Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Bonfire of the vanity...bathroom vanity...

So, sometimes I pin hundreds of things on Pinterest and two years later manage to do something. There is only ONE room in this house that I have managed to decorate myself. Let's all just take a moment to be grateful most of the house didn't need help. Because hello two years later and the tiny guest bathroom is finally functional. Except the floor is still gross old vinyl. Gross because old and lots of little boys, not because vinyl. I'm no snob. Maybe some. A bit. Anyway, voila! I did something! Well, "I" except all the woodwork and lighting, which Nick Did. But the vision and sloppy paint job was all me. 

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Saturday, June 07, 2014

Gager

I had this conversation a few hours ago with Gage. He hurt his toe the other day and the toenail is mostly lifted off. He is pretty concerned about this situation, and how his toenail is likely to fall off. 

Gage: mom, can you get me a bandage? I'm worried about my toe. (We had just finished swimming).

Me: sure, sure, but it will be fine. 

Gage; Mom, with my level of experience, wouldn't you be worried?


I love his seven-year-old vocabulary :).

Sunday, June 01, 2014

Danica's Dance Recital

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Some kids get nervous being on stage. Danica was not one of those kids. She loved it!

I don't know how to title this post

Because it isn't really about anything. I need to think about what I could use as a theme, and then write around it, but basically this is what happened: Danica finally started playing soccer with her soccer team. She's not fantastic all the sudden, but she IS running and chasing and trying to catch girls who steal the ball and trying to steal the ball back. And a nice Dad took a bunch of pictures last week so I thought I would present them to you.

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In other Danica news, she has her first recital this weekend. She's super, super excited. Mostly for the being on stage part. Yesterday at dress rehearsal she got up there and just glowed. She might not be the best at, you know, knowing the routine, but she loves the spotlight.

Oh, yeah, the other children.

You thought I forgot them didn't you? Or maybe just they aren't doing the cutest things and so aren't bloggable right now? Well?

Not true. I mean, Sabrina the other day put on her swimsuit and asked for sunscreen and announced she was going to Nana's to swim. And I wondered how she would get there and she said she'd walk. Then a few minutes later she amended and said she'd go to the garage and watch Wild Kratts, which means get in the van, so apparently she's mastered some kind of mind control locomotion. Or maybe she doesn't "see" me when I drive and thinks the van works like one of those new Google car things. I wonder if I will read back on this post someday and laugh at how we all used to actually drive ourselves places.


We went to the zoo a few weeks ago. Holy cow, this month has gone fast. It was a perfect, perfect spring day. Look at all the incredible flowers! Not too hot, not too crowded. Delightful. Well, most of it. The only hiccup was that I have a 2 1/2 year old. Much like bringing a timed bomb with you everywhere you go. A timed bomb where the timer is random, and explosions can be triggered. Toddlers are awesome.

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 This peacock likes to hang out by the lunch tables because he's no dummy.
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 The petting zoo. Took Sabrina a bit to warm up but not so much the other kids.
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 In my head I thought hey, I'll spring for the train ride because I didn't buy a zoo pass this year, I bought a museum pass, and I'm trying to stick to one pass a year (preserving some sense of novelty and whatever...also money) and so we won't be back for awhile and...Sabrina loved it. She loves trains. She thinks they are the best. They go "chuga-chuga" and "toot-toot!" 
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 What I will spare you is the video of what happened immediately after the train ride. Did you guess and epic tantrum wherein Sabrina had to be lifted, arching and screaming off the train and did not calm down for a good ten minutes? You did! You must have experience with toddlers. 

This was the corn? snake Gage fell in love with. He still remembers its name. Sadly, I am pretty opposed to the idea of a snake in the house. It's Joel's fault. I know all the stories from when his snake would escape. I'm not excited about finding a snake hiding under my laundry. 
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 Plethora of pictures. I braided Sabrina's hair for the first time:
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 Next post: recital. This was picture day. Really, she LOVES the dressing up to be on stage part. 
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Sunday, May 04, 2014

We still have a blog!

And the thing is, I love looking through old posts. Let's face it, this is as close to a journal as I've got. Funny story, apparently every February I get feeling like I need to journal, and then I write once or twice and am good for the year. So someday my posterity will know how I was doing in February of every year.

So here's a bit about Easter, and um, other things, and also...more Easter.

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These are not in the proper order. I fail at blogging. But since we've been so erratic nobody checks, we'll be okay! This is the Eater Egg Hunt mom had for the grandkids. Nothing cuter than little girls in spring dresses hunting for eggs. NOTHING.

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Time Out For Women--was a really good year this year. I felt rejuvenated.

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Egg Hunt Fantasticness

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Piper finding one...or not?

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Sabrina's sassy side caught me by surprise. She was totally a mellow baby, as I recall. But yes, sassy.

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Helicopter Egg Drop. Sabrina was pretty thrilled.

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Beauty. Is. Hard. Work.

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Soccer! The boys are slowly improving. The parenting conundrum: do you keep pushing? They don't seek it out and/or practice on their own. But hard work, team work, etc, etc...

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We are having nap battles of late.

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Danica: the Little Mermaid 12.5

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Peeps!

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Okay, so I'm biased, but Danica's little soccer team is pretty much the most adorable ever. Those sweet little four-year-olds running like crazy. I love it.

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We must ALL dress up. All the time. Sabrina LOVES dresses. Always.