9: Annalie likes to type in all caps.

10: Just back from the grocery store, Annalie sits down on the Diet Coke to enjoy her lemonade in a bunny cup.

11: Annalie & her friend Kara disappeared for a few minutes during playgroup. I found them under the kitchen table, decorating it with stickers.

12: Annalie drew these bunnies and the tulip below them entirely on her own. What makes this a tiny moment to me is that this is the first time I’ve seen her draw (a) animals that were immediately recognizable for what they were, and (b) eyes that have a pupil!

13: Troy contemplating his handiwork. (He replaced a board in the deck.)

14: Getting a package ready to mail. Annalie thought we should paint the box “to make it colorful and beautiful.” Can’t argue with that. So we painted it.

15: On the way to our weeky Bible study potluck, I took a photo of the cupcakes Annalie and I had made for dessert because they’re on the red tray that my friend Erin gave us for Christmas a couple of years ago. I’d been meaning to tell her that I use the tray all the time and love it, so while I was thinking of it I snapped a shot and emailed it to her from my phone.

Since a couple of people in our Bible study have allergies, these cupcakes were made with this dairy-, egg-, and nut-free recipe. I didn’t have any non-dairy margarine on hand so I just made the icing with 3 c. powdered sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla extract, and a couple of gradually-added tablespoons each of water and lemon juice till it was of spreading consistency. Despite being egg- and dairy-free, these cupcakes were really yummy!

16: Annalie doesn’t take naps every day; only on those days she seems to particularly need one. This was one of those days. Here I sit amidst the morning’s mess, enjoying an increasingly rare break during my day.

17: We woke up earlier than usual, and saw the lovely pattern made by the light shining in our hall window.

18: Annalie doesn’t like stuff in her hair–no ponytails, braids, or clips. But she was hot and asked for a ponytail, and then left it in most of the day.

19: There’s an ice-cream shop on the boardwalk that sells tiny cones for 75 cents each. We go there often with friends during summer to eat ice cream, walk along the water, and watch the sunset as the kids play on the adjacent playground. This is the season’s first tiny cone!

20: Before dinner, Annalie getting some lap time with daddy.

21: While our kids played, my friend Lynn and I made bracelets for our church’s VBS fundraiser next Sunday. These two are mine.

22: Our neighbor stopped by our driveway for a quick chat and Annalie handed her friend Gabby a dandelion through the window. (That’s her little sister Annie in the other carseat.)

For the 30 Tiny Moments group on Flickr, nudged into it by Sarah. It’s working; I am loving my new camera more every day! Twenty-two days down, eight to go.

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