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We’ve been accused of not giving Caroline enough “face time” on our blog.  Here’s a post all about her.  We blessed Caroline several weeks ago.  Here is our new and improved family:

IMG_7480It’s just too bad Brooke has strawberry juice all over her face and dress and that I wasn’t holding Caroline up so you can see her.  Oh well.

We did a photo shoot with Caroline after her blessing.  We never got a good picture of Brooke in her blessing dress and I didn’t want to make that same mistake again with Caroline .

I think these first two pictures are funny.  I smile every time I see them.

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Luckily we did get some cute pictures:

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P.S.  We took Caroline to her two-month appointment and she was as healthy as can be–no sign of a heart murmur.  Whew.  Her height and weight were in about the 60-70 percentile.  Her head was in the 50th percentile.

P.P.S  Brooke had her two-year appointment the same day.  Her height and weight were in about the 75th percentile.  Her head was in the 97th percentile.  Big head–just like her Dad.

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Golden Art

I’ve been storing up kid artwork for a while, so here’s a post dedicated to our aspiring artists/graphic novelists.

Brooke’s school papers continue to be used (for better or for worse) as her sketch pad:

Holidays bring out her creativity:

She saw our bananas and couldn’t resist giving them a little personality:

And then we have the endless doodles and comics she draws on every scrap of paper she can find:

Caroline isn’t quite as prolific of an artist, but she does do cute drawings as well:

Spencer enjoys drawing also. Here we have a self portrait:

Another child who can’t resist doodling at school:

Spencer went through a phase where he was really into flags. He’d look up pictures of different flags and recreate them in miniature:

Lately Madison has been joining the artistic ranks.

Madison drew this one in church. Her friend Norah is sad, so she’s giving Norah a doll to make her happy:

This princess got caught in a rainstorm and wasn’t happy:

Madison brought this paper home from preschool. I was shocked at the adorableness of that zebra and had to text her preschool teacher to see if Madison actually drew that. Turns out she did draw it all by herself. It’s especially surprising how good her zebra is when you compare it to the other two animal blobs beside it.

One day we played Pictionary as a family. We told Madison she could draw whatever she wanted. The category was “animal.” She drew this:

After guessing every animal we could think of we finally asked Madison what it was. Her response? A giraffe. I continue to chuckle to myself every time I think of her neckless giraffe.

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A Birthday and A Baptism

Allow me to interrupt my months-long blogging hiatus with a special report – Caroline turned eight! We had such a fun time on her birthday.

We started off with presents. Tradition holds that on your eighth birthday you get scriptures:

A scripture tote,


and a scripture marking pencil (which Caroline was apparently highly skeptical of):

I had planned to give her a Lego set, but unfortunately it wasn’t able to get shipped and arrive on her birthday…or so we thought. We left the house to go to swim lessons and gymnastics and Kangaroo Zoo (a bounce house place) and when we got back we saw that there was a package for Caroline! A birthday miracle!

Caroline wanted the Lego girl Olivia for her cake. Kindly ignore all the brown splotches:


Caroline was excited for her birthday, but she was really excited to be baptized. She has been looking forward to this day for months. When it finally arrived, she was ready!



Dallas baptized and confirmed her. We had a luncheon after with our family. It was a wonderful day.

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Dallas was able to take some beautiful pictures of our beautiful daughter. Caroline is such a good, sweet, kind girl. She is a friend to everyone, and we love everything about this special girl.

 

6 Comments

  1. Laurie
    September 9, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

    I love the third picture, so sweet!

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  2. Laurie
    September 9, 2009 @ 8:18 pm

    Oh and I’m so glad there is no heart murmur!

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  3. Ann Richmond
    September 9, 2009 @ 11:38 pm

    she looks like such an angel! 🙂 Those are better pictures than I ever got of my girls! 🙂

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  4. Kim
    September 10, 2009 @ 10:45 am

    YES you are SLACKING in posting photos of baby girl #2. I was the second child and my parents did the same thing to me–lots of photos of the first child and very few of the second one. Give equal time!! Give equal time!! The photos are beautiful of Caroline. Please send some to Ben.

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  5. sarah
    September 11, 2009 @ 9:42 am

    Every time I look at that second picture of Caroline I just imagining her saying, “What up?” like a gangsta. And I agree with mom. My parents only focused on the first daughter. I was always neglected. they planned all their trips to be gone on my birthday, but made sure to always be home on February 21st. They gave their first all new clothes and left me with the hand-me-downs. Don’t let the trend start now.

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  6. Dallas
    September 11, 2009 @ 10:20 am

    Sarah–They gave their first all new clothes and left you with hand-me-downs?! That made me laugh out loud.

    As for everything else–I think they just loved me more.

    –Rebecca

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