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Two silly girls got to go to the Childrens Museum this morning.

Daphne just woke up after 15 hours of sleep.

Yesterday at the work fun event, there was a guy telling a story (not to me or about me):

Guy: “And he said, ‘Dammit, Johnson, what are you doing here?’”

At the swear word, I looked down to Amelia to see if she had heard it. She had, and was covering her mouth, suppressing a giggle:

AMELIA: “Daddy! He said Johnson!”

Tawbubby might have a new staff photographer. My friend Ben was a photographer at a work fun event yesterday. He took some great pictures of the family.

Click here to see all 8 photos.

I have been trying to figure out what Dapne is saying for a few days.  Tonight it was pretty clear when Amelia left the dinner table and Daphne said, “I poo-dotty too!”  (I poop on the potty too!)  She doesn’t do that at all yet, but she’s thinking about it.  The funny part is that I think she is using the verb “poo” as we would use “do”.

Example: “I poo dolor!” = “I do color!” (I want to color).

“I poo walk” = “I do walk” (I want to take a walk).

I’ve heard “I want …” a couple of times recently, but “I poo…” is much funnier.

I love this photo. The result of some Saturday morning painting.

You do keep an eye on The Annex, don’t you? Lots of photos there that never make it on the blog.

Well, everyone is home now, and Daphne’s long birthday celebration is done.

Daphne got an easel and a bunch of art supplies for her birthday.  This is the chalkboard side.

She loves to have a purse on her arm these days, and I guess an artist hat (that’s magic hat- UW & AM).  The other side of the easel has paper.  There is already marker on the chalkboard, of course.  She loves to do art.  She goes to the girls’ art supply cabinet a couple times a day and asks to color or paint.  She should get good use from her easel.
Daphne also got an inflatable trampoline.  Both girls love it, and I love this picture. Daphne likes to go out of it head first.

No injuries so far…A few times yesterday and today I cleaned out all the fake food, real food, books, etc., that mostly Daphne drops in there. 

Speaking of injuries, I thought I uploaded a picture of Daphne’s First Bandaid, but apparently not. She skinned her knee last night, running down our street…hence her first BooBoo (that deserved a bandaid).  She took it off her  knee pretty quickly.  She is running a lot now.  Ethan carried her home after her second fall tonight.

She also got fingerpaints.  Here are Amelia’s feet all gooey with the paints.

Daphne probably had more fun smearing the paint on herself, and in playing with the hose afterwards.  We’ll have to try the fingerpaints on the easel.
One of my favorite  moments that I walked into this week- Amelia painting Grannie Annie’s toenails (and feet) pink.

Aunt Melissa tried to leave yesterday but got foiled by Greyhound Bus and spent a bonus night with us.  So she got to put Daphne to bed last night.

I will never tire of hearing Daphne talk to the dolls, dogs, and stuffed animals in our house.  She has the neatest intonation when she says “Hi Baby” or “Hi “Gizzy”.  She talked to Amelia’s babydoll for a while tonight and it is so pretty sounding.

I also love her Itsy Bitsy Spider “up comes the sun” pose with her arms encircling her face.  She asks “Pider?  Pider?” and puts her arms around her face to ask me to sing the song to her.  The second best part is her generous “Yeah mama!” and clapping when I am done. 

I think she turned 2 and decided to grow. She is sleeping a lot. Today she slept until 8:30am, ate a huge breakfast, took a >3h nap, and went to bed without a peep by 8pm.  

Our beautiful girl is two, today. Hooray!

Some help blowing out the candle…

She had a great day.

Jackson and his mom Preston came over last weekend for a visit. Here are Jackson and Daphne after a little fun in the sprinkler.

Triple trouble- the three cousins.

A mom of another kid at the pool taught Amelia to slowly blow air out as she goes under water, so she will sink to the bottom. She was working hard on retrieving toys from the bottom of the pool last week.

I like this pic. We visited Gigi and Gifer this weekend and brought bathing suits to play in the sprinkler. Amelia got comfortable sitting in that pink bin for a while.

She really impressed us with this elaborate bristle blocks set up. It is a preschool and has much more structure with matching pieces, etc., than we have seen before. She told us about each component.

Daphne really liked Gigi and Gifer’s door knobs. They’re flat, rather than round knobs, and she could open and close all of them.

At one point, her snake head got stuck outside the bathroom door, with her shut inside. It was funny to watch the snake head move as she pulled on the string from the inside.
We visited an elementary school park- here’s D in an orange tunnel.