Coming soon...

Pillow talk
Merika cuts her hair!
A regular Friday night babysitter...
Logan has a paper route, and his bike is stolen.
We vacuum up some big bumble bees.
John get's baptized, and Merika get's stung by a bumble bee.
Logan gets to tend his siblings.

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The Bikini

I never actually planned for any of my children to dress immodestly and always shopped or sewed accordingly. However, when Shaunika was about 3 years old I was shopping at Pic n Save and there was this cute little yellow seersucker two piece bathing suit, I think it was less than $4.00. It was so cute, that I rationalized that she was so young it wouldn't matter.
I bought it and brought it home. I sent her in the bedroom to try it on.
When she came out, she looked down at her visible tummy, drew a line across her chest area as she said "there is a swimming suit up here", then drawing a line across her pantie area as she said "and there is a swimming suit down here, but", as she pointed to her tummy, "there is no swimming suit here".
I took the swim suit back, if a child of three knows she should be modest then I am not going to corrupt her.

John learned how to say his name.

John has some problems with his speech. When he was almost 3 I asked the pediatrician when to worry. I was starting to worry because he was starting to talk louder if he was not being understood. She said that most kids should be understandable by most adults by the time they are three and at that point she would refer him to speech therapy. He couldn't say his consonants. So instead of mommy it would sound like ummy. Most of the time I could understand what he was talking about because I had been with him all day and knew the context of his comments. Dad had a hard time, and often I did also. But Jeff always knew what he was talking about so I would often ask Jeff what John was saying. He had speech 2 x a week for a number of years. The speech therapist was impressed that he had such good language skills,but he had apraxia, and there was just a disconnect between his brain and his tongue.
He was in about 3rd grade when he could finally say that his name was "John" instead of "On", so since he could make the Ju sound we went to Target and bought him a GI JOE!

Jeff is "Boot Boy"

While we were living in Redondo Beach the McConkie cousins lifed in Manhattan Beach and we had many time when those cousins or some of them were at our house or when our kids were over at their Aunt Shauna's house. Jeff and Alison McConkie are pretty close in age. When Jeff was about 5 years old he used to do a funny thing whenever he was over to McConkie's The way Shauna tells it is that every time (for months)Jeff was dropped off there to play he would go into Alison's room and dig to the bottom of her closet to find her old white boots. He then put them on and wore them the entire time he was there. This went on for months, till Shauna finally just gave them to him, and she told me about it. Apparently, when he had on those boots he was "Boot Boy", I guess they gave him superpowers. He continued to wear them very often, he felt strong when he was wearing them and often took the muscle stance.