tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61952690994272003642024-02-07T00:30:35.902-08:00mia + june save the dayA. B. Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978049656774508784noreply@blogger.comBlogger239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195269099427200364.post-69901692944502614992019-01-14T21:53:00.002-08:002019-01-14T21:53:33.447-08:00Ed-isms 2018<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">
Telling me about a dream he had:</div>
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“There were kitties. Five ones. We were at a different house. My friend was stepping on one kitty. I don’t know her name is. The okitties were in a bag. They were running."</div>
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“I don’t want to be a doctor. I want to be a missionary to Grandpa’s house in Spokane. I’m bringing Henry with me because I have room in my red airplane.”</div>
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“Can I come with you on your mission too?” asks Dad.</div>
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“Yes!”</div>
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“What will we do there?”</div>
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“We will push buttons.”</div>
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“How long will we be there?”</div>
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“20 minutes!”</div>
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Mom: I got a sunburn!</div>
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Ed: Its because the sun likes you. It wants to play with you!</div>
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A. B. Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978049656774508784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195269099427200364.post-19587473937298018762019-01-14T21:52:00.002-08:002019-01-14T21:55:06.055-08:00June-isms 2017<style type="text/css">
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Mom, do you know why your tummy’s hurting?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s because maybe I catched a cold on you.</div>
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J: Mom, one of my teachers has a jiggly neck.</div>
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Oh, look.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s an elevator car (an Escalade). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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The church in Qatar smells like polish you put on your toes.</div>
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“Mom, I need to tell you a secret, but you’re going to be mad because it’s about love.”</div>
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“I hope I wouldn’t be mad about love.”</div>
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“Well, it’s that I love a boy named Abdulrahman.” <br />
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On her birthday: "Am I actually five? Because I don't, like, feel the number."</div>
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<br />A. B. Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978049656774508784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195269099427200364.post-63000484928558618212019-01-14T21:51:00.000-08:002019-01-14T21:51:40.096-08:00Ed-isms 2017<span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Ed had the girls’ dress-up wings on and fell off the little trampoline: “Butterfly fall down!"</span><br />
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With a onesie on his head when I went to get him out of bed: “Hat ON! Ho, Ho, Ho!”</div>
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"No way!" as a casual negative to everything...</div>
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"...right NOW!" As a casual demand</div>
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"How about..." as a preface to anything he wants.</div>
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"Bunder- ball" = basketball</div>
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Uh-dee-dee-dee-doo = excavator</div>
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Mom, reading in a bear voice..."Are you a man?"</div>
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"Two by two" (from Barnyard Dance) is "ba-doo, ba-doo."</div>
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"How bout me?"</div>
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"What's your name?"</div>
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"Me."</div>
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To mom or Dad when he's in our bed: </div>
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"Hop in!"</div>
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Ed, what do you want on your hamburger?</div>
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"Pickles and...goat cheese!"</div>
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Knocking on his new helmet...</div>
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Ed: who's there</div>
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Dad: Daddy</div>
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Ed: (pauses, scratching at his helmet)...but, it doesn't open!</div>
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After seeing a photo of himself as a baby (wearing a onesie)... “I’m wearing a panties t-shirt!”</div>
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-No, I’m just going to taste it.</div>
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To the security guard at the clubhouse: “Junie just smacked Mia’s bum.”</div>
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Every time we arrive at our destination...and with his usual enthusiasm...”Are we HE-OO?!?!” (Here)</div>
A. B. Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978049656774508784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195269099427200364.post-39894838587503232072017-02-04T15:28:00.004-08:002017-02-07T08:01:46.066-08:00Little House on the Palouse for Rent<div style="text-align: left;">
We are relocating for two years to the Middle East and looking for renters who will love our home as much as we do!</div>
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$1400/month + $700 damage deposit (refundable)</div>
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1 or 2 year lease, beginning in July/August (dates flexible)</div>
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-1500 sq ft home on 10 acres just off the Palouse Hwy</div>
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-1 full bath on the main floor</div>
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-great room on main floor and family room "loft" upstairs</div>
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-stunning view!</div>
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-washer/dryer and all other appliances included (no built-in dishwasher)</div>
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-modern finishes: concrete floors, quartz countertops, light fixtures, etc.</div>
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-wood stove is our primary source of heat, although electric wall heaters supplement</div>
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-irrigated lawn, fenced garden/orchard, in-ground trampoline, play fort, fire pit</div>
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-carport/lean-to for outdoor storage</div>
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-close proximity to outdoor recreation (Iller Creek Natural Area 2 miles away)<br />
