The Henderson Family: Best Friends

In preschool, I met my friend Rianne. She and I were best friends as kids and spent so much time together playing school, dancing, and hanging out. Rianne moved when we were in first grade but we have always kept in touch. It is such a blessing to have a friend that shares many of the same beliefs and passions. Rianne and I have always wanted to be teachers as kids and now we are living our dream. We also both have birthdays in August, share a love for dance, married pastor's kids, and had beautiful daughters on the same day!

Through out our pregnancies, we called and texted each other to talk about all of the exciting changes that we were going through. Amazingly enough we both were going to have girls! Rianne's due date was around May 16th and her little one decided to hangout in her mommy's belly for a bit longer. On May 20st, when our doctor told us that I was in labor and had to go to the hospital, I reluctantly called Rianne to tell her my news. I felt horrible because her baby was late and Soph was about 2 weeks early. While in the hospital I got a text that Rianne has also gone into labor. I gave birth to Sophie Lee at 3:41am on May 21st and twelve hours and a minute later Rianne gave birth to Lyla Louise. The girls weight was an ounce different and Sophie was half an inch longer.

On Wednesday, we finally got to meet Miss Lyla! It was so fun seeing our girls together. It is CRAZY how much bigger Sophie is than Lyla. We sat the girls together and they instantly wanted to touch each other. Sophie was constantly trying to get Lyla's little fingers or arm into her mouth. We spent most of our time together just hanging out, catching up on life, playing with our girls, and taking LOTS of pictures. Sophie and Lyla even got to celebrate turning 5 months old together! I hope one day they can have a friendship as strong as mine and Riannes.