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Apple Backdrop

Apple Backdrop

Portrait Prep

Portrait Prep

Action Shot

Action Shot

Tickle

Tickle

I love you, Ess.

Portrait

Portrait

Pronouncing Banana

Saving Essie’s pronunciation of banana for posterity.

Ess and Duck Baby

Ess and Duck Baby

Ess and Nan

Celebrating Nannie’s birthday.

Orange Hair

Whoops!

Light Reading II

When we realized it had been a year and a day since we took a video of Ess on September 14, 2015, we decided to recreate the video. Same location, same stroller, Minnesota Parent baby issue (2016). What a year!

Visiting the Rocks

Visiting the Rocks

Together

Together

Portrait

Portrait

Putting on Shoes

Bugga

Bugga

During a family trip to Smiling Pelican Bakeshop in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin.

Bunny Mirror

Bunny Mirror

Ess loves it when we goof around with this mirror/bunny that sits in the back seat.

Make Way for Ducklings

Make Way for Ducklings

Ice Cream

At the Library

At the Library

Wheels on the Bus

Sunday evening found us driving home from Forest Lake, a bit after Essie’s bedtime. She still tells me “bach seat, Dada” if she wants some company on these longer drives, but this time she seemed just fine with Mykala and me in the front, and her in the twilight in the backseat. Now, Ess talks a lot lately, most of it narrating or monologuing about what she is doing and what she is imagining as she plays. A lot of diapers changed (“put onna keem”), a lot of tucking in and napping. More recently, she plays mama and baby (pig/giraffe/monkey/spoons/pair of shoes), and one of them says “I love you” and gives a kiss. But during the drive, she wasn’t playing with anything in particular, so instead, we hear this:

Continued

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