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*no indoor pets please*</div>
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Contact David 509.389.4735 or Ashley 509.389.1286 or email dnareese@gmail.com for more details</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Holding back tears, "I just don't want to be a human anymore! I want to be a mermaid.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I really want Mary Poppins to come to our house. How do I get her?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">McKayla (buddy at preschool) can’t come to my party because she has Basketball and Soccerball that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June was doing some fancy stuff with the rings just now, and goes, “Whew! i was just busy taking down Dave, the octopus.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Almost every day…”Mom, feel my forehead. I think I’m having a ‘favor’ (fever).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mom: June, what do you want to be when you grow up?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June: A teenager.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Composing a song on the piano's low notes: “Mom, do you like my song? It’s called, ‘Bad Guys Kill.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Out of the blue, like everything else: I love woodpeckers. I want to be a woodpecker for Halloween!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Mom, did you know that if you were a people and you have hands but you also have butterfly wings and you fly up to the sun and you touch it, it will burn you?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lying straight and rigid on the carpet... "Mom, open your stocking and I am a robot inside of your stocking for Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Diplomacy from a 4 year old: "mom, I love you, but you just need to know that I don't like doing hard work."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-June! What is that sound? Are you coughing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-No, its a sound in my throat. I’m just playing bad, bad kitty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-June, put all the sewing needles back please.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-They aren't yours. They're the government’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After picking her up form preschool: “Sooo…It looks like I like my new class after all.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first thing June said when she woke up: “Mom...when I’m looking at you and you’re looking at me, it makes me want to go on a picnic together.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Showing me a DVD, “This is a 'deceit.’ At least, that’s what we call it in Spanish.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While decorating the tree, we were all determining who would do what job. June announced, “I'll be the one who gives the thumbs up at the end.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Mom, if the thing you are grading is beautiful, then click your tongue like this *. If it’s not beautiful then wink two times.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Mom, when I get big I don’t only want one boyfriend. I want eleven...Or someone could have 32 boyfriends.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Look mom! I’m having a baby, but it’s growing in my cheek.” (She had a frozen cherry in her mouth)</span></div>
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<b>Amelia, our earnest little thinker, has outgrown this stage for the most part...I'm sad!</b><br />
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Ho-HEE = horse</div>
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bo-DOOTS = snowboots</div>
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BEE-bo = bear…panda BEE-bo = panda bear (ha!)</div>
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Baby Boy = Edmond!</div>
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Apple = apple, orange, strawberry</div>
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deet = fan, wheel, anything that spins</div>
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A. B. Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978049656774508784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195269099427200364.post-69219582589258747402016-02-10T07:36:00.003-08:002016-02-10T07:36:33.326-08:00Isms of 2015<b><u>Mia</u> </b><i>(who is quickly out-growing her funny -isms stage)</i><br />
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Mom made a reference to Silver Mt. Water park (Mia had been there once when she was 4) and she shortly after said, “They have the purple canoes there! The boxes!” (Gondolas)</div>
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When mom read something and said "what does that even mean?" Mia responds, "you are like a little girl because you need help with a word."</div>
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"The movie I watched 'yesternight' is in my head.”</div>
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“I just really like this song!... ‘Touch Me Like You Do.”</div>
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Elder Uchtdorf said "hated" in women's conference...Mia gasps and says, "but mom! Doesn't he go to church?!"</div>
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"Mary Poppins Go Round" = Merry Go Round</div>
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June burps and says, "excuse me."</div>
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Mom says, "You're excused!"</div>
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June replies, "I'm not 'scused! I'm Junie!”</div>
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Mom: You are kind of being a stinker.</div>
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June: No, I’m just fighting.</div>
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Referencing the graphics I ice skates on her jammies: "these is bootskatings"</div>
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June likes to call herself "Dr. Brown Bear."</div>
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June just brought me a wad of crumpled toilet paper and said, "mom, this is my husband's hair. Don't laugh."</div>
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In an effort to get a taste of the children's Advil, "mommy, I have a favor!"</div>
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"Daddy, I was being silly! Will you laugh now?"</div>
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Clock-o-let = chocolate </div>
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June’s song of the morning was to the tune of Angels We Have Heard on High... Lyrics: I want my money back, I want my money back, I want my money back today. I am very angry. Mia took it all away, took it all away…etc.</div>
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We realized around the time she turned 3, that she can’t quite pronounce the number (“thlee”) and prefers to hold up her fingers instead.</div>
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"Watson is sitting criss-cross applesauce."</div>
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Whenever mom is being stern, June will ask in a therapeutic voice, "Are you feeling frustrated?"</div>
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Pointing to a microwave at the store: "look, mommy! A cook-fooder! We have those in my kitchen set!"</div>
