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Playing with bug stuff from Jordan's birthday party and the sand that she emptied from her pockets

Jordan and Johari jumping on the trampoline

Paulo, the beloved dog...this is a popular dog (Jordan's dog)

Johari insisted on going to the park in the rain, so here we are preparing

Figuring out how to balance an umbrella on her shoulder...(Mia's umbrella getting a little use)
Playing with her bike in the garage

Julia and Johari on the ivory together

We have had a few birthdays coming up recently so now I think Johari is getting the concept of birthday parties and BIRTHDAY CAKES!!! She says, "birthday". She even wished her grandma a happy birthday.
She has been putting a Y at the end of many of her words recently that never used to have a Y on them. Home-y. Book-y. Shoe-y. And so on.
We have had some babysitting experiences lately. We babysat for Jordan a couple times and for Julia a couple times. Hyon watched Johari a couple times while I went for a run. So Johari likes to reenact the "I want my mommy" scenes. When someone is crying for their mommy. She likes to talk about how they cried and said, "I want my mommy." or even if they didn't say it and just cried she knows that's what they were thinking. It seems that right now, any child that is crying must want their mommy.
Johari has been into swinging in the past week...when we can get out, if the weather is not too dreary. She even likes to try the "big" swings now. She started working on her swing pumping skills. It doesn't really get the swing moving yet, but she seems to have the concept down from watching other swingers. She first started just with moving her upper body back and forth. Then she start keeping her legs stiff out in front of her.
Johari is getting resourceful about getting up higher to do things or climb up to get something by moving one of her little chairs around.
She likes to scooch up next to me or Grandma when we are reading her a book and say, "close".
I highly recommend the book, "Clap Your Hands" by Lorinda Brian Cauley for the shorties. She loves to follow along aand do each action that it tells you to do. She has been practicing her "roar like a lion". It used to be a very meek roar but it is gaining force these days. She likes to scare people with her roars now.
Last evening we were at the mall playing in the playground area in doors and guess who showed up.....Spiderman. Not only one Spiderman but 2 Spidermen (children in costume). One was especially thrilling for many of the kids because he had a hood/mask. It seemed to create chaos almost immediately and the reactions of many of the children were kind of sadly interesting. Some of the kids wanted to bully the Spiderman. And others were just in awe following him around and following his lead. Others were fearful of him. He popped up next to Johari at some point and she was extremely frightened by it. She kept wanting to see the "fireman" aka Spiderman but saying she was scared of him. Later I saw him trying to help another kid lose his fear of Spiderman. He was talking him through it and showing him that it was just a mask. This is about a 5 or 6 year old kid...the Spiderman kid.
Johari has been dealing with a cold. It has been a while since she had one. Not too bad but not fun either.