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I was going to post this story about Orva last week with her update and forgot:

Last week was Testimony meeting in our ward and Orva was sitting on Brad's lap just playing, as usual. Apparently she was paying attention to all the people getting up to bear their testimonies, because all of a sudden she hopped off his lap and said, "I go say prayer now" and walked right up the aisle. She made it all the way to the stairs going up to the podium before Brad got to her. It was very alarming, and very funny.

I am of the opinion that children should not get up to bear their testimonies until they can do it by themselves, so she's got a ways to go. Had she made it up there, she would have said a prayer (that's what she thought everybody was doing - she doesn't know about testimonies yet), and it would have gone something like this:

"Heavenly Father, bless this day, and bless this home, and bless this Woody, and Buzz, and other-one-buzz, and bless this Jackson, and thank you Addie, and thank you Addie's house..." and on and on and on and on. She usually keeps praying half-way through our meals, about everything in sight. And she has the typical up-and-down praying inflection down perfectly. It's great.

Also to add to Ford's update, he's now pulling himself to standing and very pleased with himself about it. He also sounds exactly like Gus-Gus from Cinderella when he talks. It's hysterical.

And now, a couple videos just for fun (the Happy Birthday one is from a few months ago):