tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79333515445411275702024-02-20T15:09:33.670-06:00a million baby kissesa million baby kissesAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-90948801340746453102016-07-28T22:34:00.001-05:002016-07-28T22:34:51.085-05:00A letter to my daughter on this historic night.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_262644500"></span><span id="goog_262644501"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My sweet girl,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I sit here tonight, watching Hilary Clinton accept the Democratic Party's nomination for President, I find myself thinking of you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a roller coaster night as I vacillate between the hope I feel when I listen to Hilary's words and how terrified I am of what your world will look like if we elect the other guy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want you to know this. You are amazing. You are strong, and brave. You are smart and considerate and eager to help. You are observant and quietly intelligent. Be you, and you will find your way in this world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will do my best to guide you, to be your role model. I will do my best to provide opportunities that will be yours if you decide to work for them. I am your mama, and I will do everything I can to make sure you inherit a better world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you. </span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-80561041959150330952014-08-13T18:31:00.000-05:002014-08-13T18:31:04.402-05:00Day trip to Duluth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We took a quick trip to Duluth this past weekend and were joined by our neighbors and their kids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First, went on a train "adventure" called A Day Out Thomas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here is the one and only picture I got of Thomas. We were running late so we didn't have a chance to take pictures before we boarded, then when we disembarked at the end of the ride we were shuttled straight into the railroad museum--so the kiddos didn't get to "meet" him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think Oliver and Henry thought it was pretty cool. Henry even dressed up like a train conductor! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The girls were less impressed with the train and were just having fun together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The $90(!) train ride also included admission to the train museum and various kiddo-oriented activities. I love this picture of Oliver and Emelia--if only they were always this nice to each other!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emelia really got into posing in front of the trains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the train outing we went down to canal park for a picnic and let the kids run around for a while. Then we walked down to the pebble beach and threw rocks in the "big lake."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emelia thought that just standing next to the lake was dumb, she wanted to go *in* the lake. I took this picture just before she ditched her dress so she could sit in the water. I love her spunkiness.</span></div>
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<br />Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-18111982994595335272014-08-07T16:12:00.000-05:002014-08-07T16:12:00.464-05:00A day at the lake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite having a life jacket on, Oliver didn't quite get the concept of "floating"--he insisted on hanging on to anyone that was close. It didn't take him long to decide that he'd had enough of the water and wanted to fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He caught lots of little sunnies!</span></div>
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<br />Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-15951800177172050012014-08-04T14:33:00.000-05:002014-08-04T14:33:00.494-05:00Camera shy?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thankfully, I think this girl has finally gotten over her aversion to cameras. She used to yell "NO" and put her hand in front of her face when I pulled out the camera! I got these cute shots the other night at Oliver's t-ball game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tagged along to t-ball this week and had so much fun watching Oliver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think the kid is having fun!</span></div>
Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-62297740582529153762014-07-30T13:45:00.000-05:002014-07-30T13:45:09.185-05:00Nothing says summer...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...like running through the sprinkler in your underwear. </span></div>
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Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-89359686014493988742014-07-28T13:03:00.000-05:002014-07-28T13:03:39.202-05:00 And then there were three!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little ones, that is. Number 3 is due in January! Much like the first two this one had me flat on my back for 8-9 weeks. Yuck!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. If you know Oliver, you know he may just be *the most curious* boy in the world. If you don't believe me, just spend 10 minutes with him, and count the number of times he asks "why?"--I love this about him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Emelia has also reached the "why" phase and ironically, Oliver has zero patience for it, the other day in the car Emelia was asking Oliver "why?" and he yelled, "Papa! Emelia is frustrating me!" Andy's response? "Payback."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Oliver calls "Play-doh"--"potato".</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took me forever to figure out what he was talking about when he was asking to play with "potato".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Oliver loves music--he always has really but his current favorites crack me up-- AC/DC especially "Shoot to Thrill" and "Back in Black"</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the Pitch Perfect Soundtrack--especially "Please Don't Stop the Music"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Oliver played T-ball this summer and loved it. I'm hoping to go next week and take some pictures--more to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. Oliver has out-grown naps. I don't know if this is really blog worthy, but it feels like a big milestone to me. It's definitely changed our afternoon routine--sometimes he works out with Papa and then gets a Shakeology to get big muscles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. He's learning to write. He's pretty good at his letters and he'll copy out phrases that we write for him. It's so fun to watch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Although she doesn't like to cuddle (never has really) she does give the best full-body hugs and big juicy kisses when she's feeling lovey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Emelia still twirls her hair, especially when she is tired. Sometimes, if she twirls it a lot she gets a funny alfalfa-style curl on the top of her head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Emelia acts out Anna & Elsa's movements when she watches Frozen, especially the parts where they are singing. It is too cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. She is such a girly-girl. I really don't know how it happened but she loves all things pink, purple, glittery or otherwise bedazzled and anything with a bow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Shoes. Seriously this girl loves shoes and she has more than I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. At some point, Andy or I started calling Emelia "peanut butter." She would get the funniest look on her face and say "I not peanut butter. I'm Emelia." It was so funny we started calling her peanut butter just to get the reaction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. She turned the lullaby I sing her (Go to sleep, little girl) into "Go to sleep, little dragon" and sings it to me when I'm baby-dragon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think this is one of my favorite pictures of Emelia--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">her smile is genuine and candid and her eyes sparkle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We've been having fun together over the last month or so as she continues to grow. She's growing into her body a bit--she's still very tall! