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Gavinisms

You might think Emily is the only one of our children we care about because my only posts lately are her emails. Wrong! It's just that I don't want to get behind on sharing/preserving those emails and they're easy to throw on here because they're already written. Sharing the rest of our family events takes more time and thought.

For today, I’ll spotlight some of the funny things Gavin has said lately. Let’s go all the way back to June when we were deep into the hot Arizona summer.



While watching Lion King, Gavin yelled, “Mom, Simba needs sunscreen right now!” (Except he pronounced it scunscream).

"Scunscream" is super important no matter where you live, but its application is essential here--especially with a backyard pool.




After Gavin met his preschool teachers, I asked, “what did you think of Mrs. Castelari and Mrs. Gardner? Did you like them?” He smiled and said, “Ya. They’re my girls.”

After nearly four months of preschool, Gavin still loves it. He is learning a ton and will definitely be ready for kindergarten next year.





A few weeks ago, we had a lovely fall rainstorm. In the morning, the clouds were low white puffs covering the mountain peaks.  Gavin asked if we could climb the mountains to the clouds. I told him we probably could. He said, "Good. Let's climb up there and catch a ride on an airplane cloud."
That’s it for now. Sorry so short. I have more fun pictures and stories, but no more time.

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