Passport Update

Well, I just talked to Devin and looks like he doesn't have to live in the Atlantic Ocean. When he got to Customs in Dallas, he told the Customs officer his dilemma and they took him to a separate room to talk to him. I'm pretty sure they were planning on using Water boarding on him, but I think after hearing his story, they felt sorry for him. :) The good news is that they let him in the US, but that bad news is that they invalidated his US passport (Put a hole in it) so he cannot use it anymore. So, what this means is that he cannot in any way come back to Germany until he gets a new passport in the US. Normal expedited passports take up to 3 weeks, but I'm pretty confident Raytheon will step up and save us and get us some sweet hook-up to get a super expedited passport. Devin talked to the secretaries at work in Tucson, and they're looking into options. So, hopefully he'll be back soon. :( Brian, Aubrey, and Celeste come visit us on April 11, so I'm really really hoping he can be back by then. In the meantime, I have nothing to do in the evenings, so I guess I'll just post like 6 blogs a night. :)

Nana & Papa's visit

OK, as a warning, this is going to be a lot of pictures! We had a great time with my parents. Here's a short version of our fun week:

My parent's took a flight to Frankfurt, which was supposed to arrive at 6:10am. Because I don't enjoy waking up at 3:00 in the morning, I asked if they felt comfortable taking a train to Ulm. It's a direct train and the train station in Frankfurt is connected to the airport, so I thought it would all be OK. We talked to them after they got on the train, so we knew exactly what time to get them in Ulm. We all went to the Ulm train station to pick them up. We went to the platform right as the train got there. I was looking all over, but didn't see my parents. The doors to the train shut and I was wondering where my parents were when I heard banging on the train window next to me. My mom was standing there, inside the train, banging on the window. I tried to push the button to open the doors, but the train had already started moving, and once the doors close, they don't open again. So, we watched my parents ride away in the train. Dallin started bawling because he thought Nana and Papa were gone for good. They really weren't, they just had to ride to Augsburg (40 minutes there) and back, and they were careful to hurry off the train the second time to Ulm. :)

We took them to our favorite restaurant on Saturday, then went to church and had an Easter Egg hunt on Sunday. We had the missionaries over to dinner on Sunday and we made a non-traditional Easter dinner of Tacos and Taco Salad. :)

On Monday, we decided to go to Munich and see the Deutsches Museum, which was fun. There are 3 branches and we went to the "transportation" one, which included tons of cars, bikes, and trains. It was fun, especially for the boys. My dad used some hotel points and booked 2 hotel rooms for us in Munich. Devin took the train back to Ulm because he had to work on Tuesday, unfortunately.

Tuesday morning we went to Dachau, a concentration camp just outside Munich. It was the first concentration camp built, and a model for all the others. It was a working camp, not an extermination camp. It was really really cold and snowing when we got there, which made us think about what the prisoners had to go through. So sad. After that, we drove to Salzburg, Austria. It was snowing there, too, and very cold, but we had fun looking around. A lot of the stores there had painted eggs. It was amazing to see hundreds or thousands of hand painted eggs in cartons. It made me a little nervous with the kids in those stores! The eggs were all really pretty. We drove back home that night.

Wednesday and Thursday we stayed around Ulm. My parents got to visit the kindergarten and see the classrooms and talk to the teachers. We also walked around fischerviertel, which is Fisherman's Quarter's in Ulm. It's a nice area of town on the river that has lots of restaurants and shops. The weather was pretty nice that day so we were able to have lunch outside. We also saw Ulm's Muenster, which is the tallest cathedral in the world.

Friday we went to Rothenburg, a small medieval town. We went on a "Night Watchman's Tour," which was really interesting. We stayed overnight in a 600 year old building that used to be the mayor's house. It was really a neat building and the staff was SO nice, especially with the kids. The next morning my mom and I went to the Christmas store and the boys went to the medieval crime & punishment museum. After lunch, we went to Nurnberg. We went to the Nazi Documentation Center, which was very interesting. It mostly talked about how the Nazi party was able to gain power and why those things happened. Then we went into Old Town Nurnberg and saw the big market square and a few of the many churches there. We ate at McDonalds for dinner to thank the kids for being so good. :) We got home late Saturday night and then my parents got up really early and took the train to the airport Sunday morning. The week went by WAY too fast. But, I'm so glad they were able to visit and we had a great time with them!

