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A Day with Ella and Abigail

Have I mentioned that I love our neighbors across the street? Abigail has become a great friend over the last six months. Ella is now one of Faith and Wilson’s best friends. Miller even loves them and especially loves their dog, Elfie.

Abigail and I decided that it would be fun to take the girls up to Concord Mills and go to the Stride Rite outlet store to get the girls new shoes. Neither of us had been to Concord Mills before. I knew that it was a giant outlet mall, but I had no idea how HUGE it was. As luck would have it, we parked on the opposite side of the mall than the stride rite store (as predicted). Do you know how hard it is to get two six year old girls through a mall that is littered with candy machines, ice cream shops, toy stores and shoe stores? It also has rides and a trampoline thing. It took forever! We just had to keep telling them that they could pick one thing to do after we bought shoes.

As usual, Faith and I took forever to pick out her shoes. We had to debate over which ones fit verses which ones lit up or looked exactly like Ella’s. In the end, we agreed on some sparkly pink sneakers and the shiny, patten leather black mary-janes ( over the more comfortable black mary-janes.) I am already going to return the shiny black ones because they are uncomfortable. Lesson learned…

The mall had a Merry Go round…

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After the shopping, the kids played in the front yard.  Wilson and Erik played football while Faith was the cheerleader and Ella was the announcer.  Miller, Abigail and I just watched.

 

 

 

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