tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82506908420862800582024-02-20T12:38:26.029-05:00letters moving.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02170034821653763034noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250690842086280058.post-36544563681427118362013-06-12T08:10:00.000-04:002013-06-12T08:10:39.956-04:00Back In the Saddle Again.[Cough and sputters as dust floats off this corner of the internet]<br />
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Sorry about that dust there. It's been awhile.<br />
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I'm working on a new morning routine (soooo exciting, I know) which includes writing again. While I will <i>always</i> prefer pen and paper, I figure this little blog should get some love too.<br />
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We're still just going along day by day in the Batcave. Sesame and Little Dude are best of friends (most days) and spend mornings home on epic adventures in the rain-forest or Neverland. Sesame's imagination takes them there and Little Dude is just happy to be included in whatever lays before them. No matter where they are headed he's usually a dinosaur. :)<br />
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Anyway, I'm hoping to record their shenanigans again. :) No promises on frequency though. :)<br />
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Facebook, at this point in our lives, is a quick easy way to upload photos and record quick snippets of our daily life. It looms much less than a weekly blog post. So, in an effort to keep those of you without facebook accounts (ahem, Daddy.) up to speed on the Golbov Batcave, I am going to attempt a Saturday status update.<br />
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The last Saturday of the month or so I will copy several of my/husband's statuses from Facebook to a post on the blog. That way you all can enjoy the wackiness of our family. :)<br />
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That said, there are several posts not included. They are generally attached to my instagram stream. I'm working on putting that in sidebar somewhere. :) <br />
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Status on 2013-01-25<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02170034821653763034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250690842086280058.post-21022914279416075652013-01-12T23:00:00.000-05:002013-01-24T15:51:29.117-05:00One, Two, Three...<div style="text-align: center;">
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My sweet girl is four.</div>
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How did three years skate by so quickly!?</div>
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1. Days we never changed out of pjs, brushed our hair or bathed.</div>
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3. When she was about 18 months - the age Little Dude is currently.</div>
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She has grown so very much.</div>
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She's intuitive and perceptive.</div>
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Plays in worlds birthed completely from her vast imagination.</div>
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Recognizes all her letters and most numbers through 20.</div>
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Sings. Endlessly.</div>
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Eagerly prays over meals.</div>
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Loves on her brother - unconditionally.</div>
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Hates broccoli.</div>
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Loves blueberries.</div>
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And has absolutely no personality at all.</div>
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Okay. Maybe she has personality.</div>
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<i>Just a little.</i></div>
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I love you my dear, sweet Nellianne.</div>
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You made me a mother.</div>
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You are my joy and sunshine</div>
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and as much as I love you,</div>
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my precious four-year-old,</div>
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Jesus loves you even more.</div>
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Happy Birthday Sesame! </div>
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My fantastical cousin Laura found this gem of a video on the interwebs. Please take 4 minutes and 16 seconds to laugh your socks off. I promise it is worth the loss of sleep tonight. </div>
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Sometimes events occur in my home that leave me with a befuddled expression and quizzical glance.</div>
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For example, this:</div>
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During dinner I caught a glimpse of a pink dress hanging from the back sliding door.</div>
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I did a double take.</div>
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I must admit, I was completely unphased.</div>
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This is so normal.</div>
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I even found Belle smashed in mid-air between two up-standing books.</div>
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So, to find Mulan channeling Trinity from <i>The Matrix</i>:</div>
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no biggie.</div>
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I don't remember events like this before children - and I'm sure I'll miss them when all they want for Christmas are i-pods and surf boards.</div>
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Not that we live anywhere near a surf-able body of water.</div>
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Then this happened:</div>
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He was a tad thirsty.</div>
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Ahhhh...The satisfied old man face. :)</div>
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He is <i>fearless</i> in the water.</div>
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The boy was sloshing about, launching himself face first into the tub last night.</div>
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On one launch he sucked in half the tub water through both his mouth and nose.</div>
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Gagging, hacking and a bit of regurgitation occurred.</div>
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Nellianne <i>freaked out</i>.</div>
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"AHH!!! HE PUKED IN THE TUB!!!"</div>
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After a brief 10 second dramatic overhaul, she quickly turned to:</div>
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"Momma. My tummy hurts. I think I have the yuckies too."</div>
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Not working.</div>
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Not. Working.</div>
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I reminded her Ezra was not sick and she wasn't either.</div>
