Outdoor Girl

I have struck quite a delicate balance between the girly-girl playtime and the tom-boyish types of activities. Mom is really thankful for this and loves having opportunities to enrich both sides of my character. Today was an especially big day for me and dad (mom was there, but acting as photographer only). We went to a very good friend of dad's house on acreage not too far from our house. They have horses, a pond for fishing, a garden, dogs, and cats! This was the highlight of August for me and I can't wait to go back.

Here are some great pictures of some of my favorites of the day. I loved feeding the catfish off the dock, and fishing. I liked looking the part as well in my frog galoshes.

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Here we are getting ready for fishing! I've been practicing with my pink fishing pole all summer on the driver, now we''re really going to try it out, lure and all. We're going in a John Boat and I'm excited.

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We didn't catch anything but it was still a success. One fish actually took my lure! And my friend Miss Hannah caught two fish and I got to touch one! The other part of the day that I really liked was the horses, Malachi and Blue. Malachi is brown and I've named my horse at home after him. I got to pet them and watch them swat at flies, I even saw Malachi buck. Even thouhg I can't ride these horses, I loved them a lot.

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Rankin Reunion - Year 2

The Rankin family has started doing annual reunions. This has been really great for me as I get to see and play with my other cousins Sophia. Sophia, Chanie, and I are all the same age! This year we met in Kansas City and we went to Deanna Rose Farmstead. Here's a picture of the three of us along with my older cousin Will.

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And here's a whole picture of the Rankin family. The opportunity to get a whole family picture doesn't come around often. Thanks Nana, for sending us this one!

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Budding Engineer?

One of my favorite things to do right now is be a little helper. I love to help dad with anything he's doing, especially if it involves tools! Here we are trying to fix the sprinkler control system at our house. The sprinklers, our home phone, and some of our smoke detectors had a run in with a lightning strike and now they're broken!

I loved playing with the digital multi-meter. The parts were all really small, but this LCD screen was interesting.

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I'm proud of the work I've done. Now we're off to Lowe's to buy a new one.

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The Best Dentist

I had my first dentist appointment today and entered the office saying, "The best dentist.". Thankfully I left the dentist feeling the same way. Mom had prepped me for this all week. She told me how they were going to count my teeth, look in my mouth, and maybe take pictures. So, I was ready.

Here I am in the waiting room. The ladies there love me, I had met them before. They had some magazines out for me already and said it would be just a few minutes.



Here I am in the chair. Miss Diane is my hygienist. She gave me a pair of latex gloves like hers and got all my fingers in the right spots, that way I knew what they felt like. I loved the sunglasses, they protected me from the big flashlight. I thought the dentist bib was a bit big for me though. I was ready to get that off at the end. The ride in the chair was the only thing I found a bit scary. In all of our prep talks, mom had neglected to inform me that the chair moves! So, it took me a minute to relax once the chair stopped.





So, once I was in the air this is what happened. Miss Diane counted my teeth...I have all twenty teeth I'm suppose too! Then she used this special spinning brush that tickled to polish all of my teeth. Then, my dentist came in and he checked my teeth. He said I had good spacing and used this metal pick to tingle my molars, it sounded funny. After that, Miss Diane painted my teeth with flouride and said only healthy food for the day.





I didn't get any pictures taken of my teeth, they said I was still too little. Overall, I had a great report! I got a new bracelet and I new toothbrush that I carried with me to the car. After all that, mom and I went to lunch together at my request. After being such a good patient mom couldn't refuse a request to go to Chili's, my favorite restaurant! And of course, when we got home I used my new toothbrush.