tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75439501276433005122024-02-19T11:00:01.129-05:00Boyish Grins ... and Girlish Giggles!Life with our THREE extraordinary kids.Kristenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567890379960027006noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543950127643300512.post-89835947686825531672014-05-16T11:12:00.002-04:002014-05-16T11:12:46.954-04:00What. You didn't care what was happening this ENTIRE school year, did you?<div align="center">
Okay. I suck. No posts since the beginning of the school year. But, in my defense ... actually, I've got nothing. What I do have, though, and what I've been doing in lieu of blogging, is Instagramming (yes, that's a verb). If you're so inclined, you can check out my Instagram feed <a href="http://instagram.com/kristenldavis1" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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In the meantime, a highlight reel of this school year: </div>
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Big girl bed!<br />
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The holidays in Michigan with Booma<br />
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and Papa.<br />
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I don't need to remind anyone about the CRAY-CRAY winter, but Sheesh! I think I'm still recovering.<br />
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We adopted a dog! Carson is the BEST.<br />
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And there you have it. Totally worth the wait, right? And now you may not hear from me again for a while because I'm suffering from a severe case of end-of-school-year syndrome. You know about it, yes? If not, you can find a good description of it <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/parents-at-the-beginning-of-the-school-year-vs-the-end?bffb" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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The kids went back to school this week.</div>
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(Oh, you noticed? Was it the 487 blog entries I posted today - the first ones I've been able to write since all 3 were in camp back in the beginning of July?)</div>
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Kristenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567890379960027006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543950127643300512.post-54039152054393889182013-08-22T22:41:00.000-04:002013-08-22T22:47:49.463-04:00Happy 3rd, Miss Eliza Tae<div align="center">
And with Eliza's 3rd birthday, we concluded Birthday Season 2013 (all five of our birthdays fall between May 22 and August 12). We were in Michigan to celebrate with a sweet family party.</div>
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She only wanted a purple cape for her birthday, and sister scored two!</div>
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The highlight and purpose of our trip, of course, is spending time with my family in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The U.P. in summertime just feels like what childhood is meant to be.</div>
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Eliza came to love evening walks with Auntie.</div>
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And Aunties let you do things like steal apples from the neighbor's yard.</div>
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Noah was in full bad-ass mode on Papa's four-wheeler.</div>
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By the end of the week, both boys were driving alone. I'm sure that's completely safe.</div>
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Noah's been obsessed with getting a metal detector for months and, somehow, Jess mentioned Michigan might be a good place to do so. And he made good on his promise.</div>
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We spent one day exploring historic Fayette, an old iron ore town.</div>
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And on our last night, the state fair opened. We hit the "pocket park" where there were fish galore to catch and release.</div>
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Safe to say Eliza's not "hooked." (See? Did it again.)</div>
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I'm taking my giant pink inflatable hammer and I'm getting outta here.</div>
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Another amazing trip with memories stowed away for (hopefully) ever.</div>
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Michigan Road Trip 2013 looked a lot like this:</div>
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Yes, that's our 14-year-old with a pacifier. Just whatev. Two-thousand miles, people. Two. Thousand. Miles.</div>
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First stop is always just outside of Indianapolis for dinner and a night swim.</div>
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We got to Chicago around mid-day on Day 2 and headed straight to the lakeshore.</div>
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After we checked into our hotel, we hopped into a taxi to meet up with one of my very dearest friends and her sweet family.</div>
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Eliza<em> thought</em> this cab ride was going to be the transportation highlight of her time in Chicago (the no car seat thing kind of blew her mind), but we one-upped it later that night.</div>
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Splashing at Millenium Park.</div>
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The Bean!</div>
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Dinner on Michigan Avenue with our friends Jennifer and Andy and their beautiful girls.</div>
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About a block into our walk back to our hotel, we accepted a ride from this pedicab driver. Dude was incredible. He pedaled all 5 of us (with stroller and miscellaneous kid crap) about eight city blocks.</div>
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Watching them take in the city in that pedicab - that's a memory captured in my heart forever.</div>
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Lake view from our room. There was, of course, another late night swim to be had. </div>
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And we hit the Lincoln Park Zoo the next morning before heading on for the final leg of our journey.</div>
