PROUD MAMA MOMENT!

I have to brag a little bit!  I have two smart girls!  Natalie gave me some papers this morning right before we left for the bus.  I just sat down to read through them and was blown away.  One of them was a reading diagnostic report. It says that her Grade Equivalent score is 5.3, which means her reading skills are comparable to an average fifth grader after the third month of the school year."  She also achieved a national Percentile Rank of 98, which means she scored higher than 98% of students nationally in her grade.  Sounds like I have to start getting her more difficult books to read.  I'm so proud of her!

Family Pictures

We went and got our family pictures this past weekend.  They turned out so great!  I love them all!!!

This is the pose we decided on for our main package.  I love how the color scheme worked out so well!!!

This pose (and another lower down) was taken toward the end of the shoot and the girls were getting tired of smiling, so I had them make a silly faces to relax their faces so they could smile pretty.  Amazing what works! =)

Silly Faces!!!

The lady said she wanted to do a dog pile picture as she was asking Peter to lay down.  She wasn't expecting the girls to immediately jump on him in an actual dog pile.  She laugh so hard!

A Mother holds your hand for a while and your heart forever

The greatest gift I ever had was heaven sent.  I will call him Dad

This year will be our 10 year anniversary!  In some ways I can't believe it's only been 10 years, and in other ways I can't believe it has been 10 years!  It's funny how things work out that way isn't it?  I am still as in love with Peter as I was on our wedding day... maybe even more!!!

Dr. Seuss's Birthday

Today would have been Dr. Seuss's birthday.  It's a holiday and a celebration of it's own, especially in schools.  All around the country, they are having a "Read Across America Day" to celebrate it.  Dr. Seuss was an amazing man, author, mentor, and friend to all kids!  Because I couldn't just pick 1 or even 10, here are my top 11 Dr. Seuss quotes. (There were so many to choose from! It was hard to narrow it down just to 11!!!)

11. “Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!”

10. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

9. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.”

8. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”

7. “Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

6. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

5. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go."

4. "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh! the Thinks you can think up if only you try!"

3. "A person's a person, no matter how small."

2. "You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."

1. "You are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! "I meant what I said and I said what I meant" you were a great man! Thank you for all the memories as a child and as a mother!


PS: The Boy of Fairfield Street is a great biography of how Dr. Seuss became Dr. Seuss.  If you haven't read it, I'd highly suggest it!  It's on my list of must haves for my classroom (or my own personal library)!