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Mia: popcorn gets so hot that it pops like a balloon.</div>
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June: yeah, and baby brother! ( mom is 39 weeks pregnant)</div>
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Trying to console mom during c-section recovery: "it's okay. When I was having a baby it hurt and I cried lots of times."</div>
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"When I get big I'm going to have a little bass and hold it on my neck like this." (Violin)</div>
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Pointing to Dad’s bushy eyebrows…”I like your beard."</div>
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-June, why do your nails grow so quickly?</div>
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Out of the blue…”Spiders can’t snuggle you. But parrots like to snuggle you.”</div>
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After blowing a 'wish' (dandelion)..."I wish I could get my own rocket and take mommy into space. and dad and Mia too.”</div>
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pointing to Olaf (from Frozen)..”He can’t talk really well because he has one tooth. We have two tooths.”</div>
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Slort-sleeve slirt = short-sleeved shirt</div>
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June: A scarecrow!</div>
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Mom: That's called a magpie.</div>
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June: I just see a magnifier!</div>
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"I came out of Su's tummy, but I'm your Africa bear. Right?"</div>
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June to herself, "Umm, speaking of which..."</div>
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Pointing to the penguin on her PJs, "this is a pine cone."</div>
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Referring to a hang nail- "I need to pull this nipple off."</div>
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"I want to watch Hello Peter (Harry Potter)."</div>
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June just gave me a description of her imaginary friend, Lolo. He is 3 ("like me"), has a 5 year old sister named Mia, and "he's brownish with one tooth."</div>
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J: "Oh! There's a mird!"</div>
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Mom: "A mird?"</div>
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J: "That's what some people call birds."</div>
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"My mom is cooking dinner in my room"</div>
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"That's funny because I'm right here feeding Edmond."</div>
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"No, my real mom. You and daddy died, so I got a new mom and dad" (then smiled sweetly).</div>
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"Mom, I want to be a dolphin at Halloween so I can scare everyone!"</div>
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-June I just love your hair.</div>
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-You can't have it because it's stuck to myself!</div>
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Grandma Heinz is old, so she doesn't have anymore warm body (Grandma was wearing a coat during a picnic we went on with her).</div>
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Singing an extensive ballad about her "love who died in the war and she was so sad." I asked her what she was singing..."it's about my 'pwince' who died in the Selfish War. Yeah, that's the one."</div>
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"I love my old grandma."</div>
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"Which one?"</div>
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"You don't know her. She lives by Texas' house."</div>
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"Texas is my friend. You don't know him either."</div>
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"Mom, watch me take off my shirt. It's going to be AMAZING...woohoo!"</div>
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Noticing that the moon is still out in the morning…</div>
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Mom: “Go to bed, moon, or you are going to be in trouble!”</div>
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June: “But mom, you don’t know how to fly.”</div>
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Mom: I’ll just go in a spaceship.</div>
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June: But the spaceship is in India.</div>
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June: No, the boogers are still moving.</div>
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June: (holding up a pink block) okay, but in going to bring my imagination with me.</div>
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Mom: Don't do that so close to the fire. You could fall on it.</div>
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Mom: June, will you put the stool back where it goes? </div>
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June: But, uh! I’m a grandpa!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-"What are you doing girls?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-"We are trying to save the water!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's just repend (pretend) Mommy!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Jesus puzzles?! I love Jesus puzzles! I've never done Jesus puzzles in my whole wide life!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia replies, "What?! My bum is cracking?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Aww, June is the sweetest sister in the whole wide town!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mama, I want Raisin Browns for breakfast."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After cutting out a shape that looks like a gun, Mia said, "Look mommy it's a shooting gun…Just kidding! Actually it's a gasoline (pump). Hehe"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After impressing us with her grasp on family relationships (cousins, aunts, etc) Mia yawned while saying "I know stuff."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Poop is not my favorite."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I don't like you to put your hair in a pony because you look like a boy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mom- There are so many places in the world we could go. Where would you choose?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia- I would choose to get baptized and go to Rexburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mom- Let's pull your braids back while you're playing so they don't bug you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia- Its okay! I want them to bug me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia- I like that big fat guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mom- It's not good manners to call someone fat. That might hurt his feelings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mom- Well, then I will say he is just so cozy. I want to snuggle him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When working on Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano, June came along and played a few extra notes. Very angry, Mia yelled, "Junie! I'm trying to work on my skills!