{"id":33069,"date":"2013-09-01T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=33069"},"modified":"2013-09-02T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T05:16:08","slug":"coulda-fooled-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/coulda-fooled-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Coulda Fooled Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1047\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1047_thumb.jpg\" width=\"880\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rewind to the beginning of August: Poppa and Rara were taking Rose to Jacksonville, and the big girls wanted to stall them from leaving, so Noelle dressed up as Santa and Anna Kate dressed up as her elf.&#160; They had lots of Christmas in August activities planned before they were going to let their grandparents and Rose leave!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1078\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1078_thumb.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1051\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1051_thumb.jpg\" width=\"417\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Noelle taped a white shirt upside down to her chin with packaging tape for her beard! That\u2019s one dedicated Santa right there!&#160; Anna Kate said her neon yellow shoes represented the shinning star in the sky over Bethlehem.&#160; Pretty clever! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1062.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1062\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1062_thumb.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"694\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1039\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1039_thumb.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"694\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Santa and her elf giving some love, and Santa Noelle sat on the couch, very attentive to Rose\u2019s Christmas list.&#160; Noelle would wink at me and that was my signal to be paying attention to whatever Rose requested.&#160; It was so adorable!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1081\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1081_thumb.jpg\" width=\"880\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t tell you what a sweetheart Noelle is!&#160; With each year, she has matured, and with that maturity has come the most empathetic and kind-hearted little girl I could ever hope for in a daughter.&#160; We are so blessed to have such genuinely sweet girls!&#160; (some more consistently sweet than others right now, but deep down, the point holds true, lol) <img class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1092\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_1092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_1092_thumb.jpg\" width=\"880\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Christmas wishes, we had a tea party, of course!&#160; We have a million tea parties a day!&#160; That\u2019s just part of being a Pond girl!&#160; And yes, ice cream is served with our tea every time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_10861.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_1086\" style=\"border-top: 0px; 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