tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305770792024-03-18T23:00:23.131-04:00whoopsy vaiseykellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.comBlogger611125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-24248181039064707032013-03-14T13:08:00.003-04:002013-03-14T14:42:04.706-04:00Welcome To The Lena Booth Series<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This series of videos was taken a couple of months ago while Lena and Simon were alone in their shared bedroom with my lap top. </span>I did a quick edit of some highlights and laid the song they were actually dancing to over top. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mumford & Sons makes me want to Irish Step Dance (and do the Macarena?) too, so I get it. Everyone needs an outlet.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can find others in this series <a href="http://whoopsyvaisey.blogspot.com/2012/02/hearts-do-you-mind.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://whoopsyvaisey.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-regards-to-lena-with-badpatience.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://whoopsyvaisey.blogspot.com/2011/08/encore.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-47347310685053607172013-03-04T15:03:00.000-05:002013-03-04T15:15:01.881-05:00The Five Bedroom Yacht<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This morning was business as usual.</span> It began as it does most weekdays by coaxing Lena out of bed (because she stayed up too late fixated on that second front tooth that has been dangling). Immediately followed by desperate pleading with her to eat more breakfast and quickly (always in a rush) get her on her bus, change some diapers, feed the baby, feed the boys, put a bra on, watch the snow fall outside against another gray Rochester winter day and then the first of many kitchen/dish clean-ups. Then, usually it's followed by trains, cartoons, dressing the 3 boys, nursing and getting the baby down for a nap. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's become our morning routine this year and it's almost the same every weekday. There is nothing specific about it that makes me unhappy yet something about it lately has left me feeling sorry for myself (can you imagine!?). All of the sudden I found myself complaining about another mess, another meal, another diaper, more laundry, exhaustion, not enough time for romance, or stimulating brain activity, or sleep (sleep!). Just flat out ultra doses of self pity over the staleness of life day after day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But this morning, it hit me quietly and mightily like a slap to the face. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was on the kitchen floor assisting Calvin with a 26-train long megatrain (normal stuff) and like a wave I was reminded (except more like reprimanded) not that my problems/ complaints weren't there or justified, or that they are magically going to disappear, but that the sort of problems I am currently and presently living and whining about every day right now are actually the BEST kind of problems to have (...said this mightily quiet reprimand slap-to-the-face). It's like as if I were a millionaire deciding between which two beautiful yachts to buy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Poor sad, frustrated millionaire, he is having such a hard time deciding! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">HA! No, no no! That is ludicrous! Because today, it seems that poor sad Kelly is having to feed 4 beautiful, healthy children (one of which is a sweet drooling BABY), dress them in clean clothes, having to feed them good food from a stocked fridge <i>again</i>, having to bundle them up in warm coats and hats from our warm home and send them to schools where they are loved and their minds are nurtured. All with the support of a devoted father and loving extended family. <i>Can you imagine such problems?!</i> Can you? Do you have the same ones? I am humbly put in my place by my amazing ungratefulness today. So here I am, coming here to write it all down before my self pity hits the fan once again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Because, I'll need more reminders later (this afternoon?), and I'll feel sheepish later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And if I may third person the situation:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Truthfully Kelly, you lucky son of a B, TODAY you have some pretty fantastic problems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You should be so lucky, you're a millionaire vacationing on a 5 bedroom yacht! (SLAP!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>p.s. Is anyone out there? Do you read if there are no pictures? Do you want pictures? Did you miss me?</i></span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-80403670690710607122012-09-21T14:19:00.000-04:002012-09-21T14:33:09.572-04:00George Thaxton!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Born June 18, 2012 @9:20 a.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lots of you know him by now, but he needs a formal introduction here I suppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He's the first baby I cried over while still in labor because I COULD NOT wait to finally meet him. I was so overwhelmed and so anxious to begin the next stage, with a newborn. I have never felt so desperate to have a baby in my arms than hours before his birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was named after a Vaisey family corner stone, Jeff's grandmother, Dorothy Ann Thaxton Vaisey and he has simply been the sweetest baby and addition to our family and we are all completely smitten by him. No surprise there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was born right before the end of the school year so we got an entire lazy summer to get to know him and love on him all day. He has large cheeks and a sweet little round head and fat squishy pink lips I enjoy kissing 50 times a day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I feel like I owe the success of my transition from 3 children to 4 to my mom (who cleaned, organized, watched children, spoiled me), babajuje (sleepovers!) and many friends who took Lena and Simon for play dates, brought treats and meals and neighbors who let my children run ramped at their house for hours on end. