Precocious (Nope read it again)

When Keddi would only crawl, she would go over to the shoes, put a pair on her hands and crawl around with them. This baby likes to put stuff around her neck. The girls tights, pants, (I've seen her try a sock that's lying on the floor.) and headphone cords for the piano.

This time she got more than she bargained for and couldn't get out. Or even very far away from the piano.(The headphones were plugged in.) So, Mom to the rescue. (After a picture of course.)

Baby body-building

I hadn't put the peaches in the pantry yet. I had no problem with her playing with them but I was a little shocked when I saw her pick one up with one hand. Is it just me, or does it seem that a 14 mo. old shouldn't be able to do this?

Tersa's birthstone ring

A ring is the birthstone jewelry piece that Joel gets the girls for their 16th birthday. Since she got a party this year, this is the only gift she received on her birthday. She didn't complain.

1st Day of School 2011

With so much going on at the end of Aug., I was not as prepared for the first day of school as I usually am. Keddi was the only one of the girls wearing a new shirt and I never did get pictures of what the older girls looked like on the first day. But Joel and I did take the little girls and briefly met their teachers. That will be the last 1st day we take Keddi to!

The Stuff for Tersa's 16th Birthday Party

We wanted to make everything as elegant as possible. I made the invitations and the ballots (which we don't have a great picture of) both of which were sealed with sealing wax and a peacock seal. (She has been into peacocks for a while now.)

I said Tersa could invite 15 people to this event. Her first list included 8 boys. But as we planned, we thought that maybe the boys wouldn't play along well and might ruin the spirit of the whole thing. Dan Hill had suggested that she needed to do an "after party" at his house so we did. Some of the girls from the awards were invited along with a group of boys.

The girls were given this ballot in their invitation with the instructions to fill it out and get it back to us. It was fun to try to redefine the categories to fit our purposes for the party.

These are the "Oscars". They said "Movie Buff" on them so we made new labels that would have the award titles on them.

Tersa's friend Krista Richardson was dismayed that Tersa did not have a 16th birthday tiara and insisted that Tersa wear hers for the party.
These shoes however, Tersa all the way. She had seen some this color on the internet several weeks before and then they show up in the Payless ad! She's got her father's luck.

Sarah Vidal told me that these small Martinelli's were at the dollar store. We thought they would

make fabulous Thank You's for the girls. Unfortunately 4 of them left without one.