Oh, and one more...

:)

Micah

These pictures keep making me grin. Hehe. I made a popping sound with my mouth to get that smile in the next picture. I love how this kid is so entertained by everything! He's started walking as of about yesterday. He's known how to walk for months, but only recently had the balance (and courage) to do it all by himself. Today he was walking around the patio balcony like a pro, digging in the basil pot and trying to get into the garden tools he's not allowed to play with. :)

Micah turned one year on September 2nd. There was a lovely party at Erin's parents' house, but Micah was so tired by cake time that he wanted nothing to do with the pumpkin pie. So today we did a little re-do of his cake & candle, using the Erin-made pumpkin cheesecake from Logan's birthday instead. (Which was awesomely delicious, by the way...)

At first he thought we were being cruel by wanting him to sit in his highchair. He perked up after nursing, though, and then he realized that he was actually allowed to both smash up the pie AND eat it. So he meticulously and slowly set out to destroy and devour as much as possible. It was ridiculously cute.

Sheesh, what crazy hair. We're gonna look back at this and laugh our tails off. :)

Happy birthday, Micah! I love you to tiny bits.

- caroline

P.S. School is going awesomelyyyy. Seriously. I got really good grades on my first essay and test. Also, just received a letter saying I am eligible for the Zell Miller Scholarship, which pays $12 more per credit hour than HOPE does. Heck yes! Gonna flash that paper at the financial aid office Monday!

happy birthday/harry potter

Mom's birthday breakfast scones! Which we ate the last of today... :) Mom's birthday consisted of scones for breakfast, lunch on the porch, playing with the kids, then later, watching HP7 Part I before heading over to Logan's and HP7 Part... TWO.

This year, Mom's birthday and the HP7II release date happened to be the same day. There was some fate going on there somewhere. Mom is such a loyal HP fan and it was so nice that the last movie's midnight showing landed on her birthday this year! I'm sure that it was also other loyal fans' birthdays that night, but who cares about them. :) 

We loved the movie. Okay, well not all of us loved it, but I know for a fact that Mom and I did. It was so epic! I won't go into a big long review, and I will say that I realize it wasn't a watertight movie, it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen and I will point out that it was only part of a whole, based on a complicated story. All that put into account, it was brilliant. Bloody brilliant. So many things I loved about it.

Anyway, happy birthday again, Mum... I'm so glad we got to see Harry Potter that night and I'm glad you are so cool that even though it was three thirty in the morning when we got home, you were like, wanna watch something? Hell yes. <3

Love,

- caroline

happy birthday (to me)

Yesterday was my birthday. I am now officially 19 years old, though as usual, I have been thinking of myself as being 19 for months. I've always done that. I think it will come in handy in the future, when I will dislike getting older a lot more than I do now. Large Number birthdays won't be quite so horrible when I've been thinking I'm already that Large Number for months.

Quinn gave me the earrings above. In all honesty, I picked them out. :) I don't own any stud earrings that aren't pearls (which I love, but are so fancy). Excited to wear those big jewel ones with somethin' fancy sometime.

Mom very sweetly got up early to make a quiche for breakfast. It was SO GOOD. Mmmm.

Henry will be 3 years old on Sunday! He seems very grown up in comparison to Micah and Lucy. He has been incessantly asking me why I can't go outside to play for very long. Allergies, I tell him. He knows about allergies, his dad has them just as bad as I do. The other day he thought up an ingenious idea: we should go into the inclosed back deck to play. We would be outside, he said, but the wind wouldn't get me. How cute is that?

Blackberries are on their way!

We went to Mint Hair Boutique to get our hair cut by Andrea. :) I LOVE my cut. It's fantastic. She thinned it out like crazy, so now I doesn't feel like I'm wearing a bushy wig. Now I feel like I have normal hair! Thanks, Andrea!

After a small fiasco involving car keys hitching a ride in a different car, we went to Last Resort for lunch. It was soooo good.

Logan and Erin and I had the pasta special. It was penne with spinach and red peppers and salmon(!) in a lime and parmesan pan sauce? Something like that. It reminded me a lot of Pad Thai, but more Italian. It was really yummy.

Hehe, cutie.

We went to Yoforia for dessert. Yoforia is the best frozen yogurt in town - it's such a great idea to do self-serve yogurt that is priced by weight. I assure you, I didn't eat all of that. Mom, Quinn and I all shared this tub. And there is frozen yogurt under all of that fruit. ;)

Griffin and Jamie got me a Moleskine journal and something Unknown that is "on its way." Very curious!!

Logan and Erin got me this book from Anthropologie... It is amazing. 100 years of fashion illustrations! There are SO many illustrations in this book, so much fashion. Wonderfulness. 

I picked up some quirky new shoes at Anthro as well. At first I was unsure of the purple velvet laces, but now I'm diggin' them. Aren't they cute?

We got home from all of that to find a box of donuts on the counter. Dad always gets me donuts for my birthday. :) They are almost gone! :D 

Then I went to a hoopdance workshop at Canopy Studios, which was really, really fun. You learn how to hula hoop on your waist, hips, hands and feet. Well, no one managed to master the foot thing, but I plan to practice that one.

By the time I was out, Mom had found out that the new Jane Eyre movie was playing at Ciné. The movie was pretty good! I was impressed. You know how people who saw the Colin Firth Pride & Prejudice first didn't like the Keira Knightly Pride & Prejudice? It's much like that here. We LOVE the Masterpiece Jane Eyre, so we really can't love this movie. However, for people who haven't seen the Masterpiece version already, or who didn't like the Masterpiece version, this was really cinematic and well-acted.

This is the state of my room right now. Holy mess, Batman.

Time to clean.

- caroline