Beautiful

My little girl is beautiful!  From her sweet smile and loving personality to her kind and gentle spirit.  She is beautiful inside and out.  The outside is easy to photograph.  She's a natural beauty and nearly every picture of her is amazing.  The beauty on the inside is harder to capture, but there are moments when I see it shining through.  When her Daddy comes home from work and she smiles to big and crawls towards him as quick as she can, that's beauty showing from the inside out.  When she's sleepy or hurt and she cuddles with me for comfort, her beauty shows from the inside out.  When she's eating and I'm admiring her and she smiles up at me as if she has some secret that only she knows, and then goes back to eating, that is her childish (in the best way) beauty showing from the inside out.  You can't capture laughter in a picture, but you can get close, and those pictures warm my soul.  I might not always catch her winning smile or her triumphant solo standing on camera, but the moments before and after remind me of those perfect moments, too fleeting to be caught on film.  She is my angel.