Lashes

One of my favorite features on each of my children is (are?) their eyelashes. I love pretty eyelashes. I'm so lucky to have married a husband with lovely lashes to guarantee long-lash-ed-ladies. (It kind of makes up for the fact that none of my children have inherited my dimples. Kind of.) :)

Violet's eyelashes are growing longer and thicker everyday.

Love that little face.

Lilie -- Halloween 2007

Mascara is a wonderful thing for blonde-lashed girls. :)

Hazel -- Halloween 2007

Again, mascara. Halloween is fun.

The other day, I took the girls to the zoo for the first time this year. We had a wonderful time together. Elsie especially loved chasing the peacocks. (Which, by the way, are so incredible to me. It is amazing to me the many different designs and colors that the Lord has given to birds.)

Seriously, IMPOSSIBLE for me to get a picture with all of them looking at the camera! I swear, I tell them to smile and they start staring off all over the place -- except at me! :)

Elsie has recently decided that she needs to be a princess everyday. Which basically means she wants to wear either a dress or a skirt everyday. You would think that with four girls, this is something we'd be used to by now, but no. Elsie is my first girl to really love "girly" things -- you know, for more than 2 minutes at a time. She loves to carry around a purse (complete with keys and "lists" :) and wear spart-ly (sparkly) shoes. I love it. She was VERY put out yesterday that I wouldn't let her wear the same dress that she had worn the day before and to bed that night (because she refused to take it off --- she even wore she red glittery shoes to bed). She didn't think the food smears on it were as big a deal as I did, apparently. LOL.

This is the face that she now gives me every time I tell her to smile. :)

The funniest thing about this lovely smile is that it's the same one I used to make when I was her age. I love it.