10 years ago today…..

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Ten years ago today, Quinn was born.  It was a Saturday.  I remember because we had gone to my parents house that Friday night and I ate way too much pizza and I had a ring ding for dessert..It was my first ring ding in years….I regretted that later.

It’s been a great ten years.  He is a great child…incredibly thoughtful, creative, though incredibly sensitive.  I think he has a lot of my personality.  Funny, that Tuesday seems to be more like Christopher and Quinn seems to be more like me….

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Star Book Ornament….

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Quinn wanted to make Christopher something unique for Christmas.  I looked online and found a really cool idea.  I found a website called Marlies’ Creative Universe.  Her site had great directions for making a mini star ornament..which we decided to make into a mini book star ornament.  Quinn thought of one of his favorite books that he and Christopher loved reading together.  We scanned the cover and the first 14 pages.  These we used for the “smaller” pages.  Each measured 2 inches high x 3 inches wide.  Then we chose green paper for the “larger” pages, which were 2 inches high and 5 inches wide.  And red for the”medium” size pages, which were 2 inches high and 4 inches wide.   We needed 7 of each of the different sized pages.  The website has great directions and templates.

Instead of making a plain cover, we scanned the cover and personalized the back cover.  The one thing I would do differently, when I make it again, is to make the cover one piece of paper, not two.

It turned out great and Quinn was so happy!  It took a long time and a lot of patience…but he did it almost completely himself…and he was so proud of it!  I think we will definitely be making this again….it would  make a great gift for any book lover.

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Quinn’s Room….

Yesterday, I loved doing a post with River in her room…so today I thought I would try to get some shots with Quinn in his room. His room gets better morning light….I may have to try this again..when the light is better.   I waited until the afternoon to take the photos.  But I do think that I don’t take enough pictures of them in their rooms.  I almost didn’t post the first photo…he was getting agitated with me…but it is such a typical 9 year old look….

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