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| Madeline's birthday flowers from Rob |
Lovely Madeline made us parents when she was born eight years ago! She's creative, kind, helpful and hardworking; stoic, daring and a generous big sister. When she was a toddler, I used to always ask her, "Do you know what you are?" And she would answer "delightful." And she is.
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| I love this girl!! |
Madeline's party was the weekend before her actual birthday. She chose a camping theme, celebrating with a handful of adorable girlfriends from around the world (and special invitations to each of her brothers)! We set up an entire camp scene in our living room with a borrowed tent and artificial Chrsitmas trees! The girls (and boys) roasted S'mores, filled out a camp-theme Mad Libs by flashlight inside the tent, played Critter Toss and Pass the Parcel (unwrapping layer after layer of wrapping paper), and of course, bobbed for dangling donuts!
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| Dangling donuts! |
Madeline begged for her ears to be pierced. I thought it was very sweet that Rob wants to keep her little as long as possible, and as soon as he said those words, I knew I agreed. So instead of actually piercing her ears, I took her for a special mother-daughter shopping trip to Claire's (I couldn't believe Lux
has one!) and bought her several pairs of magnetic earrings, as well as a bag full of other sparkly lip glosses, eye shadows and nail polishes.
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| Madeline's first ever trip to Claire's! |
On the night of her actual birthday, she chose shrimp and grits for her special family dinner! We opened presents -- a gymnastics mat -- and ate homemade almond raspberry cake that John and I baked earlier that day.
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| Birthday morning french toast! |
Rob came home with birthday flowers for his little girl, just like he has every March 19th since she was born!
We love you SO much, Mimi!!
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| Making s'mores in the fireplace! |
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| John helped bake Madeline's birthday cake |
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| Madeline was so excited to receive some special packages! |
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| She loves art |
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