Archive for August, 2009

the 1st day of school…

we had A Milestone today – jasper’s first day of preschool…
and here she is – as excited about going to school as she could be!  her nervous?  no…  me nervous?  yes…  oh, yes…

she is wearing a birthday dress from wendy that was seemingly made to be a 1st day of school dress – i loved [...]

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jasper at play…

we had a busy weekend!!
my favorite consignment event was putting its fall/winter stock up so heather and i did some major shopping saturday night – jasper is set for fall and winter school clothes and shoes and i found some great things!!  now i just have to wait until the weather gets cooler so that [...]

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happy 3rd birthday, jasper lilith!

well, can you believe it?  jasper lilith is 3 years old…
i can’t really grok it and i have stopped even trying to!
we had a whirlwind of a day today and i have finally gotten a chance to post a real happy birthday post…
it is storming outside and i am sitting on the couch with a [...]

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we met her teacher!

tonight was “meet the teacher” night at jasper’s preschool and, man, jasper was excited!
“i go meet my teachuh now, mom?  you coming with me?  ah you and daddy going to leave me theuh?”
and, by the way, my answer in the negative to her asking if i was leaving her was met with disappointment…  disappointment!
this girl [...]

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not just a birthday but a little gym day, too!

it is a big day today for jasper lilith!
she turned 3 years old (be still my aching heart), she had her first little gym class, we are going to have a tiny birthday celebration and this evening, we all go meet her teacher!
that is a lot of firsts in one day
i was originally [...]

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moments in time…

pop and arnetta drove in for jasper lilith’s birthday party and stayed with weekend with us…  and between arnetta and i, we had some great pictures of us all!

oh, it is rare to catch arnetta on camera!  but it was worth the wait for this moment in time!
that looks like good sweet tea that they [...]

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jasper’s art desk…

when i saw what mom had gotten jasper, i instantly thought i would set up a dedicated place for her to get down and dirty with all this stuff…
and luckily, we had the perfect area!  there is a smal built-in desk in jon’s office that seems to have been built just for this purpose [...]

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oh, and the chalk too!

keiran brought two cool gifts too – one of them was 3d sidewalk chalk with glasses (yes, the ones that david was wearing)…  i still don’t entirely understand how it works…
here are the kiddos coloring up my entry way sidewalk…  (the driveway was covered in cars so this was the only concrete that they could [...]

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the lady bug rain coat in all its glory!

and here it is!
arnetta and pop got jasper matching rain boots, rain jacket and little flip flops…  and oh, are they not the cutest possible thing on jasper lilith?

jasper had to go all the way (which seems to be the nature of this wild child) and put the entire outfit on – snapped up to [...]

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and now for some of the presents…

let’s see, we had cake and ice cream, friends and family, hmmm…  what  is next?
presents!!!
i couldn’t post pictures of all her gifts but thank you cards and future postings should cover all the bases
and now on to the highlights:

jasper lilith had been eying and fiddling with this present since she first saw it [...]

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