Marionplatz in Munich

At the restaurant in Munich

Outside Deutsches Museum

My favorite pedestrian plaza in Munich

The hand painted Easter Eggs in Salzburg! This is only one room in that store, but there were lots more just like it!

COLD Salzburg

In front of the Danube River in Ulm

Ethan at fischerviertel

In front of the Muenster in Ulm

Both pictures at fischerviertel

Rothenburg Market Square

My mom and I stopped at the weekly farmer's market on Saturday. There was a man there pressing fresh apple juice. It was SO yummy!

My parents are so awesome... they brought us a TWELVE pack of root beer in their luggage! We all love Root Beer and miss it terribly, but I didn't want to ask anyone to bring it because I was afraid it would explode on their clothes or that it wasn't allowed. Well, my mom called the airline and they said it was fine, so they packed 10 pounds of root beer in their suitcase. :) We all enjoyed it immensely. :)

Dallin and Nana at a man-made lake in Nurnberg

Easter Eggs

We had a lot of fun dying Easter Eggs. I bought some dye from the store, but it was a little different than the kind I buy in the US. This one was small packets of dye that I mixed with water and vinegar. I thought the dye was maybe a little stronger.

The missionaries were over while we dyed eggs, and before we started I asked Dallin to take off his shirt and put on old pants. Devin went upstairs to help him. Devin said Dallin wouldn't go downstairs without his shirt on because he didn't want the missionaries to see his "privates." So, Devin & Dallin compromised and Dallin decided to wear a bib to cover up his goods. Funny boy.

The kids had a lot of fun with the eggs. We had a few brown ones and white ones and they all turned out pretty.

Froche Ostern

Happy Easter! Belated, I know, but I thought I should post some pictures. I am a really horrible mother because somehow I forgot to take a picture of the 3 boys together. I guess I'll have to dress them up again and take one then. Here are a few pictures of them during their Easter Hunt. Ethan was so cute because it took him a minute to get it, and then he really loved looking for the candy. Holidays are so much more fun with young kids!! :)

Too funny to pass up

My friend Ashlie did this on her blog, and I just thought it was too funny. Maybe because I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown.... but funny none the less.

You just type in "(fill in your name) needs" into Google and then look at the first 10 things that come up.

So, according to google, Allison needs:
ALLISON NEEDS more good farmers to raise corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, peanuts, cattle, hogs and sheep (OK, I guess I could go for that one.)

Allison needs a loving home (check.)

Allison needs _____. (Allrightie)

Allison Needs Your Prayers (I could probably go for that one) :)

Allison Needs Assessment (probably true)

Allison needs to marry Jerry Springer and have evil demon children together (interesting, but no.)

ALLISON NEEDS to join myspace (nah.)

Allison needs chocolate (definitely)

Allison needs a big sister to give her encouragement that she's a special (Kristie??)

Allison needs to shut up (I guess I'm done)

Try your name!

Pumpin' Iron at American Airlines

My parents were here all last week and we had a wonderful time with them. I'll try to go through the billion pictures I took and post a few tonight or tomorrow. Devin left this morning for AZ. He has meetings this week and then he'll fly to CA to spend the weekend with his family, then hopefully he'll come home early next week. Hopefully is the key word there, and not because we're having marital problems.

I talked to Devin this morning when he was on the train going to the airport. A short while later, he called again and said there was a problem. OK. This is the story of our life for the past 6 months. I figured he missed the plane or it was canceled or something. No. The lady at the check-in counter freaking ripped out the first page of his passport. Yes, the one with your name, picture, and all vital info on it. Perfect. When Devin told me this, I thought there was no way I had heard him right. Had she completely lost it? Was she crazy??? Devin said she didn't mean to, but hello! The pages are SEWN in there and the passport was only 7 months old. I'm picturing her like Mr. Incredible and just doesn't know her own strength. Anyway, her fix to the problem was just walking him through security, but then Devin went back and got her name and talked to her supervisor. She put a note in the computer about it, for what that's worth. They also upgraded him from business class to first class, which he was happy about. I'm trying not to think about all the bad things that can happen from this (the passport thing, not the first class thing). :) I read online at the state dept's website that if a passport is damaged, then it is invalid.

