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Christmas Eve cookie baking.

51/52.

Very first ballet recital.

Bonus: During recital photo.

50/52.

Charlotte the jingle bell reindeer.

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Charlotte the reindeer.

Bonus: Santa visit at the library.

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Christmas tree decorating.

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Very first snow day from school called for coloring in pajamas.

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Painting her pumpkin homework for school.

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Cinderella on Halloween! 

(Disclaimer: This is a phone picture, because I was in one of my best friend's wedding on Halloween and taking pictures on my camera was near impossible.)

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Trick-or-Treat Street zebra.

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Painting fun.

Bonus: This was just too good not to share.

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Pumpkin festival cutie.

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Taco soup lover.

39/52.

How Charlotte gets to school homework picture.

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Three years old!

37/52.

An outtake from Charlotte's "All About Me" homework picture taking session for preschool. 

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A September 1 tradition: bake a pumpkin pie.

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This is basically a copy of a picture of me when I was little that my dad has of me in his office.

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First day of preschool.

Bonus: First day of school chalkboard pictures.

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Taking pictures for her preschool to use.

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Post-pool shenanigans.

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Just a little block building.

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Tuesday afternoon at Daniel's Park.

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Post-lunch date with Aunt Kate cookie.

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Grand Lake Sunshine.

Bonus: "Don't take anymore pictures, Mama."

 And, of course, Happy Fourth of July!

26/52.

High fever and dress up.

Christmas 2014.

I mean, it's literally been six months since Christmas. So I better get this post up. If anything, for my own memory of photos.

After the Santa debacle at the mall, I was slightly afraid of how Christmas would go. But surprisingly, Charlotte was still on board with the idea of Christmas with one stipulation: she did not want to see Santa. So, we kept telling her that she would be asleep when Santa came. She seemed okay with that. We made cookies for Santa (undecorated because we didn't have enough time to decorate them). She wrote a note for Santa. And she went to bed knowing she would wake up to presents from Santa. She just kept saying she didn't want to see Santa.

So, Christmas Eve we set out the cookies and milk for Santa. Opened a special present for Santa with her cousins - which was matching pajamas for all of them. (We all get new pajamas on Christmas Eve every year, but the matching pajamas between cousins is especially cute.)

Christmas morning came and Santa had set up a new kitchen in Charlotte's room. She was so excited. She didn't even care that Santa had come into her room while she was sleeping. She didn't see him, so she didn't care. She was even more excited when we came upstairs and she saw that Santa ate some of the cookies she left out and that he left even more presents under the tree for her.

The one hard thing for her was that we told her she had to wait to open her presents as we were waiting for my sister and her family to come over. We did let her open some presents from Bryan's family that went with the kitchen Santa delivered so that she had some stuff to tie her over until she could get into all her presents. Things like food of her kitchen, a dollhouse from Santa, dress-up clothes from us, a crib for her baby doll. All things that a toddler needs for a growing imagination.

Overall, it was a pretty good Christmas. And she still talks about how Santa brought her surprises - especially the kitchen in her room.

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First time at a beach (Indian Rocks Beach, Florida).