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And some more art on the other side of the table.
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Bare kitchen walls livened up with a little Mattie artwork. I wanted to try to get some of her stuff framed, but that isn't happening anytime soon. So just sticking it up with washi tape will have to do.
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Painting rocks and making hand prints.
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Sunday pizza night. Helping Dada make pizza dough. 🍕
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The pantsless gardener. Checking out how big her fava bean plants are getting.
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One last visit to the zoo before our membership expires. I think we made pretty good use of it. But it was so hot there today. I think somehow there was a 25 degree temperature difference between our house and the zoo this morning some how. 🐘:wat
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Saw a coyote in the drainage ditch right by our house. It was a big one too. Happy our cats are both indoor cats right now.
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Lots of 💨and big 🌊in Redondo tonight.
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I swear she was really excited to see the dinosaurs at the LA Co. Natural History Museum, she just wasn't excited to have her picture taken with them. 🐉🍖💖
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Using chopsticks for the first time, and sort of succeeding at getting ramen in her mouth, at Shin Sen Gumi on this cold rainy day. +🍜=😍
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Mattie was such a good hiker at Solstice Canyon on Green Friday!
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My poor little goose had to have blood drawn at her doctors appointment today. They stabbed her in both arms before they found a vein. She was so strong, well not really she screamed her head off. But she still didn't freak out as much as I expected. :sy
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Hiking with Dada.
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Mama was the one who had to carry all these rocks back up the hill.
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My little rock collector at Abalone Cove
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Getting her party on for Ilsa and Leo's 5th at Pump it Up Torrance 🍕🎈🎂
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One more super cute cake eating pic. 🎂🎉🎈🍰
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Mattie had a great 2nd birthday (despite Mama being sick as a dog with a stomach bug). She was kind of terrified when everyone sang happy birthday to her, but cheered up as soon as she got tasty guava cake.
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The joy on Mattie's face at waking up to a living room filled with balloons eases the pain of the last week a little. 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
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Mattie is pretty excited about turning two tomorrow, and about the giant balloon Dada brought home from work.
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The bad news is last night America elected a racist, bigoted, misogynistic, sexual assaulting white nationalist to be the President of the United States. The good news is Mattie's first school pictures turned out really cute. Ugh. I can't believe she is
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Mattie's great-great-great grandmother and namesake, Matilda Jane Downing Underwood, was a devout Quaker, author, WCTU member and suffragette. She didn't live to see women earn the right to vote. I'm sure she would have been thrilled to see her descendan
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Portrait of the artist at work 🎨
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Helping Dada lay bricks in the side yard so it isn't a giant dirt pit anymore. ⚒
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She ended up being super into trick-or-treating, but not so into me taking pictures her trick-or-treating. 🐉🎃🍬💜
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👹 backup costume for the park. We'll see if she is willing to be a 🐉 for trick-or-treating once it cools down some more.
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Finally got her to put on her purple dinosaur/dragon 🐉costume (but still no zipping). It only took Keita dressing as a yellow submarine and Mama dressing as an 🐙 to convince her. We'll see how tonight goes. I would assume 🍬would be a
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More 🎃carving for this little 👹. She has to look at it from just the right angle.
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Complicated pumpkins. Mattie's is third from the left. I attempted to turn her random squiggles into actual shapes I could cut out. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
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Super into drawing the design for her abstract pumpkin at @life.just.so 's pumpkin carving party.
