tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90841550080552226582024-03-13T12:39:47.293-07:00The Best Days of Our LivesThe adventures of 4 incredible little girls, and their parents who do their best to keep up. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger357125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9084155008055222658.post-40749305938792212542017-12-08T12:20:00.002-08:002017-12-08T12:20:14.070-08:00Winter Dance Recitals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Clara had such a fun dance winter dance recital. It was at a snowbird mobile home park rec center. They had a chili dinner with hot chocolate and cookies for us while we waited for the show to start. The whole program was only the Tiny Dancer classes so it was fun to see all of the little ones. Clara's class did a ballet dance to "Let It Snow". She dances with three other friends we have from church. They were pretty cute. </div>
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As a side note, Charlotte had a good time clapping for each of the classes. She loves to clap, it's adorable. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clara NEVER wants me to take her picture, but she ran right up to this polar bear and asked me to take her picture. </td></tr>
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Lyla takes dance from Mrs. Liz with her bff Addie. Liz teaches out of her home and does a great job with the girls. Lyla did 2 dances at their winter showcase this year. A tap dance to "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause" and a ballet dance to "Where Are You Christmas?" These two did an excellent job. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Birthday Interview</span></b></div>
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What do you want to be when you grow up? </div>
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A pet worker and a teacher.</div>
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What is your favorite thing to do with your family? </div>
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Go to Skateland. </div>
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Who are your best friends? </div>
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Brooklynn, Addie, Avery. that's only some of them. I have lots of friends</div>
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What is your favorite thing to do with your friends? </div>
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play together. Tag, maybe house, music.</div>
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What makes you happy?</div>
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When Charlie goes all crazy and silly. when mommy and everyone makes me laugh and have fun.</div>
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What do you like to learn about? </div>
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Math and lots of stuff. art and how to do cool stuff.</div>
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What makes you sad? </div>
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When someone is really mean to me. </div>
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What do you do really well?</div>
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Gumball math from school. At home I do very good art.</div>
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If you had a million dollars, what would you buy? </div>
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My own farm. I would have a horse a few pigs 15 chickens and 2 cows. I would feed the horses, go on rides, milk the cows, get the eggs that the chickens lay and get mud for the pigs to roll in.</div>
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What is your favorite thing to do outside? </div>
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Play on my swings, my swingset, and my treehouse</div>
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To have a perfect day every day. Get on blue, get a candy, not get in trouble.</div>
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What was your favorite birthday present?</div>
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The fitbit and the camera</div>
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What was the best part of being 6? </div>
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That is was a fun age.</div>
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What are you looking forward to being 7? </div>
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I get to go on more rides at Sunsplash.</div>
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Highlights from the last year</div>
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<b>Mom:</b> I love how happy Lyla is. She really loves the little things in life. She loves her friends and is a great friend in return. She likes to have fun and is always willing to try new things. She also says really funny stuff, so she is great at making you laugh. </div>
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<b>Emily: </b>I like how she always plays with Clara. She is mostly always positive and always ready for me to pick her up at the end of school. She loves to play video games and often shares it too. I like how she likes to try new things. I like she listens to me and then answers my questions and she is a really good reader. </div>
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<b>Clara:</b> I like to play with her. She gives me some of her favorite treats from her Halloween basket and she lets me put up the Christmas stuff. </div>
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<b>Charlotte:</b> Charlotte loves to say LY-LA!! She gets so excited when Lyla comes home from school. Lyla takes great care of Charlotte and will always play with her in the playroom or take her outside to ride hers scooter or play on the swings. Sometimes Charlotte will climb all over Lyla and that is pretty funny and cute. </div>
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The girls were all Super Heroes for Halloween this year. They all loved their costumes.</div>
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We had a lot of fun at our ward Halloween party, a neighborhood block party, and of course trick or treating. One of Emily's best friend's at school, Peter's family, came with us and we went all around our block of the neighborhood. </div>
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<b>My favorite food:</b> Noodles, black beans, & strawberries</div>
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<b>Favorite things to learn: </b>How to play with toys, how to play on the playgrounds, how to use a spoon</div>
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<b>When I have free time I like to:</b> Hold Alexa (speaker) and listen to music, play with toys in her room, play with magnets & pegs</div>
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<b>My favorite books:</b> Animals, Puppies book</div>
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<b>My favorite shows or movies:</b> She doesn't really watch t.v., but when I turn on Precious Puppies she is excited for a little bit. Lately she likes watching Clara's cartoons while she eats her breakfast. We also recently watched Homeward Bound, and she was pretty interested in that for a few minutes</div>
