7/1/2013

Van touches Andy's chin.

Van: "What are these?"
Andy: "They're whiskers."
Van: (pause) "These are weird."

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"They're like puzzle shoes."

 - Van, about mom's dog slippers

6/30/2013

Van is playing with his cars

Car 1 & 2: "CRASH!!!!!"
Car 1: "I ran into you! Sorry-you!"
Car 2: "Thank you for saying sorry-you!"

(note: sorry-you is Van's particular way of saying 'I'm sorry'. It's one word, sounds like, 'Sorryou')

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Van wanted to wear one of each shoe, a monkey shoe, and an orange shoe

Me: "Let's show this to grandma"
Van: "Yeah, she's going to see it and she's going to laugh. 'Ha ha ha' like that."

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"Mom, I have an idea, you could leave me at grandma and grandpa's house!"
 - Van, every time we visit grandma and grandpa's house

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Sunday morning.
Van: "I'm going to check if they're here"
Me: "who?"
Andy: "Yeah who are you looking for?"
Van: "You guys forgot? Grandma Sandy and Poppy Joe!"

(They will be here on Wednesday!)

Mama portraits

Van took these, his photography skills are definately improving.

6/29/2013

Married 5 years today!

I love my wonderful husband, being married to him just gets better as time passes.  

love.

Napping at the office

Mom calls this Esther's office

Apparently she worked so hard today she fell asleep.

Sleeping top

Sleeping bottom

Sleeping baby

Making trouble

As Van gets older he finds new and creative ways to make trouble. He is actually a pretty good boy, but you have to be very specific about what you don't want him to do. And sometimes there are things you forget to mention.
Here are a few recent ones.

 - Got a bag of millet out of the pantry. Got the scissors, cut it open (even though it was a plastic bag with a twisty tie). And added it to a jar of cous-cous (he thought they were the same and needed to be combined).
 - Added all the wheat flour into the white flour.
 - Stuffed toilet paper and toothpaste down the sink drain. Filled the sink. Washed his feet.
 - Snuck out his (groundfloor) bedroom window after bedtime. Not sure when he did it. But I found him an hour after we had put him to bed, riding his bike in the driveway.

New book!

Aunty Linda sent Van an awesome new dinosaur book. He was so excited to open the package!

When we saw the cover I said, "Van what does it say?"

"Dinosaurs!" he said. 

He can't actually read, he just knows from the picture; but still, that's the first step towards reading. :)

Here we are reading the new book, it's blurry because we're laughing.

Thanks Aunty Linda!