tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66102176148518113012024-03-13T15:21:47.725-05:00LOTS OF LITTLESUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-26979532599523531292018-02-17T19:44:00.001-06:002018-02-17T19:44:41.155-06:00a little vacation house #1After Disney, we drove down to Cape Coral to stay for two weeks. We had to move houses in the middle as one didn't have a long enough slot.<br />
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Gun really wanted to try some fishing.</div>
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And...he learned to swim, quite well.</div>
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It wasn't long before he was jumping in the deep end and diving for Toy-pedos</div>
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By the canal</div>
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Halo made a cobbler</div>
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The three littles!</div>
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He went in the pool for a brief time and LOVED it. He loves water and baths, so go figure.</div>
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Some photos of him ... nearly 5 months old!</div>
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Gun giving Finn lots of love</div>
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Patriotic!</div>
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Ez had to have emergency surgery while here - he had appendicitis. This is post-surgery with Gun happy to have him back! </div>
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Gun's "gun" made from a palm branch.</div>
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Watching the Olympics.</div>
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Mickey ice cream cones!</div>
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Cousin time while waiting in line.</div>
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These two crazies!</div>
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Early morning dash to Animal Kingdom trying to get to a ride that generally has a 4 hour wait time. It was about 6:45 am when we were here, waiting for the bus.</div>
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On the bus!</div>
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Halo and I took the little two on the safari.</div>
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Safari ride</div>
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Trip-ly excursion to Biergarten, the German restaurant. </div>
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Crazy-Gun at Biergarten.</div>
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He's getting SO big. About 4 months old in this photo.</div>
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The lovely pool area at Wilderness Lodge.</div>
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One day, we went to the Blizzard Beach waterpark which was a lot of fun. The whole park was themed like a ski resort.</div>
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Finn loved the water!</div>
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A ski-resort complete with a chair lift!</div>
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The Slush Gusher, a huge waterslide.</div>
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The 90ft drop slide, Summit Plummet.</div>
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Wave pool</div>
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Jensen's early birthday supper at Whispering Canyon</div>
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The nightly boat parade</div>
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The Tomorrowland Speedway</div>
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The Seven-Dwarfs Mine Train, which Gunnar LOVED.</div>
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The biggest 5 on day 2 of driving</div>
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Finn was very tired of the car seat.</div>
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Our annual stop at the FL Welcome Center with the NASA astronaut</div>
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Photo time at the welcome center!</div>
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G had to have a photo with the poster of Chewbacca.</div>
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The birthday photo, with Finney :)</div>
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I was going through some things in preparation for our move, and came across a notebook where I had written some funny Halo-comments from when she was little. Her funny sayings got somewhat skipped on here, as she was older when I started blogging. </div>
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Here are some funny things from her in 2007.<br />
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Lost first tooth day after Easter (flute)<br />
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Lost second tooth May 27<br />
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Lost third tooth at Panera July 22 - daddy tried to find it in the trash<br />
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Lost fourth tooth in August at Henry's. (<i>Reading this out loud just now, and turned to Halo, "Who's Henry?" "Hmmmm, I have no idea. I don't ever remember a Henry." she replied. A mystery for us to solve ;) )</i><br />
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May 26, 2007<br />
Halo got Bubbles, her first fish ... after coming home from Walmart, we had this conversation:<br />
<i>Halo</i> "When my fish dies, can I eat it??"<br />
<i>M</i> "It's too small to be eaten."<br />
<i>Halo </i>"Well can just <b>I</b> eat it?"<br />
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Now she's 18 and doing her first year of college ... crazyness!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-55561340764768866662017-10-27T21:02:00.003-05:002017-10-27T21:02:32.790-05:00a little baby-loveHalo, holding Finney: "I love you, baby! You are the sweetest thing in the whole wide world."<br />