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<b>Things I do well: </b>snuggle, throw balls, play on playgrounds, help put on her shoes, put her pegs in a peg board, dance, say her sisters names, do a few signs, starting to talk a little, talks a lot of gibberish</div>
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<b>Things I need to practice: </b>Not having a pacifier, not whining, playing with other people</div>
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<b>My favorite place to go:</b> <i>The park</i>. She loves the slides and climbing up the stairs. She also really likes to dig in the sand with her shovel and bucket. <i>The splash pad</i>. She likes the water that shoots out of the ground, but DOES NOT like water that falls from buckets. While playing in the splash pad sprinklers she laughs and laughs. It is really fun to take her there. <i>Zero entry swimming pools</i>. She loves to be in the pool without a floaty on. She likes to slide around on her belly and lay down on her back. She is pretty much all smiles while we're swimming. </div>
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<b>My favorite family activities:</b> <i>Bike rides</i>. There is a walking path close to our house where there are lots of wild bunnies, quail, and road runners. She rides in the ibert seat on the bike and is always so happy when we go for rides. <i>Going to the park</i>. She loves to follow her sisters around through the playground.</div>
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<b>My favorite thing to do outside:</b> Bike rides</div>
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<b>My favorite thing to do at my house:</b> <i>Play in the backyard with her sisters</i>. Emily takes her on the trampoline. She likes to climb up the ladder and go down the slide on the swing set. She likes to push her big blow up balls around. Unlike her sisters, she doesn't really care for the swings. <i>Play with Tank</i>. Tank is our chinchilla and while still pretty scared of it, Charlotte loves for Emily to take her downstairs to see it. <i>Take baths</i>. She loves to play with her toys and scoot around in the water. She's even getting old enough to follow directions when it's time to get washed. <i>Make Messes.</i> We have to lock the pantry, because she loves to go in and rummage. She is particularly good at emptying out cupboards, bins of toys, and currently at this very moment making a mess with the DVDs. <i>Bedtime. </i>At bed time she likes to get her blanket and pacifier and then snuggle with mom or dad in the rocking chair right before going to sleep. She is the best little girl at going to sleep. Both at napvtime and bed time, you simply lay her in bed and she goes to sleep. </div>
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<b>My favorite song:</b> Classic, Sing Soundtrack. Charlotte loves to dance, so any time we need to cheer her up, we turn on music. She also really likes the Toddler Dance Radio station on Pandora.</div>
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<b>When I get up in the morning I like to: </b>Eat oatmeal and "Go" somewhere.</div>
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<b>Emily: </b>Charlotte is so cute and she loves Tank and all animals. She especially loves goats and puppies. I like it when she says "EmyEmyEmy." When I say, "Let's go see Tank," she squeals and comes running towards me. She loves oatmeal. Sometimes she tries to play my cello. I also love when I take her onto the piano and she plays the piano. I love when she dances to music, it is so cute. My favorite thing about her is how she loves to say words. The funniest thing she does is when she sees a dog she runs to it yelling, "puppypuppypuppy," but then she is terrified of it. Sometimes she likes them though. </div>
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<b>Lyla: </b>Charlotte is one of our favorite babies. She is really cute. Sometimes when Mom says, "Lyla, come here." Charlotte will say "Lyla! Lyla!" Charlotte has a cousin named Elliot. They like to play together. Charlotte loves dogs, cats, horses, and lots of animals. She is really cute. Sometimes she says "puppypuppypuppy." Last night, we watched a movie about 2 dogs and 1 cat. She kept yelling "puppy." One time we were taking pictures. Charlotte was so cute. I like when we get to ride bikes together.</div>
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<b>Clara: </b>I like to sneak Charlotte snacks. Charlotte's dancing is funny.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">From Lyla: All of the kids had lots of fun. Emily and Lyla liked the diving boards a lot. The diving boards went really high. There was a high dive and two little diving boards. Me and Emily had a diving board contest. I (Lyla) won. The contest was whoever had the best jumps. Daddy was the judge. We also played lots of games. I won a fan and a windmill. I loved the waterslides. I only went on the dark waterslide. I also loved the glitter tattoos. I got a princess crown that was silver sparkly. I didn't go in the bubble pit because the line was too long. I loved swimming. My pumpkin was really big. I couldn't carry it. I liked being with my family.</span></div>
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We just returned home from a really awesome 2 day trip to Rocky Point, Mexico. Some friends invited us, and oh boy and I'm glad we got the invite! We stayed in this incredible house that had beautiful Mexican tile, an incredible domed ceiling, and plenty of beds! It was a very short walk down to basically a private beach with very low tides resulting in cool tide pools, low waves, and warm water. </div>
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One of the main highlights was keeping our eyes peeled for the mango vendor. Our goal coming home is to learn how to flower our own mangos. They taste so much better that way. </div>
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Another highlight was finding incredible seashells. The shells were large and beautiful. "Unicorn shells" were some of our favorite to find. The water was unbelievably clear, so it was fun to find treasures as we walked along. Emily and her friend Danielle made their shell necklaces the first night and wore them the entire time.</div>
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Another fun activity was going out on the kayaks. Since the water only had small rolling waves, the kids were able to maneuver around all by themselves. The older kids would paddle each other out and take turns snorkeling a little off shore. The littler kids still had fun snorkeling right off shore. I'm not really sure anyone saw anything worth seeing, but just putting on the gear was exciting.<br />
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The first day, Sharon and I took all of the kids (minus the two littlest) on a banana boat ride. It was so fun. At first it was really windy so the waves were a little bigger and the banana was crazy getting over the wave. Cammie and I were in the back and we were being tossed and thrown all over. It was awesome. We all loved it.</div>
