I mentioned to Esme that I have always loved the dress she was wearing. She gave me a quizzical look and so I brought out our collection of Christmas photos. We found three pics of the girls in the same dress. It is a green and black plaid dress with a black velvet sash from the Children’s Place.

(l) 2008- Catherine at 2.5– I can’t remember where we got this little dress. It was either a hand-me-down or one I found second hand somewhere.

(m) 2011- Catherine at 5.5, Esme at 2.5– Here Esme is wearing the small dress and Catherine has on an identical, but bigger dress that I found that year at Savers.

(r) 2017-Catherine at 11.5, Esme at 8.5– Esme has finally grown in to the larger dress, the smaller one having been passed along to a friend a number of years ago.

I’ll be sad to see the end of these lovely dresses, but I’m glad to have gotten so much use out of them!