Gun: "Do you want to marry him?"<br />
Halo, not paying attention: "I don't know." And then realizing what he said, begins to laugh ... "I mean, no, silly!"<br />
Gunny didn't see the humor in that and walked away, confused.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-70715448468179559262017-10-27T18:44:00.001-05:002017-10-27T18:44:22.071-05:00a little baby #6Finney arrived in September! The older kids have been all over him :) It's crazy that he's now a month old.<br />
(photos in chronological order from September 26 to October 27.)<br />
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Finn and Gun (notice the camo ;) )</div>
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Some of his first smiles!!</div>
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While riding in the van he says, "When I grow up, I'm not gonna be in your family."<br />
Me: "You aren't?!"<br />
Gunnar: "Nope. I'm gonna have my OWN family."<br />
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"But...I'll come visit you, on my MOTORCYCLE."<br />
(This was just after a conversation with him about how dangerous motorcycles are, which ended with him saying he'd give Halo a ride on his motorcycle that he was getting when he grew up.)<br />
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He says "Bam! Gotcha dude!" to all sorts of funny things. And to his sisters, "Bam! Gotcha lady!" (Though sometimes he slips and calls them dude too.)<br />
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He came in from playing outside and says to Ezzie, "I'm gonna sing you a song!"<br />
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<i>God is always with you!<br />He's never with anyone else!<br />God won't go anywhere!</i><br />
<i>God will never leave you.</i><br />
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Everything is about war and guns and camo with Gun (and Ezzie) right now. The first thing he analyzes, even when getting new clothes/shoes, is "are they army"? His new rainboots/snowboots: <i>They use these in the ARMY!</i><br />
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Halo, age 17 - junior in highschool and freshman in college.</div>
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"I'll still be small and I'll still be so nice to Mommy," he replied.<br />
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"You're so sweet," I told him ... "You make my heart feel happy."<br />
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"And YOU make my heart feel so yummy, Mommy." <br />
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<i>This kid is a charmer</i> :) <i>He has helped lift my spirits many times </i>...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-80575892521935541112017-03-28T23:01:00.002-05:002017-04-09T19:16:13.220-05:00a little Wyoming - Part 1This is our third...well, fourth major family trip of this year. We've made a trip to Florida, a trip to the farm in Huron, and a trip to Rapid City where J's folks live, and our final trip has been to Jackson Hole, Wyoming! (Maybe more about those other trips later)<br />
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On our second day, we went on a three mile hike along Snake River. All the kids came and did really well. Scenery was beautiful, and ... we saw a moose!!!<br />
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These two were taken right before the moose-sighting!</div>
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And that's a story in itself! We were down by a little branch of the river, admiring a beaver dam and some trout visible in the crystal-clear water. Then Hayley heard branches snapping and a grunt. She told Jeff and they tore up the little incline to the path ... where we saw this moose. Hayley began screaming and the moose started trotting through the woods. We thought it would be gone, but then it stopped and came over the barbed wire and up onto the path we were on! We kept our distance and assumed the moose would keep it's, but it started coming towards us! At one point some of us could have reached out and touched it, it was so close. It galloped up to the boys, and E did a "stop, drop, and roll" down into a ravine to get away from the moose!!! It was quite an adventure. </div>
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When we were driving through Wyoming, we saw lots of animals and farms/ranches. At one point, Halo said, "I want goats! I want horses! I want a ranch!"<br /><br />Then G said, "When I'm big I am going to be a U.S. cop and I'm going to GUARD Halo's ranch!!!"</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-38470452903864134352017-03-21T22:36:00.000-05:002017-04-16T22:43:03.293-05:00Normandy BeachI should be in a painting class because I can make World War Two. See? I made Normany (Normandy) Beach! (photo coming)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-26885612482765534332017-03-16T20:03:00.000-05:002017-03-16T22:53:44.426-05:00more from GIf I was Hayley ...<br />
and if I was taller ...<br />
and if I was a baker ...<br />
and if I made coffee cake ...<br />
I would put ICE CREAM on top!<br />
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I want to be in the army ... but I don't want to be Nazis.<br />
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"You are the goodest mommy in the whole world and so sweet and so nice. So nice. So nice. SO NICE!" ("so nice" about 10 more times).</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-73887129382759314692017-02-01T20:48:00.000-06:002017-03-16T22:54:55.573-05:00burnt toast and Methuselah<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
"There's only a bunch of days til we die," said G.</div>
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"If you eat a LOT of burnt toast you'll live for a long time ... I bet that's what Methuselah did," replied E.</div>
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"Did she get fat?" asked G.</div>
