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i said to annie "go get your shoes and we will walk waffle" she takes off running upstairs and comes down in this….
seriously cute. i said "oh…you want to wear those?" she answered "YEAH! they are a little tight but i sure do love the sound!!!" and jumped up and down, big loud jumps on the hard wood floors. they do make a great loud click clack sound. she is so good at being four years old.
i love the internet. i love blogs……did you know that? through the internet and linking from blog to blog shelley found me. she said she didn't have photos at their small wedding and was hoping i could take some for them now.
then when her appointment day came it was rainy. she drove over an hour so we just tried to make it work…finding covered spots. she didn't want to reschedule because Rene's parents were visiting and she wanted pictures with them. it was sweet. his parents' english was very limited….we had a LOT of laughs over me trying to explain what to do.
rene was quite a crack up..comfortable in front of the camera for sure. so funny. they laughed at each other the most.
they are having a baby in the fall. starting on a new journey…their first baby….so excited for them. thank you finding me shelley. it was fun…even in the rain. best wishes for a happy baby and wonderful marriage! Hi Meg, I found your blog through several blog links as well and have been reading for some time now. I love your pictures, your creative endeavors, and reading about your family! Thanks for posting! You do just as good of a job taking pictures of grown ups as you do babies and kiddos! what a beautiful couple. their love for each other shows through in their smiles. i have goose bumps right now. awesome shoot meg!! some of your best photos!!!! so sweet! Oh so lovely! You have a magical (no, it’s totally a talent) way of capturing moments, and personalities! These are so wonderful. What a beautiful couple, actually both are! I love these photos. There is something so warm and loving about them — and the photo of the parents — all so happy and filled with love. Thanks for sharing! NEAT.NEAT.NEAT!!!!!!!! I was so surprised when I looked at your blog today. I know Shelly! Joel and I went to China with her way back when we were in college. I haven’t seen her forever. The pictures are beautiful! i love that! what a great couple…and super fun too! What beautiful people and pictures!!! Great photos. Shelley and Rene look like fun! They are too precious! I LOVE the way he is looking at her in the 2nd (?) picture 🙂 The parents are just as sweet – what great pictures!! Aw – If pictures could talk, then we would not need you, so i for one am glad that picture do not talk. You do such a great job capturing joy!! I can feel the happiness! Those are just great Meg. Don’t they just look like the happy couple and the parents…too cute! I noticed you are using a Canon Rebel XT. How do you like it?How many mp’s is it? Do you need to buy a lens separately for it, or does it come with the lens attached? I’m going to be buying a new camera soon and I was thinking about that one. I actually know these two very well and felt quite surprised when they were the subject of this post. I must say, they are dear people! I came upon your blog via The Macs. Gotta love the blogosphere. Beautiful!!! So sweet – I love the one of the parents kissing. Beautiful pictures. They look like a lovely family! That post just made me so happy…thank you for sharing!!! They look so happy! As always, great pictures! This just really made me smile. 🙂 Awesome!! They are a couple you just look at and think, “I would like them.” i am not posting this to make you think i am great. or to make you feel like a bad mom if you don't do this. i am posting these because i started doing this after reading a post on emily's blog (little momma & co) she had kept notes her dad had put in her lunchbox when she was a kid. i saw them and thought "i should do that!" so i started. these are a few of talby's lunch box notes.
she packs her own lunch most of the time… i help her if she is running low on time. then while she eats breakfast…if i have time….i make a silly little note. ( i wish you could see and hear the morning scene at our house before school…oh my..it's chaos) she knows i make it but never looks until lunch…she likes the surprise.
just scraps of paper with goofy pictures and notes.
