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AGE 4 July 18, 2013 Guy at the restaurant: Are you going to be a musician when you grow up? KT: No, I just wanna be a normal people when I grow up. July 18, 2013 On the trail Tuesday, with no context or preamble: I bet a forest fire would take out a mosquito. August 30, 2013 · Katie is performing a medical procedure on one of her princess dolls, using the tiny blow dryer from her dollhouse bathroom set. She is very intense about it. "I'm giving Jasmine some very special soap medicine. It hurts way more than a LOBSTER! But it's the ONLY WAY!" Dean Lehmkuhler: "On a scale from 0 to LOBSTER, how bad is your pain?" September 16, 2013 · You know it is a wet September in Wyoming when there are shore birds in the yard! We spotted this flock of snipe (the real kind, not the kind you send kids out to hunt) in the yard Sunday morning. I saw four; Katie saw "about a hundred." And she thought they were kingfishers, which resulted in some fun exp...

Katie has been part of our world for the better part of ten years now.  I know everyone thinks their kids are amazing, but...well, mine really is.  She is not without fault, of course, but I know her to be kind, obedient, humble, confident, and about as smart as any kid could possibly need to be.  She is also one of the happiest, most imaginative, most oddly insightful kids I've ever known. And yes, she still does that fluttery, Monty-Python-face thing when she's really happy about something or her imagination is working overtime. She also has a gift for words.  As a young child, she would play with words and ideas almost the way she played with toys:  Arranging them, making them into new forms, trying things out to see how they worked.  Sarah and I have collected some (not nearly enough) of her funny and odd little sayings on Facebook through the years.  Now at last I have collected them in one place. And so, ladies and gentlemen, I give you:...