Child Lit
“I hear a hippopotamus snoring in my ear. Hippopotamus, hippopotamus, what do you hear?”
Eric Carle Polar bear what do you hear?
Found out you would be a mom!
1996
'Aslan; said Lucy, you're bigger" That is because you are older, little one, answered he. Not because you are?' I am not But every year you grow, you will find me bigger"
Narnia C. S. Lewis
Nostalgic dessert outing of choice
Dairy Queen
Learned about this place with museums, homemade food, paper made out of lint, and bright play doh pyramids.
Egypt
“The mitten swelled and stretched it was pulled and bulged to many times its size. But Baba's good knitting held fast.”
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Drove an RV with Caris’ Trump bucks through beautiful Tennessee
2020
four siblings—Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden— possibly were the origin of Caris’ dream of a mobile home?
Boxcar children
4 letter acronym on the grocery list that sat on the side of the grocery cart.
CFDP
Twin birthday party location & has peacocks
Bluebird Gap Farm
“…and I and J and tag-along K, all on their way up the coconut tree.”
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Brought Hannah & Caris out of the continent for the first time.
2011
Dinosaurs before Dark, Mummies in the Morning, Afternoon on the Amazon, Midnight on the Moon
Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osbourne
Type of shortbread cookie
Lorna Doone
Location (including color) of where we sang Baby Beluga by Raffi
Blue van
“On every branch sat a monkey. On every monkey was a gray, brown, blue, or red cap.”
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Learned to make a ballet bun
2007
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
Dumbledore quote from Harry Potter
Breakfast to celebrate 100th day of Kindergarten
French toast 1, bagel 0s
Ocean-yaked on a family vacation for the first time
Emerald Isle, NC
“Here he is at home with papa blue and mama blue… and they all hugged each other with joy.”
Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
2009
Like Game of Thrones but for rats.
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Had this in the freezer & Learned how to use fake meat so she could still make dinner for me
Morning Star Farms
Celebrated Hannah’s last dance performance with a Margarita flight
The Mission