i have some guilt that i didn't do this for lauren's lunches. but i guess with all those babies at home….i just couldn't get to it. and that is a bummer to think about. and i put one in sean's lunch once…. he got in the car after school and the first thing out of his mouth "mom! don't ever do that again! it was so embarrassing!" i just cracked up. i should have known. scott rarely packed a lunch. so i did it once. he said it was funny. so see…i am not that great…i completely overlooked one child and mortified another. but i make one of them smile when she is away at school. and it is so easy. just passing an idea from one mom to another…. okay… i do it too… but my notes are NOTHING like yours! I love that! It ALMOST makes me able to tolerate the idea of sending my oldest to kindergarten next year. I can send a little piece of me with her…whether she wants it or not! LOL. Thanks for the idea! I just dropped my daughter off for her second year of college in San Francisco (we live in St. Louis)and she told me how much she loved getting notes from me everyday when she was in grade school – I love your notes to your daughter – your making Great memories! You’re so creative. And fun. What a cool mom. Way cool. just a thought for your older daughter or your son who thought it was embarrassing… Great idea, Meg! I put a note in my daughter’s lunch today but it wasn’t as cute as yours!! Your blog is so much fun to read. You are such a wonderful mom. I learn so much from you! Sincerely, Ann Same effects with my sons….sigh… I adore your blog! I look at it often! I have never commented but just had to on this post! When I was a little girl my mom put notes in my lunch, not every day. Things to make me laugh or if she knew I was having a hard time. I always thought it was nice. My BF started getting notes in her lunch too and I didn’t think much of it. When we were much older she admitted that she was so jealous that she was making her own notes! You are definately making Talby feel special! Those notes are AWESOME! What a GREAT idea…and they all look like you spent hours on them — so creative and cute and beautiful. I’m going to file this idea away for when we have kidlets. What a fun, special tradition! I remember the little notes my mom put into my lunchbox as a kid. made me feel so special. It was the favorite part of my day 🙂 That is so cool, and your little drawings are so (I can’t think of a word that doesn’t make me sound like I’m stuck in the 70’s), ok COOL. Really. I put notes in my kids lunches once in awhile, but nothing like this. Very very special. A wonderful memory for Talby. I love every bit of this post — especially your funny honesty! I thought about doing this for my son, but he’s three and can’t read yet. He just started preschool (Tu/Th, 9-2) last week, and I pack his lunch when he goes. I may put in a picture of a fire truck or something. But I can’t draw. So maybe I’ll just wait until he can read. LOL How fun. I’ve decided there isn’t any guilt allowed when comparing what happens with the different kids. We do what we can to survive, and we love our kids in the best we know how at that moment in time. Your kids are lucky to have you for a mom. I’m going to try these notes in my daughter’s lunch. Too cool. Mine aren’t that colorful or creative, but my girls (twins) started 2nd grade this morning and I’m proud to say that they have never taken their lunch that I didn’t include a note. They’re proud to say it too. It’s really special for them. In fact, Makinley told me this morning that I could stop putting notes in her lunch when she’s in high school… but not until then. I love putting notes in lunches… never thought of drawing.. that is great.. now only if I could draw… you are a great drawer…another new talent!!!! Thanks for sharing the idea! Happy week to you! o cute! well the girls dont have school but my hubby brings his lunch to work and i leave him notes 🙂 (he’s jsut practice for when the girls do have school and lunches) My blog is not private! My mom always did that for me too. She wrote me Roses are Red, Violets are blue poems:) I try to do this for my little one now. What a great way to let your child know how much you care. Trust me they will remember it and be grateful one day. i love it. my favorite was the one when it was YOUR birthday & you asked her to frost cupcakes with you! oh that melts my heart & gives me warm fuzzies. i think it’s so sweet to let kids know we think of them even when they think we’re NOT. 