Life Lately

Forgive the barrage of snapshots, but we’ve got grandparents with real photographic needs to appease.

And since I still have yet to complete our 9 1/2 year old’s baby book, this blog is, by default, our virtual time capsule/family album.

You’re welcome kids!

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making up after one accidentally shut the other’s tail in the car door
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spelling sentences. lump of coal en route for my eldest
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when asked if he was telling the truth “or lyin’”, he ran and retrieved this
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thursday was nice enough to walk to our coffee date sans winter gear
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friday was downright warm
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by sunday the snow was back
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monday we went sledding

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attended a sweet pal’s rock-climbing birthday

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this game is excellent for vocab-building
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doesn’t look like much, but it’s little man (baby Jesus) in his carseat (manger) w/daddy (joseph) driving his bronco… i was seriously impressed
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‘helping’ me cook dinner
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spied a ‘choo-choo’ at the library
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so observant
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brewing hot cocoa like it’s going out of style, these days
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pharoh’s daughter w/baby moses, for bible character dressup night at awanas
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and the prophet Jonah in a whale… or big fish
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spending her own buck at the dollar tree
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busted our sneaky chickens hoarding their eggs w aspirations of motherhood
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fearsome warrior

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he knows how to use a stethoscope and we never taught him
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when he learned his panda bear is actually a puppet

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Got the fixin’s all ready for the kiddos to host their seventh annual gingerbread house decorating party this weekend with the neighbors. So fun!