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W is for wacky words
I love the new phrases little kids use! My favorites from Rebecca: ackshee . . . (actually) s’uw (sure, but without the sh. Or the r.) Kudaihav . . . ? (Could I have . . . ?) Pe-p’ease? (Pretty...
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Y is for . . . L, if you asked my kids
My kids have a few odd speech habits—”feww” for “smell,” “foon” for “spoon,” and today “ball” for “small” (while crying). But so far one of the most persistent impediments is saying Y for L. yeyyow...
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Catching up with Rebecca/Suwwy (and her robots) + 20 gratefuls
And my first twenty things to be grateful for: Yesterday: Rain—don’t have to water the garden! (Borrowed from my friend Elisa, who’s also participating!) My garden (okay, my sugar snap peas) is...
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Rebecca’s funny (and she knows it)
A few cute stories from Rebecca over the last few months: As we walked through our home airport, after three weeks’ summer vacation at Nana’s and 8 hours of traveling: “For my birthday, I’m gonna go...
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Rachel Banana
Rachel loves to wiggle and shake. The other day I watched her waggling her head all around. “I love your dancing,” I told her. She smiled, and either blew me a kiss—or signed thank you. Rachel’s middle...
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Funny girl
Rachel is in a really cute phase. If you hold out your arms to her, she runs to you. Her sense of humor is really developing; she teases and giggles and laughs at the drop of a hat. And she loves to...
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Singing!
Rachel has really taken to Nursery at church. Although she’s still just learning to talk, suddenly she has a whole new kind of vocabulary: songs. Although she only knows one word of each song (okay,...
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Evolution works! (Or: Five reasons why babies are cute)
A flashback from three years ago when Rebecca was a baby. I’m not really going to get into a theory of evolution debate here—really, the more appropriate headline would be “Natural selection works.” I...
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Taking it literally
This morning, Rachel didn’t get up until right before we left to take Hayden to school. I dressed her quickly, but she made it clear she wanted breakfast, too, when she brought a box of Trix over to...
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Rachel’s two!
Today was Rachel’s birthday. She got some very fun gifts and some cute outfits. Best of all, I let her eat all kinds of treats–chocolate cookies, chocolate chips, peanut butter cups . . . even two tiny...
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