Zadie Portrait

My sister-in-law took this great photo of Zadie over the 4th of July weekend.  I love this girl's smile.

When people see this photo, I have a feeling they will say that she looks just like me.  Like I've said before, I really don't see it.  Maybe it's hard to see yourself in another person.  At any rate, I take it as a compliment because Zadie is far more beautiful than I have ever been.  And I'm not being modest.

Tori and I marvel about her beauty all the time and I tell her sometimes that she is beautiful or that I love her smile, but we don't want her to necessarily grow up focusing on that too much.  And, frankly, I don't want her to be one of the super-popular beautiful girls in high school because I think they get into too much trouble and have to face a lot of peer pressure.  I hope she can be a bit of a nerd in high school, like I was.  Not the kind that's picked on, but enough a nerd that she's a bit sheltered from the scene in high school.  Fingers crossed!