Wednesday, July 11, 2012

June 2012.

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We blew up this pool on a hot Saturday in June.  It was smaller than we thought it would be.  Elna wasn’t sure what to think (though she eventually relaxed enough to poop in it…which you can see if you look closely at the last picture.  Sorry.)

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Elna is “talking” to her friend Sara who you can kind of see on the other side of the fence.

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Elna held this postcard from GC (Grandpa Clark) for a good part of the day.  The middle picture shows her barking like a dog and the last picture shows her trying to kiss it.  Funny girl.  She’s seriously obsessed with dogs.  When we walk/run in the mornings she is constantly on the lookout for dogs and birds.

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We do pushups most nights.  Elna likes to do them too.

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This is why every kid deserves a dad.  Dad’s are just better at building things.  Elna is in such a fun stage of learning—I love watching her figure out how to put the pieces together, how to stack, and how to do puzzles.  She soaks up new things so quickly!

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I love the joy in her face in that picture on the right!

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I have been trying to capture Elna in this moment for a while now.  Whenever she hears a dog or a bird, she holds her one pointer finger up in the air (like the picture on the left above) and with her mouth in a O shape and her eyebrows raised she says “ooh ooh ooh” and then either barks like a dog or chirps like a bird.  There is almost nothing cuter!

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She is a lucky girl to have this guy as her dad!