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No, of course they do not always fawn all over each other. And YES, there is lots and lots of bickering among them - I just don't usually pick up my camera in those moments. So, with the understanding that these were brief moments in time, I can't help but swoon over them when they happen. Some tender sibling love to round out our July:</div>
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Evening fro-yo happies.</div>
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Grocery shopping with "the littles," as Jess and I sometimes refer to these two.</div>
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Ridiculously cute sibling television viewing.</div>
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And this. There are no words, really. Except that I hope Noah holds on tight to his big brother like this for many years to come. As in, his whole life.</div>
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Whipped cream in the mouth initiation - 6-year-old rite of passage.</div>
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No fish, but Super-Saurus loved it nonetheless. He's hooked! (See what I did there?)</div>
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When Jess asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday, he about choked (and I kind of did too) when I told him I'd like to go camping. <em>Camping?</em> From whose mouth were these strange words coming? <strike>I'd rather eat dirt than</strike> I'm not entirely fond of the whole sleeping-in-the-woods, smelling-like-charcoal (or worse), getting-eaten-alive-by-mosquitos scene. BUT ... my kids are. And somehow I was kind of craving that for them, and I suppose for us as a family. So, we loaded up the car (OMG, actual campers, is the packing and the loading of the <em>stuff</em> not enough to make you want to just call the local Hilton next time?) and headed to a state park about an hour away.</div>
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**I like full disclosure here on the blog, so I'm going to clarify "camping." Alright, so we stayed in a cabin. With running water. And air conditioning. And a full kitchen and bath. Okay, and a TV. With satellite. Baby steps, people. </div>
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"Mom, we made a see-saw!"</div>
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It was, in a word, magical.</div>
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Looking out the window to see this crew checking on the fairy house Ava built? Totally worth packing and loading the car.</div>
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And clapping over and over again for this joint family pyramid? Worth the mosquito bites.</div>
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And seeing this pic of two old friends just chatting about life when Jess texted it to me? Well, let's just say I guess I understand why you may not want to call the Hilton (<em>all</em> the time).</div>
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We were up near an historic Indian burial site that Ben visited on a class field trip last year, so we made a quick trip there to check it out.</div>
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Ended the weekend feeling really thankful for new experiences and great memories made with friends. And, I think, with a full year's time to forget the agony of the preparations, I may be up for doing it again next summer!</div>
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I'm sorry, it's actually <strong>not</strong> been like "Summer in Seattle" here. In fact, Seattle's been more than <em>doubly</em> dry than us. According to today's newspaper, we've more than doubled Seattle's rainfall total for the year - 42 inches compared to Seattle's measly 18.05. WTF, Mother Nature?</div>
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There was a point in time when I thought sun showers like this were beautiful. Now they just make me want to stick a fork in my eye. Enough. Already. (And if anyone is tempted to utter, "First-world problem," beware of forks coming for <em>your</em> eyes.)</div>
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Oh wait, that's right, we don't live in Seattle. It's just that with the cloudiness and rain, day after ever-lovin' day, it's hard to remember that we're not in the Pacific Northwest. Or the tropics during rainy season. Or wherever else on earth it rains EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. When the sun does make its rare and short appearances, we dash outside and soak it in. In between, I think we've visited every indoor attraction this city has to offer.</div>
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Or we practice bedtime yoga (tree pose).</div>
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Or we babysit. Ben has a very soft spot for this cutie pie.</div>
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Or we play Mancala.</div>
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Or we sucker Mom into paying for this "Hurricane Simulator" at the jumpy place.</div>
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Or we read books about snakes to our sister. "And the python squeeeeezed its prey to death."</div>
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And other times, Mommy's just so sick of being inside, she makes everyone play outside even though it's sprinkling. Then, we just get resourceful and make a fort.</div>
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Shockingly, it rained on the 4th of July and all of the festivities were cancelled. So instead, we headed down to celebrate Grandpa's 70th birthday.</div>
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And on the way home, there was this moment:</div>
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Heart-meltingly sweet (despite Noah's fake sleeping).</div>
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But no fake sleeping here. We put the kids in PJs before we got in the car in the hopes they'd sleep on the way home, but Ben complained that it was too light out to sleep. A little while later, it was quiet and I turned around to find this. Again, resourceful little boy.</div>
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The next day I celebrated my birthday with my sweet family ... in the rain.</div>
