Love this picture of Anna Kate playing dentist with the iPad in Daddy’s office… she’s still accepting new patients, by the way!

The day these french doors don’t have fingers smudges on them will be the end of a sweet chapter in our home… they used to bother me, and I would clean them all the time; Now they make me smile because I know this time won’t last forever.  And finding princess shoes on my childhood desk as I’m walking through the dining room… what could be sweeter?  Love these little reminders around the house that our precious girls live here!

Most of you met Pitiful Pearl sometime last year.  She is my Aunt Joe’s childhood doll.  Noelle’s heart went out to her when she first laid eyes on her, and we adopted her from Rara’s house right then and there.  She is the most loved on doll in our house… compassion runs deep around here!  Last night, Pitiful Pearl (named by my Aunt Joe when she was a little girl), got a pitiful make-over!  Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse… in the words of Anna Kate, “Bless her heart!”  Noelle has big dreams of taking her to the doctor at the American Girl doll store and getting them to restore her hair and eyelashes.  We’ll see.  For now, she is dearly loved, and that’s what we all need the most anyway!