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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

surveying the local managerie

or:
a trip to the ZOO. 
elephant mask
I think
WILD mask.... 
she couldn't reach the eye holes
so she just looked out the mouth

was such a sweet baby 
the whole morning!

YEP. this is HER instrument!

that's her LION face

hmmm.. not too ferocious 

she was excited about the lions
they were the only animal 

she wanted to see
But of course, the sun was at just the right angle to make picture taking of the lions horrible. But they had 5 cubs, and they were ADORABLE.



the SISTER TRIO on the DRUMS
[offertory practice? {LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY}]

seeing the tortoise 

also seeing the tortoise

"look at him, Mikalah.
He's HUGE"
and he was!
well, I told them all to smile
guess Mikalah was still trying to be a lion.

my silly girl
We had a wonderful morning at the zoo today with just me and the kids with Nana. It was not too warm this morning, though I was glad our plans were to leave around lunch time because the temperature was rising quickly!

For some reason I cannot get more pictures on this post, but they were just of some animals... nothing important like my kids silly faces. {smiles} But I may post some of them later. I was also trying out a new photo logo for my pictures. What do you think? There is a story behind it... for another time. I hear the game Clue, Jr calling my name.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Red & White. again

I got to wondering today just how long it has been since I began this blog. Mikalah will be 3 next month-and I remembered posting her baby pictures.... June of 08... just over 3 years ago. What a journey has been documented!

Here is a post from the end of September that year. Just before Mikalah made her debut.
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Just some pictures from Sunday...
The girls were pretty in red and white...
All ready for church...Let's GO :)


current news: Mikalah has already outgrown the dress that Anya is wearing. and Anya will be wearing Kyria's dress next spring [?].... and now we have another baby besides the one expected at the time of this first posting.


Thank you for stopping by... 
again.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

so long ago...

mommy and Kyria [3mo]

found her thumb...
like a certain little boy

around 7 months

love this one
Daddy's girl from the start

finding that I see
another baby in this face!
Looking through some old pictures this morning looking for nothing in particular... and found this face looking back at me. This little girl is now 7 years old and in second grade. She can read, loves numbers, and knows how to make a bottle for her little brother. I'd better not blink or the next face I see will be her walking out the door to a youth activity!

Kyria Esther, August2011

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Little faith in a strong plank will carry me over the stream,  
great faith in a rotten plank will land me in the stream. 
~ ~ Dr. Burton of the Mueller Orphan Home in  Bristol, England. ~ ~

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Courage is not the absence of fear, 
but rather the judgement that something else is more important.