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Then Ezra sent a tidal tub wave into her face, leaving her gasping. :)</div>
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I laughed.</div>
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Such a good Momma am I.</div>
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A) Holy crazy font arrangement Batman!</div>
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B) That is my sweet, sweet son laying alone, on his back, unable to move in his snow suit last winter. My darling boy - perfectly happy to just hang out at 9 months old. He didn't need to move or be entertained. He remains as content. Unless I'm trying to take a photo of him in his Christmas outfit...which brings us to this:</div>
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Awwwwwwww... Aren't they cute. Too bad Momma had her camera set for a different environment. "Hey kids, wait two seconds while I switch the settings."<br />
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My mind has mulled over the decline of this blog for a month or two. Reasons for the piles of silence include:<br />
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1. Not enough time. (lie.)<br />
2. Nothing interesting to write about. (lie.)<br />
3. No one reads what I post. (lie.)<br />
4. Is it really worth the time? (duh. <i>yes.</i>)<br />
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<i>Clearly</i> this is a list of lies. The grandest, most accurate reason is this little secret of mine: I desperately want what I post here to be funny, well-written, interesting and not <i>just</i> about my kiddos. In addition I don't want to post for the sake of posting. In a world of pinterest, facebook and instagram, I am still an old school typewriter girl at heart. I am not a super-mom who can sew all my children's clothes, home school, make freezer meals for 30 days and work a full time job from home. I take time to write. I enjoy <i>playing</i> with my children. My counter always has both clean and dirty dishes. The floors are dingy and Mt.Laundry is sitting in my hallway. If I have the choice to clean my home or make a rocket ship out of a cardboard box, the rocket wins every time. <br />
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I want this space to be like my home. That means it will be covered in dust at times. I may go a week without posting, but that doesn't mean I'm not working on it. So. Let's be friends again, interwebs. You and me. What do you say?<br />
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So it actually <i>has</i> been awhile. Things have happened, life has been crazy and my little corner of the internet descended to the dusty doldrums of the return library stack. Sorry. Can we still be friends? I brought photos of my family?! Does that make up for it? The lovely Elizabeth Chapman snapped these this fall.<br />
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The kiddos are growing exponentially. I've been cooking up a STORM. Husband is creating mini-catapults. Homer is...exactly the same. Anywho, this is my big grand, "hello again." :) So. Hi.<br />
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I cut his hair and he reacted like Chernobyl struck.</div>
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For real.</div>
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Mr. Happy-go-lucky Pants was FREAKING OUT.</div>
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Crying.</div>
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Wailing.</div>
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Peace.</div>
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Bliss.</div>
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He smiled and rainbows shot across the dining room.</div>
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Crazy sauce.</div>
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Crazy.</div>
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Then there was this:</div>
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She's sleeping.</div>
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With her eyes open.</div>
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And her mouth open.</div>
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She is not playing "opossum" as we called it back in the day.</div>
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She is totally and completely out</div>
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like crazy, neon MC Hammer balloon pants.</div>
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Gone.</div>
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I'm so glad I keep this blog.</div>
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She will LOVE me when she's, oh, 14.</div>
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Ah, and a little slice of everyday life here:</div>
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Sitting in my bath robe, with Godzilla baby climbing me like an Empire State building, while singing the theme song to Cat in the Hat, while braiding reverse braids, while having my own hair brushed, while being photographed.</div>
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The reality of staying at home.</div>
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I love it.</div>
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The total meltdowns. (Okay...stretching it...I love the opportunities to teach/train/mold my children that they present. In hind sight. At my computer. While they slumber peacefully)</div>
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I wouldn't change a bit of it. :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02170034821653763034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250690842086280058.post-9189807461917417132012-07-31T16:08:00.000-04:002012-07-31T16:08:14.454-04:00July.<br />
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Sesame ROCKED the rides.</div>
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For a girl who won't even go down tall slides at the park, she was a fiend for more crazy coasters!</div>
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Beware. </div>
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There are unthinkable photos of a leprous young lad to follow.</div>
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We had the plague two weeks ago.</div>
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On Little Dude's birthday he struck a raging fever.</div>
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Silly fever.</div>
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It failed to realize it's host was celebrating a first birthday.</div>
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The next day Birthday Boy woke up with blisters and sores around his mouth</div>
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Little Dude celebrated in style:</div>
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Day Two of the wretched viral plague.</div>
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He also had his 1 year shots/finger prick. :( Sad day.</div>
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Leper boy has made a recovery and is fully functional (as a freshly one year old can be) in the world.</div>
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Tissue paper/toilet paper roll butterflies</div>
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Tin cans, old bandannas, hot glue and aluminium tape.</div>
