Top Five Cutest Baby Animals...

The big girls are out of school.  (I don't know if that's a yay! or an achh!)  I'm trying to have a more "intentional" summer, and be more in charge and involved with what goes on, instead of just surviving.  So I'm trying to have them do some little "school" assignments.  Yesterday's was to make a list.  Above is Miss M's.  She is going to type and find photos to put of all her individual choices.

Miss M's Favorite Baby Animals:

1.  baby octopus.

2. baby bunny.

3. chike

4. baby wolf.

5. baby  kwaolabear

Miss A's Cutest Fabulous Animal List:

1.  cheetah  cub

2.  chestnut  foal

3.  owlets

4.  kitten

5.  Siberian  husky  puppy

Miss R's List of Cutest Baby Animals

1.  Puppies

2.  Kittens

3.  Bunnies

4.  Wolf

5.  Cheetah

Quotes...

Miss R:  No. Don't do that.  (I went to sit next to her on the couch.)
Mama:  You don't want me to cuddle you and pet you?  (She had been a pet baby horse- sorry, hoe-se).
Miss R:  No, I'm kinda stinky cause I been widin my hoe-se.

Miss M (regarding the complex relationship between Flopsy and Whiskers, her two best friend/stuffed animals):  Ten months ago (it was actually about three years) we got to Guam and that's when they first married.  On a box.  They kissed lips by the way.

(To Daddy while on leave) Miss M:  Daddy, you look like a yetti crab.

Speaker in church:  Even if you grow up in the church...
Miss R:  But it's not ever ok to frow up in the turch!

Mama:  There are some more dachshunds!  I don't know... I kind of like them...
Miss A:  Yeah, I do too.  I think they're very aerodynamic.

Miss R:  Hang on!  It's gowin be a bumpy wide!  We pwolly won't make it.

Very Clean...

This morning we got an emergency request to deliver B's summer white uniform to him at work.  If you aren't acquainted with this uniform, it is very white, very pretty, and very hard to keep clean.

(This is B and his little brother O.)
Here is the conversation when we got in the car to drop girls off at school and then go deliver the uniform to the hospital where daddy works.

Miss M (6):  I get to be by Daddy's suit!
Miss A (8):  Don't touch it!  It's sterile.
Miss M:  What does 'sterile' mean?
Miss A:  It means really really really clean.  For example, Heavenly Father is sterile.

Miss R's Fast Day Photos: April...

 Wrapped in a Pacific Islands Club towel shortly after arriving in Guam.

 At a friend's Easter egg hunt in Guam.

 At our favorite beach, Tarague, in Guam.  She's wearing her muumuu.

At Appomattox Court House for the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War.

Miss M's Fast Day Photos: April

 At our home in St. Louis.

 Just learning to walk!  She always had the signal hands.  She still flaps those hands when she's excited...  At our home in St. Louis.

 At the Richmond Botanical Garden.

 On a dock in Pensacola Florida, homeless and waiting to go to Guam.

 At a friend's Easter egg hunt, Guam.

 At our favorite beach, Tarague, in Guam.  She's wearing her muumuu.

At Appomattox Court House for the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War.

Miss A's Fast Day Photos: April

 Watching general conference at our apartment in St. Louis.

 In St. Louis.

 Our home in St. Louis.

 Daddy hoisted her up in the air chair, at our home in St. Louis.

 At the Richmond Botanical Gardens.

 On the plane to Guam!  Aunt A sent lots of little gifts to keep the girls occupied on the long flight.

 At an Easter egg hunt in Guam.

 One of the last trips to our favorite beach, Tarague, in Guam.  She's wearing her muumuu.

At Appomattox Court House for the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War.

Quotes of the Day...

Miss R:  Here's how you pway soccer.  You kick it, and then someone kicks it back.

Mama:  Can you name this song?
Miss M:  Pop Goes the Diesel.