Palmtag girls go to college

I took the girls to work with me a few weeks ago and we had a great time. These are some shots of the girls playing in Plant Park - a large park on the Hillsborough River in front of our historic main building, Plant Hall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luci's latest

Taking Luci's 'chew' away was like removing the cork from a bottle of champagne. She's just overflowing with life. I thought she wouldn't stop talking before, well, I underestimated her. Even though my ears are getting a little tired, I just can't help but marvel at her. She makes us laugh like no one else. Here's some of the latest. I had her sing some songs for me. Can you guess what they are?

The Care Bear Store, aka. Build a Bear

This week we took the girls to the dentist and we were given the official order to phase out Luci's pacifier use. We've known this was on the horizon and truthfully, have just been putting it off because we don't want to have our little girl cry. Luci still looks so much like a little baby. Anyway, we decided to bite the bullet and go cold turkey this weekend. So, I took her to our 'traditional' pacifier farewell location - Build a Bear, so she could place her chews (pacifiers) into a stuffed friend of her choice and always have her chews close by. Well, she was a bit shy at first but after I explained how it worked, she was very excited. We even lucked out this weekend since they were having a buy 1 get 1 free deal, we even picked a bear up for Brooke too (phew!).

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I want my chew!

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Adding wishes to my bear's heart

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Adding good thoughts to the heart

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I'll love you from my head to my toes.

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I've always got your back.

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I love you in my heart!

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A kiss!

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Adding the heart and my chews.

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My bear!!

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Thank you!

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I'll call her Purple!

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We picked one out for Brooke, too.

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Cheese!

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Sisters in Home Depot.

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Posing!

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Can I eat the Bear's blizzard??

Brooke and Luci love their bears, if you couldn't guess. And Brooke is cracking me up because she keeps referring to them as Care Bears and asking to go back to the Care Bear store to pick out dresses for them!

As I type this, Luci is actually sleeping without her chew. There was a fair bit of crying involved, but we managed with some hand-holding. Fingers crossed we get some sleep tonight!