Ode to Eli

Eli and Emma have been best friends since Emma was about 5 weeks old (when Eli was born). They have been through a lot together - sleep training, teething, learning to crawl, walk, talk and sing, they even helped each other get used to nursery. They are the others first love and first friend. They truely spent their first two years seeing each other almost everyday... then the inevitable happened - separation. Eli and his mom and dad (Lindsay and Andy - our best friends) moved to Virgina for Dental School and off went Emma's best buddy. While it was very hard at first for all of us (it took more then a month to make it through a day without her asking about him and even longer for me and Lindsay to go a day without calling), we are all getting used to being best friends over the phone and on the web cam. But every once in a while (Christmas and Summer time) we get a visit from our old friends. Eli was in Utah for 2 weeks and we were able to have a few days like old times, they picked up just where they left off and we (Lindsay and I) got to watch and smile as our little babies grow up in front of our eyes together!