Charlotte announced one morning that she had three dreams last night. One was good and two were bad. The bad dream was that ants would turn her socks into “sticky socks.” The good dreams were (1) watching something change colors that is not sticky and (2) sleeping in a downstairs room.
One day Isaac excitedly [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I’ve been tutoring Charlotte in reading and she’s making good progress. I’ve been using a book I bought as part of my teaching program at BYU (Teaching Children to Read by Grant Von Harrison). It teaches a variety of skills including blending, sight words, and reading for comprehension. She is doing quite well with each [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte has a few favorite things to wear and unfortunately they don’t really match each other. We have been discussing what matches and what doesn’t match lately. Here’s the transcript of a recent conversation on that topic:
(Charlotte comes out wearing a brown shirt that says “I heart Chocolate” and a pair of colorful Hawaiian shorts.)
Me: [...]
Posted on August 14th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Remembering how much fun everyone had at the beach on Day 2, we just assumed the next trip to the beach would go just as well. We made plans to go to the beach with my cousin Brent’s wife Natalie and their kids at the beach next to my Aunt and Uncle’s condo. Unfortunately, both [...]
Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Posted on August 7th, 2010 by Zach
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Sorry to those who may be tired of our recent video dump, but I just can’t help but post two more that I took today.
Here is a video of Charlotte singing a song about Ila while Ila accompanies her on the rattle:
And here’s a video of Ila laughing:
Posted on July 31st, 2010 by Kathleen
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Originally uploaded by Cochran Family
This is a picture of Charlotte in the kid-size doll house at the Oak Ridge Children’s Museum. The kids had a great time running around in this thing.
Posted on July 30th, 2010 by Zach
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Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Here is a song that Charlotte made up about her sisters this morning.
Charlotte talks about sisters
Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Lets face it, that hour of Sacrament meeting is challenging on Sunday morning when you have young children, possibly when you have older children too, but I don’t know about that yet. I spend a lot of time and energy fretting about how I can keep my children in their seats behaving well and [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2010 by Kathleen
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For some reason, Charlotte has advanced the following theory more than once, but this last time that she said it, I wrote it down (maybe two weeks ago).
“Ila thought I was a boy when she was in your tummy and when she was born and saw me walking, she was so happy to see [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte and Paul have been the best of friends. They have played together almost continuously since Paul arrived. They shared some frosted cookie. Charlotte told Paul that if you mix the blue frosting with the yellow frosting you would get green frosting.Their fingers and mouths were not the only thing that became that bright blue [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Kathleen
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We’ve been on the phone detailing injuries to families for the last few days, but I know we have some close friends and family members who get their updates here, so for the benefit of them and for our written record, I will write the details of the injuries sustained during our car accident on [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Note: I know it’s probably a little gauche to blog so soon after an event like this. However, I want to get my feelings sorted out and writing is a good method. Might as well update everyone while I’m at it.
I left the house this morning in a somewhat grumpy rush. Often I’ll forget my [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Zach
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I reflected back to July 4, 2004 during testimony meeting today. That year, the 4th also fell on a Sunday, it was when Zach blessed our first Child.
Our celebrating mostly took place on July 3rd this year.
Video = While throwing Snaps, Isaac shows off his missing tooth, Jackson shows off something else.
We lit sparklers [...]
Posted on July 4th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole has been walking into the living room wearing other people’s shoes so frequently, that I thought she might enjoy playing with the dress-ups.
She put everything she could possibly put on, notice how she is trying to pick up a 3rd glove to put on.Once she was all decked out, she didn’t smile [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte dubbed herself “The Trophy Giver.” She was building with blocks and built a trophy for me. I asked her what it was for and she said it was for “cleaning up.” Then she asked me to make trophies with her. I made a yellow one which she said was for Ila for “wiggling.” [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2010 by Kathleen
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“I have a frown because I have my favorite cup, but not my favorite, favorite cup.”
“Do you know that carrots like to be food?” (the picture below is of a carrot on a toothpick, referred to by Charlotte as a “Carrot Popsicle”)Last week we were at the park for a High Priest social, when Charlotte [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Kathleen
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