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The town next to ours held "Outdoor Heritage Day" this morning. I saw the flier and thought it looked like fun. We headed off bright and early (I tend to like to be at things like this as soon as they open). We were a little late, but it wasn't too bad. First thing when we got there, we picked up our fishing poles and went over to the pond to fish for a little bit. Me and Lyla lost interest pretty quick, but Emily and Justin hung around for a little while. </div>
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Next we headed over to the little archery range. They had child size bows and 2 fun targets, balloons and a dinosaur. Lyla got to go first. With her first arrow she hit a balloon and her victory dance was awesome. She didn't have as much luck after that, but she did nail the dinosaur in the leg.</div>
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The Park Service was there with one of their Ranger boats. It was pretty cute that they made the kids put on life jackets to go on it, even though it was parked on land. Always teaching good habits I guess.</div>
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Our next adventure was mining for gold. This concept was a little trickier to understand, and lost interest pretty quickly. I mean seriously, who wants to wash dirt for very long?</div>
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Earlier this week we were in California at Matt and Christi's in Huntington Beach, so naturally we had to have a beach day. I miss being by water so much! Even in Boston we could go to the harbor or the beach, so it felt so WONDERFUL to be back in the sunshine, digging in the sand. I'm already scheming how to get back there. (This time with daddy of course). </div>
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It was Clara's first time at the beach. She loved the sand and since she has started moving everywhere, so became quite messy, quite fast. </div>
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Still stinkin' adorable though. </div>
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She and Parker had a little truffle over the truck :)</div>
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Parker is ridiculously cute any day of the week, but when you put that boy in the sand at the beach, he takes cute to a level very few kids reach. </div>
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I love my girls!</div>
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It was so nice to play with Lyla that day. No temper tantrums, no meltdowns, just my fun, adventurous, sweet daughter. </div>
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"How do you like this pose Mom?" </div>
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My stud nephew Westin hard at work.</div>
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My mom had a tough week babysitting and then dealing with the transmission in her car going out, so it's a good thing she was surrounded by these munchkins to keep her happy :)</div>
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Of course there were big sister visits. Isn't this picture horrible?! However, it's about as good as it gets when it comes to girl group shots. I don't take a lot of pictures at the hospital, I always look horrible. Give me a couple days and I start looking normal again. :)</div>
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Justin on the other hand always looks very dashing holding his baby girls. </div>
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I could not get enough of Clara in the hospital. I hardly turned the tv on, I just sat at watched her. This hospital had these cute little dinosaur blankets which I guess is fitting because apparently they discovered dinosaur bones around here. </div>
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One weird thing about this hospital is they didn't put little shirts on the babies. I brought some, but Clara had some spit up issues and all of the ones I brought got dirty, so baby girl had to be naked a lot.Good thing we had lots of blankets. </div>
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Emily LOVES to hold Clara. She would hold her all day long if she could. Lyla on the other hand would not hold her at the hospital. "Baby Clara is too heavy" is what she would tell us. </div>
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Finally we got to take her home. My mom stayed with the girls so it was just Justin and I on the trip home. We stopped by his clinic and showed Clara off to his co-workers and then had lunch at Cafe Rio before taking Clara to her new home. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9084155008055222658.post-63401572162902206892013-09-05T18:34:00.002-07:002013-09-05T18:34:30.597-07:00Clara Alice Van Dusen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This was our first time going to the hospital not knowing for sure what we were going to name our baby. Ever since we knew that she was a girl there was one name that we really liked. Justin particularly liked it, but as the months went on, I wasn't quite sure I LOVED it. </div>
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A couple of days before we had her we were exploring name lists on the internet. I came across Cora, which had a nice to ring to it, but with Downton Abbey being so popular right now, I just couldn't do it. (Plus Justin didn't like it.) Then I read Clara. It had a great ring to it and I couldn't forget about it. Justin gave me the okay and I started to play around with it. I asked the girls what they thought and Emily really liked it. Lyla said, "How about we name her Claire-Beara". </div>
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The first day and a half at the hospital Justin and I toyed around with both Claire and Clara, trying to decide what was best. We (I- with Justin's permission) finally decided on Clara, and if she turned into Claire, it would be 'for short.' </div>
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We decided when we first had Emily that middle names were going to be family names. Alice is my Mom's Mom, and we thought it fit beautifully with Clara. I hope Clara is like my Grandma Alice. She is hardworking, compassionate, faithful, and has devoted her life to her family. </div>
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Every day that goes by, I love the name Clara and my baby Clara even more. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9084155008055222658.post-71120595417078144232013-09-02T14:48:00.001-07:002013-09-02T14:48:26.462-07:00Our Newest Baby<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Moving to a new town 34ish (?) weeks pregnant is a little nerve wracking. You have to unpack your life, try and make friends, find a doctor, help your kids make friends, get use to new schedules, etc. etc. </div>