🙂 Meg-it touched my heart that you do this. My Mother did this for me as a kid, and at 30 years old, I can say that I have such great memories of opening my lunchbox in the cafeteria, and finding a little something special in there. It always seemed to make my sandwich taste a little better! I lost my sweet Mother 10 years ago, and it is things like the lunchbox notes that make my heart smile. Keep it up…..yours kids will cherish it. I don’t do this regularly but occasionally and it’s always a hit. I just use a sharpie and write on the napkin! My kids are 17. 14. 12 and 10 and so far, they don’t mind. Hopefully someday they will look back on it fondly! I wrote little things on Maddy’s napkins last year for 1st grade. She starts 2nd grade on 9.1.09 & you have definately inspired me to kick it up a notch. I will have to get a silly joke book….now if I just knew how to doodle… 🙂 i think i must still be hormonal from having my daughter- or just a ball bag- either way- this made me cry- a good kind of cry though- this is so sweet and i can’t wait to be able to do this for my daughter when she goes to school in a few years- you really are an awesome mom. I just started reading your blog.. stumbled upon it from a link on another.. and I must say, I love it. Your blog is one of few that really, really makes me smile and you managed to do it again today. : ) my mom did that for me and i saved tons of them. i always LOVED finding them in my lunch. she also put confetti in there from time to time. and sometimes she’d send me a pb & m&m sandwich. THAT was fun. Love this idea. I wonder if it mortify or please my daughter. I started putting a note in my first child’s lunch bag when she went off to middle school. The first were varients of “You can do this!” but quickly I ran out of ways to say the same thing. So I started putting in wonderful quotes I’d run across, from books, magazines, bumper stickers, whatever. The kids have kept every quote I gave them in special boxes. Now, three children and eight years later, the “lunchbox quotes” have moved out of paper bags and into daily emails. My kids still love getting them, even though they’re now 23, 20, and 16 years old. i used to write stupid (STUPID) jokes with a sharpie on my son’s sandwich bags. one would have the question, the other the (stupid) answer. groaners. I remember in Infant school when i was about 6, i had notes in my lunchbox, and i remember thinking ‘ i want to go home’ it made me miss my mum .. lol I love your blog! I don’t have kids yet, but my husband and I are trying – and I absolutely love all of your ideas on your blog. I think it’s great how you encourage creativity and let you kids get messy and fun (that’s a compliment – by messy I mean it seem like you let them just go nuts and have a great time like kids should sometimes!). Please don’t stop with your great ideas! And – your photos are AWESOME. I used one of your sunflower pictures as my desktop pic because it’s just so beautiful. I love this idea…I’m going to have to try it with my Lauren this year!!! My mom always put notes in my lunch. Not quite as visual as yours, but a great pick-me-up nonetheless. I wish I would have kept them. Now that I’ve graduated college and started working, I wish I would open my lunch in the breakroom and a note from mom would magically appear. That is a WONDERFUL idea! I am all about the memories. Childhood is short, my girls are 38 and 30…I know! Macy only brought her lunch to school every once in awhile, so I only wrote about 5 notes last year. But imagine my joy when I found a note SHE put in MY lunchbox one day! It said,”I love you mom. Have a great day. love Macy” in her best first grade handwriting. I love this…. I do this for my daughter, but not as often as I should nor as colorful/creative as yours. You have some great doodle skills. I like how you just wrote anything and that is what adds to the surprise. I am on it for this school year. THanks for the inspiration. You rock! I just started packing my teens lunch again, our school lunch program is hell. She puts a piece of paper or napkin out so I can write a note. She loves it wish I had kept them too. very cute! I just love this! Over the years I have occasionally put notes in my girls’ lunches. Always on birthdays and “just because” once in a while (wish I had done it more too). I recently posted on my blog about this, a very sweet story about my youngest and her note to me. If you have time, please read it 🙂 My oldest son starts kindergarten this year and I’ve been wondering if its ‘okay’ to put notes in his lunch, being he is a boy. I loved it when my mom did….but then I am also a girl. LOL! I’m guessing that I’m probably going to have to just wait it out until my third (our only girl) gets to school. I’d rather not mortify my boys! 