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This kitchen was completed with the help of husband dearest. I couldn't find hinges in our garage for the LIFE of me. Then I couldn't put them on. Yay for handy husbands! :)<br />
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All in all, our week of quarantine didn't turn out to be too bad.</div>
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We played hard (when not crying/fever ridden)</div>
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and found new purposes for old items.</div>
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I even spent some quality one on one time with my sweet Sesame.</div>
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She's great. :)</div>
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Little Dude is going to rock age one.</div>
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I can feel it. :)</div>
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More on the birthday to follow.</div>
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It all started with an innocent idea.</div>
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Husband: "She's been good today. We should get her a fish."</div>
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If I hadn't been a walking zombie that day I might have had the where-with-all to say "NO!"</div>
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But I was sleepy.</div>
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"Whatever, it's up to you."</div>
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Hence Nemo Gus Gus Higgins Golbov was born:</div>
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At least I was sound enough of mind to deter husband from purchasing the large 10 gallon tank.</div>
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They didn't have any globe-like bowls, so we opted for a beta vase.</div>
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Nemo was a bit large for said vase</div>
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Sesame stared at him before bed, elated.</div>
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She talked to him and told him not be scared.</div>
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She told him they were going to have "many adventures."</div>
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Girl has an imagination.</div>
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Don't know <i>where</i> she gets it from! :)</div>
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She said good night and went to bed.</div>
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Morning comes.</div>
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Nemo doesn't look to hot.</div>
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Afternoon comes.</div>
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Nemo is dead</div>
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D.E.D dead. (name that movie!)</div>
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We decide it's best to break the news to her - but at the last minute Daddy changes his mind.</div>
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Upside-down, sunk like the Titanic Nemo is dead, in his vase, in my bathroom.</div>
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To Sesame, he "needed to sleep someplace quiet."</div>
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Poor Nemo.</div>
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Daddy runs to Wal-mart to buy <i>one replacement Nemo.</i></div>
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as well as SIX plastic plants, ONE pirate ship and TWO live, self-planting bulbs.</div>
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And all she wanted was ooooooooone gold fish.</div>
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We now have an aquatic zoo on top of her dresser.</div>
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With glow-in the dark plastic plants.</div>
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HOWEVER, when I saw Sesame's face:</div>
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I quickly decided the aquatic zoo was perfectly fine. :) I mean, hello, look at that JOY! :)</div>
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The next morning, Jacque was suctioned to the Aquarium filter and Gus Gus was bobbing, head first, in the glow-in-dark plastic plant. There may have been a glaze over their eyes as well.</div>
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I froke out and told husband we had another "fish situation." and we should "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_bn2blWSY&feature=youtu.be">prepare for a Cosby episode</a>."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sesame told me not to worry, they were just "playing hide and seek."</span></div>
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In the end, we broke the news to Sesame that Jacque and Gus Gus kicked the can.</div>
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Her response: " That's sad, but Nemo has more room to swim now!"</div>
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I still feel like Darla in Finding Nemo.<br />
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1.) Be terrified while washing your face in the morning by a teeny, tiny, little midget girl. <br />
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2.) Fill your first cup of coffee. Add the last of your fantabulous, Sugar-Free Torani Hazelnut syrup. Drop the cup. Awesome.<br />
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3.) Sit down-wind of your Sweet Cherbic son to try and drink your second cup of coffee. Be interrupted by a large "grunt" followed by a fragrant gust of poo. Turn to look at Little Dude. See <strike>Poo squishing up his back, out of his diaper, through his onesie and onto the carpet</strike> sunshine, daisies and unicorns leaping over rainbows.<br />
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4.) Pick up Poo-Master. Carry him at arms length up the stairs, whilst gagging. <br />
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5) Realize this is <i>thee worst poop you have ever faced</i>. Call in reinforcements (aka Husband). <br />
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6) Strategically lean Little Dude against mirror. Watch him <i>grin emphatically</i> as you gingerly remove his pants. Listen to him <i>LAUGH</i> when you start gagging. Have husband hold little Ninja-poo-man so you can breathe fresh air from the window. <br />
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7) Attempt to remove onesie from little, squirmy body without dragging poop through Midget-Man's freshly washed hair. <br />
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8) Fail at said attempt.<br />
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9) Ask husband to prepare warm bath while balancing Little Dude with left hand and wiping with right.<br />
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10) Carry Little, giggling, kicking, naked Dude at arms length through upstairs loft to Batcave Bath.<br />
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11) Find Sesame in the tub, with her clothes on.<br />
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12) Wring out clothes. Bathe both children.<br />
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13) Realize it is only 8:00.<br />
