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She's all growns up...

That's it, it's official.  My once little girl who will be 11 on the 28th of this month is officially a pre-teen.  She has her first school dance coming up tomorrow.  My sister bought her an early birthday present which is an adorable little black dress with gold polka dots.  She has been trying it on for days now, trying to decide how a little dark gold sweater will look with it, if she should wear her glasses or not for the dance, how her hair should be, etc, etc.  The one thing I noticed is her paying attention to her legs because she had not been allowed to shave yet.  With her birthday days away, I informed her that if she wanted to shave her legs for the first time for the dance.  She first tells me that it's okay, she doesn't need to.  Then, last night before she jumped in the shower, she asked if I could show her how to do it because she thought it would look better with her dress.  As I sat with her in the bathroom going over everything she needs and how to do it, I wanted to cry.  Not because I was sad but because as innocent as she still is with life and the world around her, she's growing up.  I feel like it was yesterday that I was sitting outside her 1st school when she started kindergarten crying in my car because she was growing up so fast and here I am 5 years later having a moment.  After she was done, she came and sat with me on the couch to watch some TV and she hugged me and told me that I'm such as awesome mom.  Let's hope I can stay in the awesome mom category as long as possible.

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These photos were taken by my friend Tanya. Love them, love them, love them! For as creepy as they are, they are all haunting images.