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We are really blessed that a lot of this happened pretty natural. Justin did most of our unpacking, one of my best friends in Boston connected me with her cousin who lives here and we (and our kids) became good friends quickly, Justin really likes his job, the girls are happy with rural living, life was just pretty good. I did pick a doctor who I wasn't exactly thrilled with. She was kind of odd, and I decided that wasn't quite what I wanted in a baby doctor. After reading internet reviews of the doctors here, I found one that I thought would be a good fit. I went to my first appointment with him at 38 weeks and 2 days. (Way to wait until the last minute).</div>
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My meeting with him was awesome. He was calm, relaxed, confident, and didn't make me feel like an idiot. (We are, and recognize that we are, EXTREMELY lucky in that childbearing is not a struggle for our family) so all of my 'issues' are pretty first world problems. My due date has always been September 2, which I really liked. I wanted a September baby (hello sapphires) and it would be fun to have a baby on Labor Day. </div>
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Here's one time I was reminded, "You aren't in Boston anymore." My doctor told me that he would be happy to step in for my prenatal care (basically deliver the baby), but he would be out of town for the holiday weekend. So if I wanted him to deliver her, he would be happy to induce me a few days early. Early induction??? Had not ever crossed my mind with this baby. I BEGGED and PLEADED with Lyla's doctor, but she said "nope." Anyways, I went home and Justin and I decided to do it. Hurray for no middle of the night surprises and awkward phone calls for childcare. My mom was incredibly awesome and once again said she would come early to help with our girls. </div>
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Tuesday, August 27 rolled around and we woke up in the morning and got all ready to go and "pick up a baby from the hotspital" (as Lyla says). The girls got dropped off at their friends house and we got to the hospital. I FORGOT MY CAMERA!! I had 3 dumb magazines, a knitting project, and 4 outfits for the baby, but forgot my camera. Sigh, good thing I have a cell phone??</div>
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A few hours later my mom arrived. She has an incredible friend who works for an airline that gave her a standby ticket to use so she could be there for the delivery and then to help me with my girls (I am the most spoiled girl on the planet & I need to write a thank you card.)</div>
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So with inductions there isn't much to write about. They are pretty straight forward. I had an incredible nursing staff, probably my best yet. </div>
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I always get really anxious RIGHT before the baby is about to come, sure enough this time too. I'm not sure why, it's like this huge surge of emotion hits literally in the last minute before each little one has come. It always surprises me. Sweet little baby decided to come in about 3-4 minutes of pushing. Have I mentioned I.love.her?? </div>
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There was one exciting moment. Apparently the baby's umbilical cord emerged before she did, which 99.9% of the time results in running down the hallways towards an emergency c-section, but didn't with me. The baby just followed right along with no problems. The doctor kept saying, "That was incredible." "You don't see that everyday." "You guys (the student/resident) may never see that again." Ever since we had Emily, Justin jokes that my body was just made for having babies, maybe there is some truth to that. </div>
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So out pops our messy little bundle of joy. She had the same general look as her 2 sisters. I was pretty exhausted so I laid back, took a little rest and let the staff and her daddy take over from there, and just loved my little one.</div>
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From then on out, she was one of the most content babies there ever was. Oh, and of course, most beautiful babies there ever was too. Instant Love.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9084155008055222658.post-85524382799584465282013-08-11T12:04:00.000-07:002013-08-11T12:04:42.568-07:00Lyla getting ready for baby...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
3 weeks until my due date. Well, 3 weeks and 1 day to be precise. I'm having my own little panic attacks that luckily are over silly stuff like crib sheets and getting the baby's pictures taken. Luckily I have Lyla around to ease my tension. Here's a couple gems from my little jewel.<br />
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*"Mom! The new baby is going to STEAL my polka. I am going to cry, and you have to put her on time-out, ok?!"<br />
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*"MOM! I found the baby a present!" As she runs in with all of my newborn pacifiers in her mouth.<br />
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*"Can we name the baby 'Nemo?'"- asks my original baby Nemo.<br />
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*Mom, I am still your baby. I'm not a big girl."<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9084155008055222658.post-64835551501978789992013-04-15T18:56:00.000-07:002013-04-15T18:56:02.205-07:00Boston Marathon 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you are my friend on Facebook or around me in Boston, you know that I was STOKED for the marathon this year. No, I was not running it. I have no clue that that will ever happen, but I was still going to be involved this year.<br />
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In January I signed up to be an official volunteer. I just wanted to be a <i>part</i> of this cool event, even if it meant handing out water, stuffing race bags, anything.<br />
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As race weekend approached I learned that there is an Expo the 3 days before the race. For date night, Justin even agreed to go with me. We had a great time scouring the booths, watching video clips, and just enjoying the atmosphere.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My shirt/souvenir from the expo. </td></tr>
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I decided to take the girls back the next day and they had more fun than Justin and I. The vendors like to give kids stuff. They scored cow bells, little tattoos, stickers, snacks, posters, all kinds of stuff. We left as it was getting crowded and I noticed that the finish line to the race was all set up. SWEET. We walked down to it and I let the girls run across it and explained as best I could what it was. They've been to my races before, so at least Emily understood. You could tell who the runners were because they had their "race bags" with them. Emily wanted to know why I didn't have a race bag. I decided the best answer was, "I have a baby in my belly, so I can't ran that race this time." After the finish line, we went to Sugary Heaven and I let the girls each pick out a piece of candy. Then we headed home.<br />
