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The time has changed and suddenly this is what it looks like at bedtime for the girls (7 p.m. cst).  It's no longer dark.  So...they've been resistant just a bit to going down... and because I'm such a cool mom and I'm off tomorrow...today, I took them out and let them stay up late (bed at 7:45 p.m).

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This week we took the girls to Sesame Street Live.  I thought it was a good year because they actually know who Elmo is now and I THOUGHT they'd be too young to ask for a ton of stuff but would enjoy the fun.  Well they did enjoy the fun but Nala did request a $10 balloon.  No Way Jose!  The girls had a lot of fun though.  MacKenzie says she just enjoyed Cookie Monster's up beat dance only...not sure I believe her...

I took pics mostly on my cell phone because I'm pretty sure they frown upon dslrs.  Here are few though...

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I'm a wee bit behind on this project. I think i have pictures and just need to upload them and will try to go back tonight and update week 8 (just added week 9).  It's been a crazy last couple of weeks.  I'm behind on everything.

So this week...bribery.  I had to bribe MacKenzie with orange leaf yogurt in order to get the shot I wanted outside in the mid-day sun.  And then I blew a bit of her shoulder...such is life!

If you look closely you can see MacKenzie has a stye on her eye (see the shot where she is looking down).  This thing has been recurring over the last year.  I'm not sure how to get rid of it for good.  She says it doesn't bother her though...

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MacKenzie has a gymnastics meet at the end of the week.  She got her highest all around score of her season, but with really strong competition  didn't rank very strongly.  She had a great time though as always.  She got to see a lot of girls that used to be on her team that have switched gyms.  It was a little reunion.  I love  that the girls all get along so well.  It doesn't feel competitive at all.

I tried a zoom lens this week.  I still stink at this, but did a little bit better on shots this time.  I haven't bothered to edit these.  No use.  I had to shoot at ISO 3200 to get  enough light and several are still underexposed.