Spot the difference...

Can you figure out what is different between these two pictures?

The top picture is Charlie and the bottom picture is my friend Kelly's baby Dali who is now one years old.

Kelly is the most kind and generous person I think I have ever known. We met in my first month in Brussels and have been friends ever since. Thank goodness we like each other so much because she is also the friend I have known the longest here that still lives in Brussels. When Kelly and I first met she had a three year old and a nine month old. Now her girls are 7, 5, 3 and 1. It has been so much fun to watch both her girls and family grow.

I took this photo because Charlie is in Dali (and Sonny, Poppy and Maya's) gown and chair. When Kelly found out I was pregnant she overwhelmed me with passing on all the clothes, chairs, and baby supplies I might ever need that her girls has used. If Charlie had been a girl he would have had the cutest wardrobe around! Since she has four children of her own she has been a wondeful person to be able to call with all of my baby questions.

The only problem with being Kelly's friend is that you always feel lazy around her. Take this week for example -- today she is packing her family of six for a Disney cruise which they are leaving for on Tuesday. In between getting the car seats, pack & play, diapers, formula, clothes and all the other details together before flying with four children on a ten hour flight she is just going to squeeze in running a marathon. Yes, you read that right. Kelly and her husband Rich are running a marathon on Sunday, "resting" on Monday and then flying to the States on Tuesday. And since she has already trained for this marathon, she is just going to go on and run another one in three weeks. I get exhausted just talking to her about her schedule!

So here is to you Kelly, a wonderful mother and friend! Brussels would not have been the same without you.