tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40110102024-02-21T02:47:49.984-08:00Mommy KahdibThere are a million and one things I should be getting done at this very moment...instead, I blog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-57371561626967612342011-03-09T20:08:00.000-08:002011-03-09T20:12:22.234-08:00The blog is moving onto bigger and better things!Check it out and make sure you subscribe to the RSS to keep up-to-date!!!www.kateduval.com/blogMama's back in action!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-88519712234126657822010-09-16T06:37:00.000-07:002010-09-16T06:39:48.521-07:00Dear Emmie (51 months), ____________________________________Hi Ms. School Girl! Preschool year two is going much smoother than preschool year one...well, I guess I just mean the start of the school year. Last year there was a day where I had to peel you off my leg and leave you angry and screaming crying with the teacher...this year on the first day you looked at me when you had been Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-45239562980062075572010-09-10T13:16:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:22:43.744-07:00Dear Chase (29 months),Friday, September 10, 2010_________________________________________Hello Mister-Roo!Man let's talk about that language explosion again because in all actuality I am now sometimes looking for an off switch with the constant chatter of two little kids! You do speak a but of Caveman - "Us do it, mama," but you clearly get your point across more often than not. It is nice to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-36119525739544072422010-08-09T12:57:00.000-07:002010-08-09T13:00:57.269-07:00Dear Emerson (50 months)______________________________________Hi Dunking Girl!
You're a fish!!! I real live little fish :) You often ask people who are near the water if they feel they are fish or cats...cats, obviously, are the people who don't really love to swim. You're definitely a fish. Daddy is a cat, Chasey is a cat if the water is cold and a fish in warm water...and Mommy, well, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-46893011079569531672010-07-27T13:11:00.000-07:002010-07-27T20:09:29.580-07:00Dear Chase (28 months),Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Hi Mr. Talkative,Talk about language explosion, Mister. You can now repeat mostly anything we say and you're staring to talk to us about things you're thinking about in cute little sentences instead of the cave-man speak we have gotten used to. You do still sound a bit like a cave-man, but some of the things you say are just adorable. You like to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-18940173069785857992010-07-14T17:35:00.000-07:002010-07-14T17:36:05.856-07:00Dear Emerson (49 months),Wednesday, July 14, 2010_____________________________________Dear Ham,You seriously cannot get enough of the camera when it is pointed at you...you pose, click, pose, click, pose like it is your job. You pose and change pose more than some of the models we've worked with and that is crazy. I was shooting a bunch of kids from playgroup, I think there were 6 of you under Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-25703575232506543312010-06-22T18:45:00.001-07:002010-06-22T18:51:04.478-07:00Dear Chase (27 months), Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Hi Mr. UPy-UPy UP-EEEEE,You're such a funny little dude. Really, I'm not just saying that because I'm your mom. You say funny things, you do funny things, you win people over on a daily basis. You are still small but sometimes you talk in this big deep voice (well, deep for a toddler) like if I say to you, "Wow, are you strong?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-79630914450269162202010-06-11T07:30:00.000-07:002010-07-27T20:46:17.567-07:00Dear Emerson (4 years!!!!!!), Friday, June 11, 2010 Hi Big Girl!I can't believe you are 4! The four years ago a sweet face, screaming little you entered this world...so dependent on Daddy and I and the world around you...for food, for shelter, for love and warmth. Now that you're four you're a different kind of dependent...you can get your own snack out of the fridge, you Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-36790079500385387092010-06-03T13:16:00.000-07:002010-06-03T13:18:30.126-07:00Dear Chase (26 months), Thursday, June 03, 2010 ______________________________(Don't miss Emmie's entry down below!) Hi Roo-Roo,I'm just going to stop acknowledging that these are late...we all know that letter's from mom = late. Period. End of story.So, mister-mister, where do I start with you? You're talking so much more, not yet in full fledged sentences, still the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-72518944616196946562010-06-03T12:54:00.000-07:002010-06-03T12:57:17.901-07:00Dear Emmie (47 months), Thursday, June 03, 2010 _____________________Dear Beautiful Princess of Bubbles and all things Magical,Gosh do I love you! So often during the day you'll look at me and say, "Mama, Mama," and I'll say, "What," and you'll say, "I love you, you know." I don't know if this is a cover-up for forgetting what you were going to say, or you just wanted to talkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-52300568205527680572010-05-02T20:58:00.000-07:002010-05-02T21:00:20.997-07:00Don't miss Chase's new entry down below!!Dear Emmie (46 months), Sunday, May 02, 20 ______________________Hi again, Em-ster!Here is mommy, late again with your letter!! Just remember better late than never is totally true...and I have a pretty good memory of what happened when so hopefully most of what belongs in the right months makes it in! Where to begin, my little chicken.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-75802000574769374352010-05-02T20:23:00.000-07:002010-05-02T20:26:07.048-07:00Dear Chase (25 months), Sunday, May 02, 2010 ___________________________________Dear Racey-Roo,Late again...that's your mama's modus operandi (loosly translated by wikipedia to mean my method of operating...) I guess I'm not too sorry that it is so late because it means we are busy living and loving every minute of life...or, well, not every minute but a lot of the minutes!! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-58176522056133533162010-03-29T19:01:00.000-07:002010-03-29T19:02:46.060-07:00Dear Chase (24 months), Monday, March 29, 2010 ...Don't miss Emmie's entry down below...