😉 you are such a good artist!!! who knew?! though i could have suspected 😉 so i’m having my third boy…does that mean i’m off the hook for writing notes? I love it! My oldest is starting Kindergarten on Monday. I am thinking of little ways to let her know I love her and that I am with her on this new journey. This is another good idea to implement. 🙂 Hey….those look familiar! I think I have a stash of notes from you from high school that look a lot like these!! Except that our notes were passed in class and posted in eachothers lockers. They usually had drawings of us as cheerleaders and pics of what we would look like when we were “older”. I’ll have to get them out and show them to you sometime!! I do this last year (but only a few times). She collected them and kept them in the zipper part of her lunch box all year long. I did this a lot when my oldest was in Kindergarten. (2yrs ago). For some reason I didn’t do it as much last year. A couple of weeks ago, getting ready for the new school year, I came across his Kindergarten lunch box. Imagine my surprise (and tears) when I found all of those notes in the bottom zipper part. Needless to say I have started it again this year. My middle is in Kindergarten this year, so I am going to do it for him too. I like the idea above for doing jokes for the older one. Love the notes! I did notes (minus the art) for my son in kindergarten last yr using words he was learning, his reaction was much like Sean’s. 🙁 So awesome that she enjoys them, I hope she saves them too. 🙂 I’ve done this for our daughter a little in the past myself, but the one that remains on her bulletin board to this very day (in her bedroom) is the one (and only one) that her daddy wrote to her. 🙂 No hurt feelings here…she just realizes that it’s EXTRA special when dad takes the time to do it. Same goes for camp notes, sleep-over notes, etc. My mom put notes in my lunch every day! Some of them were on napkins and got tossed, but I stashed others in my yearbook at the end of the year. People’s reactions to them changed throughout the years too. In elementary school, other kids didn’t seem to pay that much attention to my mom’s notes, but in middle school some kids teased me for it. By high school, many expressed their jealousy that my mom loved me enough to write me a note every day. I am so glad there are other moms who carry on this tradition! how cute!! you are quite the sketcher. another of your talents. Love that idea! My kids start school on Monday, so maybe if I start writing the notes today, they’ll be done in time. 🙂 Okay, I’m doing this for the first day of school for sure. And so what about the embarassing part – it builds character! Well I do this with Sassy but mine are not as pretty!! :o) Your a good artist!! My daughter, Olivia, started 1st grade this year and she is all about taking her lunch to school. The first time she took her lunch I put a note in to surprise her! I’ll have to continue doing it!! Thanks for the idea! Awww that is so cute! I don’t have kids yet, but one day I will and I really want to do this. I’m sure Talby feels really special every day when she opens her lunch. I added this to my “future parenting” folder because it is that sweet! I love putting surprises in lunchboxes too. Now that my son is going into 4th grade, he isn’t as crazy about it, but he sure liked it when he was little. Another good idea is to buy yourself a silly joke book and write a joke down for him every day. Sam loved that! Thanks for another inspirational story. You helped me make my little guy’s birthday more special (sharing your last celebration with us), and now I have a great way to let him know I’m there with him as he starts kindergarten in just two weeks. xoxo Oh, you crack me up! I don’t know how you do it – I only have two and it keeps me on my toes! Thanks for the honestly about chaos. You rock. My hubby did this for our son last year — pen drawings on his lunchtime napkin. Monday he starts 1st grade and I’m sure the traditions will continue! I’m inspired to capture some of the fun napkin art in pics to save for them both!! The notes are great! Good job.And treating all your kids the same is overrated cause they never think it is exactly the same anyway! great idea. Love this idea! That made me cry!!!! SO sweet that you do it and even sweeeeeter tha she keeps them!!!!! Darn, I homeschool 😛 lol This is so cute! My little guy just started transitional kindergarten last week. And it is all day, so he brings his lunch. I was just thinking I should sneak in some notes…although he can’t read yet…and I need to learn how to draw robots! But maybe I can sneak in some fun before he gets too cool for his mommy.
playing with waffle.
getting the mail…and getting a package!!!
eating spaghetti for lunch….topless.
