Summer 2016
This little girl is just plain growing up! She's got a lot of ideas and energy and emotion that is wonderful (and sometimes exhausting) to watch. She's changed a lot in the last year. This may be because - as she tells everyone - she is now 4, and 4 is big, but I also believe it is because she has a strong spirit in her that is anxious to learn and be a part of the world around her. She is starting her second year of preschool, this time it is four days a week and it is at an elementary school. I've been feeling some anxiety at this realization because I feel like once they are in school time is just a slippery slope and all of the sudden they are in Junior High and then High School and then off to college (which are all good things, great things...) it's just so fast and I waited so long. Don't get me wrong, there are some days that I think it will be a nice break, but I just know that it will all slip by and I kinda want to hold onto this little person. Here are some pictures from her this summer:
We had a Mama-Daughter date of sorts (it was a dentist appointment and then we ran to the store) that was fun. We rarely, I realized, have time just the two of us. When we went into Macey's they made an announcement that they were celebrating something and it was prize time! So we had two minutes to find a number on the floor somewhere in the store and stand on it. They would draw a number out and if you were on that number you won a prize. We found the #6 and waited. She was de-lighted when they called our number! Our prize was this huge donut (perfect after just coming from the dentist ;)
This little girl is just plain growing up! She's got a lot of ideas and energy and emotion that is wonderful (and sometimes exhausting) to watch. She's changed a lot in the last year. This may be because - as she tells everyone - she is now 4, and 4 is big, but I also believe it is because she has a strong spirit in her that is anxious to learn and be a part of the world around her. She is starting her second year of preschool, this time it is four days a week and it is at an elementary school. I've been feeling some anxiety at this realization because I feel like once they are in school time is just a slippery slope and all of the sudden they are in Junior High and then High School and then off to college (which are all good things, great things...) it's just so fast and I waited so long. Don't get me wrong, there are some days that I think it will be a nice break, but I just know that it will all slip by and I kinda want to hold onto this little person. Here are some pictures from her this summer:
We had a Mama-Daughter date of sorts (it was a dentist appointment and then we ran to the store) that was fun. We rarely, I realized, have time just the two of us. When we went into Macey's they made an announcement that they were celebrating something and it was prize time! So we had two minutes to find a number on the floor somewhere in the store and stand on it. They would draw a number out and if you were on that number you won a prize. We found the #6 and waited. She was de-lighted when they called our number! Our prize was this huge donut (perfect after just coming from the dentist ;)
She cut her lip somehow and wanted to see it. I was laughing as I watched her pulling out her lip and going cross eyed trying to see it. I took this picture so she could see it. I love her eyes.
This is her checking out the caterpillars she got for her birthday that eventually created their chrysalis and turned into painted lady butterflies. It was awesome.
This was in the RV during our trip to Nauvoo. She'd taken a shower and was brushing her hair. Made me think of her as she gets older. Her hair has gotten so long!
At an Owlz game with Matt's work.
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