Red Carpet Premier – you’re 10!!

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IMG_8592Hey there Peanut –

One highlight – perhaps the biggest – is that you turned double digits!! 10. Ten. Wow.

We had a 10-year old birthday party that was so much fun!! A red carpet premiere!! Highlights were shopping for your gown and shoes at a thrift store, listening to your friends sing all the words to Uptown Funk in the hot tub, and watching Dan run the concession stand for all of you on his crutches. 🙂 The cupcakes were yummy, the movie (A Night at the Museum #2) was awesome, and the night was totally fun.

And then you had an outstanding well visit to celebrate how great your growing and becoming!! Here are some fun pics from both!!


Celebrating birthdays and mama’s day in Seattle

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You and I joined Oma in Chicago and traveled together to Seattle to celebrate Amy and Lizzy’s birthdays as well as Mother’s Day together. (I served on the committee for a doctoral student at UW, so we went also so I could be at her defense.)

We had such a GREAT time!! Oma and Auntie Amy played LOTS of Scrabble – sometimes together on Oma’s iPad. You and Lizzy were inseparable – taking care of the horses, swimming (and dancing) in/by their pool, and playing mine craft. We cheered Lizzy on at synchronized swimming and drama read-aloud at Barnes and Noble. I ran the hills near their house multiple mornings, and we went out to eat to celebrate the birthdays. 🙂

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