when life hands you lemons...

give them to the adorable babe across the table so she can make sweet-as-lemonade sour faces at you! =)

alfalfarella.

As Reesey's hair grows long enough to fancy a bow in the front...

... her hair has grown in to an untameable mohawk in the back!

As much as it drives her mummy nuts, Auntie Awesome thinks its just Reese's natural way of channeling her inner rockstar at the ripe young age of 7.5 months old!

Now if only we could weave in some feather extensions, she would be the hippest of all the little alfafarellas in the world! =)

oh, happy weekend!

Hope your weekend is full of over-the-shoulder belly laughs + bubble gum smiles! =)

six.

My Darling Reesey Bird:

I can hardly believe you are six months old. The amount of sugarcoated happiness + sunshiney rejuvenation that your presence has brought to my life has filled my heart so incredibly full, I often fear it may burst... but it always seems to grow a little bigger, expand a little wider... and allow me to fall more in love with your sweetness everyday.

I love your high-pitched shrieks + squeals that always echo loudest mid-air.

I love your sense of adventure...

...& how you pay close attention to all the little details, never ever missing a beat.

I love how you smile so coyly when I whisper your name.

I love your wide-mouthed kisses...

& the way your long eyelashes flutter... like tiny angel wings.

You, my sweet niece, are loved beyond measure.

Bear hugs & eskimo kisses,
Auntie Awesome

my little lovelies turn six...

It's half past midnight & I'm too sleepy (& stuffed of homemade cheesecake!) to try to put in to words how wonderful being a part of my little lovely's SIXTH birthday celebration today was and also how my niece turned six months old as well & oh my goodness! how their existence has rocked my world {in a fabulous way} but I promise to post the skinny tomorrow... and hopefully finish editing my tutorial for March that included this magnificent homemade comp-pod:

beyond what I could hold.

She laid on my chest & her breathing filled me...

... almost to beyond what I could hold.

whoooo goes there?

... why, spring time, it's you!!

So happy to see ya... and that beautiful extra hour of daylight you have in tow.

Your fever? I've caught it + its propelled me to move forward... one cautionary step at a time.

I've committed to doing some {soul} cleaning... beginning with dusting my boots off... and realigning my dreams + reality.

Spring, you've sprung me straight in to training mode... every mile accompanied by immense mental clarity... and a hopeless romantic fighting hard not to look back...

You've provided time for me to take breaks + smell the freshly bloomed flowers + breathe in the cool breeze that accompanies your warm sunny days... as winter makes its final escape + I can pack away my sweaters... and iron all my white.

never grow up.

never grow up. from Jocelyn Kirk on Vimeo.

Super missing Reese these week... found this "old" video from her first couple weeks of life. Her little sneeze sends me over the moon! =) My, how I wish I could bottle up her squishynewborngoodness and savour it for forever.
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up!

{this moment.}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

wish you were here!

It's Reese & I's last hoorah! this week and we're definitely going out with a bang! I've abandoned my watch + completely lost all sense of time. We roll out of bed, slide in to our beach attire (sundresses for me, rompers for Reese) + beeline for the pool every morning. We return smelling like coconuts and rejuvenated from the ample dose of Vitamin D we've just soaked in. I found myself saying, "Hey there, tan lines! Oh, how I've missed you!" to a bikini-clad self in the mirror today... "Welcome back!" We are enjoying simple luxuries like having fresh linens delivered + our bed turned down for us each day. We've only consumed drinks made of pureed fruit (Reese in the form of baby food, mine in the form of coladas). We have done nothing but relax. We must be on holidays + we absolutely wish you were here! =)

belly laughs + a nouveau widget.

I'm at a loss... for words?... at the moment which is most upsetting because I have a lot of fabulous things to share with you... but please bear with me as I find my feet + in the meantime, enjoy this fabulous video of Miss Reese...

Untitled from Jocelyn Kirk on Vimeo.
...don't you just wish you could bottle up that sunshiney giggle + save it for a rainy day?? 
+ on a random side note {re: my side bar}, big things are coming to Suburbs... I'm talking HUGE... but until I figure out just how to get them here {standard technicality in the execution of big dreams.}, check out the awesome nouveau widget I added... I've spent all day {well, in between rocking baby, reading to baby, babbling with baby... so approximately twenty uninterrupted minutes} adding labels to all 670 posts of the last four years + my project is not quite complete but feel free to look around... you may even have your very OWN label in my super sweet label cloud to your right! =) 

{this moment}

milestone: semi-solid foods.

{shine} your little light.

Just wait until you see what is possible when you shine your little light on the world.

happy birthday, Grams!!

Untitled from Jocelyn Kirk on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday, Grams! Happy Birthday, Grams!
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!! We love you! We miss you! Come play with us soon!

Love,
the happiest girl

+ her niece, Reese! =)

p.s. please excuse my obnoxious high-pitched voice...

much-to-celebrate-monday.

It's Monday again... and Reese + I are doing all kinds of celebrating around here... again!

We are celebrating the beginning of a new week + the brink of a new month + all the possibilities that both of those fresh starts hold... starting with a fresh cup o'coffee, fresh crisp linen, fresh coat of pink paint on my nails + a fresh bouquet of flowers.

We are celebrating a very, special birthday... our favourite lady is turning another year younger today + in her honour, we are bakin' cupcakes + rockin' out to Pandora's Justin Timberlake Station... who is lucky enough to share his bday with the dimepiece I call Grams--who has been bringin' sexy back since 1942!! ...
... all while, simultaneously celebrating the highly anticipated arrival of a new, tiny cousin whose predicted birth day is this week!

We are celebrating my acceptance in to a graduate program + the discovery of the perfect red lipstick + finding the courage to rock it... must come along with the territory of being a master! oooo... I can't wait for all the other super powers I'll acquire... I hope shapeshifting, XRAY vision, time travel + waterbreathing are in the mix!

We are celebrating my upcoming weekend adventure by packing all the eclectic "pieces" of my {mismatched} wardrobe in to the rose-patterned, purpley suitcase Santa Claus brought me... to do a little soul searching in the nation's capitol with the girl who has been my best friend since the beginning of time... + by that, I mean middle school age when you found out who your real friends were by taking note of who had stuck by your Limitedtootrainingbraclad side at the end of your awkward stage... Hanson t-shirts, jnco jeans, tin lunch boxes + all, this girl has been next to me through everything! MALYTAB

aaand... i'll be soaking up every second of it as this might be my last sporadic road trip in which I get to galavant to some random corner of the Earth + entirely "let go" for a weekend + immerse myself completely in the wonderful little lives of those I love... and cling tight to them... and borrow their hearts... and relish in laughter... and spin in circles... and ride unicorns... and smile at their surreality.

before I have to re-enter that world they call real...

... but I'm okay with it. I've mended, enough. I'm celebrating. I'm refreshed... + good gracious, this carpe- diem-culture-loving-can't-sit-still-craver-of-change-creativist is ready.

sneak peek.

a little glimpse of the photogs yours truly took today...

loving this weather...

... and lazy days with this girl! =)

caterpillar kisses + doting giraffes.

much-to-celebrate-monday.

Today, Reese + I celebrated. We celebrated the simple things.

We celebrated the beautiful "fall-like weather" by the lake. We celebrated that we slept through the night + consequently, were all smiles today. =)

We celebrated that I found out that I had indeed won tickets to ELLEN. We celebrated that we were both dressed before noon.

We celebrated another day together, just her + I + those big, squishy lips.