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| 3 Jan I've been working with Melodie Joy to make different sounds and words. She's starting to repeat "Da Da" after me, and when I blow her a kiss she replies with her version by smacking her lips. She usually only does it once. 5 Jan I was on the computer in my "office" when I heard a noise behind me. It was Melodie, behind the doorway fence, giggling at me and making her lip smacking kisses. I turned to her, and we went back and forth with kisses to each other and giggling. I got such a kick out of her. She is truly a joy. 12 Jan Crystal went back to college with John Ackerman tonight. Many tears were shed. She is scheduled to graduate in May. 7 Feb I don't know how he did it, but Ruth and I were discussing what we wanted to do for the day, and Ruth said maybe we could go to the M-A-L-L. And I said something about the C-A-R-O-U-S-E-L. Suddenly Sean-D started laughing and fidgiting. Ruth asked him what was up, and he started talking about the horse he had ridden on before, and how he wanted to ride the rabbit. Maybe he can spell now. 11 Feb Sean-Daniel is 3 today! We celebrated at our house. Grandma and Grandpa Falconnier came over to help us celebrate. 21 Feb Melodie turned 1 year old on the 19th. We waited until Ruth's sister came down with her son, who was born the day after Melodie, and we celebrated both their birthdays together. We didn't want Sean-D to feel left out, so we celebrated his birthday again. Camille even made 3 cakes. 23 Feb Melodie and SeanD Moment: This weekend we caught Sean-Daniel climbing the stairs to the 2nd floor. It's not the first time, but on this occasion we caught Melodie 1/3 of the way up following her big brother. Today Ruth called me with a Melodie Moment. Ruth had been cleaning out the dishwasher, and turned her back for a moment. When she turned back to the dishwasher she found that Melodie had grabbed the top rack and pulled herself onto the open door and was standing up. 29 Feb Grandma and Grandpa Campos came over after church to celebrate Sean-Danel and Melodie's birthday. They brought a beautiful dress and a music book for melodie, and a shirt and pants set and music book for Sean-D. They also treated for ice cream. 10 Mar Melodie moment: When Melodie has a runny nose Ruth of course will wipe her nose with a kleenex. Last night Melodie grabbed a bunch of kleenex and went to where Ruth was laying on the floor, and wiped her nose - several times. 23 Mar Melodie is growing up to be a very strange girl. Tonight I was going through the living room and saw her walking around with Sean-D's Leggos bucket on her head. Then later on Sean-D was putting his Leggos away, and she came over, grabbed the bucket, and went to put it on her head and dumped the Leggos on herself. She took it in stride, and after making sure all the Leggos were out she put the bucket on her head and walked away, leaving Sean-D perplexed about how he was going to put up his Leggos. Sean-Daniel has developed a wily side to his character. A couple of days ago Ruth said he came into the bedroom where she was putting Melodie down for the night and had fallen asleep herself. She woke up to Sean-D feeling her feet, and then moving to her face. Ruth pretended to be asleep, so he left. Ruth got up a little later and went to the kitchen where she found a shocked looking Sean-D with chocolate all over his face from the cookies Amber had made. Apparently, once he made sure mom was asleep he thought he had the run of the house. |
| Dan's Journal for 2004 |