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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.

Our beautiful girl is two, today. Hooray!

Some help blowing out the candle…

She had a great day.

This one is for Jack Ragsdale! I went out for a run on Saturday morning and came home to this beauty.

She was a beautiful mess.  Turns out watercolors stick to our tub.  I need to scrub with something or get some bleach.  And wash the shower curtain.  She loved it and made a beautiful painting!  And ingested a bit of paint.

My water baby…

Maybe tossing her around is why my back didn’t want to lift her in and out of her high chair this morning?

Amelia taking a rest.

I think I messed up Amelia’s enjoyment of the lake when I mentioned fish poo.  She wouldn’t put her feet down on the bottom to walk around because of fish poo.  Even though I told her it isn’t there.  She did enjoy swimming with a life jacket, and bonus! it kept her feet off of the fish poo lake bottom.

Ethan played Uncle Sam at the girls’ school today. It was very funny and very fun. He hammed it up.

He changed and I went to get the girls “to meet Uncle Sam!”. Both girls held back a little bit to figure things out. After a few seconds, Amelia asked “Are you Daddy?”.
He helped all the kids say the Pledge of Allegiance, walked around shaking hands while they danced to Rockin’ in the USA, read two books (including getting the kids to yell “Happy Birthday America 3 times), and did a couple more songs.

During the party, Amelia looked at him and laughed every once in a while, and Daphne kept coming up from her seat exclaiming “Daddy!”. (Or calling out “Hi Yaya!” across the room.) It was really neat, and he was very glad to be asked to do it.  Amelia apparently talked about him being Uncle Sam for the rest of the day.

Amelia learned the Pledge this week as part of the party preparations. She burst into the house yesterday “Mama! I have something to tell you!”, and this is what she told me- Click here: Amelia reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
Here is a bonus awesome picture of our 3 going on 16 year old talking to her daddy on the way home.  I had the camera in the car, and yes this is at a stoplight.

The other very cool thing today is that we all got to watch our Bluebird chicks leave their nesting box for the first time.  We were leaving for work, and decided to peek at them because Ethan thought they were getting big and about to leave.  Well, us peeking led to one flying out to a tree branch.  He closed the box, and the other three in sequence peeked out the hole, and took off.   The mom and dad Bluebirds checked on each one as they landed in a tree (four different directions!).  It was really neat to watch.

We were all talking about it as it was happening, and Daphne said “Boo bud fie!” as the third and fourth left the box.

Here’s D swimming (?) with some help from Ethan.  We help her find toys on the bottom or push her towards the wall so she can pull up out of the water.  She likes finding the toys, doesn’t like the wall so much.

Been too cool for the pool this week, but apparently we are all too tired for it anyway. Some virus? Ethan went to bed at 6:30 tonight, beating my Tuesday bedtime by an hour and a half. Amelia asked to rest and lay down all evening, not even lured by the bikes and bubble mower. She helped me put Daphne to bed, reading, kissing, the works. Then Daphne kissed Elmo and said “I wuv you, belmo”.  We heard a big pucker on our way out the door.  Amelia picked one of her short books, and went right to sleep.
She did notice than an equal sign would be “11″ if you turned it on the side. (Little Quack adds up the ducks on every page)

Night night tawbubbies everywhere.

Daph’s new bathing suit is super cute:

We were at the lake for Grandpa’s birthday. We had beautiful weather and got to enjoy the water. Amelia was brave enough to jump into Ethan’s arms a few times. Bebe has a picture of Amelia driving Grandpa’s boat…will share when we can get it.

Daphne has also joined us in the booster seat at the big table.

She really enjoys it, and walks to the booster seat instead of the highchair, which sits empty in the dining room. We took the booster seat to the cabin, and haven’t looked back since. Despite a few messes.

Daphne’s favorite “word” right now is “I love ooo”.  She tells all of us many times how she feels. 

This kid just makes us laugh. She really doesn’t like cold stuff, but she keeps coming back for more because it’s sweet.

Click here to see a funny video: Daphne eating a popsicle

She also had her first watermelon slice this weekend.

She didn’t like it at first. After spitting out the first couple bites, she’d take a bite, walk around, come back for another, for probably ten bites. Amelia polished off almost 4 slices.

She is talking a lot and imitating everything. She says “I wuv oo dada”, “dada mama yaya” (over and over, usually in the car), “lellow” (for yellow), and can say counting sounds after we say 1. One “doooo” “eee” “awww”. Often when she sees a car she yells “CAR!” because that is what we do when we’re playing on the street so all the kids know to run to the grass. Her ‘all done’ has transitioned from a quick & snappy “ah duh” to a slow drawl “awllllll dunnnnnn” with extra dramatic and drawn out sign language to go with it.

She wiped out this morning on the bottom step. We didn’t see it, but she wouldn’t put any weight on her left leg for the morning. Took her to the ER. Xrays negative. Went by the Flynns for some dinner on the way back and she took off walking again. At least I am a good mom, and really, I want her to walk. It’s not like I didn’t want her to, I just wish she did right before we spent 2 hours at the ER. At least she is very pleasant company and kind of used to people messing with her.