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Beetle has a new favorite activity. Playing with the spoon and fork bin. Really pulling stuff out of any cabinet is fun,

but for whatever reason the spoons and forks are especially so.

One of three looking at the camera. Not bad :)

I set her on the floor with the container of them this morning and had a flash back to what was likely about a year and a half ago. Juliet used to love doing the same thing. She loved the cabinet of all the kid plates, cups, silverware, etc. We used to stand there while she stood on the cabinet emptying everything out one by one and then putting it all back again. I used to think the standing on the cabinet part was the draw, but maybe not?

Then I started wondering, when did she stop doing that? Did she just not stand and point at the cabinet one day? Did I start refusing to stand there for what seemed like hours on end as she reorganized the plasticware?

Kind of like how she used to sit in her crib when we'd put her down for bed and kiss them goodnight all over and over again for approximately 30 minutes before going to sleep herself. Or how she used to make us sit on the floor and pass her 20+ stuffed animal friends back and forth to her in the crib. When did Ernie and Bert make their last flight into her crib?

I honestly don't remember.

The lasts. The end. The things that just won't happen again.

I don't want to go back. Trust me on that. I loved it then, but I love now so so much. And I'm sure I will love a year from now and 10 years from now, but I guess I just find it funny that we often note and treasure the firsts of our children, but the lasts are so easily overlooked.

My youngest sister got a car last month so can now drive herself to school. It was kind of the end of an era for my mom. She had been driving at least one child to school since 1985. That's over 25 years! I'm sure on my first day of kindergarten she had no idea that taking my sisters and I to school was something that would be a part of her daily routine for such a long time. Craziness.

Thanks mom :)

In other news, Juliet currently likes to say that things are hilarious. She'll run around the living room and tell me she's hilarious, dump a box of toys on the floor and tell me she's hilarious, make a silly noise and tell me she's hilarious. You get the point. She's hilarious :)

Some hilarity from today.

She dictated her hair and requested that I retrieve her "white ballet dress" from the closet in Corinne's room. This was her flower girl dress from Aunt Annie and Uncle Jeff's wedding last summer. The whole ensemble was just worn a little differently ...

She's got a knack for style that one!

Doing a little pirouetting. And I'm not sure which of her Grandpas like ballet ...