Showing posts with label audrey kate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label audrey kate. Show all posts

Monday, June 11

First Haircuts

i fully admit that i take entirely too many pictures. 1600 in May. granted, Allison and I can take that many in an 8 hour wedding. What most people don't realize is that because we shoot in RAW (think old school negatives), we have to process them before they become pictures.

sometimes, i wait entirely too long to go through and edit pictures. sometimes it's the lack of time. sometimes it's the lack of motivation. and sometimes it's just plain laziness.

but when grandpa called last night and made sure to tell paul how much he enjoyed looking at my pictures of our girls, the motivation returned! (thank you grandpa!)

so here goes...

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the little girls were in desperate need of a haircut, but they kept getting sick and i kept having to reschedule!

finally, we headed for a haircut last week! thankfully my mom was able to join me for reinforcement!

i managed to grab a few pictures outside before we started; because once we got inside, i had two appendages that wouldn't let go!

Anne Perry was first. She screamed when i tried to put her in the chair. no way. so i held her, and my mom took some pictures!
ap 1 she was perfectly content once she was in my lap and eating a sucker. she could have cared less what someone was doing to her curls!
ap 2 we didn't even attempt to put audrey kate in the chair alone. so my mom held her while i got to take a few pictures.
ak 2 She had already gotten into and eaten her sucker, so we moved onto the cookies we got earlier to get her through it!
ak 1 And it was done before I knew it!
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ak 3 copy significantly less of a mullet fro i might say!

Monday, April 16

Little Dancers

One of the girls most favorite things to do is plug in my iphone and listen to pandora toddler tunes or cedermont kids radio.

But before I can even get things hooked up and started, there are tutus and fairy dresses and ballerina costumes being strewn from one end of the house to the other.

Audrey Kate emerged with a poofy tutu under a fairy dress under a striped ballet skirt under a polka dot tutu.
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And how on the earth could I not drag her outside in the evening sun to take pictures!
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She played and posed and chewed on a few sticks ;0)
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But if you know me, I'm not going to take pictures of one and not the other, especially when I could hear this one begging to come outside!
She was super interested in Addie's music box.
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And gave me her serious Anne Perry face!
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Addieboo begged to come out and take pictures for who knows why!
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She was super silly and periodically would flop over backwards in her chair!
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The lighting was to die for! And I loved how she cut her eyes over at me in this next one!
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Of course I had a favorite of each girl:
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each as unique as they are!
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this one might have to go in a frame though!
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happy dancing!

Tuesday, April 10

Easter Egg Hunt

Addie's class had an Easter egg hunt last week. Even the little girls got to go...to their very first Easter egg hunt!

We had it at a local park, so everyone started out playing. just when i think i've got the little girls pegged, this is what happens: dare devil audrey kate, who hasn't even been sliding by herself, climbs up a curved ladder! yeah, that'll show us!
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there was swinging and sliding and climbing!
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and spinning. this is addie's whole class all except one kiddo.
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I don't think we have much to worry about Anne Perry warding off the boys. She was going to have nothing to do with Clint, Madeline's brother! I will say though that she was more than willing to give him a hug today at Kindermusik!
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The mom's numbered the eggs so that each child was searching for their number. It made things take a tad longer and be a little more interesting! 
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There were 3 little brothers/sisters that also came, two of which were ours! They had so much fun doing their own egg hunt!
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and check out those curls!
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Anne Perry was serious about her egg hunting right up until she got hungry! Then she just wanted to break open the eggs!
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Audrey Kate could have hunted eggs all.day.long! she was determine to get every last one of them!
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such intensity!
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she loved showing me the eggs she'd found!
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But one of the sweetest things about this party was that their whole class was finally together again after many long months (since October!). Karlie got to come hunt eggs and eat lunch with her class!
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After they all said the blessing together, Addie piped up and told Karlie that we had prayed for her all.day.long! I think she meant that we'd prayed for her for a long time, but I'm not sure who was ready to cry first, Karlie's mom or me! Sweet precious little friends! What a wonderful time of thanksgiving and fun!

Friday, April 6

Friday Firsts

Our girls have started actually playing together more and more recently. Which means they've really started needing significantly more guidance in learning how to play and share.

...which means I spend a LOT of time refereeing, and it can be utterly exhausting.

Tuesday was particularly exhausting for various reason, one of which being that I was tired and didn't feel well. I lost count of the number of times I'd used the phrases: use your words, you may not yell at your sister that way, try again, no screaming, how can we show kindness?, you need a time out from that toy, let's take turns, please be patient, try again, try again, try again.

So when Addie wanted to join in rolling-the-ball with the little girls, I wasn't holding my breath that it would last long or end well. The littles couldn't quite understand a third person joining their back and forth (sort of) game, so i plopped them down next to each other; and sweet Addie took turns rolling the ball to each little girl.

And it was sweet and priceless and a perfect reminder that our girls are learning to share, take turns, demonstrate patience, and show kindness...however so slowly, it is surely!
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and i quietly thanked God for His strength and His blessings and His gentle reminders of the why.

Tuesday, April 3

Addie's Birthday Day

This kid had one serious string of birthday celebrations: her birthday chapel, birthday tea party with family, her science birthday party with friends, and her actual birthday day complete with a birthday post and slideshow! By that Monday, we were all wiped! And then a week later we delivered her birthday dog/cat food! I think that's over 2 weeks of birthday fun!

On her actual birthday, she got to bring snack and share bag at school. Her picture was in the birthday frame when we got there that morning, and she was the helper for the day.
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She brought her UV beads (notice them around her neck!) and safety glasses from her party and cupcakes and birthday hats for everyone.
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Her teacher even let her baby sisters join her!
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Everyone sang Happy Birthday...
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and she got to blow out her candle!
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She even looked straight at me so I could get a picture (who is this kid telling me something would be a great picture and asking me to take pictures of her?)
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After snack, we checked her out and went to eat lunch at Chappy's, somewhat of a birthday tradition!

Addie got to pick what we had for dinner that night: daddy's pizza!
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And we had cupcakes from Liger's
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I'm pretty sure this 4 year old had a fun birthday 2+ weeks! We sure loved celebrating her!

Wednesday, March 28

augusta: Birthday Tea Party

Addie and Kira's birthdays are only a day apart. So when we went to Augusta for Jessica's wedding, Gramma, along with Grandpa and Ms. Gail,  decided to have a little Mad Hatter Birthday Tea Party for the big girls!
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Complete with tulips,
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tea cups,
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and butterfly tiaras!
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it was a beautiful, sunny, almost hot day! we brought some of girls favorite bubble wands, and everyone enjoyed blowing mega bubbles!
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love her!
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Audrey Kate loved sitting with Ms. Gail!
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Gramma and Aunt Millie made sandwiches and Ms. Gail made cupcakes.

We all sang happy birthday to Addie and Kira, and Addie loved blowing out her candle!
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There were presents for the big girls...
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fun masks from uncle jay and aunt millie
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and we stuck with our bubble theme of the day for kira's present! i think she might have enjoyed it!
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John was so cute putting on/taking off this hat!
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and what's a day at gramma's without a few laps around the flower bed railroad tracks!?!
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John got brave and crawled all the way across the yard after a few of the balls.
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but thankfully grandpa rescued him
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And Addie continues to be pretty smitten with baby John! They were so cute playing together!
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happy Birthday Kira and Addie!