cherry slush from sonic before the big kids come home. she's got the good life. OMG!!! You’re wearing the Cabo necklace from Premier Designs!! I just got that for free from a party I had and it was on my “Must Have” list. I love it!! It looks great with your outfit, too! You and Annie are two cute girls! Have fun today! you are so stinkin cute Topless is the best way to eat spaghetti! I don’t think my family would like it if I did it, though!! I want to trade places with Annie for a day 🙂 I can tell by your eyes (and they way you capture people w/ your camera)that you have a warm soul. You both are adorable!!! I was showing my mom your master bath remodel pictures this morning. She’s about to do hers, and looking for ideas re-making pieces of furniture into vanities. Of course, she loved your bathroom, no surprise! She truly does! lucky girl!! gives new meaning to sonic spaghetti. Oh what a sweet little thing! And the perfect day: food and fun! Love it!!! How fun, and sweet. What special time, just for you all! Spaghetti picture is SO Camden. I took her to the store topless yesterday (she rarely wears a shirt) and some kid yelled from another cart, “Hey! Why are you naked?” What fun to be the youngest! Eating without tops is a good idea:)(for kids:) What a great life?? So what was in the huge box?? Treasures:)?? she does have the good life! 🙂 She looks like she had a great day! 😀 The spaghetti picture is my favorite! She’s such a cute kid! annie can we trade lives? (all except the topless spaghetti eating) The spaghetti part looks good…not sure topless would be too flattering at this point in my life! Sometimes we have topless spaghetti here too, the girls, not me, although my husband would probably make it home from work a lot sooner if I joined in. Mmm, cherry slush from Sonic, that IS the life! 🙂 ahhh, I love eating spaghetti topless too!! LOL I blogged about your fantastic blog on my own. heck yeah, what was in that package!! and topless spaghetti. the new way to eat spaghetti!! (now my husband will want it every night!! yikes on the empty nest!!) is there any other way to eat spaghetti? oh such a sweet life!!!! Annie does have it good! Beautiful photos she took of you.. And love the photo of her with her slush, made me smile. topless spaghetti…what recipe book is that from? I love that you let her take pictures with you camera. She does such a good job! You look gorgeous in them. I love all her pictures.. she just has this look in her eyes sweet but a little wild 🙂 I thought waffle was one of those big polar bear rugs at first 🙂 i’d give anything for that to be MY day….except for the topless part! she’s got THE life!! I always tell my son – I don’t know who has it worse – him and his sister or the dog. Tough life all around! Love the topless spaghetti pic! I am trying YOUR stuffed shells tonight!!!!!! It’s great to be the youngest so I’ve heard! Love the pictures Annie is a taking after her Momma! wonderful. happy. gorgeous girls. love it. No doubt she has the good life! And you too 🙂 I love sonics’ happy hour! yum – I’m cherry limeaid kinda girl the good life indeed! i daydreamed of sonic just yesterday. i agree with anna marie, your new do is super cute! Can I come play with you guys? It always looks like so much fun! 🙂 The spaghetti picture really made me smile. I always made Craig and Abby take their shirts off (when they were little) to eat spaghetti. We still laugh about it today whenever someone has spaghetti. I’m sure they will carry on that practice with their little ones! Here’s to the good life! I’m pretty jealous of that cherry slush. Those are my favorite. 🙂 How do you get your hair to do that? Is your hair naturally wavy? Or is there a product or trick? It looks like it would be easy to take care of AND it is super cute 😉
he is too cute…those big eyes were so much fun to photograph!
those cheeks need some smooching on…they are begging for it!
abby set up this shoot just before they moved…far away…georgia? alabama? virginia? i can't remember. i am so glad i got to meet them before they moved. nathan was one smart kid. his grandma was trying to get him to smile and look…she was writing letters on paper… nathan knew them all and could say a word that started with each letter. i was impressed!
a kiss from nathan… and a kiss from daddy.