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Whew! I'm getting sweaty about cleaning up!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pointing to a life jacket at Costco: “There's the thing to go skateboarding on the water!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mommy, Guess what? I love you really, really much like a big house." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sentimentally: "mommy, you'll ALWAYS be my pillow."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When frustrated: “This is such a RUDE day!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While talking about things people need in order to grow, Mia said, "and also birthdays. People need birthdays so they can grow bigger and bigger like a tall stick or a world."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"June, you want to play friz with me and the friz?" (Frisbee)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-what's a bomb?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-it drops from a plane and makes a big fire that hurts lots of people and things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Did I do that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Drop a rock on the bad guys?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-um…no! of course not!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-But I want to do that! Did Daddy do it? Did you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mom is walking up the driveway and dad getting ready to leave for school: “Watch out for mommy! Don't squish your husband! I mean, your life!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Ugh! This keeps getting off the pokey!" In other words, the Velcro on my keens won't stick!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia, what is in your dolly's hair? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's just my hanatize that I got from my church from my teacher Mister Hainsworths! (hand-sanitizer and Sister Hainsworth).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a "merup" tree! (Maple + syrup)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What should we name the baby if it's a boy? "Mrs. Buttercup!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mom: "Stop wiping your hand on your shirt! I'm tired of you ruining your clothes!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia: in a patronizing voice, "oh mommy. It's just because the baby is making you frustrated at me."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I like the bad guy on Mulan with the hood and bird. I don't know why!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My tongue is like a baby because it moves around in my mouth."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I know who our prophet is: Thomas Muffin!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia: well, boys like tough things, an so does Jasmine, but girls like cute things and bug cars are cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I just can't stop liking butter and baby movies."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mia to Mom: "I look like the color of the NutTella, and you like the inside of the peanut."</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"When Junie laughs she gets birdies on her face"</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My favorite milk is the one that starts with 'egg' that's only at Easter." (EggNog)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">“</span><span style="line-height: 16.5pt;">Watson is just so cute; I don</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">’</span><span style="line-height: 16.5pt;">t know what to say!"</span></span></div>
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Favorite word lately: MYself!</div>
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Occasionally when she wakes up, June will ask in a high, squeaky voice, "is a Jesus time, mom?" </div>
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Feeling lethargic with a fever, June had not said anything all afternoon. Then, while driving, a song came on with the word "hate" in it. Out of her silence, June yelled, "PASSWORD!" from the back seat. </div>
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Screaming through tears with all her heart: "no snuggling, no snuggling, NO SNUGGLING!!!"</div>
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When she first woke up, in her squeaky little voice- "I'm grumpy."</div>
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Walked in on daddy pulling on his garments..."daddy wearing pantyhose?"</div>
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Mom: You are such a sweet girl.</div>
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June: No! I Julianne Pearl!</div>
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Trying to convince mom that she needs another taste of honey..."mo' honey! I a Pooh. I a Pooh."</div>
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Another gum adventure- while looking in an open exhibit at an aquarium, June began to climb in. Woa! Where are you going? "The fishy eat my gum!" Whoops!</div>
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What should we name the baby if it's a boy? "Soscar!” "Chapstick!"</div>
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While listening to Mom and Dad discuss the fact that it costs too much to drive to Sandpoint, June puts up her hands and says, “Stop. Guys. I have money. It’s in my scooter” (she has a penny hidden in the handle). </div>
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June: My poop just had a big, big, big, big seed in it.</div>
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“oop! I just fell down on your birthday rug” (I had mentioned several months ago to David that our new rug could count as my birthday present).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Mia had so many birthday celebrations that she had a difficult time determining which one made her officially five. She asked with each one, "Am I five <i>now</i> Mommy?"</span></div>
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Saturday "Spring Treats" hunt (we have to do something unique from Grandmas) usually involves small garden tools and sandbox toys to counter-balance the load of candy received elsewhere. This year, Mia could read the clues herself (kind of). It was so fun to watch them run from place to place!</div>
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This sweet girl turned two in February (yes, I know it is now May and I am finally documenting it).</div>
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The moment either birthday girl emerges from her room is a big deal for me. I love to shower them with attention as soon as they wake up. My mom always decorated my door for me on my birthday and it was such a special tradition.</div>
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This sweet smile melts my heart every time!</div>
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June's lovely birthmother, Su, has sent a package all the way from Korea for each of June's birthdays. She doesn't say a thing about it- we just get a surprise package at the beginning of February filled with beautiful clothing. June has since believed that every package that arrives comes from Su. Here is June showing off the darling things she received:</div>
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I have associated June with the grouchy lady bug for the past year (for a variety of reasons: she likes the book, she is really grouchy when she's tired, and she just reminds me of a little lady bug in general). Luckily, 2 year olds are agreeable to any party theme that's suggested. </div>