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Little Dude is growing like a crazy man.</div>
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He's finally started crawling around and now there is no stopping him.</div>
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He takes his time doing things, but once he decides to do them, he is a force to be reckoned with.</div>
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He is the babbling king.</div>
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I love the stage infants enter into at this age in language development.</div>
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He has some very clear words: Momma, Daddy, Nay-Nuh (Nellie), Num-Num (pacifier), Dog-Dog, Bye-Bye, Hiiiiiiiiiiiii, I eeee yooooooou (I see you) and Love. :)</div>
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These words are totally discernible by outside parties and that makes me smile. :)</div>
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But the part of development I LOVE is the phrasing of random sounds.</div>
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He's realized there is a rhythm to language.</div>
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A pace and timing.</div>
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It's almost like his inner mind has made some sort of connection regarding the art of speaking, of communication among humans.</div>
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He phrases all the sounds he can muster and then stares at me as if to say, "Right, I mean, come on Mom that was <i>soooo</i> clear."</div>
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Except I have no idea what he's saying.</div>
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E-zizzle is clearly laid back.</div>
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I frequently find him decked out in princess gear or with a cereal box on his head.</div>
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He doesn't seem to mind.</div>
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Sesame is growing like a weed.</div>
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I wish I could freeze time some days.</div>
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She is becoming such a little girl - with daily opinions that differ from mine.</div>
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She is effervescent.</div>
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She is emotive.</div>
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She is hilarious. ;)</div>
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He is almost a year old.</div>
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A YEAR!</div>
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I just don't know <i>where</i> the time has gone.</div>
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I love his crazy faces.</div>
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They are so very different from the faces Sesame made at this age.</div>
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More proof of an imaginative, existing God if you as me.</div>
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They have the same gene pool</div>
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same home environment</div>
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and yet they are so very different.</div>
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I love it.</div>
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God is awesome like that.</div>
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Always surprising me with his creativity.</div>
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He rocks.</div>
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Realization #2: I do not know how to garden well.<br />
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Realization #3: Sesame loves to garden.<br />
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Realization #4: Little Dude loves to garden.<br />
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Realization #6: I love to garden. Wait. I already said that.<br />
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Realization #7: Both my Nonnie and Grandma are excellent gardeners. Note to self: ask for more help.<br />
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Realization #8: It matters not if our garden produces anything of value, because it has produced unbelievable joy in the faces of my children. Points to the grimy fingernails, soil-stricken clothes and muddy shoes. <br />
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Garden = Constant reminder of the Lord's plan to take something tiny, dead and lifeless and transform it into a beautiful, bountiful wellspring of life. God is Awesome. :)<br />
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Here I am.</div>
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Hi.</div>
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That's right, I do still exist, and not in some ephemeral state.</div>
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I'm real and kickin'.</div>
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Hence the lack of posts.</div>
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We've been a bit <i>too</i> kickin'.</div>
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As in, <i>waaaaaaaaay </i>busy! </div>
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But, such is life during this season.</div>
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Here is the newest carnivore:</div>
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He <i>looooooooooves</i> meat.</div>
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Sesame <i>never</i> ate meat. </div>
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It's still a struggle sometimes.</div>
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Little Dude, however, would eat <i>alllllll</i> meat if we let him.</div>
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He snarfs it down and then literally,</div>
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literally,</div>
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bangs on his tray for more.</div>
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Love it.</div>
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Check out his amazing curls too:</div>
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Love it.</div>
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But how could you not love a curly-headed carnivore who looks exactly like his Daddy!? :)</div>
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Okay, ya'll, it's picture dump time. I'll try to nudge Emily into posting some real words here soon, but let's be honest - you mainly want to see the kids anyway. =)</div>
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Little Dude is steadily becoming a person. In addition to no longer looking entirely like Winston Churchill,</div>
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he's also been roped into games a-plenty by his big sister.</div>
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Thursday ended up being his first Taco Bell experience. This is the "Hey, Dad, how's about you let me try the good stuff?" look.</div>
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.......and it was good. Grade D beef has a new fan.</div>
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Needless to say, Little Dude does not have the monopoly on personality. Sesame was generously providing a soundtrack for most of the adventure.</div>
