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let me read to you Charlotte

Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »

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occupational hazard

Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Reading in her Fort
Ava loves books. She has loved them for as long as she has been Ava. They are the first thing she packs in her backpack, asks to take in the car, brings with her in the bathroom, and sneaks into her bed. When her daddy built her a fort, she spend the [...]

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ava-isms

Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »

documenting some of my favorite ava-isms:

“fingoo” = finger
“bugoo” = booger
“hot spider” = hot apple cider
“tweezers” = scissors
“shocolot” = chocolate
“cotton tail” = cotton ball
“paper tower” = paper towel
“I’m sugaring” = I’m shivering
“bite-a-lims” = vitamins

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pop! goes the badger

Posted in the ones about badgers & friends on February 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »

♪♫ all around her nursery brave Ava chased the badger ♪♫♪♪
Thank you so much for all the badger-relief tips. After almost two weeks of badger occupation, I presented Ava with all the creative ways for emancipation. I was fairly certain the trap was the way to go. However, knowing that Ava had the most first-hand [...]

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warning: badger on the loose!

Posted in the ones about badgers & friends on February 23, 2007 | 10 Comments »

A very scary badger has taken up residence behind the radiator in Ava’s bedroom. It’s quite a tricky place to hide as we are neither strong enough dislodge the radiator nor slim enough to get behind it. As it stands there is no possible way to remove the badger.
After a week of encounters, here’s what [...]

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anna maria goes to the zoo

Posted in the ones about badgers & friends on February 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Here’s a picture of Ava and daddy watching the dolphin show with Anna Maria. Wait. You can’t see Anna Maria either? Wow, neither can we. But believe me she was there. We heard about Anna Maria the ENTIRE time. She was always getting lost and falling off people’s laps. It’s amazing how many mishaps a [...]

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on showering

Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

“do you take a shower because your hair is thirsty?”

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whale of a time-out

Posted in the ones about ava on February 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »

“Mama, did God put Jonah in a big, big dolphin?”
“Yes, it was a great big fish”
“Why?”
“Because he ran away from God.”
“Why?”
“Because he didn’t want to obey God.”
“So he had to have a punish”
“Yes”
…..
“Did God give Jonah a time-out in the big fish?”

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art lesson

Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2007 | No Comments »

At breakfast this morning Ava accidentally spilled her juice. After wiping it up with a towel she came running up to me and announced, “when my blue towel cleans up the cranberry juice it makes purple. Look Mama, it makes purple!”

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please pray for baby michal!

Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2007 | No Comments »

A Mended Heart is a Special Heart
This is sweet Michal Caleb, the eight-month-old son of our good friends Tim & Antje. He is scheduled to have open heart surgery on Monday morning at 7:00 am in Ann Arbor Michigan in hopes of correcting multiple congenital heart problems. His parents put together a [...]

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