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Bathing Beauty

After a long day of playing with her sisters and causing a ruckus or two Nova chills out in a bath. She smells so good after her bath that we all fight over holding her! She is a sweetie!

Our special time of day

Like most families we look forward to the time of day when we can all be together. Like her sisters Nova demands Shane's attention the minute he gets into the room. It's not too often that her sisters give up their dad and so Nova usually has to wait until their baths before she gets some one on one time. However, today she and Shane got to relax together. In many ways Nova has gotten a bum deal seeing as how Shane got to be home for a little while with the older girls but in Nova's case that has not been possible. Nova also has to compete with two older and more mobile girls and that has been hard on their father-daughter bonding time. So when they get that time together it means a lot. I had hoped Nova would do a little more crawling in this video but I think she was too excited to see her DA DA and she wanted to get to him the fastest way possible!

The Big Move

"Mom I am not as popular as Victoria!" she says

"Victoria has a lot boys who like her!" she exclaims

"That's going to get Victoria into a lot of trouble when she is older" I remind her for the 1ooth time not looking forward to having this conversation again

"And one day she even told a boy that she liked him" she informs me to which I think some thoughts about fresh girls who I hope move away

"We call that the BIG MOVE!" and so ends the conversation because I begin to laugh hysterically

When did she become a pre-teen? Is she a pre-teen? Why did I think could raise girls?

The fourth and final part of Kennedy turns 3

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A conversation shared...

"I'm doing good!" she states as she rides her new bike

"Yeah! You're doing great!" he exclaims with pride

"I'm not doing great" she says firmly "I'm doing GOOD" she corrects him.


"Where did these three years go by? When did our baby become a big girl?" she wonders

Kennedy turns 3 pt. 3

I wish I could show you a picture or two of Kennedy's party but right now I can't. My camera came to a sudden end at her party and Shane's card reader has stopped working so until we get a new card reader I can't share any pictures. But I will as soon as I can. Her party was great. So many of our friends showed up and helped us celebrate her birthday. She had a small accident when her nose met a Frisbee and they did not do well together. After some blood,(hers) sweat,(mine), and tears,(hers) she was better. She got a little bit of a sunburned nose as well:( A lot of work went into her party mainly from me doing all the cooking and I began to wonder why I did it and then I stopped to think about it and I came to the realization that when they are adults I want to hear about the "great" birthdays they used to have. I hope that happens and that these things we do for them will live on. At any rate it was a fun time and I look forward to having Ava's and Nova's shared birthday party this fall. Did I mention that it will be held somewhere where they do the cooking?