<p style="text-align: left;">9/1/12mouthguard snoring "mama, youre snoring is annoying me 8/11/12<br />
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peeing in the tailpipe  7/30/12<br />
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sprayed water right onto his face using the hand-held shower thing!! 8/16/12<br />
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"Let's not get interested in anything else" (at Kohls) 8/18/12<br />
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8/25/12: at cvs, looking at a toy "mommy, I can't take my eyes off of this toy!"<br />
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8/26/12: "mommy, I just can't get my nose off that sausage smell!  It<br />
smells soooo delicious!"  I replied, "yeah, just smelling it is really<br />
making me hungry"  ty said "my belly can't wait to eat it!"<br />
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9/1/12  "awww, mom... every time you make a crazy turn, my game goes<br />
with it!!"  (Ty was trying to play a game on the ipod touch while I<br />
was driving...)<br />
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july 2012: we were getting ready to leave from daycare, and Matthew<br />
and Evan ran over to give Tyler a "group hug".  then some of the<br />
little girls joined in.  after a minute of this, tyler was going "no<br />
more hugging!  no more hugging!"  later, in the car, he said to me<br />
"mama, they think I am a big old hugging board!".   on another<br />
occasion, we were heading up for "happy nappy" and kevin said "hey,<br />
where's my hug?".  ty replied "I'm not a hugging machine!"   poor<br />
little guy, you'd think he was being killed with love.... :)<br />
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9/8/12: tyler called for me first thing this morning.  but I couldn't<br />
grumble because when I went in to his room, he said "mommy, do you<br />
know why I call for you when I wake up?"  I said, "why?" and he told<br />
me "because I love you soooo much!".  it was so sweet, it totally made<br />
up for the early morning wake-up. :)<br />
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9/10/12: last night when I was going out to kevin's truck to get<br />
shiner, ty ran after me, holding his little plastic hammer, and said<br />
"mama, I'll go along and if any bad guys try to hurt you I'll hit them<br />
in the head with my hammer!"  my little knight in shining armor!<br />
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10/21/12 - 10/23/12 babysitting porthos<br />
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summer 2012 - anxiety and anger managements issues; also - the summer of strep<br />
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10/21/12-10/23/12 - babysitting porthos<br />
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10/23/12 - took tigger to the vet<br />
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stripping the mannequin at kohls (date ??)<br />
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ugly darth maul mask ("dark mulch") (date ??)<br />
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Dooba diver<br />
Henrietta "helping" ty fix his train track<br />
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Mommy I'm going to Donalds, u wanna come along? 7/28/10<br />
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I'm busy driving this car. Where? To the liberry! 8/3/10<br />
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That man lost hus shirt! Its in that tree.  How will he get it out of<br />
the tree? Ummm... a helicopter! 8/3/10<br />
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That penguin is happy!<br />
The Popsicle's all gone<br />
You ate it all?<br />
Yeah its in my belly<br />
How does it feel in your belly?<br />
It feels deliscious!<br />
It's very sweet<br />
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10/24/11 did up all the buttons on his pjs, all by himself!<br />
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12/2/11 "I need to get naked for this job!" (before pooping)<br />
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~September 2011 - obsession with Angry Birds starts<br />
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1/12/12 Mommy,let's play a game!<br />
Sure, what game?<br />
It's called "ice hockey what's", 'cause you don't know what's going to happen!<br />
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12/6/11 "It is a joy to have Tyler in our class.  He always pays<br />
attention and gives his best.  He loves to sing songs and play games<br />
with his classmates while he is getting more familiar learning<br />
Spanish.  His confidence is growing every week and I am expecting a<br />
lot from him.  I am delighted to have him in class."  Elisa Sastre<br />
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12/31/11  watching fireworks past Linda's; ty: "It's a special<br />
night!", me: "yes, it is, it's new years eve"  ty: "I hope Linda<br />
enjoys it!" (about the fireworks)<br />
12/31/11: about the basement stairs: "daddy, these stairs aren't safe.<br />
 you should make them safe.  that can be you're winter project."<br />
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"alot much better"  6/12/2012 ---------------------------------------<br />
All last week I was crazy sick with strep throat.  I am not sure if it<br />
came from Tyler (he had it two weeks before I got it - wouldn't I have<br />
gotten it sooner if it was from him?), or from our time in the petri<br />
dish called "One Stop Fun" (we were there the day before I started to<br />
feel sick).  Either way, I was really sick.  The first day, Ty didn't<br />
quite get it, and I had to keep telling him "I'm sorry, sweetie,<br />
mommy's too sick to play right now".  But after that he seemed to<br />
understand and really tried to help me feel better.<br />
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One day he grabbed my leg as I was walking into the kitchen, gave it a<br />
