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June with you

Roses are in bloom

You started your first attempt at cooking

Loved twirling and hate car rides still haha

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Today at the park with a Beignet and a ham and cheese croissant

5.22.25

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Hope this can help you in your darkest moments

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Dearest Chloe,

I listen to "Romance" by Yuhki Kuramoto as I edit these photos of you.

This set is fresh off of my memory as I just took these photos this afternoon around 1pm or so in the same trail in La Center, WA.

We took a little break at the end of the trail road where some yellow wildflowers grew. You started picking them and Tofu and Nori also started eating frantically some grass to get some moisture or maybe for them to relieve their thirst. Your hand on Nori gently brushing his back was such a beauty to behold. Your gentle touch, your hand lightly brushing through and your curious and gentle soul just speaking its way in these shots.

Your gentle sharing gesture as you suggest sharing the yellow flower you just picked. My little angel, I hope we can be good friends for life- and that I could be a good Mother to you always. I am not perfect by any means, but I try my best to be your best protector and guide in this fallen world - let us walk upon the Light and follow Him always! Let us walk the narrow road as Jesus has done for us.

And just as you let your hand out as you did for fearful Nori, let us hold hands of our brothers and sisters who struggle and need the Lord. Let you not be astray like your Mom has at times. Even if you do, may you be guided back to the path.

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This was at La Center, WA

some trail and park where it led us to the narrow path and lots of wild grass and tall woody climbable trees - I placed you there on that tree trunk with a yellow wildflower in hand and one in your hair-

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May 6th morning

After breakfast, again yet again half naked

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Alice in Wonderland theme- Chloe in Woodland

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Playing in the fields with flowers

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You wanted to be held by Him again

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Another fine day at the Lewis State Park

near the creek

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Father love-

Right before you took an hour long nap on His shoulder

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But oh how gleeful you were to play with sticks in a park

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Gleeful Picnic one fine April morning (Thursday) when your Dad took the day off and made a flat tire

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Picnic at Lucia Falls

When your Dad made the tire flat due to the traffic teeth

and we were waiting for the tow truck

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Sometime in April, one day

when you were little - 15 months

and naked

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4.14.25

So after the zoo, you were knocked out pretty fast in the car. I had a choice to drive around for hour or two around the area or drive actually somewhere two hours distance

So I decided to drive to seaside OR when I had a chance. What a great opportunity and I took it!

Not sure if it was the best idea based on how things ended at 1:30am the next morning but I think you were pretty happy all in all until I woke you up then for another 2 hour car ride. Which yoh happily slept through the whole ride through.

We arrived at seaside around. 3pm and I took you right away to a Thai fusion restaurant. The food was not great but the portions were huge enough to save for dinner- which was a good thing but I think I ended up having diarrhea and stomach problems after. I wasn’t hungry much but we got edamame, miso soup, large rice, 🍚 and Thai fried rice. You just loved eating the rice by itself in big mouthfuls haha

At least you seemed full and I was happy with that. Afterwards, we walked around the area and went to different stores and I got you some toys to last another day. We saw some dogs walking around and then it hit me. I was exhausted and maybe the food wasn’t helping with its loadful of MSG

So we went to Safeway to get some essentials and I ordered a flat white

Then we checked in on the hotel and rested a bit before we went to the beach and then you were knocked out again so I drove around cannon beach and came back to the hotel where we both ate dinner and you were so hungry

Then we went to bed after a bath and 11pm I think is when you started really sleeping but I couldn’t sleep so i packed and left after hours of itchiness from bedbugs which the hotel said they don’t have based on their housekeeping staff