Kaitlin had "special friends day" on Friday, where everyone got to bring up a special friend for an hour in the afternoon to show them around and then take them to the book fair. Kudos to whoever thought of that b/c 95% of the time the special friend is a grandparent and what grandparent says "no" to buying their grandchild a book to support their school? Well played educators, well played. We were surprising Kaitlin with Nanny coming to visit, but when she first asked early in the week we wouldn't tell her b/c we wanted it to be a surprise. So about Wednesday she started saying "I know who my special friend who is coming up, it's Claire" and would throw out a few nuggets here and there saying she was excited to show her around. Then on Friday morning she was just convinced that it was going to be me and Claire and Bryn coming up. Well, when Nanny got there she was surprised (and embarrassed according to Nanny), and a little flustered b/c they had made a special picture in preparation for their special friend, and this is what Kaitlin had:
As soon as Nanny showed me that after her visit on Friday I started crying like a baby. I pray everyday that they will be close and to see this was just so sweet!
As a somewhat related aside, I took that picture of the picture with our old point and shoot camera, which has become Claire's default plaything at times. I haven't downloaded pictures off it in over 6 months, and there are some gems! Here are some highlights:
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| This actually happens to me too when taking pics, Bryn turns her head too fast. Cannot fault her for this one. |
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| Actually a decent shot! |
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| Yep. That's her gum. On the kitchen table. Yum. |
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| Had about 50 of these in the download. Can never have enough pictures of Kitty according to Claire. |
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| Self portrait #1 |
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| The tough look |
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| I'm guessing she was going for sad here? |
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| she calls this one "sunday morning abstract" |
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| interesting POV |
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| A pic I was able to snap of the big photog |
