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(With my face cupped in her hands, Lorelei says…)
Lorelei:  “You pretty.  This eyebrow pretty.  This eyebrow pretty.  This (eye) pretty.  This pretty eye, too.  Here (nose) pretty.  Lips pretty.  Hair pretty.  You just sooo pretty, mommy.”
Me:  “Thank you, sweetie.  You are beautiful.”
Lorelei:  “Thank you.  I love you mommy!  (Then, a big bear hug)”

Lorelei:  (shouting to me from outside the shower/tub)  “Mama!  A BUG! Look!”
Me:  (pulls the shower curtain aside.  I see a little “thing” but couldn’t tell if it was a fuzzy or a bug)  “Honey, just leave it alone.  I can’t see what it is.  I’ll look when I get out of the shower.”
Lorelei:  “Get out [...]

Last night, as Lorelei was finishing up supper, I told her there was a surprise waiting for her outside….
L:  Prize outside?  For ME?  *excitement growing* From mommy?!
A:  Well, there’s a surprise outside, but it’s not really from me.  It’s from God, I just want to show you.
L:  Prize! Prize! *dancing around the room*
A: (as I [...]

Sometimes, I wonder if perhaps Joseph’s coat of many colors had anything to do with a toddler’s imagination and colored markers - or, dye in their case. I wonder if it was truly a gift or more of a “well, kid - I’m certainly not wearing that jacket, and you made it so here.”
Wonder [...]

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A couple of weekends ago, we visited some friends out of town.  While we were there, we were able to experience two different groups of married couples.  Each group was…well, it’s hard to explain, it was unlike anything Steven and I had really encountered before.  It was a group of people from different churches, all [...]

It must be a funny (pitiful) sight to see me “running.”  Really, it’s almost amusing at how quickly I become out of breath as I try for the first time in my life to really start running.  I was told running would be hard, that it’d take months - if not years - for it [...]

Lorelei,
You are 2 years and 9 months old.  You’ve mastered the fine art of dressing yourself (except for shirts, they’re pretty confusing).  You adore watching shows and have somehow developed a little smarty pants attitude.  And then, there’s the whining.  Somehow, you instinctively know that if you repeat the same word in the same whiny [...]

Here are a few things on our Amazon wish list for Preschool Learning.  The books change often as it’s my goal to introduce 1-2 new carefully chosen books per week (we’re trying a new program that I’ll talk about later in regards to homeschooling)… (be sure to click the pictures)

$40.84 - It’s the Hooked On [...]

Lorelei has become more and more interested with the potty - from shouting that she needs to go in the middle of Walmart to wanting to chill out on hers for periods of time.  She wants to.  Really wants to.  The only thing missing?  Being able to summon the great yellow and …yeh.
For some reason, [...]