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We decided to take a walk on the canal downtown, as the Event Coordinator failed to correctly read the hours for the Zoo. It worked out.</div>
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She's a fan of Little Dude.</div>
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The feeling is mutual.</div>
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Little Dude is quickly picking up the game of "So Big" with enthusiasm.</div>
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And yet they give it the ol' college try (whatever that means).</div>
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Hope you enjoyed. More words next time. I'll also let Emily do it. She brings the funny, not me.</div>
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PS - Happy Mother's Day to all the moms (especially mine)! We love you!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02170034821653763034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250690842086280058.post-27250354169263598482012-03-28T08:53:00.000-04:002012-03-28T08:53:10.944-04:00Outside.<div style="text-align: center;">
We've been playing outside as much as possible.</div>
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Who wouldn't when it's somewhere between 65 & 85 degrees.</div>
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Yes, a 20 degree spread, that's Indiana Spring for you all.</div>
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Actually, it dipped down to 30 something the other night.</div>
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:) My air was on one day and my heat the next.</div>
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Moving on...</div>
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Little Dude is completely digging the outside play.</div>
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I thought maybe he'd be motivated to chase Sesame.</div>
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It will make for some interesting 9 month old poops here in the next few days. :)</div>
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He also <i>may </i>have taken a wound to the head.</div>
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Sort of.</div>
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He <i>may </i>have fallen out of this chair like .5 seconds after I snapped the following photo.</div>
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And landed smack on his head.</div>
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I don't <i>really </i>think that about head trauma.</div>
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It just sounded funny at the time.</div>
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Now it's not.</div>
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Why can't I just use the backspace button?!</div>
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Moving on.</div>
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I'm going to attempt to take <i>real </i> photos of my children in the next week.</div>
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You know, the kind we're they're in nice clothes</div>
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and I take them to a spring-y looking field</div>
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and take their photos.</div>
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It will be a first. :)</div>
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She giggles with him. He pulls her hair. She reads to him. He squeals with delight at her stories. She shakes rattles up in his face. He bats them away and screeches. They seriously love each other.</div>
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Wednesday morning. 5:30 am. Half an hour before the alarm goes off.</div>
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Little Dude wakes up. I continue laying in bed</div>
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<i>Please go back to sleep. I just want to laze about for 30 more minutes. Please.</i></div>
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Cute-cooing cry turns into bloody-murder get this wet diaper off of me cry.</div>
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<i>Ugh. I give up.</i></div>
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I stand, slipping my feet into my maroon, grandmother-esque house slippers. Because I'm 80 like that.</div>
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<i>Wow. It's insanely dark in our room.</i></div>
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I stumble into our bathroom, flip on the light, and see my left eye is completely swollen shut.</div>
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I try to open my eye.</div>
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It won't budge.</div>
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I try to Jedi mind trick my eye into opening.</div>
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<i>Open eye. Open.</i></div>
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I try to Harry Potter wand my eye open.</div>
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<i>Dissendium! Alohomora!</i></div>
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"MY EYE WON'T OPEN! I CAN'T SEE!" </div>
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I finally yell out to husband above the shrill, "someone is stabbing me in my crib" cry.</div>
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He calmly rolls over.</div>
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"Turn on the light, so I can see."</div>
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I do so, standing directly in front of the light, which doesn't do any good.</div>
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"It looks fine."</div>
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When the left side of my face started burning later in the day, I decided <i>maybe</i> I should go see the doctor.</div>
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Turns out I either have an "exotic spider bite" or shingles.</div>
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Now that little bumps have appeared behind my left ear and my left arm is aching, I think it might be shingles.</div>
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My eye, however, is significantly less Quasimodo-like.</div>
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It now looks like I was hit in the eye with a wooden spoon.</div>
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Whilst I was going all hypochondria-cal on myself, My kids were playing together:</div>
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She's trying to teach him to crawl.</div>
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She really does repeat everything three times to him.</div>
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Little Dude's newest tricks:</div>
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1. Acquired hair.</div>
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2. Two teeth just peeking through on top.</div>
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3. Has started first rock band now that he can bang things together.</div>
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4. Learned to pull Sesame's hair. (This is now one of my favorite things to observe. hehe.)</div>
