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Geddy Lee, 1 year

First day of school 2011

This Monday was the first day of the new 2011/12 school year. Both girls (and parents) were excited to get back into the regular routine that school brings. Emily got the teacher she hoped for and has many of her friends in class again this year. Megan was a little disappointed that she didn't get the same 1st grade teacher that Emily had previously, but she seems to have recovered and is happy have advanced to the 'big playground'. Both are also tickled that their lunch breaks overlap by a few minutes, allowing them to see each other during the course of each and every school day (I love that they still enjoy each other).

Both girls were happy to sport their new outfits and backpacks before embarking on a fabulous new year.

Beautiful girls

When you see your children every single day, you don't always see how much they are growing up. There are the monumental things that they do, like Emily running into the store to buy an item, while I wait in the car. Or spending a week away at overnight camp. Or Megan walking down the sidewalk at her school with her loaded down backpack headed into her first grade classroom. But how much their features are changing isn't as noticeable day to day.

So it is often when I look at a still shot photograph that I catch my breath. Recognizing how quickly the time is going and how beautiful these two girls of ours are, both inside and out. This picture of Megan taken this summer is one that did just that.



Megan, age 6