Isn't she sweet with her violin?
Mara meets Finn! Another Daddy look alike kid pic!
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| She is as sweet as she looks! |
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| She looks so much like her Daddy's kid pictures here! |
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| Swims like a fish. She puts me to shame! |
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| Isn't she beautiful? So is Finn:-) |
Mara arrived at 8:24 AM on July 20th, 2004. She was 6.14 pounds, 20 inches long, 40 weeks one day gestation, absolutely beautiful & she captured our hearts at first glance :-). Mara was born during the heat wave of 2004 & I worked outside on my feet full time up until the time she was born. I think she developed some of my strength & endurance from her time bumping around in my tummy while I worked :-) She lived her first six months in our townhouse in Vernonia until I decided I had had enough of the commuting to work (she went to work with me). We rented a spacious apartment in Fairview, where she lived until she was five when we moved to our current little yellow house in the country. Mara has always been an animal magnet & is exceptionally sweet & gentle. She started carrying around a writing implement when she was 2 and has never had one out of hand since :-). Mara started swim lessons at three years old & swims like a fish! She is swim team material, actually. She started Kindergarten at Portland Adventist Elementary in late summer 2009 & has excelled in every subject since, now being in 2nd grade & reading & writing in the 6th grade level. Mara has had a love for stringed instruments since she was three & shortly after beginning Kindergarten, asked to take violin lessons. Over two years later, violin music continues to fill our home & she is quite the beautiful violinist! Out of our three children, Mara looks the most like me, but she bares a strong resemblance to her daddy, too! Her eyes were intensely blue at birth & like her sibling's eyes, large & beautiful. She has a lean, muscular build & beautiful gold hair with lots of natural highlights. Her eye lashes are long & dark. I tell her that she won't ever need mascara. When she isn't in school, she enjoys watching I Love Lucy (on DVD), working with her hands, writing stories, drawing & reading. She has a special love of biographies & animal stories. She is a "girlie girl" & tries to get away with wearing jewelry & make up. I enjoy dressing her in dresses & pretty skirts just about as much as she enjoys wearing them! Mara is a spiritually sensitive young lady, often reminding me that we need to stop & pray about something. Mommy & Daddy love you so much, Mara!
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