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Honestly, I'm waiting for the out of control crazies to set in, but they just haven't. They appear in moments for sure, like that one time I took them all to Target(!!), and dinner time (I definitely know I have four children around dinner time!) but nothing like I had imagined. Life is unbelievably good right now. Just so so good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When George was about 10 days old my good friend, <a href="http://seanandjeannette.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jeannette</a> came over to the house with her camera goodness and did a quick little session:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">I look b</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: right;">ack at these photos and already wonder where my tinyish baby went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: right;">Because he's bigger now. A lot bigger.</span><br />
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kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-77620932657350448242012-09-20T10:00:00.000-04:002012-09-20T11:36:22.601-04:00If The Kitchen Table Could Talk<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We had an impromptu sundae party last week to start off Simon's preschool year and Jeff set up the tripod and filmed it.</span> I fully realize this may be much more hilarious to us because they are our children, but if you have children, you can at the very least appreciate the shenanigans that often (always) conspires at the kitchen table. You won't be surprised at all to learn that Lena steals the show around minute 3:38 and on. This is my life people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're thinking about making this a dinner time series. We've got a stock pile of dinner time's past to work with now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when one day I'm locked away inside an insane asylum, I'll have legit video to back up my story while I'm tuckered in the corner staring blankly rocking back and forth back and forth.</span></div>
kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-75283661123226913282012-08-15T14:12:00.000-04:002012-08-15T14:12:33.688-04:00It's a Wrap Get It?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm totally getting one of these...for the new baby...that I had...two months ago:</span><br />
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kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-1858749015476813142012-06-01T11:07:00.001-04:002012-06-01T11:07:26.778-04:00I Got My Snow Cone Right Here<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a hot day in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">may</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the end.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V75sTgpA5bs/T8jRnLH5ttI/AAAAAAAFaJ4/D04ubNFmnZg/s1600/516A0328.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V75sTgpA5bs/T8jRnLH5ttI/AAAAAAAFaJ4/D04ubNFmnZg/s800/516A0328.JPG" width="800" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/MwkZdx7rI1DhFuQoq4-RsLTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="600" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-okI9itoYGeQ/T8jV12yumHI/AAAAAAAFaKU/R6lVPpREOjc/s800/May%252020125.jpg" width="800" /></a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week Calvin turned 2 and BabaJuje brought over a cozy coupe and treats.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The late golden light lit up his red mane and we enjoyed an evening with him as the baby in the family.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's anyone's guess as to how he will handle the birth of this new baby brother- will he take on Lena's baby brother hostility or Simon's sweet meaty-pawed affection? Maybe he'll show us a dose of something we haven't seen yet.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't ever feel sorry for kicking the baby out of the baby spot to make room for another. I say, lucky them! More laughs, more fun, more helpers, more built-in playmates, more people to dote over you,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">more mess, more loudness, more chaos, one more mouth to wipe red vine stains off of.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe I should feel a little bit sorry for me...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="600" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fYjP-p2OlYA/T60UyF8fMoI/AAAAAAAFSds/NOnt0w7LM2A/s800/May%252020121.jpg" width="800" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/C6BoAL1uQtvH1khs2w133bTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="532" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oOEs5roo9cA/T6Y3atwCqpI/AAAAAAAFQPQ/HPyrcpYHeD4/s800/DSC_7005.JPG" width="800" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TVptjffEWpp8kCQp4xVxWbTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TVptjffEWpp8kCQp4xVxWbTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="600" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AYOOsqgZJWQ/T60VIKLZrkI/AAAAAAAFSeE/QXhe2Qe3MWo/s800/May%252020122.jpg" width="800" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/BvJa8kI5zADq4cgOk_Gw4oNtgKU3H9qcBa7ICJkG_sc?