big squeeze, and asked "mommy, did that hug make you feel better?  a<br />
lot much better?".  A few days later, I was starting to feel a little<br />
bit better.  Ty was eating crackers and kept trying to give me one.  I<br />
kept telling him no thank you and finally he said, in a pleading<br />
voice, "please eat one mommy, it will make you feel a lot much<br />
better!".  How could I say no to that?<br />
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"one stop germs"  6/8/2012------------------------------------------------------<br />
Ty and I went to One Stop Fun last Sunday.  They have quite a setup<br />
there.  The play tunnels and tubes cover an enormous area (I described<br />
it to mom as "McDonald's Play Place on steroids").  There were two<br />
ball pits, one for the "toddlers" (4 and under) and one for the older<br />
kids.  Tyler LOVED the ball pit.  They also had a separate room with<br />
big glass windows that you could look into from the main play area.<br />
In the other room was a bouncy house, a bouncy caterpillar thing, a<br />
zip line and a bunch of other stuff.  Ty stood there with his face<br />
plastered against the glass, asking "mommy, can we play in there??"  I<br />
told him it was just for birthday parties.  Of course, the next words<br />
out of his mouth were "can I have my birthday party here?".  He's been<br />
planning his own birthday party for several weeks now.  That's ok with<br />
me - hey, it saves me from having to figure out what to do! :)<br />
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The day we were there was a rainy day, and apparently there were a<br />
couple of birthday parties going on at the same time.  There must have<br />
been a hundred or more kids there.  It's a testament to how big the<br />
place is that even with that many kids there, it didn't really feel<br />
super crowded.  The problem with One Stop Fun, from a jaded grown-ups<br />
perspective, is that I kept thinking "wow, this place is nothing but a<br />
giant petri dish.  I'll be astonished if I don't get sick from this".<br />
Even though I never said it out loud, the jinx still took hold,<br />
because the next day is when I woke up with a sore throat (the<br />
beginnings of my strep throat).<br />
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Even so, I am glad we went, because Tyler had a BLAST!  And I had a<br />
blast watching him.  I was pleasantly surprised at how well he did in<br />
all that chaos.  He wasn't super clingy to me, and was even bold<br />
enough to climb three levels high in the climbing structure.  Even<br />
more surprisingly, twice they turned the lights down for 20 minutes so<br />
the birthday parties could play flashlight tag.  I expected Ty to be<br />
nervous and not want to play during that time, but not only was he not<br />
nervous, he kept asking if he could play flashlight tag too!  He did<br />
finally get a flashlight, and was able to run around playing for<br />
awhile.  All in all, it was a very nice way to spend a rainy Saturday<br />
afternoon.--------------------------------------<br />
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"little chef" 10/13/2011--------------------------<br />
Ty has been having a great time witg his new kitchen set. yesterday I<br />
watched him cooking. he "cut up" some vegetables, and I heard him<br />
saying "more peppers! more peppers! brocolli stew!" he put tge food in<br />
the microwave, pushed the buttons, waited a few secbnds then said "all<br />
done". he took the food out, out it into dishes told Kevin, "daddy,<br />
dinner done". It was really cute, although I'm not sure what it says<br />
about my cookinbg that he cooked his "dinner" in the microwave and not<br />
on the stove... :) 1/27/10-------------------------<br />
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5/28 took Tyler to his first parade!  it started at the American<br />
Legion just up the road from our house.  we sat on the sidewalk by the<br />
lake.  he loved it when the girl scouts gave out little paper flowers<br />
to the people watching, and loved it even better when the boy scouts<br />
tossed handfuls of candy at the watching kids!  plus, his friend<br />
Jordan was leading the pack of Campfire Girls, she was carrying the<br />
flag.  Ty was so excited, he said "hey, there's Jordan!  is that my<br />
Jordan?" :)<br />
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6/25 mom came over for the weekend; tyler, kevin and frank went fishing<br />
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6/29 after asking me every day for a week, Tyler and I finally went to<br />
Great Brook Farm so he could feed the cows; the cows were "eating<br />
dinner" at the trough, so we couldn't get any to come over to the<br />
fence, but the goats, sheep and some ducks were more than happy to eat<br />
the food pellets we had.  Ty had a great time feeding the animals, and<br />
was totally fascinated by the bees in the glass hive in the barn<br />
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6/30  on the way home ty saw a car with two kayaks strapped to the<br />
top, and he said "hey mommy, that car has two kayaks on top of it!".<br />
I was surprised, a) because he was right and there were two of them<br />
(he seems to be getting better at counting things), and b) he<br />
correctly identified the boat as a kayak.  reminds me of the time a<br />
few weeks ago when he found a whistle, blew on it and then said, "I<br />
can blow my whistle, just like a cheerleader"  when did he learn about<br />
cheerleaders??<br />
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july, 2011: is that a bad plan or a good plan?<br />
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"Stay your mouth open"<br />
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"daddy, I'm gonna win you!"<br />
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8/2/11 kevin and tyler walking home from the Willow's, and all the<br />
questions about the "meseterry" (cemetary)</p>