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2 days ago
4 comments:
This is BobbieSue I remember when kacie and I were in the 4th grade? It was winter and we were over at her house, anyways at the subdivision sign we hid behind it and threw snoballs at cars. We got in big trouble by her parents and older sister so I had to go home. Theres lots of other memories but I think that was one of the first that I can remember!
Hi Kibby,
I remember your cute fat "Jabba the Hut" cheeks when you were a baby! I loved holding you, as you slept all the time!
My memories of you are of when you were little. Your fat "Jabba the Hut" cheeks, your big blue eyes, playing babies with Gma Jo, wearing curly piggy tails, not wanting to wear a bra, long hair, being in the temple for your sealing.
~k
. I would sing to and read to Kacie before her afternoon naps. She especially liked this story from one of the Disney books about these sticks that could walk.
· Having special time at 11 a.m. She and Molly and I would play things like Ring around the Rosie, do the Hokey Pokey, What Am I Doing?, etc. It helped me to have a set time to drop everything and play, so I didn’t fill the entire day with cooking, cleaning, running errands, and running the younger ones to their practices, etc.
· She was very strong willed and did not like to mind. She wanted to be in charge.
· Kacie loved babies. At church she would disappear after sacrament meeting. She was always found near a newborn. She loved dolls.
· Kacie liked to go to the restroom at church, so she could get up and go do something when she was bored.
· Kacie liked to play pretend with Grandma Jo and Molly.
· Ed and Marian Keller, old friends, came to visit and check out this guy I was dating and his family. Kacie ran into the bathroom. She was just being potty trained. She was gone too long. When I went to check on her, she had taken her finger and wiped poop all over the walls and toilet.
· Kelly and Shana liked to dress up Molly and Kacie with make up and cute hairdos.
· When I took Kacie grocery shopping with me one day the lady at the check out counter asked her where she got her beautiful blue eyes. She said, “From my Heavenly Father.”
· She liked to give little gifts to her siblings on their birthdays. Usually, it would be a wrapped and colored page from her coloring book, or a favorite marker, or something like that. She liked to be situated right next to the sibling having the birthday, at the table, so she could be near the excitement. When Daniel was born, she could hardly contain herself from opening his presents and getting a little too hands on.
· She found the scissors and cut her own bangs a couple of times—short and near the scalp.
· She loved puzzles, and would often pick them to purchase with the money she got from Grandma and Grandpa Yocom. When she got her birthday check from them, we would go to Brother and Sister Tyler’s store downtown and she got to pick what she wanted. It was fun for her. She played a lot with the Fisher Price house with little people. When she was a little older, she loved to draw on her Magna Doodle that Grandma Jo bought her. She and Molly played pretend a lot. They would play store and use the toy box as their conveyer. They also liked to play library and unload the books off the big bookcases downstairs to check them out. I would get weary helping them pick up, because they really pulled things apart when they played, but I thought it was good for them to use their imagination and to play.
· I had to more thoroughly clean the toy room when the Molly and Kacie weren’t around because the girls didn’t want me to throw anything away—no matter how small the broken toy piece may be it could be used for pretending it was something else.
· I remember Kacie and Molly playing Fast and Testimony Meeting with Molly’s microphone that she got for her birthday. They would practice bearing their testimonies.
· Kacie and Molly liked to pretend they were going to the prom. They would dress up and kiss each other. Kacie was always the girl and Molly was always the boy. They liked to pose for pictures then, because we took pictures of the older children with their dates.
· Kacie was shy about singing and dancing. She would stand in the side lines when Molly wanted to perform for me, jiggling a little – hoping no one would notice. As soon as I would put the camera on her she would stop. She didn’t want to be videotaped due to a lack of confidence.
· When Kacie was seven years old, Jeff cut out a large red heart out of construction paper and taped it to her chest. He had written on it, “I’m ready for a big hug.” She ran to everyone to get their reaction and loved it.
· Kacie came in from playing in the snow one day, and I was on the phone. She wanted to talk to me, but I just stroked her hair and her face to calm her while I finished my conversation. It wasn’t long until she was fast asleep. Conked out in her snowsuit in the hallway. I have pictures of it. It was funny. I just let her sleep until she woke up herself.
· In 1989, our Valentines Card to Kacie had a handwritten note from her father that pretty much summed it up at the time:
The card said, Daughter—You’ll always be our little princess. Happy Valentines Day With Love. Then her dad wrote, “The little princess that never stops. You are a lot like the butterfly, pretty, but always on the go. Thank you for asking mom or I for that special time. Love, Mom and Dad (Special time is what we called one-on-one time with our children.)
· When I lost Shaun, I bought her and I a doll that was just about the size of Shaun when he was delivered. She named her doll, Jared, after Kelly’s boyfriend at the time.
· I used to sit down with the younger children and help them write down their goals for the coming year. I encouraged them to set goals in the different areas suggested in a program by the church. Kacie set these goals (when she was around 7 years old), in addition to some other wonderful goals:
1. Be happier when I’m setting the table
2. I will use a soft voice, even when I’m angry (this goal was set for two years)
3. Make some surprises for each of my family members (And then we kept track of the fact that she had made Kelly and Molly’s bed for them)
· Kacie earned the Presidential Physical Fitness award one year. (Very impressive!)
· When Jeff was in grade school, I went on a lot of his field trips as a chaperone. I would take Kacie with me. She soon became the class “mascot.” Everyone liked having her with us on the field trips. I remember one time Jeff’s teacher challenging the class to be quiet on the bus ride back to school from a field trip. She said if everyone could do it, that she would buy ice cream for everyone. The class really wanted it, and I was so afraid that Kacie wouldn’t be able to not talk for that long of a time. I was greatly relieved when she quickly fell asleep on my lap when the bus became quiet. She won the challenge and we went back the day they had ice cream to celebrate with the class.
· Kacie and Molly liked to do cartwheels on the football field during half time of the boys games.
· Kacie had some great birthday parties. She loved having a piñata at her parties. We had games that we played that became traditions. “Musical paper plates,” “Hanging donuts,” Jumping high, Jumping low, Limbo
· When my father was moved to a rest home nearby, Kacie soon began volunteering at the home. She would pass out popcorn to the residents during their movie.
· Clogging with Shana.
· She had no patience for cross stitch when I tried to teach her, but she did enjoy some sewing that she learned in the 4-H group that my friend, Julie Hardinger, and I put together to help our girls learn some things we thought were important—and other things we just thought would be fun. Kacie also enjoyed the classes on clowning and she was good behind a rotatiller.
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