Life is good and smiles are big… no matter how long the day is at work, when you come home to this smile, nothing else matters! 
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She’s just cute – I can’t help it! I was trying out my dad’s new camera that let you take photo on top of photo on top of photo. The girl was in a camera shoot!!!! Crawling around on Grandpa’s carpet from Saudi Arabia offered the perfect spot to chill out…
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Summer vacation gave us time to finally meet up with the rest of our family. When we came home at Christmas time we met our Portland family for the first time but, our family in Illinois had to hold out until summer. As soon as Amelia saw Grandpa Billy, her face lit up the room. How can you help but melt when she flip her head, looks you straight in the eye, and grin from ear to ear showing all 8 teeth with glory. As Grandpa said, “This is a disarming smile!”
I saw Grandpa melt – I did!!!
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Amelia has a reputation at school. Faculty and staff are starting to schedule their coffee breaks around 12:15 so that they can see Amelia cruising down the hallways with Ms. Zhou. They come to see her smile.
This child smiles all of the time. When she’s tired – smiles. When she’s happy – she smiles. When she’s hanging out – she smiles. It’s just what she does…
Last night we had the final Gourmet Geeks episode and she was brilliant the entire night. She smiled a lot and let me eat too! Not too shabby!!!
We love you Meeli Mabel.
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