a.k.a. a blog by Jeffrey
family, photography, & soccer
Yesterday Olivia was sitting on the front porch reading and just looked so cute.
I took a couple more photos of Olivia, but she was real happy with me jumping around her with a camera.
Then Mia got upset for some reason and took off running.
She stopped, eventually.
We say that Mia dances to the beat of a different drummer, but often have difficulties with specific examples that express exactly what Mia does to make her so unique. Well tonight we have a great example. As the girls were getting ready for bed Jennifer told Mia to put on her pajamas and clean underwear. Tonight Mia said she did not want to change her underwear. Well this was not an option, so Jennifer insisted that Mia do so. Jennifer started in a little bit with the "good hygiene" talk, but Mia interrupted and said, "If I have to put on new panties, I am going to put them on my head!"
So that is exactly what Mia did. She put on a nightshirt, new panties and also a new pair of panties on her head. For the rest of the night, Mia walked around with an underwear hat.
Perhaps it is not so unusual for a child to put underwear on their head, but Mia's reasoning just seams a little unusual.
I guess that is what makes Mia, Mia. Of course I grabbed the camera so we could have a good memory, but other than that, life went on as usual. The girls had a little snack and relaxed watching a little tv before brushing their teeth and going to bead.
Of course Mia did not go right to sleep, but that is a different tale.
Over the past weekend Mia was invited to a birthday party at Grant's Farm. The party was for her two very good friends, Hunter and Walker.
Hunter and Walker are twins, Hunter a girl and Walker a boy. Mia likes them so much that she often spells her own name M I A H W. For some reason Mia and Walker have really become good friends at school. I think they make very cute friends.
The party started with feeding camels,
then lunch and cake and ice cream,
and then time to walk around the park to feed goats,
and look at the rest of the animals.
All in all a wonderful day. You can view all the photos from the day as a Gallery or a Slideshow.
Jennifer, the girls and I were lucky enough to be invited to the annual Barnes Family Memorial Day Party. What a great time we had. There was an appetizer contest, enough food to feed a small army (amazing ribs!), a jazz band, dancing to go along with the band, and bingo. Plus, some of the nicest people ever. I made a number of photographs, just head over to Events on my Smugmug page.
Not much to say, except that Mia and I went to the DSAGSL family picnic this past Saturday. The weather was great, although a little windy, and it looked like everyone had a wonderful time. As always, there was dancing, carnival games, a blow-up bounce house that had an attached slide (way cool), a jump rope team, great hotdogs (provided by the Florissant KofC), popcorn, snow cones, Rams Cheerleaders, a face painting clown, and most importantly some of the greatest people in and around St. Louis.
To see a few more photos go to the DSAGSL SmugMug site.