So, now Devin's plane lands in Dallas in 20 minutes and I'm wondering if my poor husband is going to be held in some holding facility for illegal aliens trying to sneak into the country. I called the US Embassy in Frankfurt (you can only call between 2-4pm and leave a message and they call you back) and they were not sure if he would be let into the US or let back into Germany if he came back. Awesome. I wonder if the Atlantic Ocean has some nice island on it stocked with Taco Seasoning and Peanut Butter.

The lady with the Embassy said he has to come there in person and re-apply for a passport. This can be a problem because that means we will also have to get a new visa for him because it's stamped in his passport. Hopefully they can just print another one out, but knowing our luck.... well, I just don't want to think about it.

Anyway, this is a to-be-continued. Hopefully I have lots of good news in the next post.

irresistible

I just love this picture of Ethan after eating a cookie. Just a simple day, but such a cute face. :)

Happy St. Patty's Day

Here's a fun little thing I saw on Devin's aunt's blog. Try it out... it's interesting! :)

79 words

Speed test

My boys

Culture Shock

This past week, some of Devin's co-workers from Tucson came to Ulm for meetings. We got a babysitter and went out to eat with them one night, which was fun. One of them was telling us about culture shock. Apparently, there are stages for culture shock. We hadn't heard of these stages, so this guy was telling us about it. It was funny for us, cause as he was telling us the stages and "symptoms," we were like 'check, ya, check, yep have that one too, check.' When we got home, we looked it up on the computer. The stages of culture shock are:

Stage 1 - Excitement

The individual experiences a holiday or 'honeymoon' period with their new surroundings.

They:
. Feel very positive about the culture
. Are overwhelmed with impressions
. Find the new culture exotic and are fascinated
. Are passive, meaning they have little experience of the culture

Stage 2 - Withdrawal

The individual now has some more face to face experience of the culture and starts to find things different, strange and frustrating.

They:
. Find the behaviour of the people unusual and unpredictable
. Begin to dislike the culture and react negatively to the behaviour
. Feel anxious
. Start to withdraw
. Begin to criticize, mock or show animosity to the people

Stage 3 - Adjustment

The individual now has a routine, feels more settled and is more confident in dealing with the new culture.

They:
. Understand and accept the behaviour of the people
. Feel less isolated
. Regains their sense of humour

Stage 4 - Enthusiasm

The individual now feels 'at home'.

They:
. Enjoy being in the culture
. Functions well in the culture
. Prefer certain cultural traits of the new culture rather than their own
. Adopt certain behaviours from the new culture

I read an article from one guy who lived in Asia for a while. He had to deal with a lot harder things than we did, but I really liked his paragraph about acceptance. I could relate somewhat, and thought it was funny:

"Acceptance does not necessarily entail total understanding – it’s nearly impossible to ever claim complete understanding of another culture – but instead involves the realization that you don’t have to “get” it all. You find what makes you happy and content in your new surroundings.

For me, this realization happened a few months after I moved to Saigon a second time. I began to find my place in the motorbike horns, cigarette smoke and other expats floating through the fray. When Vietnamese started sounding more like a language than a fax tone and I ceased getting hopelessly lost on the potholed roads, the whole experience began to feel like a coherent whole instead of a random collection of aimless madness."

That last sentence seems to describe what I feel like right now. :) I feel like we're between "stage 2" and "stage 3". We had an experience this weekend that pushed us back towards stage 2 a little.

We woke up Saturday morning and got ready to take a shower. We had absolutely no hot water. We waited an hour, and still no hot water. In Arizona, we barely know how to fix things around the house, so you can imagine our skill level here where they build things a bit different. We thought we found the water heater downstairs, but Devin couldn't find any gas or electric hook ups. We finally went to our neighbors house to ask for help. We are so grateful to have such nice neighbors who help us figure things out here.