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I invested hours into her lop-sided cake, although you wouldn't know it from its appearance.</div>
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At least it was really tasty... and as is notorious of desserts at our house, relatively healthy.</div>
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We are so blessed to live close to grandparents and cousins. </div>
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It makes for an automatic guest list and fun celebrations!</div>
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Mom is always a spaz about this part of the birthday (blowing out the candle). Poor June tries to hug the cake during the song and gets frightened by Mom's response.</div>
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We love this sunshine of our lives!</div>
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As our family matures, we have been able to better establish rich holiday traditions. It is my goal to fill the season with meaningful memories as opposed to a commercial gimme-gimme focus.</div>
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A new one that we added this year is the <i>Journey to Bethlehem</i> put on by several local faiths. It is so cool to see the variety of backgrounds there come together by a common focus on Christ.</div>
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Here is the participating camel, my favorite part of the production.</div>
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Tree trimming:</div>
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Mia was terrified of the "grunchy green guy" while watching "The Grinch" with cousins (the Jim Carey version is gross, but we needed something that the older male cousins could appreciate). </div>
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Dad and Mia used external sources to turn up the gingerbread-house design competition this year. Note their Seussical landscaping in the finished product (on the right). </div>
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That top-heavy marshmallow tree caused a lot of heart ache.</div>
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Mia decided that she wanted to see the Nutcracker ballet this year for her Christmas present. Mom was a little reluctant about the attention span of her wiggly little body, but we made it through the entire production with only one declaration of "not again!" when the prince emerged on-stage for the final scene.</div>
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Our annual Coeur D'Alene cruise to the "north pole"</div>
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We tried a new type of Christmas cookie this year for Mia's school party: "peppermint buttons." The girls were well-practiced at sneaking dough by the end of that night. June patiently waited by the oven until each batch came out.</div>
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Getting into the spirit at Great-Gma R's on Christmas 'eve:</div>
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We were so lucky to have our always missed Utah cousins surprise the family for Christmas!</div>
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Testing out the new art supplies and puzzles: </div>
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When Mia opened her fancy World Map puzzle, she skeptically said, "Umm...this one is at my school"</div>
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We had a frosty "white" but snowless Christmas day. It was still lovely.</div>
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We pulled out the fancy crystal goblets at Gma K's in the evening, but Mia was a bit heavy-handed with hers despite countless warnings and nearly sliced her finger off when it shattered. She was instructed to keep her hand elevated to slow the bleeding down in order for her parents to assess whether it warranted an ER visit. She took her instructions to heart and wouldn't lower her poor hand for the rest of the night. It did the trick... no emergency room Christmas to our relief!</div>
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Cute matching nightgowns from talented seamstress Gma K:</div>
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After the girls went to bed that night, Mom and Dad discovered that the girls' plasma cars from Gma & Gpa R have a 250 lbs weight limit. </div>
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I have tried to keep track of the silly things that our girls say, but often tell myself, "I need to write that down..." and subsequently forget. Here is a list of the Mia-isms and a few June-isms (spoken language is a relatively new development) from 2013 in order of occurrence: </div>
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Taking inventory of the three girls in the car- "we are all so beautiful. But not daddy. He's not pretty. He's a boy."</div>
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While reading a book where one matches an animal with the movement it makes, we had decided that a "caterpillar climbs". Mia said, "and a caterpillar flies too because it's a butterfly." Smarty! When we were deciding what a beetle does, Mom passed the word "swim" but Mia stopped me. "He swims when I put him in the toilet."</div>
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After seeing a Base jumping video on YouTube- " I want to do the jumping off the rocks all day long"</div>
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"lips"=chapstick, lip gloss, etc.</div>
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After finding the b-room door locked with Mia inside...and knocking til it opened:</div>
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"You do not lock mommy out of the b-room"</div>
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"But I needed some prisacies [privacy]!"</div>
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(Busying herself to look in the mirror and I notice that she has applied mascara...perfectly. Better than I can).</div>
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"I see you got into mommy's makeup"</div>
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"I look so beautiful."</div>
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"You are not allowed to get into my makeup without asking."</div>
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"What do you see?"</div>
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"You put my mascara on without asking."</div>
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"I don't see any. [I mean] it's not all over the place!"</div>
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In other words... Shouldn't I be awarded for my application skill?!</div>
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Mia said to mom, "we are matchers. you have brownskin chocolate freckles but not brownskin chocolate skin."</div>
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"I'm a bad guy to mommy."</div>
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"No you aren't. You are just learning how to be a listener."</div>
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"Well, I'm a bad guy to June and a good guy to you."</div>
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To Mom and Dad-"You are not special because you don't have brown skin chocolate. If someone is brownskin chocolate they are only special."</div>
