My little girl is growing up!

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The Princess Doll

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Each week the kids at school do presentations. A couple of weeks ago Claire chose her princess doll to do hers on. The sound is not great in this video so I will write some of what is being said. Here is what you should notice in the order as they happen:
1. Notice that the doll is wearing a pink dress and Claire is wearing a pink dress. Shocker I know, but it was a very serious conversation that morning (as if any morning is easy discussing what to wear) as to what she was going to wear.
2. Claire: My aunt Lee gave me this doll. teacher: Oh, your aunt gave you that doll. Claire (quickly interrupting): No, my aunt LEE
3. The teacher asks if anyone has any questions. Claire starts calling on people. Notice that Chesney is minding her own business and really does not have a question for Claire but Claire asks her anyway :)
4. The final thing I would like to point out in this video is the last boy asking his question. Boy: When you play with your dolls do you play like this... I hate you, I hate you. Claire: well, the look says it all. This was probably the cutest part of the whole thing. Proves that little boys are a bit different than little girls.... especially the ones that are as girly as mine.

Fall 2010

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Claire and Maggie School

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This is what we have been learning in our school. I am blown away by how much these kids remember! We are loving this!!

September 2010 Beach Trip

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A friend of ours is down at the beach helping with the clean up from the oil spill. She has so graciously offered for us to come and stay with her as long as she is down there. We took our second trip last week. It was so relaxing and it is probably one of the best vacations we have been on. There are several videos towards the end of the slide show so make sure that you click play to watch them. We are officially spoiled beach snobs :) The house we stayed in is amazing. So is it ok for me to be thankful for the oil spill? If it was not for that then Ms. Merri would not have gone down to work and we would not have had a vacation place like this... I know the oil spill was a terrible thing that happened. I realize it will take a long time for the coast to be normal again.. I am just so thankful that we were able to see some good in it personally.

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Well, it is official. We have started our school. We bought these desks this summer at a yard sale. We painted them and then let the girls paint the tops. They turned out really cute. It is really hard to believe that Claire is old enough to be reading and that Maggie is old enough to just be a stinker. These are my precious baby girls and they melt my heart. We have started a program called Classical Conversations. Claire will go to school every Monday and then we build off of her school for the rest of the week at home. We have a couple of more weeks until we start that but one really exciting thing about it is that we get to do this with the Bests. Claire gets to be with her best friend and well, Tweetle Dee and Tweetle Dumb (Brook and Mel) get to figure out this little thing we call "school". I am beginning to think that we are the ones who are going back to school and that this is all really for us (Lord, please help our children :) I am so excited about having such an amazing friend to share this with. We have walked along side of each other in ministry for many years now. We have been through a lot together... let me know when you have a few days, weeks, months and maybe we can catch you up... Thank you Lord for the opportunity to be doing school together. We may live 30 miles away from each other but that does not seem to stop us. I love you Brook Best!! I can't wait to see where the Lord takes us in this adventure!

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