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Our landscaping project is already done, but we didn't show you how it unfolded. The landscapers crafted a nice sidewalk form and laid out a tasteful patio of blue flagstone in the back.



One morning, a cement truck pulled up in front of the house. Out came a hose and several men who began smoothing the thick, gravely-gray mixture up the forms toward our house.




Claire was rapt with attention. "Brrrrooom, brrrroom!" she said when we showed her the truck. Outside on the porch, she said hi to all the workers. Inside the house, she quickly located her pottie-stool in the bathroom. She carried it out by herself to the living room and placed it beneath the window and stepped up on it. She looked out, straining on her tippy toes to see the workers pouring the step up the front porch. You could not peel her away from that perch.



The following morning, she woke up making her truck noises.