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And lastly, you know who this is, right? If not, you can check her out <a href="http://momastery.com/blog/" target="_blank">here</a> and you should definitely get your hands on a copy of her <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carry-On-Warrior-Thoughts-Unarmed/dp/1451697244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373556371&sr=8-1&keywords=carry+on+warrior" target="_blank">book</a>. I was thrilled to go meet her when she came through town on her book tour. Fun moment.</div>
Kristenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567890379960027006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543950127643300512.post-40994037605088119362013-07-11T10:52:00.001-04:002013-07-11T13:35:39.450-04:00Great Exuma<div style="text-align: center;">
Jess and I got away to <strike>The Island of No Kids</strike> Great Exuma in the Bahamas, thanks to the awesome childcare offerings of the kids' beloved Aunt Julie. It's a place where the natural beauty is almost too much to take in, a postcard with every turn of your head. And, while I know you're here for the cute kids, I'm going to be that annoying neighbor who invites you over to look at pictures of their vacation, kay?</div>
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And while a starfish that's bigger than your head is pretty amazing, it's nothing when there are ... SWIMMING PIGS!</div>
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Supermoon in the Caribbean.</div>
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Kristenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567890379960027006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543950127643300512.post-69199679081802576342013-07-11T10:26:00.001-04:002013-07-11T10:26:09.566-04:00Beach Trip 2013<div style="text-align: center;">
The beach. Not much commentary needed. Sun, surf, and siblings. Word.</div>
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<br />Kristenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567890379960027006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543950127643300512.post-20506941807931064892013-07-11T10:17:00.000-04:002013-07-12T18:59:18.846-04:00Second-Worst End-of-School-Year Mom Ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So ... school ended a month-and-a-half ago, you say? Right. Here's the thing - I was tired. By that last day of school, I. Needed. A. Break. This <a href="http://jenhatmaker.com/blog/2013/05/30/worst-end-of-school-year-mom-ever" target="_blank">blog post</a> pretty much sums up how I was feeling. But now? After a month-plus of sleeping in, beach trips with and without the kids, and four days into a camp where all three are gone for FOUR HOURS? Now, my friends, I'm feeling rejuvenated (that 90-minute birthday massage last weekend may have helped). So, here come a <em>bunch</em> (probably nauseatingly so) of pics from our summer so far. But first, the last day of school:</div>
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And this. Because, while I know it's important not to focus on a little girl's ability to be nice and pretty (awesome initiative on that <a href="http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-bunch-of-little-girls-sing-a-power-ballad-shattering-what-little-girls-are-supposed-to-like?g=2&c=ufb1" target="_blank">here</a>), I mean, come on.</div>
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On her way to her last dance class.</div>
Kristenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567890379960027006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543950127643300512.post-91753283014968453202013-05-23T14:04:00.001-04:002013-05-23T14:23:33.765-04:00Here's What You Don't Do ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here's what you <strong>don't</strong> do on your oldest's 8th birthday, when you're already feeling all verklempt about him not being a little kid anymore, about time passing too quickly, and about your journey together so far. You don't accidentally come across this Amy Tan quote (I've inserted "son" for "daughter"):</div>
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<em>“…I love my son. He and I have shared the same body. There is a part of his mind that is a part of mine. But when he was born he sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All his life, I have watched him as though from another shore.”</em></div>
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Because when you do, you end up crying onto your keyboard, trying to catch tiny breaths between the tears. It's hard - motherhood. This eight-year ride has been beautiful, challenging, magical, heartbreaking, exhilirating, and everything in between. And always, an incredible, incredible honor.</div>
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Eight years old? Whatevs. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.</div>
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So, Ben turns 8 next week. And I'm kind of weepy about it. I know, they're getting older <em>every day</em>, but it's that marking of years that gets me. And, I think, that his birthday happens to fall at the same time as the end of the school year. I mean, EIGHT years old AND third grade?? Geeze, I may as well start shopping for his college dorm room. Whoever said, "The days are long, the years are short," was, well ... clearly a Mom.</div>
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Thankfully, life has been insanely busy, so I really don't have time to sit around and cry in my wine (which would just be sad and inappropriate anyway). Before kids, May was just a month. Now, it is a marathon of sports, field trips, school projects, and end-of-year celebrations:</div>
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See? The very picture of busy-ness.</div>
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But seriously, learning to wink is <em>very</em> time consuming.</div>
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As is cheering on the Braves.</div>
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The boys just finished a session of swim lessons.</div>
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Noah's coach wasn't an <em>ugly</em> human being (just sayin').</div>
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And Eliza is finishing her first session of dance classes.</div>
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And the sports. Oh, the gift that just keeps taking and taking (our time).</div>
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But then there's a post-victory dog-pile moment like this and you have to love it. Ben's baseball team plays their post-season tournament this weekend. (See? Since when do we have a kid old enough to be playing a sports <em>tournament</em>?)</div>
