all smiles, all the time.

and...
in keeping my promise to never, ever, (ever!) again
post pictures of other people's grandchildren
without also posting at least one of hers:
here's one more from the farm for mary. xo

brand new.

first bus ride. first field trip.
love at first sight with these new baby "lambies".

have vans, will skate.

for the record, i would have made him wear
any and every other pad ever invented.
how in the world has he grown up so fast?

(his vans are truly a one-of-a-kind design. his.)

bookworm.

despite our best parenting efforts, hayden has always
thought of reading as a homework assignment.
something that we make him do every night
because we're horribly mean parents
who love to torture him with literature.
until he found a book he LOVED.
and then we found him reading at the breakfast table.
and while he was eating lunch.
after dinner. before bed. almost every waking second.
he finished number one. checked number two out
from the library the very next day.
borrowed number three from a classmate.
(i just ordered him the rest of the series.)
we promised he could see the movie if he finished the book first.
so he did.
and he liked the book better.

(i know his librarian grandma has a huge smile on her face right now. xo)