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Our Evie pie is now a "rising" middle-schooler and officially 11 years old! She turned 11 almost a month ago, but it's taken me forever to post about it.

We celebrated in a variety of ways with a busy few weeks! It started afternoon tea with just us girls! It was super fun and something that I want to make a tradition. Then, she had her dance recital where she did a lovely lyrical jazz dance to "time-after-time" as part of the dance class she's been going to for the past 6 months or so. On the day of her actual birthday (June 9), it was pretty low key. Grammie and Grandpa were in town to help us celebrate, and that meant Evie got to have her absolutely favorite dessert : Grammie's apple pie! The day after that, we drove out to the Olympic Peninsula to soak in some hot springs (more in another post later). Then last week was all of the end-of-year and end-of-elementary school celebrations like her 5th grade "camp" day, a graduation party for the entire class, and then her "promotion" ceremony. Then the next Saturday, we finally got to celebrate with her friends by having them over for a dinner-and-board-games night. Let me tell you - that was a LOUD party. So much screaming over each other to be heard. It was really fun to see them all giggling and having fun though, and they didn't make a huge mess either.

At 11 years old, Evie is a total sweetheart and you wouldn't be able to tell that she's on the cusp of becoming a (gulp!) teenager. She's still pretty rational and calm most of the time and hasn't had too many moody teen outbursts. She does, however, take for-e-ver getting ready in the morning - she loves her long showers and is a dawdler! Her favorite food is now salmon sushi, but she still has a soft spot for TJ's orange chicken. She also loves ginger ale now, but still doesn't like math much. She's gotten pretty good at flute and practices regularly even without us reminding her. 

The words I would use to describe Evie are: Voracious reader, deep thinker, avid researcher, rule-follower, creative thinker, doodler, cat-loving, big-eyed love bug. 

Nora describes Evie as kind, loving, spirited. (Isn't that sweet?)

Happy birthday, Evie!


At Queen Mary's Tea Emporium

Ladies' tea!

This little girl was so happy about her sorbet palate cleanser and then all the goodies on her tea tray.

Here's the grown up version.

Feeling very English!

 
Evie's dance performance. Do you see her?

Thanks for coming, Grammy and Grandpa!


Apple pie

party time



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  1. WJuly 10, 2022 at 6:58 PM

    Happy birthday to sweet Evie! Can't wait to see you soon!

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