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Wow...well... to say that 2020 didn't go exactly as one would have anticipated is the understatement of the year. We finally saw the beginning...and then the delay...and then the completion of construction. We lived through/are still living through a pandemic. Our world got very small, and we had to change our lives a little in some ways and a lot in others. But we saw each other through, together, as a family. And we embraced our larger family- some blood, some not, and some we never met- to tap into a network of people we couldn't see or hug for more support.
But, even as I write this and we're not out of the woods on the pandemic yet, I have to say that you, Aidan and Julia, and Mommy, and Preston (RIP) and Toby have been the brightest silver linings of this whole crazy covid year. Your resilience, creativity, optimism, flexibility, humor, drive, desire to be with and eachother and us, ability to sing and dance and laugh moments after feeling pain, and your ability to reflect on true pain and loss in heartfelt ways have been insipring... and helped us get through it together...and grow closer along the way.
I wrote Tara a note today. It said ‘I think you are very nice.’ I hid under the table. I thought she might kiss me.
- Aidan 1.20
My two favorite words are ‘avocado’ and ‘ugly’
- Julia 1.20
Dad... I love this...it’s my "dogman "sculpture. But I want you to have it!
- Aidan 1.20
-Julia are you watching the other hibachi chef?
-Yes, but I don’t want to get spoilers!
Julia 1.20
My songs are always too long because I can’t stop myself when I’m making up sentences!
Julia 1.20
Your bathroom is scary - I have an imagination that tells me there’s ghosts in there!
Aidan 1.20
That’s weird. Baby yoda eats frogs. I eat worms.
Aidan 1.20
Did you know that if you pull out an eyelash and blow it away you can make a wish? But if you eat it, it grows back.
Aidan 1.20
I acknowledge my mom for being a very good mom!
Aidan 1.20
How come when men run they take their shirts off and they want to show their nipples to strangers?
Julia 2.20
How can you run for president if you’re cross-eyed?
Aidan 2.20
J: "I wanted lemonade and mommy didn’t want to make lemonade, so I went inside and got the ingredients and made my own lemonade!"
Dad: "Wow! That’s sour. Did you put water in it?"
J: "...Was I supposed to put water in it?"
Julia 2.20
Just for once, I wish I was born with super powers!
Aidan 2.20
If my bride was a Samoa I would eat her alive!
Aidan 2.20
Two homeless people?!!?? Now that’s what I’m talking about !!
Aidan 2.20 (we were giving out care packages to the homeless)
Aidan you’re gonna miss me today... I just know it!
Julia 2.20
I don’t have a lot of skirts, so I make my own skirts with these dresses!
Julia 2.20
I’m gonna prank the girls who pranked Julia. If you mess with my sister, you’re gonna pay!
Aidan 2.20
I know why the giant swing is above the lake.... just in case someone pees their pants it goes into the lake!
Julia 2.20 on the giant swing
Dad after we read this can we read something else ? Because this is a little out-dated .
Aidan 3.20 on ‘Interrupting Chicken’
I love the way Sharpies smell! They smell great... but also like poison.
Julia 3.20
Heh....Boobie monsters...
Julia while watching ‘The Never-Ending Story’ and seeing the Sphinx 3.20
So like a Reese’s peanut butter cup is shaped like a little cup. A Kit Kat it a Reese’s peanut butter cup but it’s shaped like a log. But Reese’s peanut butter cup is not a crunchy as a Kit Kat. Tagalongs are like Reese’s peanut butter cups shaped like circles. But they’re not as melty as Kit Kat’s. The end!
Julia.... in under 7 seconds in 3.20
My favorite words are ‘ugly,’ ‘avocado,’ ‘tater tot,’ ‘pus,’ and ‘egg nog.’
Julia 3.20
You know who’s the slowest at eating? Pops. But he has lovely jokes.
Aidan 3.20
Julia, I’d be happy to help you with anything you need! Like heights or anything!
Aidan 3.20
While you were seeking Aidan, I was uncomfortable in my hiding spot so I skitterdly skittered to another hiding spot.
Julia 3.20
A: where IS candy land?
J: it’s in Sweden!
A: awww I really want to go to Sweden!
J: get it? Sweet-en!!!
3.20
Dad, can I borrow your guitar so I can play my Blues away?
Aidan 3.20
A: there’s a candy on the toilet!!!
J: April fools!!!!
4/1/2020
Do you think that this whole coronavirus is an April fools joke? Because if it is... it’s a good one! They got there to be no school!
