did it again! Love you girl!
Perfect perfect perfect.
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I’m ugly crying alone at work right now because this is sooooo perfect and lovely and wonderful and exactly how to write a letter to your best friend’s daughter. I adore so so many things about you, but your heart, is my favorite asset of yours by far. You are an amazing friend, a fabulous photographer, your style is divine, and you have the most perfectly warm smile. But your heart, oh, OHO, your heart is breathtaking. Thank you so much for always keeping it so wonderfully open. xo