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"No. And it's not a <i>she</i>; it's a <i>he</i>," concluded E.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-16925202426630845262017-01-10T19:13:00.001-06:002022-03-26T22:27:58.953-05:00childrens musicI was looking through some of our CDs and DVDS the other day looking for one in particular ... although I can't remember even what at this point. Anyway ... as I was thumbing through them I realized we have a bunch of children's music that hasn't been played in years. I played some of these CDs a lot when I only had three little kids ... but as those little kids got older and began selecting the music a lot of the time we had stopped listening to all of this *music made for kids*. In fact, when Ezzie was two ... some of his most familiar music was by Matt Kearney. So ... determined to expose Ezzie and G to some music geared towards littles ... I grabbed about 5 CDS to leave in the van. <div>
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A couple days later ... it was just me and G in the van driving to pick up the other kids. I popped in a Cedarmont Kids CD and after a few lines, G asked, "Mommy, do you know who is singing this song?"</div>
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"No, I'm not sure who it is," I answered.</div>
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He listened a little bit longer ... "I think ... I think it is Gunnar!" he said with a bit of wonder in his voice :) </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-39176317550551928622017-01-04T21:06:00.000-06:002017-03-08T21:07:15.678-06:00for the loveFoof was bugging G -- and therefore me too -- by trying to make him wear a new sweatshirt ...<br />
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"For the LOVE!" I said with some irritation ...<br />
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"OF PETER!" G finished {without missing a beat and in the same tone and way I would say it}. <br />
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It was hilarious. We all laughed and G got out of wearing the sweatshirt. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-90058295147315766732016-12-25T21:12:00.000-06:002017-03-08T21:13:08.580-06:00a funny reminderChristmas Eve, which was last night ... when E went to bed ... he made this sign and hung it on the door. <div>
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{<i>Daddy had been teasing him that he might sleep in and we might forget him when we left for Rapid City</i> ... <i>and perhaps E thought there was a chance it actually might happen?</i>}<div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Don't leave me behind! Ezra! ZZZZZZZ"</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-49313093691311496742016-11-26T20:24:00.000-06:002017-03-05T08:25:22.963-06:00nuts to the world!<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
I let G wear shorts while we went to Panera last night.</div>
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*** <i>This morning</i> ... ***</div>
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Is it cold this day (always says "this day" instead of today)?</div>
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Yes.</div>
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Oh nuts. </div>
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It's winter. </div>
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Nuts to the world!</div>
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It will be cold until it's summer again.</div>
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Well ... can I wear shorts today because I am three?</div>
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I don't know.</div>
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Camo shorts?<br />I got you some new jeans last night that you could try ...</div>
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Are they short jeans? (shorts)<br />No, they are jeans ... long pants ... because it's winter.</div>
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Oh. Am I three years old?<br />Yes.</div>
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Can I wear shorts this day because I am three?</div>
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We'll see ...</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-88226419408800422552016-11-22T10:54:00.001-06:002016-11-22T10:54:16.675-06:00a little conversation<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
G and I were talking about something and I was explaining something and I said ...</div>
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"Well ... remember when J and I went on the cruise?<br />G: "Yes ... and I was so so sad. And I missed you. And I cried. And I wanted you to come back. </div>
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And you DID! You did come back and I was YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!"</div>
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Mommy: "I did come back." <img alt="" class="EmojiInsert" data-custom="AQMkADAwATNiZmYAZC05MGQ3LWFkZAAwLTAwAi0wMAoARgAAA6IaEJFATMJAosnLLVam%2B9sHAFguztO8DCZBgSEiJhV9LNsAAAIBDAAAAFguztO8DCZBgSEiJhV9LNsAAAC1CC1VAAAAARIAEADTObgqzFxOTYX%2BcNsyXF5V" id="OWAEmoji929738" naturalheight="19" naturalwidth="19" originalsrc="cid:9ab1b314-a486-4bc4-b053-34687e50dacb" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABMAAAATCAYAAAByUDbMAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAYpJREFUeNpi/P//PwO1ACM2wf9njBWAVD4QBwCxApLUAyDeAMQTGU3OPkDRA3QUIxaD+oFUAREOaQQa2IDTMKBB84FUAgk+WwA0MBFmGBOaixJIDKYEoD6465igBjkge+3CrW94TUCTr4eGMdxl8TCZxMYHDIZR1xk2HPiA1SCQOEgepA4J5CMbFgAPhM1vwfTFW9+xGgYTh6lD1s8IdKIAkH4PEz1w9jOYVpBiZ1CQZMMw7MHzXwwPnv0Esx2MeRESxmcYWYCUAbJiFAVYAMgCbJbAvPmAWjmACZqS4aHdOOs5wdgEBcWE5a8Y0HIGPAIOwETtjXkYJqIqxAAgeQM1ThTzkQ2biB5mC7a8xZ7kgeICvMzoYTsRJaMDY3U9chIBpaMHz34xxPsKgwMcFIsLgckB5KL+YllkgyYAg6oQJW9Ck8h+5NgFhd3GAx/humAGI2cGIHYEGvYBW0YHGTgf2YX4MjkQF4IMwlkEIeXVfByGwsqzAwTLMywGg7wNcvED9AIR3TCAAAMAqh+p+YMVeBQAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" style="vertical-align: bottom;" /><br />G: "Was I a baby then?"<br />Mommy: "No, you were three ... and now you are three and a half. We celebrated your birthday when it was your last day of being two. Then, the next morning it was your birthday ... but I didn't see you because J and I had to go to the airport so early."</div>
