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Ally yesterday: Mommy, I’m your daughter and Cole is your sunshine.

Cole: Let’s play four rounds of hide and seek then go watch more
Winged Migration!
Ally: Yeah! Four rounds!
Ally hides her eyes and counts to ten while Cole hides under the sink.
Ally finds him. Then Ally hides…under the sink. Then Cole hides…
under the sink. Then Ally hides…under the sink. Two [...]

Today, Cole was pretending to smoke a cigarette (actually a straw from Starbucks). We have seen lots of smokers here in NYC so he has many role models. Our conversation:
Me: Smoking is really yucky.
Cole: Why? (Stock response to just about anything)
Me: It’s smells bad and it can kill you.
Cole: [...]

I think if all the people we love stand on top of each other…that’s how tall T Rex is. - Cole this morning

Me: Oh, that is cool
Ally: It’s not cool…it’s Sunday!

Ally was playing with her doll house today. She took a few of the pieces of furniture and the baby and put them on the roof so “the ants wouldn’t crawl all over them.” Hmmm…where would she have seen ants?

Cole on liquid Vicodin after his tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy today.
Poor guy. He was absolutely miserable after the anesthesia wore off. Fortunately the Vicodin keeps putting him back to sleep. He managed to eat a whole popsicle too. Woo!
We’re hopeful this will solve his sleep apnea, snoring and grumpy-because-I-didn’t-get-good-sleep issues!

Cole has two jokes he likes to tell now:
Knock-knock. Who’s there. Tank. Tank who? You’re welcome.
Then he tells his other version:
Knock-knock. Who’s there. Heron. Heron who? You’re welcome.
His other joke is “What do you call a pig with three eyes?” “Piiig”
His other version of that joke [...]

These are a few things that we did write down from the fall/winter.
Cole singing “In the poodle summertime!” instead of “In the good old summertime”
Ally saying disodaur for dinosaur
In their room at night:
Cole: Ally, are you going to sleep?
Ally: Yeah!
Cole: Then you NEED to lie down!
Steve and Ryan started Cole calling [...]

Ally has been repeating this every day for the last week. Someone ran a stop sign in front of me and I beeped my horn. What an impression it made on her.
OK, we haven’t updated this in many long months. We’re not going to try and remember everything that happened since last [...]