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Monday morning bright and early, my friend Jen picked me up (at 5 am) and we headed out to our volunteer spot: the starting area!!! (Not the official starting LINE- that was almost an entire mile away). Our job title was Clothing Check. Since the starting line is far away from the finish and most runners take buses out from Boston, they have personal belongings they want to get back at the finish line. There were 3 waves of 18 school buses for the runners to load their belongings onto. Each window of each bus was designated for a set of 50 runners' bibs numbers. Runners were responsible for finding their appropriate window and passing their bags through. We would make sure the bags were in the right spot and would be ready for pick up at the finish line.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I LOVED these giant signs all over. Eek! Made me think that someday I want to run this.... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My "official" volunteer swag. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend Jen and I after our shift.</td></tr>
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I worked on the Wave 1 buses, which meant the elite runners. It was pretty fun to see their intensity. It was great to wish them well and yell, "Have a great race!" through the window. At this point in the day there was so much excited energy. The wave 2 and 3 runners just as much fun to be around, after all they were running the BOSTON MARATHON! Our shift ended and Jen and I headed home.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen and I on our empty bus- before the craziness.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our bus! </td></tr>
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When I got home, I knew I wanted to go cheer runners on. Emily said she wanted to come, but Justin wasn't interested, so he and Lyla stayed home to take naps. Emily and I went and met up with some friends who have a great spot they go to every year. This particular year, they had a family member running, so it was exciting to cheer for her as she passed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Justin and Lyla, enjoying their afternoon.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emily ringing her cowbell for the incredible runners.</td></tr>
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Believe it or not, Emily wasn't too excited about sitting on a sidewalk and ringing her cowbell for too long. Once our friends' cousin passed, so they packed up to go meet her at the finish line. Emily asked me if we were going to go as well, and without even thinking the words, "No. The finish line is too crazy for kids." came out of my mouth. We loaded up and went home. Didn't think twice about. (*this is the unusual part of the story for me. I'll get to that in a minute.) We got home and I promptly fell asleep on the couch. I woke up when I felt my phone buzzing and saw that my brother called. First instinct was to ignore and call him back when I was done sleeping, but answered anyways and he was calling to check on Emily and I. I didn't even believe him, when he told me there had been an explosion at the finish line (not that people joke about that kind of thing or anything). I started surfing the internet and not finding very much, when DUH! I live in Boston, all I have to do is turn on the tv. Sure enough, there was plenty of footage. I promptly called my friend who I'd just said goodbye to as she headed to the finish line and when she DIDN'T ANSWER, I didn't panic, but of course texted and was relieved to hear they were A-OK.<br />
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Wow. From this point on in the day, time flew by. By Emily and Lyla pointed out the finish line and that we had just been there. There, RIGHT BY one of the blasts was the candy store we were at. Emily saw a picture and said, "Wow, I'm glad we weren't there today." It was kind of a bizarre afternoon.<br />
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Since I'd been posting pictures on Facebook and Instagram all day, I recently so much lovin' from friends and family all over the country checking on Emily and I. I was so grateful to report that we were safe and sound on our couch. As a death count of 2 came in my heart sank. As I saw pictures of people severely injured my heart sank. As I thought of all of those runners this morning, I'd smiled at told them, "Have a great race!" or "Have a great day!!" I just thought, this day has turned out awful for them! There they were, walking aimlessly around the streets. There was no celebration, they couldn't find their families, some were on stretchers and in wheelchairs. It was unbelievable. I JUST saw them. They were just getting excited to run the BOSTON MARATHON! It was suppose to be an awesome day they could brag about forever.<br />
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**I was so impressed that within minutes, the women I go to church with had already sent out an email basically asking people to "check in." I am going to miss these women like I never thought possible.<br />
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Then, personally the saddest news as of yet came in. That was that one of the deaths was an 8 year old boy. I can't even go there. 8 years old means he was taken there by his family either to support someone they love, or his parents wanted to have him experience something really special. Both of those things my kids do. My girls come to my races and meet me at the finish line. I took Emily to this race today, so she could be a part of something incredible. Same as that little boys parents. I don't know.. I just can't go there really.<br />
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Anyways. I have not wanted to be overly dramatic about this horrible event or even go through "what if" scenarios, that clearly did not happen. I even felt a little guilty when I would read that people prayed for my family, I mean we were Safe. We were fine. There are hundreds of other people that aren't. HOWEVER, as I was decompressing tonight my mind was opened a little and I found a GIANT tender mercy.<br />
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I love being IN THE ACTION. I want to be front row at fireworks shows, I want to eat at delicious restaurants, I want to <i>experience</i> things. Especially Boston things, since we are moving. On a normal day, I would have seriously considered taking Emily down to that finish line. We were three miles away, right by a train stop that was a straight shot there. No problem. Just me and Emily, no problem. I might have still decided that even though she wasn't really into it and I didn't want to drag her around, but it would have EATEN at me all afternoon that I was going to <i>miss something</i> exciting. The fact that none of that even went through my brain is really quite colossal. Would we have been front and center at one of the blasts? Probably not. Would I have exposed my daughter, my unborn daughter, and myself to possible danger and at least a scary image or 2? probably.<br />
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What started out as a fantastic beautiful day, ended in tragedy. I hope even those injured will be able to find some resemblance of peace in the next few days.<br />