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-What is your favorite food?</div>
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-Yes, white salt is my favorite and tomatoes.</div>
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Mia really quiet in back seat:</div>
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-I'm thinking about naughty things.</div>
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-ALL the naughty things.</div>
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Mia said that when her Bunny's last surviving ear falls off, he will become a boy.</div>
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"I'm hiding 'cause I don't want to smell your gum."</div>
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"now we have an outside chicken!" Chicken=kitchen</div>
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Identifying herself: "I'm a hair girl and I look at pictures and videos on somebody's phone."</div>
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At REI: "I can get a bike because I don't poop or scratch my bum. I don't do things like that."</div>
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-can I watch Mermaid at gma k's house?</div>
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Mom: it's Sunday and Mermaid doesn't remind us of Jesus</div>
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-Oh! The daddy has a beard like Jesus! It's okay!</div>
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After asking what an astronaut is, Mia said, "oh! I wish I could do that!"</div>
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While dragging the garbage can down the driveway (one of her first times on her own) Mia shouts, "mom, do I look like a woman?!"</div>
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On the way to watch the magician at the library... "You and June can stay home. The guy will take really good care of me." Yikes!</div>
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"Hmm. Okay (in a patronizing voice), I will be your tiny mommy because I'm tiny."</div>
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"Plants like to drink orange juice and rain."</div>
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The Grouchy Lady Bug by Eric Carle is Mia's recent favorite. She calls it "The Grunchy, Grunchy Lady Bug."</div>
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While swimming in the lake, Mia moves up to Daddy with one hand in the air and tries to push him over with the other one. "Let's play baptized Daddy. I'm going to Baptize you!"</div>
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Looking at an ant hill..."oh how I love the antses!"</div>
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dad was speaking Spanish to himself while planting some lavenders. "Dad, the plants don't spanish Spanish."</div>
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After dad squeezed Junes belly and caused her to produced some noisy gas, Mia declared, "June had a bum burp!"</div>
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After having some assistance pottying outside and making quite a scene, Mia exclaimed, "that. Was. Amazing!"</div>
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"My friend Brody said 'you have a nice hair' and I said, 'it's a four ponies.' And then I said again, 'my mommy made them.'"</div>
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Mia interjected: "What is it? Footie jammies?"</div>
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In reference to the Grinch at the CDL Christmas cruise, and through tears: "He is NOT my favorite crunchy guy!"</div>
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"Junie, I'm gonna take you to Panda Bear and take you in the wagon. I'm not gonna go on the road- We will go on the walk-side! We will go to Albertson's and then go to Panda Bear. I'm being the mommy."</div>
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Mia- "Well...you are just a wiseman that they saw!"</div>
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Hand over mouth and wide-eyed: "He just said the password" (Mia's key term for "naughty words"- hate, stupid, etc.) Now times this phrase by a million and you will have Mia's weekly dialogue.</div>
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-Daddy, push your tummy out like a baby.</div>
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-Nah.</div>
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-Daddy, YOU ALWAYS NEED TO TRY THINGS ONE TIME!"<br />
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"Small-eh-show" = Marshmallow<br />
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After bumping her head, pats it and attempts to say "tough cookie" -15mos.</div>
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June blew us away today when I was counting the 12 girls in the Madeline book. I began counting, "one" and June said "two!" Then I said "three" and she said "four" and so on until 10!!! I have never directly taught her this and have no idea where she picked it up at this age! -18 mos</div>
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While snuggling June before her nap, she grabbed my chin and said, "chin up!" She had seen me do that to David a week earlier when he was being grumpy! -18mos</div>
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June has the SWEETEST singing voice and is quick to sing along anything... particularly primary song as she falls asleep. I Am a Child of God is a favorite. -20mos</div>
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June's language is very advanced with three word utterances, regular past tense, -ing, and huge variety of vocab-20mos</div>
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June has always been compassionate. She will stop crying of someone else is crying in order to comfort them. Mia has a cold right now, and every time Mia coughs, June asks, "you okay?" It melts my heart.</div>
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calls herself "Doonie" (Junie) -20mos</div>
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While pretending to eat Junes cheeks for lunch, she stopped giggling and asked..."tasty?"-21mos</div>
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In the possessive stage. We often hear, "No, Mia, that MINES!"</div>
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June enjoys the novelty of finding things that are "hiding" and revels in the announcement, "Deh it is!"</div>
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June is a picky eater, but is extra polite about it and declines with a "No Kank-oo!"<br />
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Animal Sounds- 19 mos.<br />
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Body Parts-21 mos.<br />
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A. B. Reesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978049656774508784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195269099427200364.post-57577387111964690082013-12-28T11:40:00.004-08:002013-12-28T11:40:44.897-08:00Living with Kids<div style="text-align: center;">
We were privileged, this past September, to be featured on <a href="http://designmom.com/" target="_blank">DesignMom</a> (my fave) for her "Living with Kids" series. Most of the homes featured on it are so lovely and created by actual designers-- ours obviously isn't of the same caliber, but it's unique in that we were able to build it for low cost during our intersection in our lives, and still have a high-quality of living here. We never want to leave!</div>
