Starting today, every Monday I will be featuring some of my favorite things as a Mommy of 3… from can’t live without baby products to children’s clothing companies I adore.  Being a photographer and small business owner, I LOVE being able to support other small businesses and especially ones who have a great product, great customer service, and genuine people and families who find a way into my heart.  Tink & Key is one of those.  As soon as I stumbled across their shirts on Etsy, I was smitten.  Since corresponding back and forth with Stephanie Harding, the owner and creator of Tink & Key, I adore her little business even more.  Here’s a few words about her business from Stephanie herself:

Tink & Key looks forward to sharing some encouraging words through their collection.  Each shirt has a significant meaning to Stephanie and her family, so through their shirts they would like to share how they have found hope during the storms or have been lifted up through familiar verses and songs.

Children are a gift from God and always seem to put a smile on people’s faces.  Their hope is that while they’re out running errands with their kids or playing at the park that they can shine the light of God’s love to others, by simple sayings from their shirts.

Tink & Key prides themselves in providing the best customer service and the best product by using American Apparel Clothing (sweat shop free) and water based inks (kid friendly).  Using water based dyes on the shirts allows it to soak into the cotton, so it will never flake off in the wash or even your child’s mouth.

This is most definitely  a company I want to stand behind and I hope and pray that I can encourage others through my babes as well!

I love these Miracle Baby tees because I consider my 3 girls miracle babies.  If you’re new here, I miscarried my first pregnancy at 12 weeks.  I was perfectly healthy.  We saw a heartbeat at 7 weeks and at 12 weeks there was none.  It was devastating but we trusted that God had a plan.  Several months later, I became pregnant again and about a month after that we found out we were having triplets!!!  God had blessed us beyond what we ever could have imagined.

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. -Ephesians 3:20

The story behind the Miracle Baby tee:

Every baby is a miracle and a gift from God. When you think of the developmental process in utero, the struggles that some parents go through just to conceive a child, and how they grow and develop, its nothing but a Miracle.

Stephanie has her own Miracle Baby story.  Her second child, Trent, had open heart surgery at 6 weeks of age. He was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot at 5 weeks of age. This should have been diagnosed at birth but it was missed, and if the Pediatrician did not notice his purplish tint to him at the 5 week check up, he would have ended up passing away in his sleep due to insufficient oxygen. The Miracle is that it was caught and that her baby boy was saved. He is doing great now and will have periodic surgeries over his lifetime, but by the Grace of God he is here with us today.

Portions of this shirt will be donated to the American Heart Association

*Available in sizes. 3-6mon/6-12mon/12-18mon/18-24mon/2/4/6

If you love Tink & Key as much as I do and would like to encourage others by purchasing shirts for your babes, you’re in luck!!! They are being featured right now over at www.brickyardbuffalo.com for $12.99 each

Now…. if you thought I have amazingly photogenic babies, or how did I ever get good pictures of 3 babies when it’s hard enough to get one of a single baby…. I took about 100 pictures and picked out the best 3!!!  Here are a couple of my favorite behind the scenes shots.  In this case, I just might like these two better than the ones above.  I think Anaia (pink) and Lily (yellow) are already taking after their dad and working on their MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) skills HAHA!  Lily is doing a screaming, superman punch and Anaia invented her own move here with her double whammy sister punch.