i love this one. abby…if you come back to town with your new baby…can i take some pictures? i just love babies. hope you love your new home. thanks! Gorgeous shots. I teared up a little at this one. My own “baby” just turned 14, but used to be a cutie with big blue eyes and chuuuuby cheeks too. Now he is starting high school and still has the big blues but the chubby went away. How I wished I had the talent to better chronicle time passing! your clients are LUCKY!! Oh I loved the last one too. SWEET! What a smart little boy. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the vintage treatment on the last one. Is it an action? Or did you do it all manually on photoshop? Do you use PSE or CS? great photos meg. they are so perfect because they catch the spirit of the family!!! I think I am in love. (with a much younger man, named Nathan!) love them! natural…and awesome! Grandma Lindy checking in. Meg, thank you so much for taking such wonderful pictures of our little Nathan. I love them all. It was also great to meet you. You are blessed with an amazing talent and you can bet we will be back with Nathan’s little brother when he comes back to visit KS (it may be a while though). Have to admit they made me teary too. SC is too far away! South Carolina! Thanks for the post, we have been trying to decide which ones to frame – hard choices! I love the one of Mark and Nathan, melts my heart every time I see it. We will be calling you for sure when we come to visit with the new little one! So cute, love those last two! Nathan is just too cute! (I have a Nathan too.) Beautiful pictures…wish you were closer to CA 🙂 What a sweetheart! Love those last two pics, the last one made me teary it was so sweet. Meg, you are the BEST! I swear if I ever get back to the mid-west I am arranging a photo session with you. Simply awesome! vintage treatment on the last photo is supreme. lovely. Loving those pictures, especially the one with the long eyelashes.. so cute! So sweet. Love those pictures! That last picture is so very lovely….ahhh *sigh*.. Where’s my husband when you need him 🙂 These are so great, I can’t wait for Saturday. Love, love, love that last picture. Oh my word, that is art. And how sweet is his little face looking down at them?!! if you were wanting to schedule a photo session with little ol' me… click the email button on the top left corner. i just made a schedule of dates i have available. thanks! if you weren't….you can still email me….if you want. you could tell me what to fix my family for dinner because i am totally out of ideas and tired of our regular meals. and just to make you laugh today… and one more… joe geronimo…HA!!! I’m a year out of high school and my life is over. OK, I only got to watch the SNL of HSM (‘Cause I’ll abbreviate if you let me) and it owned me. Steaming Walt Disney and the musical theater basketball league? So good. If I wanted to schedule a photo shoot with The Most Wonderfully Talented You, which I would, then you would have to bring your fun, beautiful family to Florida, which you should. See you soon, then? so funny! This is embarrassing but true…my preteen self totally has a crush on Zac Efron and his HSM character. Don’t tell. Thanks for a couple of good laughs! I am making a ham loaf. How very Hoosier of me. This will be my first. It smells good so far! I have made almost e-v-e-r-y recipe you have posted!! So thank you for that! My fave is the mexican chicken and the french toast! Yum-o! I have a recipe blog too- not too exciting – but they are easy! Sold at Ann Taylor! Hahahaha!!! That was great! I sometimes post recipes on my blog. They are all pretty easy and really good! if potato burrito’s interest you, just yell across the street 🙂 I am still chuckling over the Sat Nite Live skit on HM4. Thanks! I would love to schedule a photo session with you…Kansas is too far from Virginia, unfortunately.Rats! I think we will be having grilled brats and corn on the cob and some fresh peaches for dessert. I have an easy Ck pot pie recipe that I have altered a tad from Paula Deen. Taco Tuesday hello!!  i have never entered anything at this blog because i am usually too lazy. but today i….1. remembered 2. knew i had a picture…3.i love bubbles.
