I've loved this picture of Erin since the day I took it. She was on top of the bathroom counter, staring at her own reflection, and just grinning at herself. As soon as I saw KaiserCraft's Bubblegum Hill collection, I knew I wanted to use the 6.5x6.5 pad to make a quilted heart, and I knew this picture was the one to use with it. Plus, I got to play with my favorite new scrapbooking toy--my sewing machine! (Which then ate my paper when the bobbin threw a temper tantrum, but I covered it up with a triangle of leftover paper, and it looks like I meant to do that, right??! Right.)
I put the last finishing touches on this LO tonight as the girls were eating cereal for dinner (yes, it's one of THOSE nights), and I overheard them talking about the nutritional values of their cereals. Erin exclaimed, "Mine has fat!" And then I heard her saying more quietly, "I am getting fat." Oh, the heartbreak!! People, she is FIVE years old. She is beautiful. But someone important in her life recently told her she was getting chunky. (Yes, I wanted to wring his neck!), and the last time we were at the pediatrician's, her doctor mentioned she had gone up on percentiles, and we needed to be concerned about that.
Soon spring will come, the snow will melt, and it will be easier to get out and about for more exercise. We are encouraging her to stop eating when she is full--I am NOT a proponent of the clean plate club. And certainly, I need to set a better example with my own eating habits.
But she is perfect and beautiful, and I'm not going to let her start feeling like anything else at age five.
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This is gorgeous!
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