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She is also talking, and singing, up a storm. She has two voices--the tiny, sweet and gentle voice that makes me melt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the loud, screechy, intense one that makes me, well--crazy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But mostly you bring joy to every day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For every screeching fit you throw I get two kisses, a big hug, spontaneous singing and dancing and an unprompted "thank you Mama"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> or "I love you, Mama."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This is such a funny age. One moment she seems to be growing up so quickly, then I look at pictures like these and she still has those chubby-baby hands and remember that she is still (for now) my baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(for my adult readers out there, I'm sorry if you get an ear worm!). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You love me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're a happy family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with a great big hug</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a kiss from me to you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">won't you say you love me too</span></div>
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Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-22706850311133339662013-12-03T20:52:00.000-06:002013-12-03T20:52:06.078-06:00Happy *belated* Birthday, Oliver!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life got busy this fall, like it always does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, Oliver started Saturday preschool, which he loves. If there is an opportunity to paint--he's all over it. We've got more Oliver paintings than I know what to do with! I'm going to have to start gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've enrolled Oliver in some activities to help him burn some of his *excess* energy. We did Pee-Wee Tennis this summer, then Lil' Kickers Soccer this fall. He is currently enrolled in acro-balance class and L.O.V.I.N.G. it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One other big thing happened this fall, Oliver turned 4!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really don't know where the last four years have gone, but I can tell you this--they have been over-flowing with joy because of this little guy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been amazing to watch him grow, and change, and grow some more. In fact, he's grow 4 inches since July! We started to buy him 4T clothes because the 3T were too tight around his little belly--but 4T was too long so we had to roll the cuffs. Fast forward a few months, now he has shot up in height without gaining an ounce and we have to roll the waist so his pants don't fall down!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oliver is loving, energetic and makes everything a contest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oliver is stubborn, sensitive and makes friends easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have never been one of those mothers who fusses constantly over her kids' appearances. I bath them, I put clean clothes on them every day and I figure that is good enough. I don't chase after them with tissue or wipes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But a little dirt and grime doesn't dampen this girl's grin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These pictures were taken back in May, before Susan and I left on our trip and before Andy and I started the kitchen re-model. At this point in time, Emelia was really starting to assert some independence and grow into her toddler-hood.</span></div>
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Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-33999017006237131682013-04-30T21:44:00.000-05:002013-04-30T21:44:01.491-05:00A Belated Birthday Post<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you may have figured out by now, my little Emelia turned ONE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(three months ago)</span></div>
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</span><br />Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-85220711386762621442013-03-12T11:02:00.000-05:002013-03-12T11:02:00.232-05:00Top Ten Things About Emelia<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Nothing makes her happier than holding your fingers and walking. In fact, if you start you better be willing to continue until she wears herself out and it is time for bed. Should you try to stop before then, you will se what I call the "Rage of Emelia" which is a very dramatic fit she pitches complete with wailing, throwing herself on the floor, and rolling back and forth while kicking her legs and flailing her arms. It's actually kind of funny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">4. Until very recently, she didn't like to crawl. Instead, she would scoot along the floor, hand first with her butt and legs following. When I come home I can hear her coming. It goes like this: thwap-thwap swoosh, thwap-thwap swoosh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">5. She loves to twirl hair, mine or hers, it doesn't matter. As you can see, she doen't have much hair, but it is a little longer in the back, and if you gather it togehter it forms a half-curl loop. She twirls it around, and around, and around. Especially when she's eating. Which is gross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">6. She makes this happy-face where she wrinkles up her nose. I don't have a very good picture of it, but it is so funny. You can kind of tell below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">8. Her favorite game is peek-a-boo. She throws a blanket over her head and flaps her arms until you say "Where'd Emelia go?" She even plays by herself. Sometimes, she wakes up from her nap, and I hear noises over the baby monitor. Then I go in her room and she's got the blanket over her head and she pulls it off and smiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">9. She LOVES water. I've never seen a kid enjoy a bath so much. She has so much fun splashing that Oliver has started asking to take baths with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">10. She's a Papa's girl through and through. When she learned to give kisses, they were only for Papa, and given a choice, she'll to to him most of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You wouldn't know it from looking at this blog lately, but you turned one a little over a month ago. I can't believe how much you have grown and changed since the last time I blogged. I also can't believe how few blogs I've written since you were born. I feel the need to explain a few things to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">First, my failure to blog as frequently about you as I did Oliver does not reflect how much I love you. It is simply a reflection of how much more time it takes to have two kids instead of one. But, being a parent of two doesn't explain it either. You see, your Grandpa Mike died before you turned one. In December. He had been sick for a while, and I spent as much time with him as I could this year. And when I wasn't with Grandpa Mike, I was home with you and Oliver; singing songs and reading books, playing and cuddling, not blogging. