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Will post some updates and pictures soon!!

10 things I love about Quinn right now.

1. Her hair is really coming in and it is blond.
2. She is jumping with both feet off the ground.
3. Complete Daddy's girl. Daddy must do everything.
4. Running. She runs like all little ones in a hurry to get from one place to the next. However when we are outside she gets her little arms swinging as hard as she can and her little legs going and it looks like she might twist herself in half. I must get a video of this.
5. Faces. She makes the best faces. Whe she smiles it takes up her whole face! When she cries, her mouth contorts in the most tragic way possible... quite dramatic and the saddest face you will ever see. It is trouble.
6. Kisses like a dog. When you give her a kiss she will lick your face.
7. Pouts. Crosses her tiny arms which barely cross her belly. Sticks her lips out and makes a pouty noise 'huh.'
8. Today just a few days shy of 21 months she drank her milk from a sippy not a bottle.
9. Loves her sister. INSISTS on doing everything Maya does. When I bring Maya home after preschool, Quinn stamps her feet and does this excited dance to see her sister.
10. She shrugs her shoulders, her tiny adorable shoulders up and down. Love it all.

Maya Mayhem

Last week I got a humidifier for Quinn's room. When I was setting it up, Maya was very interested and wanted one in her room. I told her I would have to get a new filter for the other one that we have and I would put it in her room. Later she was telling Thiele that she really wanted a 'human-on-fire' for her room. Thiele was rather alarmed and had to get me to clarify. So as the week has gone on Maya has asked about the 'huminfire.' So finally today I was putting the filter in her humidifier and she was trying to say the word. Then she got it right, humidifier. I said, 'Yay Maya that is a hard word' she said 'Yeah if would be easier if we called it Pat!' This kid cracks us up all the time.



On her school field trip last week her teacher told me: "Last week Maya told us that when her daddy goes to work in his office he likes to call it his 'man cave' we thought that was so funny!"

Maya Mayhem

Maya: Mommy that's a pyramid. (looking at an odd shaped building)
Me: Yes, sweetie that is the shape of a pyramid.
Maya: They have pyramids in South America?
Me: Umm, yeah I think so. (Great she is already smarter than me.)
How do you know about South America?
Maya: Dora.
Me: We need to get a map at home so we can look at different places like South America.
Maya: We can use Google Maps!!!!

Maya Mayhem

Today Maya has a friend over playing for a few hours. They are at the kitchen table coloring Halloween pictures with markers. This is the conversation I just heard:
Addy: Sometimes we have soft markers.
Maya: I don't like soft markers, I like the hard markers. That is what we buy because I am a drawing expert.

Just for the record I have no idea what soft markers are.

Quinn pictures from today.

Summer fun, went to fast.

Wow! We have had a great summer. I can't believe it is October and I am posting about our summer. This summer we picked strawberries at a you-pick organic farm. Now I know why they are so expensive in the store, picking is hard work. The girls and I took a short trip to Southeast Kansas. We spent one night with my aunt, where Maya got to see fireflies for the first time. At home we are usually getting ready for bed before they come out. The other 2 nights we spent in Chanute visiting family and friends. We had a fun afternoon at Maria's house playing :) We spent the rest of the summer swimming, visiting the zoo, going to Worlds of Fun, and DeAnna Rose Farmstead. We finished the summer with a trip to the Lake of the Ozarks. We loaded up with my cousin and her 3 kids and headed for the lake. Five kids and two ladies we were a spectacle at McDonalds on the way for dinner. All things considered we did great on the drive. The kids had fun, Maya and Quinn enjoyed their first boat rides. Maya also got to ride the waverunner with Daddy. My next post will include some pictures and cover Maya's 4th Birthday party!