Tuesday, February 18, 2014

First Crush

Margaux & Angel

Oh, that first crush, we never really forget it, do we?  (Especially now that we can photograph the heck out of every life event!)  Rewind to the first day of school, and Margaux comes home perturbed and saddened that some little boy in her class had told her that her drawing was ugly.  I didn't bother with the oh-so-lame-and-hard-to-understand-at-that-age, "He is being mean to you because he likes you!"  But guess what?  He was being mean to her because he liked her!  It was only a week or two later, that she gets in the car after school and tells me, "Angel didn't want me to go home today because he said he will miss me."  (She is half day, he is full day.)  It didn't take long to work out just who Angel was...the sharp-tongued little art critic!  School has been going for over 5 months now, and Margaux's "love" for Angel is still going strong!  She tells me all about how nice he is, how handsome, how funny, how he had the BEST Halloween costume of all the boys, how she is going to marry him, and so on and so forth.  It's the cutest darned thing!  We never tease her about it, so as not to belittle her feelings or make her feel like she can't talk to us.  The photo above was taken at a birthday party this past weekend.  Angel's parents wanted a picture of the two of them, so Angel ran up and grabbed Margaux's hand, and off they went for their little pseudo-prom pictures!  

Happy Valentine's Day


 Writing out her Frozen valentines for school.
 Gotta love Pinterest!
 Pinterest + Etsy + Passion = Pretties
 Teacher & teacher assistant gifts.  Cute little clip-on Chapstick holders.  Sadly, I could not find any chocolate lip candy to complete my themed vision!
 She finally got the annoying FurReal Daisy kitten that she had been wishing for!




After a nice dinner of crab legs, Margaux and Momma had a little Valentine's slumber party.

First Daddy/Daughter Dance




 She was very excited about her first "high heels"!



Margaux and Daddy attended River Forest's Daddy/Daughter Dance this year.  She was very excited about her "date" with Daddy!  It was a nice little event with a dinner buffet, sundae buffet, craft table, nail painting, raffles and a balloon drop.  Patrick said he got his fill of Katy Perry that night!  ;)

Belated Up North Byard Christmas


 Missing:  Dominik, Alexa and Victoria.
















Bring It, 2014





Merry Quiet Christmas 2013






Santa's Secret Work Shop at school.  She picked this out for me all by herself!





This year was a quiet Christmas, no Aunt Susie & Uncle Dennis, as Drew and his girlfriend went home for the holiday this year.  It was also a sad Christmas, with having just lost Patrick's mother.  Thank God for our beautiful, joyous Margaux!  She makes everything brighter all the time.  I had to work on Christmas, so we celebrated a faux-Christmas on the 24th.  Her "big gift" this year was an iPad Mini.  She loves it so much and we do not have trouble with her spending excessive amounts of time playing on it.  I really appreciate the great apps for kids, and she also has her own Gmail account now, for her nearest and dearest to correspond with her.  Only the utmost of Merry Christmases going forward for the Prater family!

Holiday Time 2013