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I've seen this uniform on so many kids the past few years, but seeing it on her was a little surreal.  I wore the exact same one for seven years. 

 I'm very excited for her to go, but I also realized the other day that I won't be able to take her to her first day of school. 

And now I shall go to bed and shove that fact out of my mind less it hits me over the head again  and makes me question myself as a mother.

Summer Peace

Every once in a while the Older will be gentle enough that the Younger doesn't try and squirm away.  And that's when I grab the camera.  Because the other times the Older is busy writing an apology letter. 

Cousins

11.9 months and 9.5 months

Summer Sun

Daddy was being so mean...making her get wet...

Sam can never decide which swim suit to wear, so she wears 1/2 of one and 1/2 of the other.  She calls them her "Mix Match"  swim suits.  I tend to see it as the "It looks like your mother is too cheap to buy you a real swim suit" or "Looks like your mom needs to do laundry swim suit" but I think it's easier to just call it the "Mix Match".

The Block

I want to remember these few days where she was mesmerized by a little block. 

It was all she would play with.

For 30 minutes at a time she'd sit fiddle with it until she got it to nest in the next size bigger.

When she'd felt that she'd mastered the puzzle, she'd find something else to do...but bring the block with her.

And randomly stop to admire it.

She sounded like a pirate with a peg-leg crawling with that thing in her hand.

Hm...

*fiddle fiddle*



She one-handed-played for a good two days. 

Birthday Gift

Amanda is turning 19. She really has blossomed into womanhood this past year.  She moved in next door this month and Sam is asking every 30 minutes in the evenings,  "Can I go see if Amanda is home yet?" We are enjoying the current living situation as much as possible right now as her next move will probably be when she has a different last name... Which everyone is guessing will happen here in a year or so. 
Anyway there are a lot of possibilities in her future at the moment and the suspense kind of gets to her at times.  She's got an AMAZING faith and her relationship with Christ is one that I can only hope to have someday in the distant future.  That being said she is also very eclectic and hard to shop for... And it doesn't help that her love language is (thoughtful) gifts.  This means a gift card just doesn't cut it.  I came up with a vague idea  in my head  and scored all the pieces on clearance at hobby lobby.  Can you decifer the message?

House update

It is finished!
Remember this?


 

A ceiling makes all the difference!







 

Big screen thanks to Grandad last Christmas.

 

 

 

 

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