Smile Pretty

6 Jan posted by Jen

She was playing so nicely in the pretend garden.
Picking the flowers and then planting them again.

She was so cute sharing the flowers with me and her brothers.
I just had to take a picture of her and her flowers.

I asked if I could take her picture.
“Come here and smile pretty,” I said.

And she totally did.
Or at least, she tried.

Not really the smile that I had in mind.
But that will do.

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