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Eating a Banana

Eating a Banana

Tongues

Tongues

Golf Cart Golf Ball

Driving the Golf Cart

Sliding with Marge

Ess is taking good care of her favorite friend monkey.

New Bug Erasers

Ready to Explore!

Ready to Explore!

Purple Shirt, Purple Shoes

Purple Shirt, Purple Shoes

Ess loves this shirt so much that we’ve had to explain washing to her because it isn’t clean every single day. It still hasn’t gotten a hole in it, but we’re concerned about the day it does.

A New Trail

A New Trail

Talking

Talking

Mykala, Esmé, Marge

Mykala, Esmé, Marge

Raincoat

Raincoat

Mother’s Day

Next year, I bet Ess will say it without any prompting.

Heading Out

Heading Out

Now that is one impressive accidental color-coordination. Highly visible, very safe: I approve!

Explore

Explore

I haven’t been yet, but I hear Ess goes for explores with Mykala in the pocket of trees on the trail near our house. She insists on picking up all of the leaves and branches off of the path.

In this picture, she’s wearing her turtle backpack, which she packed with a crew of animals, figures, stuffed vegetables, and other supplies she felt necessary.

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Rock Painting

Mykala and Ess are a great painting team. I love this exchange:
“Here you go rock, there you go rock, gonna paint you rock. Rock live on paint. Paint live on rock. The rock cannot see you.”
“No? Why?”
“‘Cause the rock is hiding in the paint!”

Toonie’s House

This is Toonie’s house. Essie’s gesticulations and speech have changed so dramatically in the past six months—I love when she corrects me when I’m not being precise enough or, in this case, when one of us may be imagining something differently than she.

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Bug House and Grass

Bug House and Grass

Easter Dress 2017

Easter Dress 2017

Dada Mio

These little people are called “MiO” and they’re wonderful. They come in a pretty neat house, too. From Manhattan Toy Company.

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