School hasn't even started but Maisie has a homework assignment to create a timeline of her life.
So we put our heads together and came up with an idea to do individual blocks with pictures and backgrounds.  I asked Maisie what has defined her life up to this point... her answers are in this order (pictured above... going across left to right)
1.  Born in China
2.  Adoption Day
3.  Walking
4.  Starting Montessori
5.  Learning to Read
6.  Celebrating 4th Birthday
7.  Celebrating 5th Birthday (her gift that year was a picture of her sister waiting for her in China)
8.  Adopting Juliette
9.  Starting 1st Grade
10.  Celebrating 6th Birthday
11.  Losing 1st Tooth
12.  Seeing snow for the first time.