It's official. We are once again a family of four. Mama, Daddy, Maren, and our newest addition: Melmo. It was all started by one of my co-workers who innocently handed down an Elmo DVD that her son had loved. I used that disc to test out the DVD player in the van one day and thus started Maren's obsession. Every where she goes now it's "Melmo? Melmo? Melmo?" When she wakes up, "Melmo?" After breakfast, "Melmo?" When we turn on the TV to skype family, "Melmo! Melmo!" What have I done!?! At least it's not a large purple dinosaur named Barney.
Another thing Maren can't get enough of right now is juice. Orange juice, specifically. When Brent went to Great Grandma Elaine's 90 birthday party in Arizona he came back with bags of fresh oranges from her trees. Grandma Gill made Maren a special treat with those oranges - fresh squeezed orange juice. She drank glass after glass and kept asking for more. Now it's the first thing she asks for when she wakes up in the morning and the last thing she wants before going to bed. She brings her sippy cup over to me, pulls my finger and says "Up! Up!", and drags me to the refrigerator where she pleads her case for more "joos". It's actually one of my favorite parts of the day because it's one of the few times she still curls up in my lap to cuddle while she guzzles the magic elixir.
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