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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

two monkeys

I gave a few picture gifts this Christmas (imagine that), and so I have neglected to show these pictures on my blog since I wanted my gift recipients to be completely surprised. Except that it really was no surprise at all :) Gift pictures are in color. The outtakes are in black and white.

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outtakes...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

'tis the season

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...for sharing. Today Greg and the kids made cookies. Well, I'm just guessing that Greg made the cookies and the kids ate cookie dough. Tonight Evie was eating a cookie at the table and got up from her chair, came into the living room and said, "share a cookie with me mommy." I got up and said, "ok, let's go eat it." Then she pointed me in the direction of the cookies on the counter and said, "No, share your own cookie" in her sweetest 3 year old voice. Greg and I both laughed. It's funny what she considers sharing. :)

Saturday, December 6, 2008

The mind of a 3 year old

Evie has said some really funny things. Here is a good example: this summer we stopped at the drive thru at Wendy's many times on our way to the pool (thanks Beka for the key)...mommy has to have her coke, you know. It was then that Evie discovered the joy of mandarin oranges. One day I asked her what she wanted as we pulled up to the speaker, and she said, "guy oranges." I knew what she wanted, but I was just so confused as to why she thought they were called guy oranges. Then as we pulled away I laughed outloud as I figured out how she came to that. (you probably already figured it out, but another name for a man is a guy). Today she said another funny such thing. She asked me while we were playing in the snow if we could make a snowman. I knew this fresh powdery snow was no good for a snowman, so I told her this snow is not sticky enough. It just doesn't have any stick to it, and we probably won't be able to make a snowman today. A little while later, she is doing this (first picture below). She picked up this stick with such excitement and said, "Now we can make a snowman!" Again, I had to think...but I figured out what she meant. She thought I meant we need a stick to make a snowman. Kids!

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Just a few from this week:
Evie is suddenly very interested in hygiene. Here she is doing something or other with her teeth, and G train can almost always be found sharing the step stool. Usually you know that's what's going on b/c she is yelling for me to get him off!
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The one place Graham cannot get to (yet):
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And just because he's so handsome (even with a drooly dirty shirt), and because he couldn't go in the snow today since he had a little fever:
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