From toddler to little girl

We had a long, fun day with friends today. Reese was able to play with two friends, Lily and Reagan, and the three of them are adorable to watch.

Reese is the youngest of the three, but Lily is only 6 months older than Reese and Reagan is only 6 months older than Lily. But it's weird to see how much those 6 and 12 months matter.

Reese still looks like a baby. Well, she looks like a toddler to be more exact. Lily does as well to some extent, but Lily's face looks older. And Reagan - just older than two-and-half years - looks like a little girl!

I am so glad I take a picture a day of Reese. It is easily the best thing I've ever done. Ever. In my entire life. I love going back and looking at the pictures quickly to see her grow up before my very eyes.

The picture-a-day idea was not mine. I actually heard it on the radio. Sports radio even. Dan Patrick, formerly an anchor with ESPN's SportsCenter but now a radio host on his own, told one of his producers to take a picture of his yet-to-be-born child every day for a year because the child will change the most in that one year.

The advent of the smart phone has made that job easy, or at least the job of snapping a picture and then publishing it on the Internet right away.

I was going to stop at one year, but it is so easy and so fun and so worth while that I keep on taking a picture everyday and I keep on posting them to the Internet. The fact that family members across the country can also see Reese grow up is an added bonus. Plus, Reese's godmother said she would make a photo album every year as long as I keep taking pictures.

Done and done.

Those albums will come in handy when I will look at Reese in amazement as she suddenly stops looking like a toddler and suddenly becomes a little girl.