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Here's a page I did today for Téa.

For credits, see my 2Peas Gallery.

Happy 3rd Birthday Elena!!!!

Man I can't believe this girl is three already. She's growing up so quickly. She's getting smarter every day. Right now she's totally in the princess phase. I swear she's my biggest tomboy (really, they all are, but she's the most), but she's a tomboy that has to be wearing a dress. And it has to be a pretty dress. Preferrably a princess one. We literally go through about 5 outfit changes a day. She's really wearing me out. So of course, for her birthday we had to get her a new princess dress. They had Ariel's wedding dress at Target, and I knew she would love it. She also got some money for her birthday, and she used that to buy another princess dress, the Barbie Rapunzel one. Then she got a little more, and I'm pretty sure we'll be adding another dress to the collection. Here's some pics of her on her big day.

Walking with my Girls

Here's a movie that I made for my technology class. Just thought I'd share it with you guys.

Happy 6th Birthday Amya!

Amya turned 6 on September 26. I can't believe she's that old already. She's growing up so fast. She was really excited to have her birthday. Here are some pics from that day.

She got a lot of fun presents from Gamma and Memmie. She got a digital camera that came with a printer from us and with the birthday money that was sent to her she bought X-Men 3 and some new clothes. We had a joint party for her and Elena. I'll post the pics from that later.

We had gotten her a cheapy little camera last year for her birthday and it never worked right. I had returned it and had store credit and wanted to get her a better camera for her birthday this year. She's always asking to take pictures with my camera and I knew she would love to have her own. I was at WalMart and saw that they were clearancing out this camera and printer combo. It was over half off the original price, so we really lucked out. So far she's taken a lot of pictures with it, and even printed out and scrapbooked a few. She's so excited to be able to do that.

Training Wheels

So on October 9, Amya had her first attempt at riding her bike without the training wheels. At first Keith was helping her. But he was keeping his hand on her back and kind of pushing her. She was barely even pedaling and was having a very hard time balancing. She was telling Keith to put them back on, she didn't want to do it. She had obviously not realized when she asked to take them off how much help they really gave her.

I asked her to get back on and try one more time with me. I have a very distinct memory of my Dad teaching me how to ride a bike. I can remember him running alongside me, holding the back of the seat and letting go. I wanted to try this way with Amya. After I assured her that I wouldn't let her fall, she decided to give it one more try. You can see the results for yourself.

I let go and she's totally riding by herself.

She realizes I've let go.

She starts to wobble and slow down.

She's way proud of herself.

Hopefully before it starts snowing we can get her out there a few more times so that she really gets used to it before the winter hits and she can't practice anymore. Also, maybe next time she should wear shoes and a helmet and stuff. That might help a little, don't ya think?

Um, excuse me?

Apparently, Maricela was not very pleased with me taking her picture.


She better not think she can get away with this when she gets older.

Does anyone else see a resemblance?

This is Maricela smiling yesterday.

Here's a picture of Elena, taken at about the same age.

I swear I'm making clones. :)