Devin and our neighbor worked for about 30 minutes and figured out that our water heater is on the 3rd floor in our bathroom, and the tank that stores the hot water is in the basement. The water heater on the 3rd floor had an error message saying (in German of course) that there was no pressure. Our neighbor read our Owner's manual, and it said to fix this error message, we needed to add water to the tank from another water source with a hose. We're still not sure exactly why this happened, and why we needed to do that to fix it, but that's OK. The problem, though, was that there wasn't a water source to get water into the water heater. The Owner's manual assumed that the water storage tank was right next to it, and you could hook up your hose to both. Well, ours were 4 floors away from each other. We couldn't hook up our hose to the sink or shower because obviously the hose wouldn't fit on the nozzle. We were frustrated and stinky from not showering. Our neighbor had to go, so we decided to take a break and eat lunch. We didn't have much for lunch because I needed to go to the store, so we decided to order pizza from the nearby Turkish restaurant. I called them. When they answered, I tried to order a pizza, but they said they were closed on Saturdays. OK, that makes perfect sense. Of course a restaurant would be closed on Saturday. Anyway, we scrounged up a few things here for lunch. Devin can't stand not to have a solution for a problem so he was trying to think of ways to fix it. Our floor heaters work by hot water, so I was hoping we would fix the problem by night, or else we would be pretty cold. Devin figured out that our garden hose was the same size as the hose hook up to the water heater, so we decided to take the garden hose to the 3rd floor, hook it up to the water heater, and then throw the other end off the balcony and hook it up to the outside spigot. Something that we still haven't quite figured out is the hoses. When you go to a Home Depot type store and buy a hose, that is exactly what you get. Just a hose. You have to buy the ends separate. To hook up your hose to a water sprayer, you have to buy a different attachment for your end. Anyway, I still haven't figured this all out. We only have one attachment that really works, which we needed for the water heater side. So, I was outside, trying to hold the plain hose on the water spigot, with freezing water spraying out a little. It was great fun. I really wonder what our neighbors thought we were doing with our garden hose up to our third floor. :) Anyway, LONG story short, we were able to put enough water in the tank that it started working again. Still not sure why, or how, but I'm not asking questions.

One thing that I've noticed is that every time we have a trial or something hard, there is always something special to make it work or make it better. When we were hooking up the hoses, we realized the hose was within 1 ft of what we needed. We feel like this is how God makes trials easier for us. He always has a way to help us. I know that some of my readers have a different opinion, but this has helped us while we've been here.

Here are some pictures:
Crazy Americans putting in a pool on the 3rd floor

Kevin, obviously in stage 4, with his lederhosen. :)

Super Sunday Man

Devin has a meeting before church, so the boys were alone with me while we got ready. I came downstairs to find Kevin dressed up like a Superhero for church. I thought it was cute. :) Sundays have actually not been half as bad as I imagined. I try to get a new little thing for them while they sit alone during church, so they've been busy with that. My choice for last week probably wasn't the smartest, but at least they were quiet. It was small markers with a marker on one side and on the other side it was a rolling stamp. Needless to say, the boys had stamps on any flesh that wasn't covered with clothes (including Dallin's neck). They didn't get any on the chairs, so that was good. I was called to be the Young Women's president in our branch on Sunday. So now I'm just a volunteer piano player in sacrament meeting. :) We only have 2 young women (both 12 years old) and one speaks fluent English, so that's nice. My lone counselor speaks English and German, so I think we'll get by. We had a short meeting on Sunday with the branch presidency and some other auxiliary leaders and they had it half in German and half in English. They would say it first in German and then repeat it in English. It was quite interesting! Devin's German is getting lots better. He's decided he doesn't want to wear a headset for translation anymore at church. He thinks it will help his German a lot, which I agree with. I'm just not that far along with my German so I can't make that plunge yet.

Black Forest

This past Friday our boys attended their first tax meeting. We had to go to Stuttgart to meet with a US tax guy, and we had to bring the kids, so that was an interesting experience. I just have to say thank heavens for Pez and portable DVD players. :) We got our questions answered, managed to touch (not eat, but little tini fingers just like to touch them all) almost all the cookies they provided, drink some bubbly water and juice, and left with only spilling a little bit of apple juice on Daddy's computer. All things considered, I think it was a success.

After the tax meeting, we headed to a small city in Schwarzwald, or the Black Forest. Devin had a leadership retreat for his calling in church, so they invited the whole family to stay overnight at a big house/conference thing. The area was so pretty and there were lots of cute, quaint towns. I would love to go back in the summer and see more of the area. There was some snow, so the kids had a good time playing in it. There were 2 other Americans there, but we were the only ones who didn't speak German fluently. On Friday night there was a little get-to-know-you game and then we had dinner. They served spaghetti, which was really good and the kids loved. There were lots of other kids there so our kids had a great time playing with them. The kids played outside in the snow for a little while, then we all went to bed. There was a fireside on Marriage at 8:30, but we missed it cause Ethan wouldn't go to sleep. On Saturday, they had meetings most of the day for the men, and there were workshops for the wives and babysitting for the kids over 3. Unfortunately, the one that I needed to go to babysitting the most was under 3, so that made the classes interesting. :) It was really good though, and I met a really nice American lady with 3 or 4 girls who lives about 2 hours from us.

