Right Behind Me

For almost a year now, I have had the happiest passenger of all.
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She kicks those little feet like the dickens whenever she hears music.
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And when she hears my voice in her direction, I get those unnamed green/brown eyes staring right back at me.
I am so excited to have her facing the front!
Then we can really have a dance party.

11 Months

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11 Months (plus a week)!
She is crawling everywhere.
She has the deepest dimples on both sides.
She loves accessories like her bracelet.
She huffs for everything she wants.
She would live in the bath.
She loves to sing “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and do the motions.
She has two teeth — both bottoms.
I love to see her wearing anything that Navy wore.
Her hair is to die for.
She tries to take her bow off every second.  But I tell her “no, no” and she puts it back up.
She is really happy.
She dances all of the time to any music she hears.
She screams for any food she sees.
She downs her bottles in about 20 seconds — literally.
She loves Nonnie.
She waves her hand for “hello” and “bye bye”.
She blows kisses.
She loves her sister and brothers.
She can kind of say a few things, but I wouldn’t say that any of them are great.
She is my little shadow.
She claps a lot.
And most recently……
She crawls up and down our stairs all day every day, and cruises to wherever she wants to go.
I love, love, love this little girl!
She is the perfect caboose.

Dead Spider

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Tough girl came to show me that she killed a spider with her bare hands.
Is there any other way to do it?

Hand Me Downs

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I love to see stuff that was used by my first two, reused by my second two.
The blue and pink double stroller is the perfect example of this.
And how lucky am I that I had babies in the blue - pink, blue - pink order.

Dear Micah…

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I didn’t think this was unreasonable.

Caterpillar Mania

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Nothing gets me more excited than when my kids are outside exploring.
And this day produced some great loot.
About 30 caterpillars.
Awesome!

The Many Faces of Dash

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I took a few shots of Dash while eating Nonnie’s treat for him.
This kid is SO classic!
He always has a cute new face for me in his photos.

Frick and Frack

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After the big kids leave to school, Frick and Frack spend some good quality time together.
This day it was race cars.
It starts out with Frick playing, and then the Frack comes to destroy whatever he is doing.
She steals the puzzle pieces, or gets in the way of his race car’s path, or knocks down his blocks.
But the cutest thing of all, is that Frick is almost always patient with Frack.

Micah Drives

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We have to multitask each morning before school.
Here Navy is nursing an injury, while eating breakfast.
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Because Daddy means business when it comes to leaving on time!

Dash’s Fat Lip

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Dash is quickly following in Scout’s footsteps.
I think Scout had two black eyes, and several fat lips by the age of three.
Dash is about three months away, but can check one fat lip off the list.
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Poor little guy.