Julia 4.20
So, like, when you’re in fourth grade do you just see fourth grade on a new window?
Aidan 4.20
...while tucking Julia into her bed upstairs
J: what if I can’t sleep up here?
Dad: Jules you slept in a tent. You can sleep anywhere!
J: I couldn’t sleep in a drawer... or on a shelf... or on the roof... so I couldn’t sleep anywhere!
Julia 4.20
I think that each little fuzzy on the dandelion is like a letter in one of your wishes....
Julia 4.20
Dad you’ve got to come see my canopic jars... they look amazing!
Aidan 4.20
I wish you and me and mommy could be pirates. Then we could do anything we wanted!
Aidan 4.20
I’ve been waiting for this day all my life!
Julia 4.25.20- learned to ride her bike without training wheels
I did so good in Ms Newman today. I learned something. If a C is before an I, the C gets a cedilla. The cedilla means the c sounds like an S.
Aidan 4.20
My dad is a wonderful liar!!
Aidan 4.20
A: His name is pops.
J: his name is herb, but we call him pops!
A&J 4.20
Clouds... they’re so amazing. They’re like Pictures in the sky!
Aidan 4.20
Dad, stay here, stay calm, stay worth it!
Aidan 5.20
My dad says I’m a handful.
Aidan 5.20
If you want to make your honey drink as good as mine, then don’t use a soon for the honey! Just keep pouring honey in until you think it’s a spoon!
Julia 5.20
Dad.... when I go to college, will I be away for a few days?
Aidan 5.20
Dad how do I get the umbrella to make me fly? I tried jumping out of a tree and I lifted me up some... I just need to jump out of a higher tree, right?
Julia 5.20
You are so kind to say that I did anything... but the growth was all Aidan. All I did was love him. Never settle for a teacher that doesn’t love him!
Ms. Gwyn 5.20
Truth told!
Julia 5.20
A: So I had this dream that there was a bad guy and I kicked him in the nuts!
Mommy: what are nuts Aidan?
A: uh.... I think it’s like the ankle?
Aidan 5.20
All that work for an teeny little turd!
Julia 5.20
Fun fact! Dads aren’t mean. They just want you to go faster, stronger, and even be fearless!
Aidan 6.20
When you eat animals, do you sometimes like feel sad!
Aidan 6.20
Everything looks prettier upside down!
Julia 6.20
I want that swimsuit! But I don’t have boobies, so it won’t fit me.
Julia 6.20
If you eat that birdseed, you’ll grow wings. That’s a Pops joke.
Aidan 6.20
I’m not a cheese stealer ... I’m a cheese eater!
Julia 7.20
I don’t want to go to a hotel! There might be witches!!
Aidan 7.20
Daddy you know the X-men Juggernaut? I know why they named him that! One day he went to a bar shop and they dared him to jug and he said ‘no’ and they were like ‘jug or not?’
Julia 7.20
I wish there was a potion called ‘never growing up’ because I don’t want to die!
Aidan 7.20
My favorite spot in the Entire House is the office because there’s so many arts and crafts to do. I Also like the yarn box.
Julia 7.20
Dad: ‘Alexa- play ‘everything is awesome!’
Aidan: dad ... really? I’ve grown up!
Aidan 7.20
<overheard>Maybe instead of us being a band we can just be a group of cool people who make music videos! Because so many people are getting frustrated with us being a band... like arguing over who plays what instrument and band name and stuff....
Julia 8.20
<overheard>This is my baby blanket. It is my prized possession. It’s really special to me because when I was born my mom held me in it and my grandparents held me in it.
Aidan 8.20
J: ask him!!
A: um... can we use your phone to put something in YouTube?
J: we want to be famous.
A: yeah! We just want to be famous!
Aidan and Julia 8.20
You’re missing a fantastic movie, you know!
Aidan 8.20
Mom: why does Toby have a mask on?
Julia: he’s fashionable!
Julia 8.20
I’m not gonna style my hair. I don’t want to be fabulous. I just want to be myself.
Aidan 8.20 first day of school
Bye Legos. You gave me lots of Joy!
Aidan 8.20 first day of school
Bess is in my class and she’s a first level and that mean I get to teach her things because last year on the last day of school Miss Emily told me that your know next year you’ll be a second level and you’ll get to teach the first levels some things!’
Julia 8.20 first day of school
-How’s school?
A: Good! But I wanna hug somebody!
