This is the first ever picture of all the new generation of cousins!
My sister was here for 10 days and we still were rushing to get pictures in, I swear where does the time go!
Also note to photographer self…….do not take your own kids to a park with a lake and think you can watch them and still take pictures of your sister and her baby!
Here are some out-takes, and some pics of my sister and my darling nephew!
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We just got back from a family weekend in the mtns.
My sister came out all the way from back east to join us. My little nephew is so sweet, and such a great baby. I love him to pieces!
Sometimes we forget the beauty of the things we take for granted, like being only an hour and a 1/2 from a place like this.
I love it up there. So do my kids, they didn’t want to come home and I don’t blame them.
I promised them we would go back again soon.
Feeding the chick-a-monks as Beauty calls them was definitely a “gotta do it again” experience.
We tried to get them to venture down the trail for a longer hike but they were obsessed the the chick-a-monk stop.
They also had a really great lake side park, so fun they could have stayed for hours.
I love the mtns!
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We had a date, just my son and I.
His choice….the skate-park with a trip to Lamar’s Doughnuts afterward.
I went to grab my camera and he asked me to leave it , he wanted my full and undivided attention.
I was happy to comply with his wishes. I did get to actually watch him scooter around instead of being preoccupied with capturing it on camera. It was great to live the experience rather than being concentrated on documenting it.
My favorite moment on our date…….A quite talk in the car on the way home where he said ” You know what Mom? I really, really love you.”
Does that melt your heart or what?
I will try and think of that moment the next time he slugs his sister or blows me off when I ask him clean up.
After we got home he agreed to one pic, but it had to be quick.
My baby is four, where has the time gone?
She is so silly, soooooo girly, and precocious. She is smart and fussy about details, the very definition of a Miss Priss for sure.
I can only laugh as I realize she is so much like me.
She is the first one to hug me when I feel out of it, without saying a word at four she gets me.
I love her big round brown eyes and and crinkled nose as she squeals with laughter.
I love that she packs a purse full of lip gloss to pick her brother up from the bus stop, and runs to embrace him as he hops off the bus. Then she does everything in her power to pester him to death for the remaining part of the afternoon.
I love that she is obsessed with a mini shampoo bottle she found in my bathroom drawer. She declared it “so cute” and now keeps it in her room. Anytime I ask her to take a shower she runs and gets it and oohs and ahhs over it’s cuteness again.
I love that she loves HOT PINK. Anything hot pink….a dress…. a pair of underwear…….a pair of shoes…..a hot pink paper napkin, it doesn’t really matter. Hot pink just makes her feel good.
I love my little Beauty…….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Today is my big guy’s first day of first grade.
I know I was more nervous than he was. I woke up at like 5:30am and couldn’t go back to sleep.
I just have all the mommy jitters…..
will he know where to line up when he gets off the bus?
will he find his friends in other classes to sit with at lunch?
will his teacher see his sensitive and loving spirit through his all boy/playful exterior?
will he remember which bus to get back on?
He on the other hand woke up at a leisurely 7am and cool as a cucumber and ready for whatever happened next.
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Today was my little Beauty’s first day of preschool.
We got off this morning with just one small hitch….
She was up in her room crying and throwing a fit surrounded by a sea of clothing cast-offs. She declared that she had “nothing to wear”.
She is only almost 4 people !!!! Her teenage years are surely going to kill me.
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My son, like his father, is fearless on the diving board. He hurls himself into the air and the bigger the splash the better.
This is the same pool where my sister, my brother and I spent HOURS of our summer. It’s fun to see it come full circle and sit in the same shade with my kids that I once sat in with my own mother.
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Indy had been asking me for a mohawk. I agreed to do it for the summer. He has had fun with all the added attention, promising to go back to a more clean cut look for the school year.
I actually kind of like it…don’t tell him though. I’m pretty sure he thinks it’s cool because it’s rebellious.
Hair is hair it grows back.
I love his snaggle tooth grin, it adds to the look don’t you think! Soon enough his mouth will be full of grown up teeth and he will begin the awkward transformation we all go through till we start to resemble our adult selves. I say celebrate this milestone with pictures.
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