Category: 52 Week Project

I feel the need to remind you (whoever you are reading this) that my twins are girls. Haha. Sometimes they look like boys. They just grow so fast, you know? Except their hair, but that’s okay. It only makes them fashionably bald babies.

OAN, you know what I really wish I could have right now? A camera attached to my eyes. D&R are smiling and chuckling a lot these days, but they get distracted whenever we start pointing the camera to their faces. So most of their photographs are like, them curiously staring at the light coming from the camera flash and wondering what’s going on. (Still cute, though!) Sometimes I wish I could record on video every babytalk and every single smile they make!

This would have been a great time for Google glass to go mainstream, what’s taking it soo long? (Not that I can afford the Glass.)

In the meantime, I’m taking ridiculous amounts of photographs, and flooding my blog and Facebook pages with them. I want to be able to remember this time of their life always.

See outtakes here.

5/52, A Year of Dawn & Rain | March 24-30
Portraits of my children, once a week, every week in 2013

..they come into your life, make some magic, and you’re never the same. Such is what happened to me when these two little fairies graced my life with their existence.

As usual, I couldn’t pick just one portrait each. So here’s another set:

These were taken a few days after their Dedication Day. Since I didn’t get to take portraits of them on the day itself, I made them wear these fluffy little dresses again at home, just for photo op. (Thank you Lola Amy for these pretty dresses!) However, it looks like it’s the last time they’re ever going to wear these dresses again. They grow soooo fast!

In fact, Dawn’s dress was a little too small for her already at the time I took these photos—notice in the last picture how I couldn’t zip up the back of her dress anymore? To think it fit her just a few days before! Which explains why she was a little uncomfortable and not in the mood to flash her sunshiney smile here. But yeah, still cute! :P

Rain, who’s a little smaller than Dawn, still fit in the dress perfectly that afternoon and was in the mood to play princess! Dawn started off as the twin who’s more playful and cheerful, but Rain has been showing us a lot of smiles and chuckles lately as well. She’s catching up! :)

I love these two girls to bits! (And I know you’re loving them too!)

3/52, A Year of Dawn & Rain | March 10-16
Portraits of my children, once a week, every week in 2013

Dawn & Rain may have shared almost everything (one womb, one crib, same clothes), but they’re different in so many ways! We’re seeing more smiles now and different personalities. Dawn is the more sociable twin, she smiles so much she drives me crazy. Rain is a little more reserved, but when you finally get her to smile (after she had her milk, or her bath), ohh does she smile so beautifully.  We love them to bits, for everything they both are.

Everyone keeps saying that Dawn is a little version of her Dad, and Rain, me. It’s like seeing ourselves when we were babies, I sometimes wonder if our parents were so smitten with us the way we are with these two. :)

See outtakes here.

2/52, A Year of Dawn & Rain | March 3-9
Portraits of my children, once a week, every week in 2013

I’ve blogged A LOT in the past 10 years. Chasingdreams.net alone has collected 270+ posts in 3+ years, and I’m not even adding up the ones I posted on my other sites over the past decade. I blogged about stuff that I loved, people who made me smile, places I went to, experiences that made me grow, things I learned, God-moments that defined and shaped who I am, dreams that came true, and sometimes even those ordinary days and non-sensical thoughts.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, all these years filling up this little space in the web, I feel like I owe it to our twins to document their little lives here, more than anything I’ve ever blogged. With hopes that someday, they’ll see these posts and know how much they’re loved.

So I mark this year in this blog, their first year of existence, with a 52 Week Project inspired by Jodi:

“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week in 2013.“

Hundreds of bloggers from all over the world took Jodi’s challenge, and because of the theme of the project, it’s quite obvious that the ones who are doing it are MOMS. I’ve been following their posts and have found some of my newest favorite blogs. And while I don’t know these people, it feels like stepping inside a room full of kindred spirits every time I browse through the list of participants—talented Mothers who are smitten by their littles ones, and capturing moments through photographs and words.

I’m trailing behind by a couple of weeks (they’re already on their 7th week), but oh well, better late than never. My 52 Weeks now begins.

Dear Dawn & Rain, This is for you. Love, Mommy.