Megan

 It's Megan's turn!! Megan is 4 years old and she is turning five in 1 1/2 weeks! She's pretty excited.  She goes to preschool, and loves it.  Megan has the greatest outlook on life (most of the time).  She is always really happy, and excited.  When we went to the beach for the last month before we left she and Halle had a countdown going with paper links.  A few of these pictures show what a funny, and spunky little girl she is.  Whenever someone is sad (particularly children younger than her, or about her age) she will start acting funny to cheer them up.  Whether it's making silly faces, or walking around funny with a silly face and voice.  It seems to work with Claire every time.  She loves learning, and being a silly goose.  She's pretty good at it too.  Almost every thing Megan does set's an example for everyone around her.  She is a funny little girl, and I love her!

Picture day at school=Picture day at home :D

Silly goose, she is. 

Also, a clip of my writing from Thursday:
Emily knocked on Renaldo's door. "Come in," he said.  Emily seated herself and started to ask the question she had been thinking of for so long, but Reynie interrupted her, "I presume you're here for the envelope?" "Actually, yes uncle, you said it was important?" Emily replied.  "When I used to live in Barcelona I had grand neighbors.  I promised them if ever they needed something they could ask.  Their son is coming to stay with us for a spell.  You may take the letter and read it in your room." At this Emily was quite astonished.  Another person coming to the mannor! "Yes, yes of course," Emily, completely astounded, replied.  And she walked out of the room in a very confused state.
     Once she got back to her room she tore open the envelope and read the letter that was inside.  She was reading slowly, drinking the words as if she lived in a barren land, savoring every letter.  "...His name is David.  He's looking for a wife."  What!?!? Emily's mind was racing, Already I've gone against what mother desired of me, now I'm to be courted!?! I'm only sixteen...  She let her thoughts fade.  She wanted to think very seriously about what she had just read.
     She knew at that very moment, she had just read a statement that already had changed her life forever.

Here's an exerpt from probably my favorite short story; Harrison Bergeron:

"Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the 

laws of motion as well. 
They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun. 
They leaped like deer on the moon. 
The studio ceiling was thirty feet high, but each leap brought the dancers 
nearer to it. 
It became their obvious intention to kiss the ceiling. They kissed it. 
And then, neutraling gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended 
in air inches below the ceiling, and they kissed each other for a long, long 
time . 
It was then that Diana Moon Clampers, the Handicapper General, came into the 
studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun."

You can read the rest of it here.

xoxo-kaelin

Claire

     Today I'm going to focus on my cutest little sister, Claire.  I think I'll spend a bit of time focusing on my family in the future as well.

     Claire just turned 3, she just got her cast off after she broke her arm.  She is a cute, fun, loving, grumpy little girl.  We like to take pictures of her whenever she is well groomed.  Which doesn't' happen very often.  Today she let me to her hair like Megan's and we had to document it.

     I want to talk about the way Claire smiles when we tell her to say cheese.  She squints her eyes and shoes us her teeth the best she can.  She gets really happy and excited at gives us her best smile.  My cousins (boys obviously :D ) would never smile for pictures, they would just try to widen their mouths a bit and call it good.  These I believe are the two different views you can have on life.   You can take what you've got and feel like you only need to give a little bit, just a widened mouth with your lips sealed shut.  Or you can look at what you've got and give it your best shot and smile for all you're worth, try to make the best of every situation and be as happy as possible.

xoxo- kaelin