[url=http://farby.praktyczne.org.pl ]farby[/url] Just have to say – LOVE your blog – read it every day! Thanks for sharing your talent and fun tidbits with us! – I’ll seconded that Amy!! 🙂 I just love your photos! This one is great – captures the fun of bubbles. Your blog is a must read for me everyday. Thanks for sharing! I was just at their site looking at other bubble entries, yours so is the best one! Congratulations! What about the adorable picture of your daughter and the giant bubbles?!? Great shot! I love all the bright colors:) bubbles = fun! Just have to say – LOVE your blog – read it every day! Thanks for sharing your talent and fun tidbits with us! – Amy Winner! lol Love it! Oooh that’s a great shot. that is one big bubble. lol Awesome I love that face! Yay! You entered! I just knew you’d have a great bubble shot. The ones you posted the other day are amazing as well. Great photo! Bubbles make me happy too!! Great photo! Love it! I can’t believe you’ve never entered…all those amazing pics you’ve taken. Well if anyone deserves to win you do. This shot is once again AMAZING! Love it:) Love that photo! That is so awesome! Hi Meg! I wondered if you’d enter this week after seeing your bubble post. Very cute capture. 🙂 AWESOME! I love this! I can imagine you remembered this photo, it’s awesome! I love the joy in this! |
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Varun - Nice collection of pics.. and beautifully portrayed ..
The world as i see through my lens.
http://dimmingthoughts.blogspot.com
the wild raspberry - i meant….
chose our SHOES by the sound they made….
duh….
the wild raspberry - if only we chose our choose by the sounds they made!!
chas
gina - four IS fun- and she sure is making the most of it!
paige - oh my word~~ that’s the cutest thing!
Tammie - Annie has great style! Go Annie!
traci - I LOVE HER STYLE!!!
Christina - Love a girl who knows what she likes! So very cute. I love that last line.
princesslasertron - I love annie so much
Trina McNeilly - Talk about style…. what a cutie!
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Routhie - Very cute, and I love your dog. He looks so lusciously soft. Perfect playmate for a little girl. 😀
Karina - She is just so cute. More than cute – she is photogenic and guileless as only a little kid can be. I LOVE the outfit. Can she come over and pick out stuff for me to wear (mind you, I’m no longer 4…more like 40)?
Is she named “Anne” and you call her “Annie?” I ask because my baby (third child) is Anna and she’s still so young (one), I don’t know yet if she’ll turn into an “Annie…” I LOVE the name. And I continue to love your family and house in pictures.
The Paper Note - I’m totally diggin the socks, awesome., L
alyssa - she just keeps getting cuter. Do you ever wonder how that works? They never cease to amaze!
julie - You are such a good mom. Why can’t I let go and just let my kids live? We would all be happier! I love the look on Annie’s face…she looks “happy”!
Sheryl - Oh, I just love Annie! I love when my preschoolers come to school in outfits they picked out.
sarajane - i think ellakate has a fashion idol to follow now! love the look annie!
Lauren - I have been a long time lurker, but this pic brought me out from my hiding spot. I LOOOVE this picture of Annie. It reminds me of my daughter (I could have shown a similar picture). My daughter usually pics either silver glitter shoes or white patent ones. And she will purposely take apart 2 different pairs of matched socks and put on one of each color/pattern. She isn’t even 3 yet. It makes me happy to know I might still have these moments with her for another year!!!
Gina - Oh my goodness, that’s adorable.
Lori - That little Annie is the cutest!!I love reading about her and especially love the pictures. Keem ’em coming!
Lisa - PRECIOUS MOMENTS WITH A PRECIOUS GIRL!
I SURE DO MISS THAT AGE!
HUGS FROM MAINE
Renee - LOVE it. Was she disappointed you didn’t put your tap shoes on, too? xoxo
Amber - oh so cute! Annie and Waffle make quite the cute pair 🙂
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Don’t ya just wish she’d stay that way?? What a sweetheart:)
Jennifer T - She just makes me laugh – I hope London can be as carefree as Annie is about things in life.
Debra Cripps - That makes me remember when my younger girl was that age. We could not buy her a pair of shoes unless they made the right “tappy” sound.
She’s now 24! Have fun when they are little. Time flies by so fast!
Sandy - I LOVE that little Annie! Thanks again for sharing your adorable kids, dog, husband and life with us!
Kat - That’s awesome! I love the pics of her hugging Waffle. You can just see the love. Too cute. I love Waffle’s leash too!
lulusparkles - annie~
you rock it girl.
kim - very cute!!! love your blog!
