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[kirkcudbright]

Kylie in Francie's prom dress. It's really quite lovely, and fits her perfectly, save for being about two inches too long.



The backstory is that she's packing up to go to college*, so rooting in closets long untouched.

*We drive down tomorrow, move in Thursday, and classes start Monday. This is it!

**Ursinus College is abbreviated UC, and their sports teams are the Bears (naturally). University of Cincinnati is also UC, and their teams are the Bearcats. Probably no one else has a problem with this juxtaposition, but my parents grew up in Cincinnati, and are both UC alumni.

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[veek.livejournal.com]

College! Holy cats!

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Completely. But it'll happen to you too, in time.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Nah, that'll never happen to me.

[entrope.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! My cousin just graduated from there a couple years ago!

Congratulations to all of you. :)

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of it before, but they've been making an effort recently to recruit outside of PA/NJ. And thanks, it's exciting times.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Yow!
Good for her! Hopefully she has an awesome time.

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

That's the (well-considered) plan. And if the plan somehow fails, she knows it's okay to be wrong, and to make another plan. But I think it'll be okay.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

excellent! is she taking the dress?

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

No, it really needs to be taken up a couple inches, because she doesn't have high heels, and wouldn't know what to do with them if she did. But we really need to have it adjusted next time she's home, because it's so perfect for her.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

sweet! it really is absolutely perfect, and i don't blame her a bit about the heels.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Gawd, she looks beautiful and so very excited. She's really grown up.

::happydance at the photo::

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

You didn't see the pictures that came before that one (with the eye-rolling). She's learning to relax in front of the camera. I said "say...umm...cheese" because, mmm, cheese, she really likes cheese.

[mrw42.livejournal.com]

My prom dress was very similar! I bet it would fit Rachel, too, except mine would be 4 inches too long.

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Francie was telling Kylie that this store had a registry, to prevent selling the same dress to two girls from the same school. She not only rolled her eyes, but pointed out that all the boys would be wearing essentially the same suit. And all I could say was "it's different for boys".

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Indeed a nice dress on her. I imagine it's a Gunny Sak dress.

And, UC Berkeley are also the Bears.

Also, college? Ye gods.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

WAIT WHAT NO NO NO SHE IS A TEENY TINY LITTLE BLONDE ELF CHILD RUNNING AROUND AT KNEE LEVEL AT ARISIA WHO I JUST NEARLY TRIPPED OVER YESTERDAY.

Congratulations to her, and now I am going to pour myself a stiff shot of scotch.

[veek.livejournal.com]

He says it'll happen to me, too. Which means it'll happen to you.

I say vicious lies, but secretly I think maybe this completely awesome and terrifying thing does, ever, happen.

[catness.livejournal.com]

WUT! No, this is not Kylie. *lol*

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it just last week that Kylie was be sleeping in a nest of jackets at parties?

[gosling.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am quite sure it was.

Also four years old and falling asleep in my lap.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

Looking good!

To be studying what subject(s)?

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Undecided. Maybe history or anthropology, possibly even environmental science. But they don't declare a major until sophmore year, so she has time to explore a bit first.

[marktheorc.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! It was just yesterday she was a small, giggling thing on the floor of your office disassembling an old PC down to its component molecules. I would not have recognized her.

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

a) We call that recyclifying. And she still does that.
2) She's actual size but she looks much bigger to me. (Let's leave it at "actual size".)
iii) BTW, she still does mis-matched socks and mis-matched patterns and prints (e.g. paisley and checks).

[imalion.livejournal.com]

wow, how time flies!

YAY education!