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BEAUTY...
...is more than skin deep!

Grandma J isn't exaggerating or being the least bit biased when she tells you that Beauty is beautiful beyond what the eye could ever imagine on the inside.  Her outer beauty is a mere shadow of her brilliant soul.




Grandma J and Beauty go waaaaayyy back as bosom buddies.  When Andrew was diagnosed with leukemia, Beauty was limited to just a handful of people she could be around...limiting contact with infections brought into the home.   And yes, Grandma J was at the top of that list.

Beauty looks forward to the Fairfield Inn sleepover every year. And just like Little One, she likes some chocolate with her Wheaties. 

 No one, except Grandma J, was more excited about Grandparent's day  than Beauty.  You see, last year she was in kindergarten at Stoneybrooke Christian School, and the one question she had for her teacher at her "meet and greet" was, when is Grandparents Day?

 She had patiently watched her brother go on and on every year about this huge event, and she was finally going to experience it first hand.  But the school didn't schedule Grandparents Day at the usual time, and they did it with short notice, so Grandma J couldn't attend.

This year Grandma J attended....with bells on!  Beauty told her it was the happiest day of her life!!  She also told Grandma J that last year when all the other grandparents came to school she cried.  Please pass me another tissue.

 But this year was special for Grandma J too....because she got to meet Beauty's teacher.  Did Grandma J forget to tell you that Beauty is the bestest speller in the whole first grade?

 ... and see some of her friends again.

friends that Beauty has been going to school with since the age of three at pre-school.
 Then we went shopping for some accessories....and shoes....and stuff all about Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers. Can you say O.M.G.?

 We visited an old stomping ground.  Beauty and Grandma shared a cup of sweetness like they had done so many times over the years. Just like BFFs!!

 Beauty ordered her happy face pancake for dinner....

 The older, much more mature Beauty chose the one with fruit and yogurt instead of the one with chocolate chips!

 Grandma J visited Stoneybrooke Christian School for their talent show to watch Beauty and her BFFs sing a Selena Gomez song.

...and shake their booties.

 The morning Grandma J left to go back to Texas, Beauty got all decked out to say farewell after breakfast at McD's.  I miss her!