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End-of-year chess awards ceremony.</div>
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And Noah's end-of-year class art show.</div>
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I drove Ben's class on a field trip last week. When I asked to take a picture, I got this "Seriously, Mom?" look, instead of the smiley arms-around-each-other pose of years past (sniff).</div>
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The sniffer of all sniffers. (Maybe that doesn't sound right?)</div>
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We celebrated our dearest friend Ava's first communion a couple weeks ago. I mean, really now.</div>
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I like to think I set the mothering bar at an attainable reach for those around me. You know, don't want to make anyone feel bad with my awesome parenting skills.</div>
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But I don't know. Eliza kind of nailed it with this gift: I nice AND clean! Occasional bathing AND Hungry Hippo skillz. Sorry, moms - can't help but do what I do.</div>
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And, according to Noah, if it all just gets to be too much, I can always do a load of laundry to take the edge off:</div>
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I'm blessed through all of it.</div>
Kristenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567890379960027006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7543950127643300512.post-82898448386897458532013-05-01T19:14:00.002-04:002013-05-01T22:32:11.310-04:00That's My Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Despite Eliza's 2-year-old stubbornness, angst, irrationality, and overall craziness, she really does have my heart ... and my back. Most recent case in point:</div>
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She and I were finishing up our weekly grocery trip, standing at the cash register, while she and the bagger exchanged their usual pleasantries:</div>
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"Good."</div>
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"How old are you?"</div>
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"Two."</div>
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"Did you help Mommy shop today?"</div>
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When I'd paid and started to push the cart away, Eliza dramatically pointed to the bagger and screamed, with the volume and urgency of someone who was about to be hit by a car, "YOU FORGOT THE WIIINE!!!" I turned around and, indeed, there sat my bottle of wine in its brown paper bag, overlooked and left behind. I realize that many (perhaps most) moms would have shrunk in horror that their 2-year-old had shrieked such a thing in public. But nope, not this mama. I cupped her little face in my hands, kissed her cheek, said "thank you," and went back and picked up my almost-abandoned bottle of wine. God love that little girl.</div>
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Sound the trumpets, pop the champagne, roll out the red carpet, have a parade, and do whatever else one does when celebrating a MILESTONE. Because we are DIAPER FREE, people! <strong>For good</strong>. I think it was Eliza's little nod to Earth Day: I shall contribute nasty diapers to the landfills no more! Mind you, this was not an easy transition. This girl is, after all, quite mule-ish. It started like this:</div>
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Hands on hips: I not gonna go! (Not kidding, that's what she told me.)</div>
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We eventually put on her big-girl underwear, which, turns out, was really just a step forward for me. She decided to pee in them as frequently as she would a diaper. Helpful hint: baby wipes are a <em>poor </em>substitute for paper towels when trying to (discreetly) clean up a puddle of your child's urine in the grocery store aisle.</div>
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But she did it. She flipped the switch and did it. Potty-trained. Day and night. Hallelujah. Amen.</div>
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And this. Because she probably read my last blog post and needed to disagree. Went to Barnes & Noble last week and where did she spend her time?</div>
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At the Lego table. You know, cuz we love Legos.</div>
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There's something about Legos. Kids are drawn to them -- they spend hours building intricate 500-piece constructions, they pore over catalogs, they clamor to go to the store with new birthday money to buy the latest set. But not our kids. Our kids could not care less about Legos. Sure, they love building complex creations with popsicle sticks, cardboard, string, tape, you-name-it, but not Legos. Not interested. So, where did we decide would be the perfect family spring break destination? LEGOLAND! Cuz we're awesome like that.<br />
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Double-decker carousel!<br />
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Turns out you don't have to like Legos to like LEGOLAND! The kids loved it.<br />
Midway through our second day, the skies opened up and we were hit with a serious thunderstorm. Of course, we were as far away from the entrance as one could possibly be, so we had to hightail it all the way through the park in bright yellow plastic LEGOLAND ponchos, Jess carrying Eliza, me pushing the stroller, and Ben and Noah freaking out that we were stuck in a tornado. Fun times.<br />
But not to fear, the Davises don't let a little thunderstorm ruin a vacation. So, after drying off at the hotel, we ventured out to the Cypress Gardens Bowling Alley and Family Fun Center.<br />
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Thankfully, the rain did eventually stop after dinner, and we headed back to the park, rode the rides to our collective hearts' content, and then shut the place down.<br />
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And did we buy or play with one single Lego the entire trip? Nope. Success on every level.<br />
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Because Eliza is often <strike>possessed</strike> <strike>crazy</strike> extremely strong-willed, Jess and I take especially great pleasure in the things she does that make us laugh out loud. Currently, that includes her pronunciation of the phrase English muffins: Effin muffins. It's equally funny when she yells, "I want a effin muffin!" as when she yells, "I don't want a effin muffin!"</div>
