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Annia and Spud

My first look at Amie's invisible friends. Amie says it's important to note that Spud is a girl and that they are "sweeties" (her word for unmarried lovers). I asked her to tell me more about them, since I couldn't hear them talk. "Well, they're just imaginary, so I hafta make up things for them to say."

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I gots mah Uncle Josh

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WILL YOU MARRY ME RACHEL

We're at Starved Rock. Todd and Rachel are at the other lookout across the way. She said yes! :D

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Hurr....

Urlacher says HURRRRR in today's Sun-Times.

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Amie is four today!

Happy birthday, Amie! She first wanted a Pinkie Pie cake, but changed her mind and wanted a 1980's Truly instead. Lucky thing I still have my original 80's pan! And it's my first time using fondant! I'm a bit addicted to Ace of Cakes. I don't care much for how my lettering turned out, but I love working with Wilson's ready-made fondant and will totally use it all the time now. :) Okay, back to the party.

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spring??

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE SECOND DAY OF SPRING? DOES IT? Thank heavens I'm headed for sunny, warm Wisconsin on Monday...

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I saved the birthday cake

It flipped over in the car and its pretty drizzles stuck to the top of the plastic container. I made some frosting (that was way too runny, hence the cursive) and fixed it up with an appropriate message.

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Green Eggs and Ham

It's a promo at IHOP for Horton Hears a Who. Pancakes with blue & purple syrup and a lollipop, scrambled eggs with spinach, and ham. She devoured the eggs in the time it took for me to write this text message.

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Happy birthday Jason!

Twelfth Annual Birthday Week begins today!  Happy birthday, love. :-)

Amie was none-too-happy about Jason's birthday, but that's mostly our fault. We were joking the other day about how Wednesday Jason would become OLD. (All tongue-in-cheek, of course, because I'm turning 30 this "week", too!)

Amie suggested with a huge grin that he'd become really, really, REALLY big! And this spawned a good few minutes of Jason & I laughing about GIANT DAD and stomping around the kitchen. ("You better watch out, you better not cry, [etc.]...GIANT DAD IS STOMPING TO TOWN....")

That night, Amie got out of bed about a half hour after we'd placed her there, nearly in tears, hovering in the hallway. "Daddy, I don't want your birthday to come."

It took a few seconds for us to figure it out. "Are you afraid Daddy's going to turn into a giant?" She collapsed in sobs and could only nod her head in response.

Poor kid. :-)

I heart U MAMA

Jason helped with the heart. I like all the different smilies.

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