After the meetings, we drove up the mountain a little where there was more snow and the kids had a blast playing. We looked for animal tracks and built a small snowman. We haven't had much snow this winter in Ulm, so I was glad the kids were able to see some.

We built a small snowman (the daddy-doesn't-have-gloves-snowman) that the boys loved. Kevin cried all the way to the car because he wanted "Frosting" to come to life and he wanted to find the magic hat. :)

WATCH OUT!

Devin teaching Ethan how to eat snow

I wanted to get a pic of the boys in the snow, but they weren't too happy about sitting with wet bums in the snow :)

Cute boys

Daddy & Ethie playing in the room

Frankfurt

We went to Frankfurt two weekends ago. We wanted to go to the temple because it's been forever since we've been. My friend told me that they have a guest house that temple patrons can go to, so we called and were able to get reservations. So, we went up Friday afternoon after work.

The guest house is right next to the temple (there's actually an underground tunnel connecting them!) We got a family room, so there were two single beds and a set of bunkbeds. The boys were quite excited just to play on the bunkbeds. It was very cheap for us to stay there (only 10 euros per person, not including Ethan), but it was interesting how they did things. We didn't have to bring bedding, but we had to make all the beds. The sheets were all folded and clean in the closet, and we made the beds. When we were ready to check out, we stripped all the beds, vacuumed, and cleaned the bathrooms. There was also a big huge kitchen that we could use, and we were assigned a tini little box in the refrigerator to store food in. There were families from Germany, France, Africa, and of course the US when we were in the kitchen making breakfast. Everyone's food smelled good individually, but together it was almost nauseating! :) The boys had fun playing with Benito, a little boy from Germany.

On Saturday, there was a big huge rain storm, and Devin had to go out to the car to get some food and his suit. It looked like he had just went into a shower with his clothes on. He was soaked! It was the first time I'd heard thunder since being in Germany, so that was fun. As long as they don't turn into tornadoes, I like thunder storms.

Devin and I switched for sessions on Saturday morning. They were in German, but we got to wear headsets that translated everything. We ate lunch at a nearby Burger King afterwards. Dallin actually ate a hamburger for the first time! This is actually a big thing for our family because they've always only eaten chicken nuggets at fast food places. I guess our baby is growing up. :) I had wanted to take the kids to the Frankfurt zoo, but it was so cold and rainy and we were tired, so we just ended up driving home.

I brought my camera and was excited to get some pics of the temple, but when I was taking random pics of the boys on Friday night, my battery went dead. Dang it! So, I only have pics of the boys playing on the bunkbed. Well, I guess I'll have to wait until next time.

6 Month Anniversary

In honor of our 6 month anniversary of being here, I wanted to post a few things that make us happy. Contrary to my recent post, we really are happy.... most of the time. :)


*I love that at night or on the weekends when there's no traffic, they just turn the traffic lights off, so you don't have to sit and wait at a red light for no apparent reason

*I really love my pink jasmine plant. I saw it at Martkauf, and it had tons of buds on it about to bust open. They smell so so so good. Everytime I feel stressed, I just go over and smell it and it makes me feel better.
*I love this sweet bread called "Quarkstreizel" (probably not the right spelling). Our bakery makes them only on Fridays, so I love to go on Fridays and get this yummy bread. Quark is something they have here, that I don't think we have in the states. It's sort of similar to cream cheese, but different. I've had a few different things with Quark and they're all yummy!

*I love all the cute wooden toys and trinkets that we can get here. This is a cute little tooth box that we keep the teeth in after the tooth fairy gives them back. :)

*This is a cute little plant that just magically started growing in our backyard. It looks like something that grows from a bulb, but I didn't plant it. It will be interesting to see what comes up from it! :) There are tons of bulbs that are just coming up, so I think in a week or two it will be so pretty! I love Spring time!


