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September
2005 Journal
Mommy
is excited for the cooler fall-like temperatures this
month. Fall is her favorite
time of year!
We are trying to get the garage done this month and Daddy is
doing some geocaching with friends. He also officially
started working for CCAP as a full-time employee. He is
going to be really busy for the next few months!
Who knows what we will do this month. Have some visits
from both Grandparents planned too!
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Labor
Day Weekend
September
4, 2005 |
We didn't do too
much this weekend. We did some painting and cleaning in the
garage. Daddy and Pa-Pa are going to insulate and drywall the
open walls. Then we are going to paint, protect the floor,
organize and get garage door openers.
Anyway, today we went to Ms. Yolanda's house. They have a boat
and live by the Susquehanna River. We spent most of the day on
it and "swimming" in the river. I, of course, wasn't
a big fan at first. The river isn't very deep at all...heck on
most days, you could probably walk across it! Anyway, I had a
better time once I was on the raft. Yolanda, Mommy, Daddy, R.T.
and me were playing catch and....SPLASH! I fell right off the
raft and into the water! Mommy said I sunk like a rock!
I did remember to hold my breath and I actually didn't panic too
much. Mommy was right there to pull me out. I
wasn't very happy after that and wanted to "get back on the boat"
(I was saying that a lot) but I recovered and we continued with our
game. Later, we cooked out and had a picnic.
Ericka and me ate some yummy hot dogs and everyone else enjoyed some
burgers. We went back up to the house for a bit and to have
ice cream for dessert. Later, when it was dark, we went back
out to the boat to watch the fireworks! They were awesome and
loud! It was a nice day.
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Happy
8 Years Mom & Dad!
September
6, 2005 |
Mommy &
Daddy have been married for 8 years today. Daddy was out of
town all day so they didn't do anything special. Daddy got
Mommy some flowers and "kisses". Mommy got Daddy the
Season 5 DVD set of The Simpsons'. I can't wait to watch
those! Woo-Hoo!
Anyway....Happy Day Mom & Dad. I LOVE YOU!
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Daddy's
Geocaching Trip to Maryland
September
10, 2005 |
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Daddy went
caching with some friends down in Maryland. It was quite the
adventure, so I'll let him tell it.
I went with
Luxuryoils, DocDitto, and Dziner down to Maryland to grab a Project
APE cache.....that means a cache that was placed to promote the
"new" Planet of the Apes movie in 2000. There are
only 3 of them left in the country. We did several others
while in the area. At one, we found a baby copperhead under
the cache, so we took some photos and sent him on his merry
way. Another cache had us crawling through a small tunnel
under some railroad tracks, and yet another led us to a cave that
was about 60 feet deep and 25 feet wide. It was a great
time. However on the way back, I decided to walk over to look
over a cliff....when Doc yelled from behind me. I turned
around and there was a 2 foot copperhead snake where I had just
stepped. I don't know how I missed stepping on it....but I
found myself with my back to a 60 foot drop, facing a rather
disturbed copperhead. Thankfully he wanted nothing to do with
me and went on his way, while I had to catch my breath a little
bit. Whew!
We finished
up the day by doing a night cache down near Baltimore that involved
following some glow-in-the-dark signals through the woods. It
was a great time...
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A
Day of Caching for Us
September
11, 2005 |
Although, today
is a four year anniversary of a very sad day...we made sure to spend
it as a family doing fun things. We decided to do some
geocaching. There were some new caches placed really close to
our house in some really neat little out of the way places. We
found one at an old "newly-restored" train station in Annville.
We were lucky because while we were there....a train went
past. We found one at a park/playground that we never knew
about. I liked it because it had some really old and different
play equipment on it. There was even an old abandoned
mini-golf course there! That was kind of neat. We
stopped for a refreshing treat at Dairy Queen and decided to eat
outside. To our surprise it was next to a creek and it was
"alive" with ducks....of all shapes, colors and
sizes. I LOVE DUCKS!! So, we spent a long time there
feeding them. I like to watch them dive under for the
food. We continued our geocaching journey into Lebanon and
stopped and did a few more near a playground and two in Stoever's Dam Lake
Park. I was a big dirty mess by the time we were
done! We got home late and Mommy was giving me my bath and
noticed I had "the pink eye". Guess I don't have to
go to school in the morning! Daddy will be taking me to the
doctors.