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="532" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WUczePOGJrg/T6Y4QjqGCfI/AAAAAAAFQdI/BDL-h2MG9g8/s800/DSC_7127.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="800" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/dYVwN9PB73zfO5vXyJA-97Tgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="600" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-veEvpot9LmA/T60WLLJSRaI/AAAAAAAFSec/NkTPCOo8Hls/s800/May%252020124.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="800" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DlEBkMBu_RTlXSUC-Wy8NbTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="600" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kOV-z5M5XWo/T60VmHzS67I/AAAAAAAFSeI/haP5VJ1CjhI/s800/May%252020123.jpg" width="800" /></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8ozuvYtppKh4bwxKJZhhzbTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="600" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bppDHB8IyzE/T60UStU4GKI/AAAAAAAFSdo/sqbuMch50TA/s800/May%25202012.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="800" /></a>But maybe not.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cute babies are better than clean houses.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy laughing children are way cooler than getting to places on time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And four small peacefully sleeping bodies beat pretty much everything.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This will be good. We can do this.</span></div>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-76131337800158589722012-05-08T07:00:00.000-04:002012-05-08T07:00:09.628-04:00It's Never Very Far From My Sweaty Palm<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My mom's not on instagram.</span> My dad's not on instagram. I think it's safe to assume Jeff's grandparents aren't on instagram. A lot of you aren't. But a lot of you are.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So many ares and aren'ts, so little time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not making any sense at all.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What I am doing is taking a lot of pictures on my iphone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh, here's some:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/uh14D2waiNgEKqRLPJOwL7Tgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="800" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zjU6tjHROPA/T6g40PlmeTI/AAAAAAAFRPw/JzfqBHgeLtQ/s800/Kelly%2527s%2520iphone%2520PART%25205.jpg" width="800" /></a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GxMLFao28zuJt9L3Q3p3jrTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="800" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-F34YaJlffo4/T6g6Oq4T2cI/AAAAAAAFRQU/utNgwN9OqiA/s800/Kelly%2527s%2520iphone%2520PART%252052.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="800" /></a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Q7lB8S5eK7Vp9KIO7MnEjbTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="800" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WCAPKjnezFM/T6g5esSqiqI/AAAAAAAFRQA/F4eW3R4Y3iA/s800/Kelly%2527s%2520iphone%2520PART%252051.jpg" width="800" /></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A friend of mine once said in the comment section of this very blog, and I quote,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Basically instagram is a gateway drug to total mediocrity. I get it. "</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://ladleoflove.blogspot.com/">-The Wise One and Mother of Four</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I get it too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you got it?</span></div>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-84807504245906012722012-05-07T17:54:00.003-04:002012-05-07T18:15:05.354-04:00From North Carolina From Last Month From My Phone<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Did I just catch you rolling your eyes?!! ;)<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/yA1WGZ0x5Goi1hc-tOaCXbTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="800" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LOoWce7RHQM/T6hCdVSpwxI/AAAAAAAFRRc/5aTXfAeCS7Y/s800/Kelly%2520iPhone%2520PART%25204.jpg" width="800" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/cz3euH615uDJk6zHzPltP7Tgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="800" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4rsueQsmbpw/T6hDLa-HFWI/AAAAAAAFRRw/fLrgpTQntTw/s800/Kelly%2520iPhone%2520PART%252041.jpg" width="800" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>(why yes, that IS <a href="http://my-angle.blogspot.com/">Mrs. Dr. Gooch herself</a>, blogger and yard extraordinaire- we dined and she is as lovely in person as she is on the world wide web!)</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ...and that concludes the last pictures from the last trip our family will be taking for a long time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Four kids, know what I mean?</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-49828085932647217532012-05-07T16:35:00.003-04:002012-05-07T16:35:37.203-04:00Also While We Were In North Carolina Last Month<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We went to the butterfly garden at the Science Museum,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">where the sweet North Carolina sun edited all our pictures for us</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the children man handled handfuls of beautiful butterflies in the controlled temperature and stunning lighting of their fabricated ecosystem.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A welcomed fresh-from-Rochester-winter treat!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We hit the lush green mother load.</span></div>