*I saw this game on a friend's blog, so we decided to try it out. It's a German game, but we downloaded the instructions in English, so we could play. It's such a fun game! When Devin was in Munich, I invited Rika and Regine over after all the kiddies went to bed. We ate fruit and fruit dip, guacamole, and a cheese dip and played this game until midnight!
*I'm turning into a bit of a fruit tea nut. I love sitting around talking and drinking a warm drink. I used to sweeten it with honey, but a friend introduced me to Brauner Kandis. It's a brown sugar in little rock like shapes. It adds a great flavor to the tea.

Here's one for the environment

I never thought I would be missing the DMV, but I am. Weird. It's just so great how you can sit and wait (sometimes for hours, I know) but you come out with a license, or at least a temporary one that day. Ah, sweet memories. We recently found out that our Arizona licenses expire exactly 6 months after we registered in our town. That's today. We found out two weeks ago, so we thought we were good with getting new ones, but I guess we forgot 90% of our experiences 6 months ago and that nothing goes as planned. We went in to the driver's license offices and asked what we needed to do to get German licenses. They gave us a list: get our AZ licenses professionally translated (of course at a specific different company), get eye tests (also at a different company), get pictures done (also at a different place) and copies of our passports. Oh, and it takes 4-6 weeks unless you pay extra for expedited, which only takes 1 week. We chose the one week.

A little side note about the pictures. We had to get these specific size pictures for when we registered with our town. This was like 2 days after we landed here, and it was an insanely crazy time. That morning we had to meet this lawyer to help us register, who called us like the night before to tell us we needed these very precise sized pictures at a specific place, which was practically more than we could handle. I thought the pictures were going to be stuffed away in some file with the city, only to be pulled out if we were killed or missing or something. So, I looked absolutely horrible in these pictures. Well, this darn picture is turning up everywhere. It ended up that they printed it on my visa, which is in my passport now so everyone can see, and now it's on these driver's licenses, too! It's almost worth going through this whole process again just to get a new picture. Well, not quite.

Anyway, back to the story. So, we go to ADAC, which is where we get the translation. Keep in mind that I speak terrible German, but even I could translate the license, but they will only accept this professional translation from ADAC. I turned in both our licenses to them, thinking it would take 5 minutes. She got copies of them and handed them back. OK. So after paying, I asked how long it would take. "Oh, about 10 business days." I thought this must have been some language barrier, so I held up all ten of my fat little fingers. Yep. Ten. I was so in shock. Have they never heard of Google Translate? We're talking like 3 seconds! There was nothing I could do, except call them every day after 7 days, which I did. But, they weren't ready until 10 business days. Awesome.

We picked up the translations on Friday (We paid 80 Euros for them to pretty much just convert feet/inches and pounds into cm and kg.... I'm thinking I should go into this professional translation business), so we were excited to turn them in. We went over to the license office. I have decided that if I believed in reincarnation, I would definitely be a German government worker. They hardly work! They were closed. Apparently, they close on Friday afternoons. So, we had to wait until Monday to turn them in. The problem is that we have to go to a tax meeting in Stuttgart on Friday and then a church meeting overnight in the Black Forest this weekend, so we really really needed/wanted our licenses. We begged as much as we could muster in German when we turned in our license, and they said they could maybe get it back for us on Thursday. Wahoo! So, we'll see if that happens. Today is the last day of our AZ licenses, so tomorrow we're walking or taking public transportation everywhere. This should be interesting, so we're really hoping they come soon!

Kiddie Conversations

Our kids have been saying the funniest things lately, so I wanted to remember some recent ones:

We were all eating breakfast together when this conversation occurred:
Dad: Hey boys, guess what? Mommy's going Visiting Teaching tonight, so it's just going to be a boy's night!

Dallin: Just us boys?

Dad: yep!

Dallin: Ya, cause we only have boys in our family

Dad: Well, we have mommy, and she's a girl.

Dallin: Ya, we have to have girl cause she has the babies.

Well, I'm glad I'm good for something in this family. :)
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Dallin and Kevin were playing together in the living room and I overheard their conversation:
Kevin: Do you like me?

Dallin: Ya, I like you all the time.

Kevin: What if I get stealed? (past tense of steal, for those who aren't familiar with kiddie language)

Dallin: Then I'll go with mommy to find you. We'll always find you.
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