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G: "Will I have another birthday?"<br />Mommy: "Yes, in May you will be four."</div>
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G: "And I'll be as big as E!"</div>
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Mommy: "No ... you won't. He will still be older and he will be turning 8.</div>
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And when you turn 5 he'll be 9. And so on.</div>
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When you turn 6 he'll turn 10."</div>
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G: "What the heck??? I have a bunch of birthdays!?!"</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-52202411143480440012016-11-13T22:30:00.000-06:002016-11-17T10:12:20.122-06:00more about the darling bear outfitThis morning ...<br />
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<i>G knows I think his bear outfit is so cute -- but he doesn't like it. I hadn't even mentioned wearing it -- but apparently it was on his mind and he was trying to figure out how to avoid wearing it.</i><br />
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G: "Can you wear bear shirts to church, Dadda?"<br />
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Daddy: "Yes, you can."<br />
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G: "No, you can't. It's against the law!"<br />
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Mommy: "No, it isn't. You can wear bear shirts to church."<br />
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G: "No. The pastor says you can't!"<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-350982147684366432016-11-11T23:51:00.000-06:002017-03-08T21:15:28.464-06:00a little moon sliverGun: Ezzie called me a dork so I'm going to make a "wanted" sign. (<i>E often makes signs about his older brother being wanted. They're pretty funny ... but the oldest brother always destroys them before I can get a photo taken</i>.)<br />
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So Gun plopped down with a marker and pape ... stared at the paper briefly and put his hand on his head ...</div>
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Gun: I can't because ...</div>
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Daddy: You don't know how to spell?<br />
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Gun: Uh-huh. So I'm just going to make a moon ...</div>
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Daddy: You're making a sliver.</div>
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Gun: Yes, it does look like a sliver (meaning tiny foreign object in your hand/foot) ... but it's a moon :)</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6610217614851811301.post-86170820262413416832016-11-07T15:19:00.000-06:002017-03-08T21:18:09.431-06:00fun fun fun fun fun<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
Out of the blue G started telling me this ...</div>
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"Once last winter I remember a giant funfunfunfunfun!</div>
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Halo was pulling us in the tube and she was going so fast </div>
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and Ezzie was not holding on. </div>
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I had to hold on so I didn't fall off.</div>
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I was like hold unhold hold unhold hold unhold hold unhold."</div>
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Me: "Why were you unholding?"</div>
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G: "For fun! Just for fun!"</div>
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Me: "You just told me a story."</div>
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G: "Uh-huh."</div>
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Me: "It's good practice for school ... when you get older and have to write journals and stories."</div>
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G: "Uh-huh. It's a good idea."</div>
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G: "Oh,and once she flipped me up then down.</div>
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And I was holding on. The whole time I was holding on.</div>
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I was holding on for a long time and holding on and I didn't fell.</div>
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Isn't that so funny, Mama?"</div>
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Then he proceeded to sing "I love my mama!" </div>
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He probably sang this a dozen times.</div>
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Three year olds can be so delightful :)<br />
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Also, G is <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so thankful ... for even the most basic things ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like ... thank you for taking me to church ... thank you for taking me to school (he says this and he doesn't even attend ... we drop the kids off and pick them up and he says hi to people so he loves it anyway).</span><br />
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I like to over-achieve every time!</div>
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I was thinking I could do my math book in a month and then I'd be math-free the rest of the year! </div>
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Don't drive behind cars with "baby on board" signs ... they are always slow.</div>
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