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Read about it here:</div>
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As per annual tradition, we journeyed to Rexburg for the Thanksgiving holiday (and my birthday, ahem). It doesn't sound terribly glamorous when declaring our plans to friends, but is the best type of soul comforting vacation for me. Grandparents, yummy food, reliable traditions, and the familiarity of a home away from home make for the best of times. </div>
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My maternal grandparents recently relocated for the second time in the last year. One imagines one's mother and grandmothers in a particular setting (the kitchen, for me...how progressive is that thought for this closet feminist?), but I didn't know where to picture my grandma for the past months since they'd moved. It bugged me. This gives some perspective on the magnitude of problems (or lack of) I have in my life.</div>
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I cannot get enough of this stunning beacon that sits on the hill across the road from my grandparents. This time, we went inside. </div>
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Everything felt absolutely luxurious- particularly the plush carpet. Being used to concrete, I just couldn't get enough of the cozy padding all around the house, and neither could my kids. </div>
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So, lots of floor time with somersaults and dare-devil moves.</div>
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All the bathrooms have lovely deep drawers...deep enough to house a hearty babe!</div>
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The bedroom closets are mirrored.</div>
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...and Aunt Jasmine ("Ja-mins") enhanced the novelty of it all.</div>
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Thanksgiving bracelet craft, and fun appetizers:</div>
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Cooking along side Mom, Aunt Amy, & Gma Heinz made for a heavenly meal.</div>
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Here we are, post-feast, full and content.</div>
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This one was particularly delicious!</div>
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Great Gpa AND Great Gma joining us for a swim at Green Canyon Hot Springs. It's usually a cultural experience, but I didn't notice the cutoff and mullet clad clientele this year...I was too busy reveling in the rarity of the occasion. It seems like I spent my young childhood trying to convince her to swim with me in her own Kailua pool. Her response was always, "I don't like the water." So I assumed she didn't shower either. Water is water. </div>
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My grandma is in a swimsuit! I sure hope I look like her when I'm 77.</div>
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Birthday jog with my favorite running partner. </div>
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I wish I could frame them, but they've already been put to good use keeping our fingers much toastier than any other pair I've owned.</div>
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See my lovely burning trifle in the middle of the table?</div>
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Teacher reports that Mia had a conniption as soon as SpiderMan arrived, and despite the fact that many of her poor classmates were made to remove their fun hats and masks, Mia still sought refuge on this random volunteer's lap for the duration of pre-school. </div>
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A wary Mia poses with the other costumed kiddos:</div>
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David's brother and his family host at an intimate little campground surrounding a pristine mountain lake each summer. This year, the rest of the family went to check out their stomping grounds. </div>
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Gpa R fashioned this fun, but precarious swing for the grandbabies.</div>
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We had plenty of opportunities for cousin love and rivalry. Here's an example...</div>
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Hiking poles are quite the novelty at the commencement,<br />
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Delinquent blogging makes for really long posts. These photos cover the course of June's 16th-20th month of life!</div>
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Last warm boat-ride of the season with Gpa- June still seems to have the baby reflex that causes her to gasp in the wind. I hope she hangs onto it just a while longer!</div>
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So pleased to discover that she is still a buoyant baby!</div>
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We had broken hearts over June's broken heart at our county fair. She didn't qualify for a single ride.</div>
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June could spend a whole hour just bopping around on the trampoline. Unfortunately, her solo time doesn't last long... Mia is quick to apply chaos to this sweet scene. </div>
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<b>Book: </b>"I Like Myself" and "Benjamin Bunny"</div>
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<b>Favorite Place:</b> "camping to the lake"</div>
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<b>When I Grow up I want to be: </b>a drawer and a mommy</div>
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She didn't want to let go from her handsome protector. Those clowns are creepy!</div>
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Mia is a natural athlete. While the rest of us struggle to master this fun game when we go to Gma K's, Mia scores just about every time. We all want her on our team!</div>
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This summer, Mia acquired the new job of wheeling the garbage down to the bottom of our very long driveway. She is possessive of the chore...which is fine.</div>
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The first time she did it, she called back to me, "Do I look like a woman now?"</div>
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We started Ballet this month and I have never been so pleased with an investment for this girl. It is highly entertaining to watch and she is just loving it up. She practices piques, demi-plies, and tendus in our living room for hours! I have a different perspective on dance now...especially the more disciplined art of ballet. I saw little use in it before (except for ensuring a spot on the cheerleading team...ugh). But if it can instill confidence, poise, and self-control, we're going for it!</div>
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This was taken earlier this year, but I am using it as evidence that ballet is just a means of refining this girl's inherent moves.</div>
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Prepping for our future dairy herd:</div>
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Here is Mia riding through the 2 mile, pitch-black tunnel of the Hiawatha. Her bike-light is the middle one, closest to the ground. She was sandwiched by Gma K and Mom. Brave girl! Despite my experience with this tunnel, I was still terrified.</div>