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"The
Pink Eye"
September
12, 2005 |
As I like to
call it. Of course, wasn't at all geocaching or me getting
filthy dirty related at all. Mommy was suspicious of my eye
that morning, but we had slept with the windows open in the house
and she thought maybe it was my allergies. So, I spent the day
home with Daddy while he worked and then took me to the
doctors. I have to take medicine AND eye drops. Mommy
isn't sure why they gave me both but I will be better to go back to
school for tomorrow!
I HAVE to be there....I am RAINBOW OF THE WEEK!!
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Rainbow
of the Week
September
12-16, 2005 |
At school, Miss
Carol lets one of us be "Rainbow of the Week". (My
class is called the Rainbows, incase you didn't know that
already.) Anyway, this was my week! My class traced my
body on a big sheet of paper and helped to decorate it all up.
They drew things for me like suns, spiders, cars, houses, etc.
I got to draw my face all by myself and ....oops....I accidentally
drew myself with 2 noses...heehee. I got to be the special
helper all week long. I was in charge of handing out jobs and
anything extra Miss Carol could think of. This weeks lessons
were all about Feelings. I drew a picture of "what makes
me happy" and it was when "Mommy & Daddy take me to
Chocolate World". (hint-hint, we haven't been there in
awhile). Friday was a busy day, we had a Mexican Fiesta.
Miss Carol talked about Mexico, brought in all these different hats,
made us a piņata AND we made tacos for lunch! I ate half of
mine, the whole time saying "I don't like this".
(hmmm?) I also had Jumpin' Jitney that day and then the
afternoon was all about me again. I helped Mommy to make
brownies for my special snack and then I brought in my HotWheels
Movies - The Wheel of Power. The funny thing about that was, I
only have DVD's, so Daddy dragged in our extra TV and player and set
it up in the lobby. It was like a movie theater in
there! Ms. Judy laughed and asked Mommy if she brought the
surround sound!
It was a GREAT week. Oh yea, "pink eye" is
gone! :)
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Grandma
& Pa-Pa Visit
September
16-19, 2005 |
I love when the
grandparents come! I know they come just to see me, even
though they said they came to help Daddy in the garage.
Grandma, Pa-Pa and Daddy all worked hard all weekend. They got
the 3 unfinished walls in the garage wired, insulated and dry walled.
It was a lot of hard and messy work. I was allowed to help a
little bit, but mostly needed to stay out of the way. Grandma
and me had a lot of fun playing. We even had a picnic in my
playset. We went for a walk and to the playground too.
Pa Pa and me did some coloring and we all had fun playing some of my
games. We all went out to dinner too at Red Robin.
Everyone had fancy drinks and we all ate too much food. It was
fun and loud there! Can't believe we didn't do any geocaching
but we were just too busy.
I hope they come back soon to visit. Hopefully, Daddy has the
garage done by then. If he would just let me help, it would
get done faster. I have already added some new screws to the
walls to help hold it up! Funny, it was okay for Daddy to do
that but not me...hmmm?
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Grammy
& Pap-Pap Visit
September
23-28, 2005 |
Again, I love
when my grandparents visit because all the attention is on me!
It's been awhile since I have seen anyone too. Daddy had to go
on a business trip and Mommy was to have a meeting for work, so it
was nice to have someone else here. We played a lot of trains
too! I spent all day Saturday with them so Mommy & Daddy
could go geocaching all by themselves for a change.
I still went to school but Grammy & Pap would pick me up after
lunch. I didn't have to take a nap and that was great.
Mommy and Grammy did some shopping for me. I am getting too
big that my clothes from last Fall are getting too small.
Pap-Pap and me did some cool drawings of trains. I hope they
can come back and visit again soon.
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Apple
Week and Letter "A" Day
September
26-27, 2005 |
It is Apple Week
and Letter "A" day at school. I had Mommy get me a
"very green" apple to take in for school. Everyone
was to bring in an apple. We did "apple tasting" and
I liked the sour ones the best.
Tuesday was "A" day. I took in acorns, but I
kept calling them "coconuts". Finally, my teacher
got me to say "acorns"...but when my friend, whose turn
was next, brought "acorns", I was asked what they
were....I very confidently replied, "coconuts!". :)
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