Staci - Ohhh Sweet Annie!!! She already has learned…sometimes, it’s just alllll about the look!!! What a sweetie pie!!!
elisa - so so sweet!
christi - a HUGE smile is across my face right now. thanks for sharing your little annie with us!
Wendy - Great post, Meg ! As always, you (and Annie and Waffle of course) deliver a smile. 🙂 Great sense of style, Annie!
purejoy - i always wanted tap shoes when i was little. my mom never thought dance lessons were appropriate. i so wanted to dance.
i would have danced around the block in my tap shoes walking my dog, snoopy.
annie is a true unbridled spirit and i LOVE it!
Dana D @BoysMyJoys - Are they taps? Love them! Love the outfit! Love that Annie stories always make me laugh!
Kelly - Gosh what a cute kid.
I go back to teaching next week. I have been transferred to third grade.
I am SO going to miss stuff like this. Years 4 – 6 are the best.
These were the things I wrote down in a journal and whenever I needed it,
I took it out and got myself a healthy outlook on the world.
Annie cracks me up!
Laura Phelps - My Annie would be VERY PROUD of your Annie. She may even tell her, “You’re fashion.”
Good work Annie.
Molly Pearce - Oh thats so cute!! My baby sister used to wear a little boys suit jacket we bought at goodwill FOR-EVER! She loved it!! She even wore it in the dead heat of summer. Have a happy Tuesday!!
~Molly P
Mary - Mine is 8 and she still loves fun socks with “glop glop” shoes. I try to correct her that it should be “clop clop”, but she doesn’t care so neither do I. Go Annie!!
Carrie - Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jill J - Do they make those socks in adult sizes?! 😉 To take from another commenter, those are “fashion!”
Jennifer - So cute! I hope my daughter has as much spunk at 4!
Holly - She’s too cute!
Lanny Stanard - Okay now thats cute! that’s our Annie 😀
Lanny…
Penny - Oh, what a way to greet the day! She is VERY good at being four. It is my very favorite age. I remember so many sweet, funny things my three girls did at four.
You are a great mom! Enjoy these days. And enjoy that wonderful wonderful dog, Waffle. Our little Sophie (also a Goldendoodle) is such a clown. We love her!
You will be so happy you are capturing these days, give her a big hug!
Art Cant Hurt - at four years old my youngest daughter would label my outfits as “fashion” or “not fashion” – don’t know where she got this but it was always the highlight of my day!
annie is TOTALLY fashion!!!
Kathy - Are those tap shoes? OMG I love that child’s spirit she is a good nut!
Ashlee Archibald - I cant wait til Olive is four. This is nothing more sweet! 🙂 She looked great! 🙂
Kim - Annie is just adorable! Are they tap shoes? Her shorts are too cute!
Toni :O) - That is just too sweet! My daughter loves those types of shoes as well and she’s six. I love being a mom to a daughter…just SO special. I can never hear her say “I love you Mom” too much….ever!
alice - so cute! and i’m glad she loved the sound – otherwise you wouldn’t have these awesome, sweet photos :O).
Caron - So fearless! Isn’t that wonderful?
Courtney - That, my friend, is what I call style! I love age four… so much fun!
erica - i love your daughter’s sense of style! she is exactly how i pictured my daughter to be… whenever i have a daughter 😉
emily :] - four is my favorite age, so cute.
Candace - Love, Love, Love IT! I feel a trend coming on. Enjoy your blog so very much – just thought you should know!
Shauna - She is too cute, and what style!!
Jodi - She is so adorable. I think it’s awesome that you allow her to choose what she wants to wear. Sometimes how it makes you feel is more important than how it looks.
She’s totally got what it takes to pull this look off! 🙂
Jess - She is so adorable!
adrienneK - LOVE it!! i believe I called any shoes that made a neat sound “clicky claks” as a child…I think I was 4 too!
Vicki - Oh how that made me chuckle!! I LOVE it!!! 🙂
colleen - She sure is cute and perfect at being four. Love the socks more than the shoes!!!