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Well, kind of. It’s just barely warm enough for today’s summer-time-y fun.

Note the picnic blanket — placed there to keep little C from sampling the dirt and mashing the ants. Also please note the lack of pants on the older one. She had the hose out. The jeans got soaked. They came off. Also please admire the abundance of yellow flowers. Aren’t they pretty? What are they called, you say? Hmmm, I don’t remember. I think they have a fancy French name, something to do with lion’s teeth.

Heh, we are so not fancy. We might be fancy someday. Not yet.

For now I’m happy to sit on the porch with a little coffee to warm me up and a little soda water to cool me down, and two girlies to light up my heart.

RIP Dixie.

Via Wil Wheaton. Deepest gratitude to Wil, Pee Wee, and Charo.

How did that week/month/year go by so fast? Dang.
Six years today! Of not smoking! I don’t know what the stats are this time, as they live on my computer at work, and I haven’t been there lately and won’t be until mid March. So, we’ll just say: money not spent = a lot, and cigarettes not smoked = really a lot.

01-02-2010, woo hoo!
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

Many thanks to Ellen for the heads-up and the awesome accompanying palindrome!

I’ve discovered the photo booth thingy on the computer this week, thanks to Lisa over at Lemon Gloria. Fun!

Two and a half months!

With almost-three sister:

Here I am pretending that’s a nice kiss on the cheek. Really she was licking me.

Yeah.

And that means we’ve arrived at the due date! Hello due date.

And we are still in limbo, still going to wait a little longer, in hopes of avoiding another c section. If you have any laborious thoughts to spare, direct them this way please!

Some things little M. has been saying lately:

cramera
skuck (stuck)
too gark! (dark!)
ten, nine, eight, seven, six, four, five, three, two, one, emission!
goggie
thank you addy. (daddy)
Uriel for Ariel. (Little Mermaid)
too small a me / too big e me.
(just recently started saying too small instead of too mall. sob!)
marfle (marble — she loves marbles)
dan-dad (grand-dad)
niwo (milo, our cat)
that okay. (want an apple? no. that okay.)

I’ll be three, cember. (december)
[who do you want at your birthday party?]
baby sister. cousins.

[what color hair will the baby have?]
red.
[what color eyes?]
white, black, blue.
[!!!]

my baby moving. (rubbing tummy) [haha!]
baby come out, play toys.
baby come out, talka me.

(we have tried to explain, new baby won’t do those things right away…)

Sigh. She changes every day! Today was her first day of preschool for this year. She LOVED it and did not want to leave. I am glad she’ll have the excitement of preschool to help her with the big transition.