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Five Things About My Preschooler I Dearly Miss

Now that Lily is four, she is insufferable. She is always correcting me; for example, when I tell someone that Emmy is 17 months old, Lily pipes in: “No, she’s just ONE!” Or when I want an English muffin for breakfast, she’ll command me NOT to eat an English muffin. Once I finished my orange juice before she did. The nerve! I mean, I just wasn’t thinking, was I?

I miss certain things about my little (I mean, BIG) girl. Here are some things she used to do:

  1. When someone would ask Lily what her name was, she would say, “I’m Cucumber, and (pointing to me) this is my assistant Pickles.” Her favorite book at the time was Richard Scarry’s Best Mysteries EVER! Cucumber was a dog/reporter/sleuth, and Pickles was, you know, her assistant.
  2. When Lily was newly potty trained, she would insist we say “Goodbye, I’ll see you later, my friend!” everytime she flushed. We all had to say it, EVERY time. I confess, I don’t miss this, but I’ve caught Ed looking sadly at the toilet, saying, “Goodbye, my friend,” while he helps Lily wash her hands.
  3. The crawling stage; I miss this about both my girls. Their cute, wiggling diapered baby bottoms cruising around the house; this stage is too short!
  4. Her love for her stuffed Tigger. They were inseparable; they would sleep together, eat together, play together; now he lies in the toy box, abandoned. I would adopt him myself, but he needs a good bath. Here he is when he’s still fluffy and cute:

  5. I miss those chubby, wubby baby CHEEKS! I could just EAT THEM UP!

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Animal Sightings

This may not be the best list, but I’ve posted a list for the last seven Mondays and I don’t want to break a good habit. I really missed blogging while I was in Iowa, and the more I blog, the better I become. (Allow me this delusion!) Naturally, I’m creating this list illegally, on Sunday evening, because blogging on a Monday morning with two cranky children is nearly impossible. I spent many hours on the road with said cranky children today, and I just want to get in my flannel pajamas and crawl into bed with a good book.

Ed and I love to vacation in state and national parks; to hike, camp, eat outdoors, and possibly have some wildlife sightings. During our six hour drive from Chicago to Des Moines and back again, we spied a variety of wildlife from the car. I have never seen so many animals on this trip, which we make frequently.

  1. I saw at least fifteen red-tailed hawks, both flying and perched in trees.
  2. We saw too many deer to count. Lily was thrilled to see two of them, since Bambi is her all time favorite movie.
  3. A flock of wild turkeys was sitting in a field right next to a herd of deer.
  4. As we crossed the Mississippi River, my cousin and I spotted three huge birds. I assumed they were turkey vultures, but my cousin said no, they were eagles. Sure enough, I looked more closely, and I saw their white feathered heads. It was amazing to see three bald eagles, close to the highway, in Illinois!!
  5. As we neared home, a small possum was venturing out of the forest preserve and walking in the grass by the road. Let’s not assume anything bad happened; he was very cute!

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