Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Playhouse part two

Our playhouse is almost complete...just some detail work left inside, a table and it will be livable.


Welcome! Please come in!


The loft!


The red benches Robb built while up in Pequot for a weekend!





This has been a work of love! Many hours and lots of creative energy has gone into it! I'm hoping with our more mild temperatures we will get in and finish up those last touches and begin getting the use this house deserves!

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Summer (thus far) in pictures

Dancing in the rain, waiting for daddy to get home. Max: "I'm gonna go out there so my hair will grow longer"


- Max's soccer class for 5 Monday's June 18th- July


Rainy day activities, or maybe avoiding the sun...play dough


Daddy's 35th birthday!


One of Gracie's first year photos, compliments of amazing Stacey Montgomery



Nana and Little dance snuggling at auntie lisas wedding!


Max's gymnastics class, 3 weeks!


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Gracie's 13/14th months

Man does the time go fast! And I am great at thinking about what to blog and bad at getting it done! So Grace turned 14 months last week! She is making so many strides lately that I need to get it all down!

First off is the teeth! 12.5 months and no teeth, now she has 5!!! The last two came in over this past weekend! Her grin is getting quite toothy! She is now able to bite, which is helping her to eat sliced apples and sandwiches! Speaking of eating, she is actually a picky eater. What she was digging just a few days ago, she will turn her nose up at. Who is this little girl?! She also is not interested in stopping nursing. She has gone 3 days without me and not nursed and as soon as I am back at her disposable she wants to drink.

She is starting to attempt talking. Her favorite words which is probably the impetus of her saying them are mama, dada, maa (not like a sheep, as in Max),bye, hi, chee (cheese), swin (swing), and shus (shoes, duh)!! There might be more, I'll try to be better at writing them down. But this kid gets it. She brings shoes to people when she wants to out side, which is often. And she will actually bring you the set.

She is a speed walker, climbs every where, and is working on the balance to walk down steps. We are in the midst of her first "class". Both Max and Gracie are in swimming lessons at Jackson pool where I took lesson umpteen years ago! She would hardly sit still while we took Max to gymnastics and soccer. She wanted to be out there, too. And let me tell you she can dribble a soccer ball better than most 3 year olds I know! Look out!

She giggles then most for her brother, complete adoration. She likes her mama and dada and nana. Really she loves people. She is always waving and smiling at people, trying to catch an eye and make a new friend. She makes new friends every where which is a test for me. Max has been so shy, not unlike Robb and me, so to learn the outgoing ropes is new to me. All these things that kids teach you!

Her toe head locks are growing and I was able to do piggy tails a few weeks ago! She loves pretty kitty, aka Hello Kitty. Loves playing with her babies and tea set. We turned her around in the cars eat which she likes. She is pretty easy going but knows what she wants. I love her up every chance I get and tell her I love her. She is one of my little highlights!


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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Max's golf debut

June 2nd, 2012

I saw a post about a kids golf tournament in the Brooklyn Park community activities bulletin. Max said he wanted to try it. It was a 9 hole course.





Max getting warmed up!









We noticed he is a lefty when it comes to golf. He writes right handed.




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He also has a heck of a hockey stance and swing!

Playhouse, phase one

So a few weeks ago Robb got a wild hair and decided he wanted to build the kids a playhouse. I love the idea but haven't been keen on the idea, for several reason, but I digress. So after relentless conversations I gave in last weekend and this is what we have at the completion of phase one!





-team sweatbands hard at work!


Thank you daddy!


Time to take it outside!


Here are the tools Max brought up from his tool bench to help dad!


We will keep you up to date on phase two!

Gracie's first year stats

One week ago Gracie had her first year medical appointment. She has grown 13 inches to a length of 32-32.5"! Reason for the range.. I got 32" then MD's office got 32.5". Wow!! And she exactly tripled her birth weight! So that was 23lbs 13oz! Not to shabby for my baby!

She got two shots and took them like a pro.. A few tears but recovered quickly! I am so proud! And then just on Sunday June 10th I noticed a jagged edge in her mouth! She has a tooth!!! I just caught my first glimpse of it today. It's her bottom left front tooth! Her bottom right is swollen so I am thinking its not too far behind and I can see the front top teeth coming down but not close to coming in yet. So it's been an eventful two weeks past one!


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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Sunday night madness

Some how some way we have fallen into the routine of watching channel four news on Sunday nights, then Rosen's sports Sunday and then Criminal minds follows. For the last year and a half, or so, we have done this. The first two I like, the last is like watching a nightmare that you get sucked into and can not look away. The show is creepy, but interesting. It's terrible to watch before bed. Especially on a Sunday, right? But, we do it. Why????

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