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Sure, she looks all sweet here giving Daddy a Sunday morning breakfast hug, but this was taken just after a "I don't want a effin muffin!" outburst.</div>
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This girl is definitely on fi-yah!</div>
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(And will soon be running the world.)</div>
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But a 2-year-old's memory is tricky, and when it came time to hunt for eggs, it became clear that Eliza had no memory that the candy we'd been telling her about was actually <em>inside</em> the plastic eggs. After picking up about three of them, she started screaming, throwing them down on the ground, and slinging her basket (she's such a doll) - her way of telling everyone how P.O.'d she was that, instead of scoring sugar, she was being asked to pick plastic crap up off the ground. A blessed Easter experience, really.</div>
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This morning we woke up to this note:</div>
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We manage to get by around here with a minimal nod to St. Paddy's Day. Wear some green and consider yourself in full celebration. (And, please, nobody tell them there might be anything more to the holiday.)</div>
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And I take minimal celebration to a new height (low?) with this display - mint green pants on the first day of spring. (Oh, please, what did <em>you</em> do?)</div>
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The boys kicked off their Easter celebration (which we actually do, in fact, celebrate with gusto), with a sleepover and Easter Egg Hunt at Aunt Julie and Uncle Justin's farm, where there are always BIG adventures to be had.</div>
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Farm bound!</div>
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That weekend day when your kid has to be to soccer at 8am for pictures, and you have to run to the grocery store to get team snacks because it's your turn to bring them (and you didn't plan ahead), and then you need to happily haul the whole family to the church Spring Fling for an Easter Egg hunt, and then get another kid to the baseball field early for batting practice before his game begins? And then you wake up to find that it's ALL been cancelled because of rain? And instead you get to lie around in your PJs all morning and drink coffee? Yeah, I dig that day.</div>
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Jess had a meeting out in Los Angeles last week, and Noah was next in line for a special one-on-one trip, so they hopped on a plane and headed out to the City of Angels.</div>
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He ran it. Here he is deposing a client.</div>
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They took a submarine ride down into the ocean and Noah was able to feed the fish so they came up to his window.</div>
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Straight up awesomeness.</div>
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Glad they had such an amazing time. Glad they're back home.</div>
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Oh, and about that "dream and a cardigan" (er, red Old Navy hoodie)? Apparently it was <em>never</em> taken off. WTH, Dad?? Just sayin'.</div>
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If you read my last post, you'll be glad to know I've pulled myself together and have not assaulted the ice cream man <strike>yet</strike>. Actually, the sun has been shining with increasing frequency, the kids' energy is being channeled into spring sports, and I think we've made it over the winter slump!</div>
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Some of our coming-out-of-hibernation fun:</div>
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Evening dance.</div>
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Okay, there may have been a few snowflakes here a couple of weekends ago (warranting a fire and legwarmers), but warmer weather has since come and is staying!</div>
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Getting ready for dance class. Apparently she's practicing her "All the Single Ladies" moves.</div>
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Batman birthday party!</div>
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Jess and Noah took an amazing trip to Los Angeles this past weekend (pics to follow). Thankfully, Ben, Eliza, and I were too busy to miss them too much. Not to be outdone (okay, we were miserably outdone) by the Pacific Coast, we headed out to the zoo:</div>
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and our favorite restaurant:</div>
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and, of course, Friday Night Ice Cream:</div>
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One satisfied customer.</div>
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On Saturday, we took a friend of Ben's and went to an indoor rock climbing facility:</div>
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Eliza was not about to sit out and watch, so we harnessed her up and ...</div>
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"I'm Rock Star Climbin'!"</div>
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I'll end on a sweet note, literally. Found this in Ben's backpack from a little girl in his class:</div>
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Oh the sweetness. I can't take it.</div>
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Excuse this brief interruption of the peaceful, enjoying-the-small-things loveliness that I recently posted about. Because, if you don't hear from me for a while, you can assume that I'm in jail after finally losing my shit with the ice cream truck driver who loudly dings, blares music, and screams a creepy "Hello-o!" in front of my house EVERY. DAY. At naptime. And wakes Eliza up.</div>
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That is all.</div>
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Be scerred, ice cream man. Mama's coming for you.</div>
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Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.</div>
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