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A snippet of the things she likes to draw on a regular basis. The pigs and snails are my favorites. The butterflies are often chubby. She said, "That's because they are grandpa butterflies." Hmmm...</div>
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She is rarely there alone, even when June is the victim of the infraction. Almost every time, before June even recovers from heavy-handed sisterly "love," she toddles over to Mia's side and endures the consequence along side her. We have since developed a new system because, needless to say, time out parties are not terribly effective.</div>
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I don't know what started this, but Mia will often bring me each of their respective blankets and say "Me and June want to be baby sausages." Cheap entertainment!</div>
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This is June's activity of choice lately. She stands at the door and shouts, "Mommy! 'wing!" Once we position June on the swing, Mia usually insists, "<i>I</i> am the tiny Mommy." Which means, "go away mom. I am the pusher." It's a great arrangement.</div>
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Double shots and double tears at the Dr's last month. For weeks, Mia has included the experience in her prayers and give thanks that "two girls could get shots at the doctor." Weird. We couldn't get her to stop saying it for anything until just recently. </div>
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Here is our commemoratory ride in Dad's beloved Bronco... with hi-tech air filters (I doubt it would pass any sort of emissions inspection). It found a new home this week. David is mourning its loss, particularly because of the good memories with which it's associated, but looking forward to break-down-free driving with a new(er) care in the future. We all share his relief! </div>
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Feeling Sunday afternoon sunshine:</div>
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Our 4th of July Priest Lake visit was lovely as always.</div>
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I wish I could figure out how to spell the "watermelon" way she pronounces it:</div>
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Since most of the family could not be with us, invited family by proxy this year and filled the camp with some of our favorite friends. Mia thought it was fabulous. Our friends were troopers: they ate foil dinners huddled under a tarp in an unseasonable downpour, braved the treacherous rope swing after relays of horror stories from Ash, and out the turn-of-the-century outhouse to good use with all the potty training toddlers... and still claimed to have a glorious time!<br />
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While organizing our bookshelves last week, I found these fun photos from eleven + years ago. I've mostly been horrified by these photos (they are super embarrassing for some reason) whenever I dig them up from time-to-time, but I am currently in a journaling mood and decided instead to digitally-document (this was pre-digital cameras...at least in the mainstream) the evolution of the year and a half of "friendship" before David took off to Argentina and I took off to college. It was a really tough period for my family, and David came along with all his life-loving charm and melted my heart. The time is comical to think about because we took ourselves so seriously and created a huge amount of stress for our parents, but really, it was my first taste of "true love" and the investment certainly turned out to be worthwhile!</div>
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This was taken after David had been set apart as a missionary. Was he allowed to put his arm around me? Whoops. It's okay because we were in front of the temple in an effort to solidify our destiny together. </div>
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I remember feeling physically sick this entire weekend because I couldn't bear the thought of him leaving, but needed to be the cheerful and encouraging (girl)friend. Something did the trick, because despite some major bumps in the road, we were right back here just a few months after he returned.</div>
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It all seems pretty romantic as I recall this stuff; particularly because I like him even more now!</div>
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We get to have two birthdys within a week during the month of June...luckily Dad and Mia don't mind sharing their celebrations!</div>
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Mia also got to host her very first "friend party."</div>
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I was so pleased that Mia chose "Peter Rabbit" as her party theme!</div>
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Shifting my "paradigm," Stephen Covey style, and discovering that despite the annoyance of having to clean off the trampoline once again, the airborne sand makes some beautiful shapes:</div></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3Aqgbozt-5rkZDnyHM89JN4pmVMdNkDl4Y3x-aJ2TS8d8v4G3WTsrEVRjo2ACuYX_39brqCy7cNSnCLMbxeNu_DggZIqV0LIbo37t2uSrFpMn2ppneJcOyYEJ9iRO73NLuQNHoBiYGY/s640/blogger-image--524713749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3Aqgbozt-5rkZDnyHM89JN4pmVMdNkDl4Y3x-aJ2TS8d8v4G3WTsrEVRjo2ACuYX_39brqCy7cNSnCLMbxeNu_DggZIqV0LIbo37t2uSrFpMn2ppneJcOyYEJ9iRO73NLuQNHoBiYGY/s640/blogger-image--524713749.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii05coMTcqlGEnwsbojmVkb20Eh_TFs8sqHTAddO4xrAvtStceij6dK_HKV6zvY0xUPS9IrtujEB-WYJzpOavibJJkptHD-N4HywohpGrzugK8xk-xGeLB9zyttqcwY8Cpc8-EMJnTw7w/s640/blogger-image--909504432.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We are having such a fun time watching June become more and more aware of the world around her.</div>
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She is probably sick of us raving about her sweetness, but that description just about sums her up. She is incredibly tolerant and just everso <i>sweet</i>. We can't get over her!<br />
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She is a girl who prefers the outdoors and is enthusiastic about all the joys it affords! </div>
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June's first sailing experience:</div>
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We discovered this fun ice cream truck at a new trail's ribbon-cutting ceremony.</div>
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Again, June knew that yummy things were associated and <em>Mom</em> just couldn't deny her a scoop!</div>
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This girl is a lover, through and through. Nothing soft can get by her without a squeeze...</div>
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June is on the verge of holding her own with the big girls. </div>
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It is delightful to watch her sociality develop!</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps it's by virtue of being a second child and listening to Mom gabbing at Mia all the day long that June is rather verbal. As an SLP student, I feel super conscious of these girls' communication skills, and I'm constantly fascinated by the phenomenon of language accquision. Although June has a relatively giant vocabulary on her own accord, I can't get enough of the sweet things she will say on-demand for me. She has the most lovely, sing-song voice!</span></div>
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