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 Aunt Janis takes Andrew in his “I’m the big
brother shirt” to do Hands across America

Happy birthday jillian christine

Mommy and daddy
rented 2 ponies for
$150—Jillian hated
them and was only on
long enough for
mommy to take the
fastest picture ever.

Not afraid of
clowns here, that
must come later

 Jillian came home one day from Kindergarten and
was excited to tell us about her new friends, “Sa”
and “Hamma Bamma”. Karl walked her to school the
next day to meet Sarah and Herman Bernhard.
 One of the teachers pulled me aside one day and said
“Mrs. Doblinger we need you to talk to Jillian about
the new boy in class”. Turns out the new boy was
Polish and the teachers were trying to teach him
German, but Jillian’s intentions were to teach him
English.
 There was a little boy in class named Constantine
who was obsessed with her. Even his mother thought
it was odd.
 Every afternoon walking home from Kindergarten
mom and Jillian would stop at the bakery and Jillian
was always given a free brötchen.

 Mom named her after one of the character’s
on Ryan’s Hope soap opera. The character
was a lawyer, so obviously mom thought that
that is what she would be.
 Dad wanted to name her Sade after the
singer.
 Christine, because it sounded good.
Somewhere there is an audio
recording of Jillian saying “Christine
Doblinger, ooookaaaaay” like a
million times, in different octaves.

Jillian loved this book, so we read
it, a lot. One night while out to
dinner these two old ladies were
making a fuss over how cute she
was and asked her name. She told
them her name was Carol and
that she was in Kindergarten.

 Karl and I are always shocked
that Jillian survived her
“biting on glass” year at the
age of 2 to 3.
 When we were flying to
Germany, on the plane I gave
her a drink of water from a
plastic cup and she bit down
on it and destroyed it with her
teeth.
 Then twice while in Germany
she bit down on glasses when
she went to take a drink. AYE
AYE AYE—would freak me out
every time!

 Jillian always loved to be in the kitchen with me—she
had a little rolling pin, and if I was making tortillas or
cookies I would always give her some of her own
dough to work with. What I’m leading to is that she
always loved being in the kitchen. Our house in
Germany, for some crazy reason, had locks on every
door, in every room, with old keys in them. One day,
Jillian decided to go in the kitchen and she shut the
door and locked herself in. The good news was that
there was a glass door and I could see everything she
was doing. After a frantic call to Karl at work, a
worker arrived to help remove the door so we could
get her out. Of course while waiting I was talking to
her trying to get her to slip me the key under the
door. Stubborn little thing that she was, though, she
wasn’t having it. She just went about looking in
cupboards and pulling pots and pans out.

 When Jillian turned 5, she got an ice cream set
with sprinkles and such. We decided it would be
fun if we set her up with a little table and she
and Andrew could sell ice cream to the neighbor
kids along with some left over muffins.
Unfortunately for her, her father had a state of
the art computer and printer and designed a
flyer that Andrew and his friends passed out to
the neighbors. The flyer looked so good that a
neighbor decided to call the City to shut down
the ice cream business that was being run out of
a home. When the City official pulled up, he had
the flyer in his hand. He immediately saw Jillian,
this little girl, behind a table with melting ice
cream and laughed and shook his head.

Mom finding
Andrew standing in
the “timeout”
corner: “Andrew
what are you doing
in the corner?”
Andrew: “Jillian
said you told me to
go to the corner!”
What really
happened is Jillian
got mad at Andrew,
left the room,
came back and told
him that I sent him
to the corner. Who
knows how long he
was there.

Sadly we know how this one ends,
but we certainly had a great party.

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