more favorites

the other night, Ben and I sat and looked at some old posts- how happy I am that I started this blog! One of favorite things to keep up with are the various and random "favorite things" or "favorite words" posts. LOVE seeing how much our two little bugs are growing!
So, here's a new inventory:

Oliver's favorites:

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  all things cars, trucks, bikes, trains. You get the picture. He really loves the movie "Cars" still, with his two favorite characters being Mack and Frank. Luckily for Ollie, he has a supercool dad who can do ALL of the voices!
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  our hose. O likes to spray the flowers, the toys, the playset, his sister, himself. His latest favorite thing is to fill the whole toy bucket up with water and then climb in too. Very cute.
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  ketchup (Ollie pronunciation = ketchkup). On everything from french fries to pancakes. It's a vegetable, right?compliments.
• SUCH a budding politician! "Mama, I like your green shirt!"
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  the Philadelphia Flyers, particularly Danny Briere. Ben became a fan this year, and Ollie was right there by his side. On a completely selfish note, I'm also pleased with this newfound love because of this:

  

  me, baby Auntie Miss and my dad, wearing a Rick MacLeish jersey

Violet's favorites:

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  peanut butter and jelly and "snacks" (Vi pronunciation = pea-buh-jeh-snack). She loves PB&J sandwiches (it's a fruit, right?) served with these snacks (again, vegetable....). She dunks the snack into the jelly and eats it.
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  still, animals. CRAZY for animals. Right now, she adores horses, which I credit Bullseye with. He is the horse from Toy Story 2, and V loves pretending she's Jessie the cowgirl riding Bullseye the horse (again, Supercool daddy). "Yee-haw!"
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  gnomes. Or in Violet's mind, goblins (Violet says  = Gawflins). She saw a goblin on Little Bear (still #1, all time favorite show) and then saw the slightly scary-looking garden gnomes on sale at Target, and is now obsessed. I have one hidden at our local store until it goes on clearance to buy it for her (who knew how expensive gawflins were?).
• shoes, shoes and shoes. My girl loves shoes. She wears them morning until night, including naptime and pool time.

see that sweet boy in the window? how can I not love looking up at that?

beautiful baby girl cousins playing games. such love.