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5. Expert in toy manipulation I.E. he uses a toy to coax out of reach toys to within his grasp. (forget rolling/crawling/movement - he is a ninja master of reaching and creative coercion of toys to within his reach)</div>
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Sesame's latest accomplishments:</div>
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1. Writing/performing own songs into her "microphone" aka vacuum cleaner.</div>
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Her newest song goes like this: "Praise Jesus Holy! His Windshield Wipers Sing! Praise Jesus Homer! AHHHHH!"</div>
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She's a lyrical genius.</div>
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2. Dressing herself. That's right.</div>
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Momma, I promise we wear the cute outfits you purchase us.</div>
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Grammy, we do match in the sweet dresses you send.</div>
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But there are some days when I allow, red shoes, pink polka dot knee socks, navy shorts, wild flower shirts, an orange hoodie and her rainbow star hat.</div>
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She's 3.</div>
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She needs to live a little.</div>
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Ever wonder what I do with the kids when I'm on the phone with you?</div>
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If you can hear Little Dude, chances are he's chewing on the telephone cord.</div>
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What can I say, I'm a paranoid germ-o-phobe.</div>
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We have this rockin' chair in our living room designated as the "reading chair."</div>
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Half of my pay check to whomever guesses what we do in the chair?!</div>
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That's right.</div>
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Read. :)</div>
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It also serves as the perfect place to photograph a baby that enjoys launching himself out of chairs/couches in a kamikaze-suicidal fashion. He doesn't move much, but when he does, he makes it count.</div>
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So our "photo shoot" went something like this the other day:</div>
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"Sesame, <i>look</i> at Mommy. You can't close your eyes. Z, *snaps fingers* Hey, Z *blows raspberries* Little Dude, loooook at Momma! Sesame stop picking your nose!"</div>
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<i>Sesame laughs because I said 'picking your nose.'</i></div>
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"Z!! *strings together random syllables in a pitch not audible by adult humans* HEY! HEY! *waves maniacally*"</div>
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<i>I think okay...this could work...at least they're smiling at Sesame's knee...</i></div>
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"Sesame, <i>what</i> are you <i>doing!?</i> What is that face for!?"</div>
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"It's my sad mad scientist face."</div>
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"What!? Well don't be a sad mad scientist. Be a happy Sesame. Or a goofy pirate Sesame."</div>
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*she does the same face*</div>
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"Sesame?!"</div>
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"The mad scientist is sad because he is not reading in the reading chair."</div>
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All in all, I love this crazy string of photos.</div>
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They are so us. :)</div>
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Saturday mornings are a special time around here.</div>
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Formerly, Husband spent them snuggled under the covers until the kids finally pounce on him = around 9:30.</div>
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But lately, Saturday morning has become the day Momma luxuriously lounges in bed until...EIGHT!?</div>
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Can you believe it!?</div>
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It's a miracle.</div>
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Amazing how my view of "sleeping in" has changed since college. :)</div>
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Anyway, Husband dedicated Saturday morning to be the official "Pancake Day."</div>
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He and Sesame bond over pancakes.</div>
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She stirs.</div>
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He flips.</div>
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They even have matching Star Wars aprons.</div>
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Every once in awhile they let a little mad scientist laugh rip too.</div>
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Lately, Little Dude has joined in on this adventurous vocal trill.</div>
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Love.</div>
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He's expecting his matching Star Wars apron come June.</div>
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I told him you had to be able to roll over to wear one.</div>
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He gave me the "that's not funny mom"/<a href="http://lettersmoving.blogspot.com/2012/03/sabbatical.html">Ed Asner</a> look.</div>
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For all the Star Wars pancake molds and kitchen cutlery, only Daddy dons the Darth Vader spatula.</div>
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It even sounds like James Earl Jones when you flip too late: "This one has come to the dark side."</div>
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Get it.</div>
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Dark side.</div>
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Waited too late to flip it.</div>
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I.E. its burned.</div>
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Yeah...that was a stretch.</div>
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The explanation ruined it.</div>
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All in all, I love my little, mad, kitchen pancake creators. They make art they do.</div>
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Edible art.</div>
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That gets covered in butter and syrup.</div>
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And that, my friends, is the best kind of art.</div>
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New look here. Obviously. :) Just give me a week or so to work all the kinks out and it will be working like a well-oiled machine. :)<br />
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Until tomorrow (or tonight) dig on this sweet photo of Little Dude and his doppelganger!<br />
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