Here is Kaitlin at her graduation with her mom and dad. She graduated as saludatorian, and got a full scholarship to Clemson. We are so proud of you Kaitlin!
As I sat there and watched Kaitlin walk across the stage at her graduation, it occurred to me that we will be attending my girls' graduation before we know it. I realized that it has been 9 years since Elia was born. We have the same number of years, 9, before Elia is the one walking across that stage. Of course, Ava will be right behind her! The first 9 years have literally flown by! This weekend was a good wake up call to me to hold my girls and give them my all every chance I can because they will be grown and off to college before I can blink!
Here is a recap of our weekend in Nashville:
The girls LOVE to take a trip. It doesn't matter where we are going. They just love to climb in the car, put the DVD player in, and go! While they did sleep a little on the way to Nashville, they also acted silly along the way.
Once we got to Nashville, we went to a restaurant with the family. Kaitlin opened her graduation gifts.
Then Kaitlin went home to get ready while we went to the Opry Mills mall. Our first stop was the Lego store. Elia was heaven! That girl loves legos! Unfortunately, she only had $20 of her allowance and that won't buy much in the Lego Store.
Ava used her allowance at Build-A-Bear!
Then we shopped a little more.
The girls rode the tea cups! I almost got sick just watching them! They loved it!
Then we went to the graduation.
After the graduation, we waited for Kaitlin to come back out so we could snap some Kodak moments. We took these of the girls while we waited:
Here is a picture of Kevin and his two brothers:
And Kaitlin with the girls:
We drove back to Arlington the same night and got in about midnight. Around 4 am this morning, Ava woke me up with a stomach ache only to be followed by a serious amount of throwing up. We were supposed to go to Faith Arlington's new member lunch. However, we didn't think we should take Ava and make others sick so we stayed home. Poor Ava fell asleep on the sofa outside on the back patio. She slept for a little over an hour. Then I woke her up and discovered she was running almost 102 fever. Poor thing!
She has her 1st grade awards program tomorrow so we are praying she will get better soon. I could complain that she needs my constant attention right now but I will remember that I want to soak up every moment, even the ones when she is sick because there will come a time in the very near future when she may get sick but she will be many miles away from home without her mom to comfort her! While at the graduation, I was talking to Elizabeth, Kaitlin's mom. She said to me "I have a feeling she will never come back home." What she meant was that she knows Kaitlin will come home on weekends and summers but she will never live at home on a regular basis. She is all grown up now and ready to start her life on her own. Love those babies as hard and as long as you can!!!!!!! They really do grow up in the blink of an eye!!!!!!
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