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No Comments We are hosting a playdate with a friend of Ingrid's tomorrow, and this is the first time we've had a school friend over. They are very excited to get together, and the friend sent home these two drawings with Ingrid's things — the white is a picture of them holding hands, and the brown paper is a treasure map. We just about died of adorable overload when we saw.
family No Comments When we got home from school the other day, Ingrid immediately picked up a favorite book of hers to read to Willa. Willa was way into the camera, but when it wasn't pointed at her, she was happily listening to big sister! Then she fell asleep on Mama's lap.
family No Comments The girls and I wore purple on 10/20 in support of anti-bullying. Purple is Ingrid's favorite color, anyway, so it was an easy sell.
family No Comments Dave's company gave him free passes to Thunder Road farm in Corinna, and he took Ingrid on a day that I wasn't feeling well. They had fun, as you can see!
family No Comments Ingrid is doing gymnastics this year for our Saturday activity. She LOVES it. The photos aren't great, but here she is on her first day. Her favorite part is the bars, but they are at the back of the room and I couldn't get a photo of that. The last picture is at Tim Horton's, where we went after, as she got a donut for being brave — the class doesn't allow parents in with the teachers and the kids. She only hesitated for a moment on the first day, and on the second Saturday, she actually sent me HOME to get her book (we'd forgotten it!) while she went in to the class. That is a real first for her!
family No Comments You might recognize the cover girl for the Sugarloaf Ski Club's 60th anniversary magazine. 🙂 Ingrid is already talking about (and looking forward to!) skiing this winter.
family No Comments These are from our New Hampshire trip, too. Ingrid loved the disc swing.
family No Comments Ingrid is very expressive — when she cries, she CRIIIIIIIEEES and her whole face turns just about inside out. Her “mad face” looks just like Dave’s (who also has the very expressive face, it’s like they are made of rubber or something). Also, in the hubbub of getting ready in the morning (always a crazy time) Ingrid has started having conversations that come from left field, like while I’m racing around to get my stuff together or get her breakfast or change Willa I’ll hear “mama mama mama mama — will you draw me a piggie and cut it out for me?” (Um, no. Eat your cereal.) Yesterday’s was “mama mama mama mama — why does Jerry sometimes close his eyes a little bit?” Jerry is our dear friend, the father of the much beloved Finn, and we had been at their house the night before. “What do you mean ‘close his eyes a little bit,Ingrid?” “Like this!” she said, and proceeded to pop out the most dead-on impression of Jerry’s incredulous face that I’d ever seen.
family No Comments Dave had to work so it was just me and the girls at Amy's wedding. Thanks to Audrey for holding my camera when she wasn't holding my baby!
family No Comments Ingrid and Finn have been hanging out since Finn was tiny and Ingrid was a gigantic 18 month old towering over him. The age gap is meaning less and less as they get older, and here Finn tries to give Ingrid a flower, and eventually kind of gives up in favor of browsing the gift table.
