Where does "Cheese" Come From?

We get this question a lot, and understandably so, "Cheese" is not a common nick-name like, Stinky, Dirty, or Fummundah. While in the womb, almost on a nightly basis, when Lynnie was trying to go to sleep, Julia would start squirming and rabbit punching. It was really fun to watch from the outside - it looked kind of like an alien incubating in there. So, because of her poor behavior, I started calling her Hunka Munka - the lady mouse in Beatrix Potter's "The Story of Two Naughty Mice". When she first came out, she kinda looked like a little baby mouse. So we continued to call her Hunka Munka or just Baby Mouse.
After a few months, Julia started to gain weight and got some meat on her bones. Following the mouse motif, we would say that Julia was hiding her cheese all over her body. Her cheeks started to get rounder and more full, so we would say she hidding cheese in her cheeks - same with her thighs.After a while, she had hid so much cheese all over her body, that the cheese just took over. That is how she became The Cheese.

Talkin' Cheese

It's been a while since my last post. I was in class this past week and didn't get to it. It's amazing how quickly little ones change and grow. Julia has started talking this past week. No one can understand her, but she is saying something and it sounds pretty important. If you can figure it out, post a comment below.

Laughin' Cheese

You never know what is going to tickle her funny bone. Sometimes you make a face or a sound and she just finds it hysterical. Today, Lynnie was trying to get Julia to eat some apple sauce. Julia was being her normal difficult self and turning away, employing the resistance techniques of a SERE trained commando. Trying to get her attention, Lynnie used the "Filipino mating call," as we called it in Hawaii : spt-spt (for those unfamiliar with this - you'll be able to hear it in the video) which set Julia into fits of laughter. Who knew that would be the laugh of the day?!

Yoda Cheese or Cheesie Yoda

My dad is always messing around with Photoshop to make these very silly, fantastic renditions of our family. Some of his best work was done last summer when the final - or so we hope - Pirates of the Caribbean came out. He went nuts with that theme and created some of the funniest pictures I've ever seen. I will let you be the judge:

Then he went through a sporadic Yoda phase where every once in a while he would put Yoda's head on us. His most recent inspiration came to us in an email. I thought it was pretty funny. I hope you do to.