__________________________________Dear Chase-the-race,You're not two...I'm in denial. Really. Seriously. It can't be true! You are still so little and snuggly and lovable...but you run and jump and walk and talk...so it must be true, right? How was it that two years ago you were just Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-87172340771706686692010-03-29T17:43:00.000-07:002010-03-29T17:45:19.881-07:00Dear Emerson (45 months), Monday, March 29, 2010 Dear Emmie-Bemmie,This has not been a very fun month...for me or for you. We found out almost three weeks ago that the baby we were all so excited for passed away. You have been such a brave brave girl. You have run the gammet of emotions and I know you are still struggling to understand it all. Last night in bed you asked Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-48636683786074350792010-02-28T18:23:00.000-08:002010-02-28T18:28:02.316-08:00Dear Chase (23 months), _______________________________Hi Big Man,I can't believe you are going to be two next month. Crazy how fast time flies. I was so so excited to see what an amazing big brother you were going to be...you're so kind and gentle to all the tiny babies you know...someday, someday. You've been the sweetest little boy this week when mommy has been sad. If Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-7648986282143194972010-02-19T14:01:00.000-08:002010-02-28T12:17:11.874-08:00Dear Emerson (44 months), Friday, February 12, 2010 ____________________________________________Dear Emmie-Nemmers,I was going to write this letter yesterday but it was a strange day...you had a fun Valentine's party at preschool where you put your cards in everyone's bag and made some cookies that you got to have for snack, but when I picked you up you were sad. You were sadUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-39780609311924376702010-01-22T13:12:00.000-08:002010-01-22T13:14:09.290-08:00Dear Emerson (42+43 months) Monday, January 18, 2010 __________________________________Dear Lala (I'm going to miss this nickname since Chase has learned to say Emmie), My apologies to you as well for being so late with this round of letters. Daddy laughs at me because our weddings really stopped at the end of October and I kept telling him that things would quiet down and we Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-19951281761662716092010-01-22T11:32:00.000-08:002010-01-22T11:34:18.276-08:00Dear Chase (20 and 21 months), Monday, January 18, 2010 ____________________________Dear Chase,Sorry again, this is late....like really really late and has two months combined into one. Such is life right now, better late than never...but better on time so I'll keep trying!These last two months you are working a lot on talking and communicating. You're getting frustrated that we Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-28633662005371353512009-11-12T12:11:00.000-08:002009-11-12T12:12:07.002-08:00Dear Emerson (41 months), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 __________________________________________Hi My Little Helper!This month I have met a new Emmie. She is independent. She is helpful. She wants to put her own clothes on. She wants to take her own clothes off. She wants me to teach her how to do the button on her jeans instead of just letting me do it on her own. She wants Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-71346049188140825162009-11-02T11:12:00.000-08:002009-11-02T11:14:17.112-08:00Dear Chase (19 months), Monday, November 02, 2009 _____________________________________________Hi Mister-Mister!Almost two weeks ago your turned 19 months...we went out that very day and took your picture and I forgot to load the images and write the letter....I was just loading yesterday's engagement session and saw them and said, "DOH!" So here I am, late again....but better lateUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-18142377006841894292009-10-19T11:17:00.001-07:002009-10-19T11:17:20.791-07:00Dear Emerson (40 months),Monday, October 19, 2009______________________________________________Hi Miss Emerson Grace!This month has been a bit crazy...well...whiny really. I think you totally fooled me with your super easy preschool transition. About two weeks ago we had a day where you just didn't want me to leave. You kind of velcro babied onto me and kept crying that you didn't want me to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-35174343779586902802009-09-24T12:39:00.000-07:002009-09-24T12:40:55.764-07:00Dear Emerson (39 months), Tuesday, September 22, 2009 ______________________________________________(Don't forget to look at Chase's in the last post!)Hi Little Miss Pre-School!Say what? My BABY GIRL is a big pre-schooler? I'm still having a hard time comprehending that. Really. It was just yesterday that I was bringing home my little squish ball...and now I'm dropping you off Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-12556832456062653562009-09-24T12:18:00.001-07:002009-09-24T12:21:56.940-07:00Dear Chase (17 & 18 months), Tuesday, September 22, 2009 ___________________________________________________Dear Mr. Man,I cannot believe that I am combining two months. That's a first. I'm sorry that you're a second child and that had to happen to you! I'm sure when you're reading this down the road you'll understand all about the crazy summers of a wedding photographer and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-57974412547286241762009-08-13T19:17:00.000-07:002009-08-13T19:22:09.321-07:00Dear Emerson (38 months), Thursday, August 13, 2009 _______________________________________Dear Emmie-Bemmie,You learned a funny word today....rump. You said it by accident. Sometimes you say words thinking that you're making things up and I'll say, "Hey, that's a real word, want to know what it means?" So today it was rump. I told you it was another word for bum. You thought I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4011010.post-9567921281999004692009-07-27T18:52:00.000-07:002009-07-27T18:56:58.163-07:00Dear Chase (16 months), Monday, July 27, 2009 ___________________________________________Dear Chasey-Racey-Roo,Hey little buddy, you are currently experiencing a delay in monthly letters because mommy and daddy are so.super.busy. Sorry about that! This has been one busy month for you...you're all over the place walking, climbing, running, laughing, smiling, signing, and coming up Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0