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happy halloween!

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Each and every morning we hear a little chickadee singing: “It’s time to wake up, Mama!”
Of course every moring except for the occasional Saturday morning her daddy and I have been up for at least an hour or so, but in the mind of a two-year-old, the world doesn’t exist until they open their eyes.
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Since Ava was a wee babe Children of the Heavenly Father has been one of our favorite rocking songs. Over that past month she has memorized the hymn and is often heard singing it throughout our house. More recently Ava has begun interupting our evening singing with questions: “What’s slumber mean?” “What’s a defwender?” “What’s [...]

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This is my born. I was a little, little baby because I was crying “eh, eh, eh” because I cried because I wanted my dada. Yeah. Daddy put his fingoo in my mouth and then I was all done crying. I was all done because I wanted my dada because I went to bed because [...]

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this much

AVA: Mama, do this much!MAMA: (whispers) Ava, I love you this much (hands very close together) (louder) I love you this much (hands farther apart) (louder) I love you this much (hands shoulder width apart) [...]

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evening song

“When I’m little I wanna live in in in the big woods of WisCONsin in a a a little house made of logs, with Laura and Mary and Carrie and bulldog Jack. That’ll be fun. I wanna be Laura and Mary and live in the big woods, Mama!”–plans made by Ava while being rocked to [...]

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morning mahem

What do a bag of poison, a yellow puddle, and sixty-five dollar screw have in common?
Well let me tell you. Last night as Nate was sifting through the duck fluff (see post: nurse ava), he asked me if I had found the bag of sand. “What sand?” I replied. He explained that Ava had [...]

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transitions

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nurse ava

Nurse Ava broke all protocols this evening by performing her first surgery. Duckie, her unfortunate patient, was eviscerated in Nurse Ava’s crib while her superiors believed that she was quietly sleeping. Thankfully the resident on call was able to intervene before all hope was lost. After many prayers and tears, Duckie is now scheduled for [...]

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Ava’s highlight of this fall was definitely the harvest street fair by our home. She met a clown who made her a balloon bear. She enjoyed hotdogs and pickles with her parents. She jumped and jumped and fell and jumped some more in the moonwalk. She had her face painted by a real gypsie–butterfly on [...]

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