Quotable Moments

Chayce, Zachary, Payge and I decided to go out and discover what the snow had been covering for months and months and months. I wish I had the camera when we found a lady bug in a small hole in the sidewalk, perfectly preserved, shell shiny and all. We were observing her un-moving state when Chayce pipes up, "Oh, the poor little lady bug. She's sooo dead!"

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Chayce and Zach were sitting side-by-side at the dinner table, using our colored IKEA cups. They both had the lime green ones, and Chayce says, "It's a good thing we sat together, since our cups match."
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This morning, Chayce had her shoes on the wrong feet. I asked her to switch them around. So she crossed her legs at the ankles. Not quite what I had in mind.

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I told Payge she was growing up to be a lot like Chayce, following in the footsteps of the female just older than her in our family. Zachary said, "With that kind of reasoning, Chayce is growing up to be a grumpy mommy."

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Payge is trying out her voice much more now. The other evening, during bath time, Stephen called to her to get her attention: "Oh, Paa-aayge."
She replied, in the same sing-song pitch and tone, "Daa-aad?"

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During a church meeting, I put my hand to Payge's mouth to quiet her. Instead, it resulted in her figuring out how to do the "baby rap" and when I pulled my hand away, she used her own to finish the song. So much for quiet.

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The distance from the library to our house is 1.6 miles, each way. We were really proud of Zachary for walking the whole way, when we took his spot away from him in the double stroller for Payge to use. We were bragging about how great it was that he could walk so far, when, after we got out of the libary, Chayce decided to pretend that Mommy & the stroller (now holding Zach and Payge) was a big monster, and precedded to RUN the entire distance (from me). Stephen was with us, and kept up with her, but she ran pretty quick. We joked that she might be my running partner very soon!
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