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Thank you Heavenly Father for proving to me AGAIN, that in a real "situation" you will relieve all anxiety and help me make good decisions and protect my family.<br />
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We were a little late with our Easter egg dying this year. Thank goodness I boiled them ON Easter, or else it probably wouldn't have happened. We dyed them using Kool-aid this year. The picture I got the idea from produced these very vibrant eggs, so I thought it would be awesome. Ours did not turn out so much as vibrant, but totally funky. It's all good though because the girls had a great time doing it, and it's all about the process, not necessarily the result... right??!!<br />
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I only had a dozen eggs to dye, so once Lyla dyed all of hers, she re-dyed them again. </div>
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Emily did multi-colors on hers. Some of them turned out really pretty, "like sunsets" she said.</div>
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It rains a lot here. It snows a lot here. All of the girls in the house own a lot of boots & coats. This particular day I thought Emily looked rather adorable, so I took a picture. Enough said, right?!</div>
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Market Basket is our favorite grocery store, but for different reasons. I (Allison) love the cheap(er) groceries, especially the produce. Lyla LOVES that there is a horse and a mini carousel outside that she gets to ride every time we go to the store. Emily always gets left out since we go while she's in school, but we'll get her there one of these days.</div>
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Park Days. We have been lucky that spring is starting to peek its head out here. We've been to the park a few times. If you look close in these pictures you will also notice that Lyla has to dress "fancy" every. single.day. The first picture is complete with sparkle boots, sparkle tights, hat, and fancy beautiful dress. </div>
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This is the only picture I have of Lyla and her BEST friend. You can never tell her that Sophia is her friend without being corrected. In fact, you can't mention that anyone is her friend without being informed that Sophia is her BEST friend. Gotta love a best friend. </div>
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A few weeks after Lyla had her tubes put in, she caught a cold. Runny nose, fever, the works. Since she had her tubes though, I didn't worry too much about it. Luckily though, a few days into the cold was her post-op appointment for her tubes. I say "luckily" because the cold had cause her tube to get clogged and basically not work. I didn't even know that was a possibility. Since it was caught early enough the doctor could dig the 'gunk' out and make her good as new. Had he not done that it could have made the tub obsolete and they would have had to remove it and put in another one. To prevent it in the future, he gave me a prescription with a few refills of drops to put in her ears if/when she gets colds in the future.<br />
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Special thanks to my camera girl Emily. I didn't even know she was taking pictures of Lyla. They had to strap her to a Papoose board while the digging went on. I was busy trying to distract her by telling her a story. Lyla is so tough she didn't cry at all, she just seemed very surprised by the whole thing. I've said it once and I'm sure I'll say it a million zillion more times, my Lyla is one amazing little girl. </div>
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After a long history of ear infections, snoring, and grumpy kids the girls FINALLY were scheduled for a couple minor surgeries. Emily was getting her tonsils and adenoids removed and tubes put in her ears. Lyla was just getting the tubes put in. </div>
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In preparation we bought popsicles, fudgesicles, ice cream, yogurt, and borrowed a Vitamix to make smoothies. Emily was STOKED!</div>
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Morning of we checked in at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. They gave us a whole room for the day and here was our incredible view. </div>
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We all had to change into fancy clothes. The girls looked really cute in their little gowns. </div>
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Justin went with Lyla while she got her tubes put in. When she woke up from her anesthesia she was super snuggly and sweet. She came back up to the room and watched cartoons while we waited for Emily to be done. </div>
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I went down and met Emily when she woke up and the experience was not the same as Lyla's. I cried a little when I saw her because she had already woken up and was so unhappy. She was in so much pain, with no real understanding of why or what happened. This particular cranky Emily was unlike anything I've ever seen in this girl. Any time a nurse would talk to her she would <i>glare</i> at her and then turn to me and say, "Why is this person talking to me?" through clenched teeth. I tried desperately to get her to sleep, because that seemed to be the only thing to keep her from crying. Eventually they put her on a some pretty heavy painkillers and she was able to relax a little bit. </div>
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Being at the hospital that day was basically like being at an all-inclusive resort for Lyla. She was in no pain, so she got to lay in her own bed that she could control and watch Disney Jr. and Nickelodeon (we have neither channel at home). Every time a nurse would come in Lyla would say, "I have another popsicle pease? red one?" It was very much like me laying by a pool saying, "I have another strawberry daiquiri pease?" haha. She was very sad when we had to go home. </div>
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This little monkey also enjoyed relaxing at the hospital, but not quite as much as her sister. She liked that I snuggled her on the bed for a couple hours, but that was about it. When it was time to go, she didn't want to go though. I don't blame her all that much. </div>
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Life at home was pretty rough at first. Emily did NOT want to take her medicine and Lyla did NOT want her ear drops. I ran out of Lyla's ear drops a few days early and when I called the pharmacy to see if I could get more, cash price for the drops was like $200 or something crazy like that, so thank goodness the insurance company ok'd it. </div>
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Grumpy Emily stayed around for a little bit. A couple funny things she said were, </div>
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Another benefit of having grandma come is she brought a craft for every day she was here. Here the girls are painting horses. Thank goodness for Grandma, because I was all set to snuggle and sleep the whole time. </div>