Aidan 8.20
I did so many multiplication problems at work until I finished and I was so starving for lunch
Julia 8.20
I’m a worm whisperer... and a snake whisperer too
Aidan 8.20
Dad’s got X-men, marvel, super brain smarts
Julia 8.20
I promise you, moon. Please Keep my family safe. Even my sister.
Aidan 8.20
I want to join that hug!
Aidan 9.20
I like cooking with you dad!
Let’s open a restaurant!
JD restaurant.... Julia daddy restaurant!
Julia 9.20
McKinley says that kissing is gross. Is it gross? I think it’s gross.
Aidan 9.20
What has two cheeks but it’s not on your face? Your butt!
Julia 9.20
Can I invite McKinley over to our house and we can go swimming? Because we can hug in the pool because I think chlorine kills the virus!
Aidan 9.20
If you live in a glass house... move to another house!
Aidan 9.20
I have a new worry. Can i talk to you when I’m ready?
Julia 9.20
Went to heaven ...
Got some wings...
I’m like a baby...
Got a circle above my head...
Aidan 9.20
I thought Bess how to jump rope by making up this song:
Back, slack, jump, again!
Julia 9.20
Daddy, I almost did a ‘hiya heww’ on my way up here. That’s the way YOU sound when you sneeze.
Julia 10.20
Dad, fractions are actually like geometry
And math!
Julia 10.20
I’m so proud of all the works I did today!
Aidan 10.20
This is the best birthday ever! I got ‘Frances’ books, Aaron’s putty, and a new Candylocks!
Julia 10.20
J: what are we gonna be famous on YouTube for???
Z: just making videos!
Julia talking to her friend zoey. 10.20
We’d be good Weird Als together! We make up lots of funny songs
Julia 10.20
Miss Brass called me the ‘king of works!’
Aidan 10.20
Do you want to know what an adverb is? It’s when you have a backbone.
Aidan 10.20
Daddy doesn’t always act like a daddy; most times he actually like a child.
Julia 10.20
What time is it?? My Nintendo and the phone said 7:50 but the oven and the microwave said 8:50? So what time is it? I knew there was something wrong with the clocks!
Julia 11.20; observed day light savings time
Dad... remember? You said I could read to you tonight!
Aidan 11.20
I told you I’m an artist like my Mother!
Aidan 11.20, to Mimi
I caught him left handed!
Julia 11.20
Dad, I made you breakfast and I put raspberries on it!
Aidan 11.20
Sometimes when people kiss in movies, my penis gets tingly.
Aidan 11.20
Dad is it okay when I grow up for me to be a dad but have no wife but have two babies and still live here with you and mom?
Aidan 11.20
Daddy why is one of your co-workers named Aidan? That’s a child’s name!
Aidan 11.20
Banyan told me that you can still touch your elf on the shelf and not lose the magic up until
December 12 ... but I want to look into that before I try it out.
Julia 11.20
When I get slapped by Mama, it feels like love.
Aidan 12.20
Hey daddy? Your skin is old on the bottom of your feet!
Aidan 12.20
I like love but not kissing.
Julia 12.20
My dads dad is really into cowboys. I don’t know why. But he’s really into cowboys.
Aidan 12.20
Dad, I’m just asking you this.... how do you spell ‘throw up.’
Aidan 12.2
Teacher: Julia, como estas?
Julia: a hundred million bien! Y tu?
Julia 12.20
🎶 I don’t care about the presents, I don’t care about the menorah... for Hanukkah I just want youuuuuuu!!!! 🎵
Aidan 12.20
Dad! I accidentally typed something into the search bar and a scary picture came on my computer so I closed it. Can you go upstairs, log in, and close it down and let me know when it’s safe? Promise me it’s gone.
Aidan 12.20
When I get worried I feel small and when I feel small I want to be with you and mommy!
Julia 12.20
A: dad, are we going to have robbers??
D: no son.
A: but are we gonna have robbers?
D: no.... but if we did, they won’t steal your snow globe. I promise!
A: .... why not?
Aidan 12.20
A: Tell me two emotions you can feel.
J: happy and..... star eyes.
A: huh?
J: you know ... the one with star eyes?
Julia 12.20
I like my pillows up high when it’s nose drop season
Julia 12.20
J: I wish I could hug you but I can’t!
Yaya: go ahead and do it anyway!
Yaya cries tears of joy
Julia and Yaya 12.24.20
A: I want to hug you again! I made you happy!
Aidan and Yaya 12.24.20