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Over the next few days and weeks, I hope to do some catching up. I have notes in various notebooks about things that I intended to blog about, when I had time. I hope that focusing for a while on all the wonderful things that happend this year with you and your brother will help to heal my broken heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Please know this, as hard as the last year has been for me, nothing made me happier than snuggling with you and your brother. Even during the darkest days, your gap-toothed grin and chuckle would make my heart soar. I will always equate your first year with my Dad's last. I wish this wasn't the case. But every happy moment we have together is that much brighter because of the darkness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I can't wait to see you grow and changed into the smart, strong and beautiful young woman you will become. I am so proud to be your Mama.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hugs and a million kisses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-48890082009704753952012-10-24T15:41:00.000-05:002012-10-24T15:41:00.102-05:00Would it be too much to ask...<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She kept falling asleep on her little keyboard, which started the music playing and she woke up. It was so stinkin' cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and eyes and ears and mouth and nose and elbow and penis and chin....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Twinkle Twinkle Little Star</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its funny that I'm just getting to my summer re-cap post on the first day of autumn! Actually, it is a bit sad, so much has happened! But we've been busy playing, traveling (me, for work), working around the house and geting back into the back-to-school schedule (Andy).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the before pictures, all of the kitchen lights are on. In the after picture, none of the lights are on! Since the picture was taken we switched out the light fixture from the brassy colored on pictured to one with a brushed nickel finish and painted the walls a beachy blue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emelia is 7 months old now and has learned a lot of new tricks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is rolling over like a champ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's eating solids and, like her brother, has a BIG appetite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me: it's yummy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But seriously, now that we are beyond cereal, the girl loves to eat! I'm still making most of my own baby food and I'm still mixing flavors and adding spices. So far, so good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Oliver has been practicing his soccer skills, he's pretty good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and laughing at Grandpa Mike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and Oliver's new socks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oliver and I were in Target recently and I was picking up some travel-sized items because I was going out of town for work. We had the following conversation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ollie: What 'dat Mama?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ollie: Oh. For washing your butt?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Me: Among other things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ollie: Oh. You a girl so you not hab a penis. Not everybody hab a penis... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">but everybody has a butt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's hard to argue with that logic! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">He also recently asked me; "what you do with my crap, Mama"? It took me a while to realize that he was asking me where I put the art project that he made at daycare... he was saying "craft".</span></div>Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08761986687984162599noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933351544541127570.post-68643035568243035222012-06-26T22:25:00.001-05:002012-06-26T22:25:20.902-05:00Aren't they cute in stripes?<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been so fun watching these two bond. Oliver just adores Emelia, and has all along. Emelia is starting to really like her big brother too. No one can make her laugh like Ollie does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emelia is now 4 months old. My how time flys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her 4 month well baby check up was this week and my goodness how she has grown! (but we new that, she is already wearing size 9 month clothes!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She has grown 5 inches in her 4 short months which puts her at 26 inches </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She has also gained a whopping 9 lbs! She weights just over 16.5 pounds and is right above the 80th percential!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Emelia is a much happier baby than she was a couple of months ago. She spends most of her awake time cooing, babbeling and blowing bubbles. She tolerates her brother tremendously (he is still a bit overbearing when it comes to her!) and thinks he is pretty funny most of the time. Except when he picks her up and drops her! Oops!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oliver is still enjoying his role as big brother. Most mornings when he wakes up the first thing he asks is to hold "my meya" which is what he calls Emelia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as Emelia was concerned her first trip to the zoo was rather uneventful, she spent the entire trip buried in her stroller, asleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We recently invested in a membership to Sea Life Minnesota.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Oliver loves the sharks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">They are all he can talk about for days after we visit: "I go see sharks, mama?" It is really hard to avoid going to Sea Life MN any time we go to the MOA. And, he seems to think all malls have sharks. Recently we went to Roseville and as we walked in the doors Oliver said "This a mall, Mama?" I said yes, and he replied "I see sharks?" I had to explain that there were not sharks at this mall, and Oliver decided that it was a yucky mall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Auntie got him a shark hat, here he is modeling it, along with his new shoes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tonight Oliver and I were outside. I decided to do some general cleaning up of my flower gardens--something that has been neglected this year with the arrival of Ememlia. Oliver saw me "playing" in the dirt and since he's 2, and a boy he asked if he could help. I said "please do" and he started repeating me saying "Ollie peas to help."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first task I assigned him was to pick all the dandy lions. We talked about the fact that they are yellow, and are called dandy lions. In his cute pre-school speak it came out as 'ello bandy-ions. He kept saying "I found another one ucky 'ello bandy-ions, Mama!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the bandy-ions were all picked, he started collecting pine-cones but kept referring to them as pineapples. He'd say "pineapples bery ucky" and I'd try to explain that they were called "pine cones" and were yucky, but that pineapple is yellow fruit and is yummy. </span></div>
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