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We made it through. Grandma went home and I only cried a little bit. The rest of recovery went well. Well enough that a week later the girls and I decided to go to Arizona for a vacay. So glad that's over. Let's cross our fingers for good health in the future.<br />
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**One last note. It's interesting how something minor puts life into perspective. A tonsillectomy is really not <i>that</i> big of a deal, but as a parent there are still a lot of emotions felt, seeing your child in pain. It broke my heart just thinking about the parents who have truly sick children and have to go through those emotions day after day. I am truly grateful for the good health of my family and have so much more respect for the mothers and fathers or any caregivers whose lives are affect(ran) by health issues. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9084155008055222658.post-23037451565197794862013-04-03T11:41:00.000-07:002013-04-03T11:41:07.557-07:00I Love You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Emily had her first crush when she was 2.5. It was pretty funny to me, because she had lots of friends who were boys, but there was something different about one. One day she even said, "I am going to be a princess and Kimball will be my prince." Then in preschool word got out that her and a boy were smooching and Justin and I put the kabosh on that. Then there was an actual wedding ceremony that took place during playtime one preschool morning, and the rest of the year all of the kids recognized Emily and the friend as married. Anywho- we've had this lovey stuff in our lives for a while. Luckily things are turning around a little bit.<br />
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I was going through my phone one day and found a video Emily took of her playing with one of her friends. They were new friends and they were being really goofy. All of a sudden this interaction takes place:<br />
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Boy:"Emily, I love you."<br />
Emily:"what?! You're weird! Oh, what's your name again?"<br />
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I think I am going to keep the video forever.<br />
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Today Emily was playing with one of her boy friends. They are eating a snack and this is what I overhear:<br />
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Boy:" Emily, I wish I could be you."<br />
Emily:" why?"<br />
Boy:" because I love you."<br />
Emily: "seriously, you're weird."<br />
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Emily's preschool had Art Masterpiece month in January. They each selected their favorite Van Gogh paintings and painted them. They are now on display in our town library. All of the kids did FANTASTIC. We (the parents) were beyond impressed at our kids skills. At one point this month Emily told me, "I want to be an artist when I grow up. But, I definitely don't want to be a broccoli seller." </div>
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Emily's painting is the Starry Night picture that is right above her head. </div>
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For Emily's 5th birthday we combined all of our favorite things. Princess, Barbie Charm School, Fancy Nancy, & Pinkalicious. </div>
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Pinterest has all sorts of fabulous ideas, but Emily wanted to be IN CHARGE of her party. While I did a lot of the details, she planned the food and activities. </div>
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For food she picked our pb & j sandwiches. Fancy Nancy says sandwiches taste better with fancy toothpicks, but we negotiated and made crown sandwiches instead. Strawberries with chocolate, grape kabobs, frosting & sprinkle pretzels, and a bunch of fancy eclairs and things. </div>
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This was hilarious because Lyla was in love with it. She would try and get every last drop of punch out of her glass before begging for more. It was really cute. To fancify drinking I got stemmed glasses (thank you dollar store) and added ribbon to them. The girls got a kick of it. </div>
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I really really wanted some fancy cupcakes or a fancy cake, but Emily really wanted one of their activities to be decorate cupcakes. So here are the plain cupcakes before the girls turned them in to works of art. </div>
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finger nail painting</div>
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Princess story time</div>
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This one was pretty funny because it was really hard. We started out with each girl having one book to balance and just about no one could walk with it. Then we switched and tried to see how many they could balance. It was pretty cute watching these really determined little girls try and figure this out. </div>
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I didn't take good enough pictures of the girls doing this. They made some pretty intense crowns. There were all sorts of patterns going on, but my FAVORITE moment was when one of the girls was getting picked up she said, "You know how Beth (big sister) says things are symmetrical? I made my crown symmetrical." You better believe she had a symmetrical crown. </div>
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Happy Birthday Princess Emily</div>
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Lyla's Birthday Day, October 24 was a FUN day. </div>
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I love being home with my girlees and making their birthday's extra special. We started out by going to our favorite donut shop- Ohlin's Bakery. Apparently they were voted Best Donuts in Boston. I would have to agree. We sat outside and Lyla ate the entire thing. The nice ladies at the store even gave her a free cookie for her birthday. (hint: if you want free stuff for your kids, have them wear clothes that say it's their birthday).</div>
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Next we went to our local candy shop Chocolate Dreams to get a brand new Hello Kitty stuffed animal friend and free balloon (once again from the shirt). There is a story behind getting this particular stuffed friend. </div>
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A few weeks ago while we were going for a stroll around town we stopped by this candy store for the first time. Outside of the store, they keep a little dog bowl with dog treats in it. We went inside and the girls got suckers and looked at all of the Beanie Babies. Lyla loved the Hello Kitty ones, especially the giant one. For the next week or so, if I asked Lyla what she wanted to do she would say, "Go to the candy store with the doggy treats and get a Hello Kitty."</div>
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So for her special day, thanks to my Grandma Alice, we went and got her kitty.</div>
