{"id":351,"date":"2009-05-14T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/05\/can-we-say-true-love.html"},"modified":"2009-05-14T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T02:40:00","slug":"can-we-say-true-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/05\/can-we-say-true-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Can We Say "True Love?""},"content":{"rendered":"

Timmy REALLY loves his little Webkinz puppy<\/a>, named Thomas. This was Timmy’s first Webkinz<\/a>, we got him at the end of the boys’ preschool year, about a year ago. Thomas has traveled with Timmy all over the place: Timmy sleeps with Thomas, takes him to child care on each day that he goes — for naptime, and Thomas has appeared in pictures throughout the past year….you can see the dates on the links below each picture.  I wish you could see how progressively grubby this dog is becoming…he’s been markered-upon, snotted-upon, thrown-up-on, and chocolated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 05 25 ColonialWilliamsburgWithGrandmaGrandpaFox<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 06 21 DriveToPA_Beilers_ThomasStrasburg<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 06 21 DriveToPA_Beilers_ThomasStrasburg<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 06 21 DriveToPA_Beilers_ThomasStrasburg<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 08 12 JacobFirstDayOfKindergarten<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2009 05 03 OmahaZoo<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Last summer I let the boys decorate t-shirts for fun — Jacob did his own t-shirt, but Timmy dictated what he wanted on his shirt. “Mommy, I want a sand castle, and a happy sun and a crab family.” I did my best to accomodate him. Here’s a trip down memory lane with the t-shirts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 06 15 HandmadeShirts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 06 15 HandmadeShirts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 06 15 HandmadeShirts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So (and here’s my point), I came across a stray green t-shirt when I was changing the boys’ clothes from winter to summer. I probably picked up the shirt in 2008 sometime, it’s kelly green and I probably planned to do something St. Patricks-ey, but I can’t remember. Timmy saw the plain shirt and asked if we could paint another picture, and I thought that would be fun.<\/p>\n

This morning I set up things for Timmy to paint the shirt and once again he asked me if I could do the painting. He asked for a picture of him hugging his Thomas Webkinz. I couldn’t do that…but I attempted a picture of just Thomas. Then Timmy asked me to write “I Love Thomas” on the shirt. Here is the end result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2009 05 13 Timmy Tshirt<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I am NOT an artist at all, so this is super-corny, but Timmy thinks it’s great! The letters are actually a gold glitter paint, as it dried the opaque liquid gave way to just plain gold glitter. I think once the face dries I’ll fill it in with some of that gold paint like the body.<\/p>\n

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So there you have it — my baby LOVES his puppy dog and Mommy isn’t much of an artist.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timmy REALLY loves his little Webkinz puppy, named Thomas. This was Timmy’s first Webkinz, we got him at the end of the boys’ preschool year, about a year ago. Thomas has traveled with Timmy all over the place: Timmy sleeps with Thomas, takes him to child care on each day that he goes — for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[26,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-5F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":244,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/09\/timmy-with-his-baby.html","url_meta":{"origin":351,"position":0},"title":"Timmy With His "Baby"","date":"25 September 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Timmy has recently started asking me to swaddle his favorite Webkinz, Thomas the Yellow Lab. 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