The Tanner & Violet Channel: Ground Hogs Day!

Things that Tanner says

June 2014

Tanner was moving something and he held up his arms to show his muscles and said "I am stronger than I look."

September 20, 2013

Tanner found this little box of Altoid Chewing gum and told me " You only lick them, don't swallow it, then when you are done put it back. "

Now I know why they are all sticky.

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March 22 2013

At 6 am this morning Tanner started talking about his Uncle James' rock crawler and then said "It's hard to drive with the wheel broken. James fix it."

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May 9, 2013 :

While driving on the road today Tanner saw a yellow car and said, "Look mom, Bumblebee."

Tanner asked me if he could watch something. Then he said "Yes, we can." (From Bob the Builder)

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May 1, 2013:

I told Tanner not to play with the printer/fax machine. He really likes playing with the phone that is attached to it. He came over to me and told me to plug my ears. He thought that if I had my ears plugged I wouldn't be able to hear him play with the machine.

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April 21, 2013:

I was sitting on the floor in the living room and Tanner got a stool and set it next to me and looked me in the eye and said,"How are you doing Mommy?" Then he said, "You can lay on my arm." And put my head on it. He's so caring.

Also he said "Don't you change the TV channel."

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February 20, 2013:

Tonight while trying to get Tanner to bed he was looking at something on the wall and said "Big like Dad's belly". We weren't sure what he was pointing at.

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February 5 2013:

While trying to get Tanner to take a nap he was looking at the ceiling in the bedroom and said "Mommy a hippo! Aligator! Giraffe. " I asked him what they were doing and he said "Fighting."

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January 12, 2013:

Dan just asked me if I wanted to watch a movie. Tanner said "Yes, Mickey Mouse."

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January 12, 2013:

Tanner really likes Mickey Mouse Club house and while we were visiting my cousin Hillary the other day he started singing "Hot Dog Hot diggity Dog" during lunch.

And yesterday when we went shopping he got out of the car and said "Oh Toodles."

And then at Kohls he started singing "Jesus Sunbeam" over and over. He doesn't quite know all the words but he makes some sounds inbetween Jesus and Sunbeam because he knows they are there.

He loves singing.

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January 2, 2013 :

Tanner and I were standing in line to fix our Comcast issue and there was a lady in front of us who had on some sort of furry coat thing. Tanner touched the collar and said "Dog, Woof Woof."

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November 16 2012 :

A conversation with Tanner:

Tanner: Broke

Mom: What is broke?

Tanner: This (pointing to his bum)

Mom: Your bum is broken?

Tanner: Yes

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October 3 2012:

Tanner's favorite words that he says all day long: Truck, Happy, Yuck, Grandpa, Dada, and Mama.

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August 31, 2012:

Tanner just loves his dad and today was no different. Tanner was just so fussy today and I asked him what he needed and he said, " My Dad." It's so cute and it's one of his first sentences.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Ground Hogs Day!

I've always thought that it was fun to celebrate holidays. Even ones that really don't mean much. But on Ground Hogs day it's pretty exciting to get up and see if the Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow. Will he see it? Will he not? We just don't know until February 2nd. And the rest of our Winter/ or Spring depends on him. The Weather according to a little guy who sleeps all winter. And no matter what happens the first day of Spring always seems to be March 20th.
Well, yesterday was no exception. Only this time, Tanner woke me up and said; "It's Ground Hog's day." So while we were eating breakfast we checked the news to see if the Ground Hog saw his shadow and he did- an Early spring indeed. I showed Tanner some other pictures of what a Ground Hog looks like and we watched the Wild Kratts episode on Netflix about Ground Hogs and what they actually do. It's pretty interesting to know that the male Ground Hog doesn't even care about the weather. He gets up early to see if any female Ground Hogs are around so he can mate. They have to constantly eat so their teeth don't grow out of control and they can build up fat for the winter. Hillbilly Ground Hogs- That would be funny. Tripping on their own teeth.

We also read the book Ground Hog gets a Say. That one has a lot of information about what a Ground Hog does and how they dig their holes and what they eat. I had Tanner and Violet make their own pictures of Ground hogs. Tanner put the flowers in the Ground Hogs mouth and he said that his Ground Hog saw it's shadow and Violet said that her's didn't.

Because Ground Hogs eat Grass, Plants and some Fruits and Veggies we had a salad bar for dinner. Lots of different bowls full of different things that the kids could pick and eat. It's amazing that they will eat a salad if you say it's Ground Hogs food. For dessert Tanner and Violet made some Ground Hog cookies in Pudding dirt.