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After nap time (even birthday girls need naps) our whole family went to the zoo. It has become a tradition ( 2 years) that we take Lyla to the zoo on her birthday. There is a gorilla that is the same age as Lyla, by a couple weeks, so it's fun to watch that gorilla baby grow up too. Here's Lyla and Daddy watching the Lion take a little rest. Earlier he was roaring a lot and of course I told Lyla he was singing her Happy Birthday :).</div>
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If you look closely you can see the Lion in the background.</div>
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Playing by the Gorilla's. This time Lyla kept saying, "Those gorillas so scary mom. So scary."</div>
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Playing in the crashed truck. </div>
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Really excited, and incredibly cute. </div>
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When we got home I asked her what her favorite animal was. She told me, "The hippo. He was so funny. He was poopin', he was so funny."</div>
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After a delicious dinner of tacos, Lyla opened her presents. She got fantastic presents this year, if I do say so myself.</div>
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First up, Little People Airplane. Lyla LOVES airplanes. Like really loves them. She is constantly asking me to take her to the airport and always finds them in the sky. So was really excited to play with this. The sound effect says, "Ready for takeoff." She picked the plane up, yells "READY FOR TAKEOFF" and then threw the plane across the room. Obviously it fell to the ground. She turned to me and said, "Airplane's broken Mom." </div>
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Justin's parents got her this fabulous Little People Princess Castle and Emily got her the princesses to go with it. Another hit. She loves this thing, especially the princesses. She plays with them all.the.time. </div>
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We let the girls stay up way past their bedtimes playing that night. I enjoyed sitting on the couch watching my little sweethearts play together. I love Lyla so much. </div>
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Happy Birthday Lyla girl!</div>
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Lyla turned 2 this week and we celebrated Care Bear style. I actually had too much fun planning her party. </div>
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Here is the invite we sent to lots and lots of friends. </div>
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This is our food table. Mostly rainbow themed with a dash of Care Bear here and there.</div>
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My friend Brittney made these awesome cupcakes for me. </div>
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Here's my Care Bear cake. </div>
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Fruit Rainbow</div>
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The beautiful birthday girl.</div>
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The birthday girl blowing out her candles.</div>
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Rainbow cake!</div>
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Opening presents.</div>
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It was such a fun party. I am so glad we were able to celebrate Lyla with all of our wonderful Boston friends. I don't know what we would do without them!</div>
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A couple weeks ago my best friend and cousin (1 person) came to Boston to visit. She brought her 1 year old daughter Stella, but left her toddler home with Grandma. Thanks Susan!! </div>
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This post is about our day trip to Rockport, MA. I was first introduced to Rockport as I ran through it in my half marathon a few months ago. It looked like a charming town and Heather would be the perfect friend to explore it with. </div>
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First, we checked out the little harbor. Emily was hamming it up posing her normal picture poses. Our fellow tourists (elderly people) got a huge kick out of her. To me it's normal, but they thought she was hilarious. </div>
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Little Stella was such a good sport. She was tucked in comfy in the back seat :).</div>
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One of our first stops was to a local candy shop. Isn't this boat of salt water taffy dreamy!! We came back later for some yummy treats. </div>
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"Way Too Old Boat Ramp" </div>
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I feel like most things in Mass should be labeled Way too old ____</div>
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Our gorgeous travel mates</div>
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We ate lunch at the Roy Moore Lobster shack. For me this was a dream. It is what I feel like should be all over New England. It was this little hole in the wall restaurant that was not much to look at. </div>
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Inside was a pen that held tons of lobsters (caught that morning). The workers had fun pulling then out and pretending to "get" Emily and Lyla. So you order a lobster, they pull on out and boil it for you. Pretty cheap too. I think we had 2 lobsters (1 each), clam chowder for the girls, fish cakes, and stuff clams. All for less than $20. The stuffed clams were definitely the best. </div>
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I get a little skeeved out eating lobster, but it was pretty good dipped in lots of butter- especially the claw. </div>
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Here are a few of the other store fronts. I particularly love the ice cream store. </div>
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We stopped in a fudge shop that was in the movie The Proposal! Well, Saundra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds walk by it. Anyways, I thought this Elephant Ears sign was pretty cute.</div>
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Making their fudge</div>
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This is how we roll. </div>
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Me and my sweetsies. </div>
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Here are some pics of Emily with her friends from preschool. I cropped the first one of just her and one other friend, because they are just too darn cute. </div>
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The whole class</div>
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Being goofy</div>
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My gorgeous little princess.</div>
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I LOVE Emily's friends. If I didn't really REALLY love family, we could easily stay here and be happy. If she could grow up with this bunch of friends she would be the luckiest girl on the planet. </div>
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