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This one keeps me entertained and frustrated all day. It's a pretty even rotation between the two emotions.

Entertaining:
When she goes around the house calling "Pippy pops (flip-flops), where are you?" in her sing-sing voice.
Watching her unload the silverware into the drawer every time the dishwasher gets unloaded.
Hearing her excitement when she finds "lips" aka chapstick, or "stickies" aka stickers.
When she tells me something or someone is funny and then chuckles to herself.
Watching her bounce on her horse, yelling "Hee Haw!"
When you ask her her name and she says, "Sopie!"
Asking almost every night to call her "Daddy-o" on the phone.
Making her show me all her 'owies' as proof that she really needs a band-aid.
She knows just about every animal and their noises. We struggle to come up with new ones to teach her.

My list could be really long, but I think I'll stop there.

Not so entertaining:
The constant, ear piercing screaming.
When she says, "Huh?" after everything I say to her.
Her inability to understand sharing. How much longer until that concept clicks?!
The fact that she's starting to bite. Ugh!
Her overly opinionated opinions.




This one amazes me with his mostly laid-back personality.
He's starting to come out of his 'constantly wanting held' phase and is wanting to be more involved with what his brother and sister are doing.
He loves to wrestle around with both of them.
He falls asleep anywhere, and even though his naps are super short, he usually sleeps from 7:30pm to 7:30 or 8 am.
He is insanely content being outside.
Now if I could just manage to keep his shirts clean and dry...He's horribly drooly and gets incredibly dirty just munching on crackers.



This one keeps me on my toes. Whether it's questions about our plans for the day, or how the weather is made, or who I'm talking to and what we're talking about. His memory and thought process is amazing and tiresome all at the same time.
Right now he's big into-
Speed Racer.
His new neighborhood friend "Driver" who's real name is Ezra.
Asking questions like, "How do we make metal? How is the weather made? Do we have ____ in our world? Are tornadoes good or bad? Why do we have tornadoes? How do people get in movies?" Most of these are followed by me saying, "I don't know, ask dad when he gets home."
Using the word 'guilty' for the way he feels after getting grossed out by stuff.
His Kidz Bop CD from McDonald's.
The song "Earth Angel". It plays at least 5 or 6 times a day.
Planning out his costume for next halloween, and his birthday party next April.



That leaves the two of us. Heaven help me if I ever really need glasses. That nose is all natural. How sad is it that this is the only picture taken of us in the last 3 months. The only other ones of me are with my kids, and I have none of Jason with the kids. I'm going to have to do way better than that! I've been dabbling a little bit with couponing (thanks to Danette), I think it's addictive but time consuming. This weekend I managed to get two things of mascara for $1.60! Jason is as crazy busy as ever with his two jobs and homework. We've both been loving the warm weather and are excited to keep working on fixing up the back yard. The kids love to be outside so we decided to go ahead and spend a little of our own money to create a nicer yard for all of us to enjoy. Now if the landlord will just come through with the fence he keeps promising.
I'm extremely grateful for all the hard work Jason does so that I can stay home with the hellions, and all the help he gives with the house and the kids. Just don't tell him I said that.