Anna's Photo Blog

Grandma sewed a beautiful Cinderella dress for L for her birthday. L was too shy to wear it while everyone was around, but when she woke up the next morning, it was all she could think of.

She twirled, and danced, and giggled, and twirled some more. At first, all I could get were tons of pictures like this:













And then, finally, I got one in focus:



Several days later, she could finally sit still long enough for a picture. What a beautiful dress!! Grandma did a great job!



And L, being the wonderfully kind sister that she is, decided to give M her old princess dress. It is still a bit big for M, but that is okay. Thanks to Grandpa on the other side of the family for it. (Although he didn't sew it.)

L's birthday was great! She really enjoyed it, and she got to spend it with lots of family. She was especially excited to get to spend the day with her cousin.





When I asked L what she wanted for her birthday, she told me she would like whatever we gave her. She did have one request though. For about two months, she had been requesting to have watermelon on her birthday. Watermelon was not in season yet, so it turned out to be one expensive watermelon. But what a wonderful request!! And she ate tons. And then a few days later, she ate even more. We still had about a third of the watermelon left, and she ate almost the whole thing herself. M and I had a few pieces, but L ate and ate until there were only two or three triangle pieces left. At that point, she was so sick she had to quit. She came back and finished off the last few pieces a little while later.





L also requested to have cheesecake.

Here is L when she was 18 months old.




And now, here is M at 18 months old.


And here they are together. L can still fit in a milk box.