She Knows How To Use It

My phone's camera. Can you guess what or where these pictures are?

So, I'll number them - if you want to guess - and I'll give answers in a few days :)

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That's it...the rest are just catch-up stuff from my phone.

A cactus flower we saw on the Lanikai Pill-box Hike we took last Saturday. In an effort to tire Galina out (in the hopes of bringing back naps) we let her walk most of it. She kept telling people passing-by, "I'm a good hiker. I need a snack."

Yesi Randall, a friend here, organized a Cookie Exchange. I'd never been a part of one of these - but I'm glad this was my first because it was fantastic! Yesi had a container for everyone to take home their cookies in, and she had prizes (candles, aprons, place mats, etc.) for a couple of games she played. It was a lot of fun!

This was the table of cookies - I think in the end there were 17 different kinds. I made no-bake cookies and Galina kept sneaking up to the table to grab one and pop it in. I realized she was doing it when her cheeks stayed full!

Almost two weeks ago she got, "a skahuge goose-egg" - that's what she calls it. We were dancing in the living room and her forehead managed to find the gap between the sofa and recliner that meets up at the edge of a little table. Ouch!

We walk in the mornings, typically, and on the way home she always wants to stop at these little bus stops. They aren't really bus stops, but there are about five of them on our way home, just little covered areas with two benches. She just wants me to sit on a bench and she'll sit on a bench and she'll talk, while I think about how much I wish I hadn't started letting her out of the stroller to walk the last little bit home and how much I wish I hadn't let her sit on the bench that ONE time, because she's such an elephant...and an elephant never forgets. But, actually, for the most part it's fun. She talks a lot, and very well and surprises me with the things she knows and can have conversations about. In this picture she said, "Mommy, I have an idea." Cute.

Back on November 12th we went to the Laie Temple Rededication. It was a great chance to take her through a temple. Anytime she sees a picture of a big beautiful building she calls it a temple. She did really well, was quiet and attentive, and we bought her her own CTR ring at distribution before we left, but she was happier with the free cookies they were giving out! For some reason (and I attribute it all to that blasted CTO Hercules musical I helped with) Galina always says, "I'm want to get married." When she started in with that, I said ONCE, "...in the Temple, after college." So now I'll hear her playing with her toys and she'll say, "Let's go to college, THEN get married." And at various points in a day she'll say, "Mommies and Daddies get married in Temples." I guess since I can't erase the word from her memory, I'm hoping to just set things straight with correct principles :)