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Which is better than a quick traditional trip to Target pre Easter alone in Rochester. You follow?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There were baskets and grass (that special kind that you find all over your house months after Easter) candy, chocolate, jammies, and trinkets times 7. We ate a bag of baked sour cream and cheddar chips in the check out line while we nervously made small talk to our check out employees to avoid the embarrassment of absolute overindulgence. Nailed it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And around some time like the break of dawn the next morning-7 children were up and the hunt was on:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/t6DWQyuJv9zDjrPzb8yRLV4F5IscBiTpc8jNAu62HhI?feat=embedwebsite" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="532" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7qHnzlGSUQY/T4gS07PCTOI/AAAAAAAFJt0/WoBNIYwkDec/s800/DSC_6406.JPG" width="800" /></a></span><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TpPeXDvUMxY/T5h7JEvDuMI/AAAAAAAFKCQ/zwRa5jbwsG8/s1600/April%252020124.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="600" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TpPeXDvUMxY/T5h7JEvDuMI/AAAAAAAFKCQ/zwRa5jbwsG8/s800/April%252020124.jpg" width="800" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"></span></a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/R0D_n0HiFVKnVhY6zTNF_V4F5IscBiTpc8jNAu62HhI?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="532" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Xdj0yQf7d7k/T4gS0AlLuBI/AAAAAAAFJtw/3j5AoXg-Jww/s800/DSC_6404.JPG" width="800" /></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And no Easter is complete without a lala in hand and a lala in mouth and new lalas in a bucket.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then If my memory serves me correctly, we preceded to eat all the leftover candy in the duration of the 3 remaining days we were there. I think we calculated like a gallon of red bull consumed by the professional brothers used to stay up late doing professional things like playing video games.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And there's your overindulgence right there kiddos;)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The end.</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-29579146246674983372012-05-07T14:15:00.004-04:002012-05-07T15:07:26.631-04:00Wouldn't It Be SO Cool if I Went Back to an April Birthday and Easter?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Between March and June there is a plethora of special occasions to be made special on the our family calendar.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is in store for the Vaiseys in the spring you ask?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, I'm so glad you asked. It goes:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Birthday: March 31</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lena's Birthday: April 6</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Easter: April 8</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Calvin's Birthday: May 1</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bop Bop's Birthday: May 6</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeff's Birthday: May 12</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mother's Day: May 13</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Mom's Birthday: May 19</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby Brother's Birthday: TBD</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Father's Day: June 17</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's a lot of spring birth giving/parent appreciation if you ask me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And just as I predicted, the birthday celebrations have been pretty quiet this year. I hope gestation is happy for itself. Sweet energy sucking gestation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Lena did get a sweet little cousin party in North Carolina the day after she turned 6 years old. (6 YEARS OLD!) All we had to do was show up to the fancy house in Chapel Hill and it was there waiting for us...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were fancy tea cups and gum balls and gummy worms and plastic plates, color and loudness and sugar highs and family togetherness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turns out when you leave cotton candy on top of a cupcake for a bit it crystalizes and becomes crunchy and melty. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A perfect mess for a 6 year old with perfect perma-stickiness!</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-14824194705581028452012-04-13T19:22:00.003-04:002012-04-13T20:05:35.507-04:00Instagram Killed The Blog Star<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">...in my case anyway. Or can I blame another thing on gestation and the black hole of parenthood? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It has snowed and has been 70 and back to 40. I'm ready to like it here again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The hens have given up their winter laying strike and once again we have fresh beauts to devour. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I turned 28 (what's with the late 20s feeling so weiiiiird?) and got really sick in the reverse order.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I entered the final stretch and hit 32 weeks in this pregnancy. I'm still in disbelief we are having a fourth child.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Calvin turned into our very own family pet parrot repeating everything anyone says at any given time of any day. When he is not repeating, he is whining something intelligible, when he is not doing that he is taking 3 hour naps in the middle of the day. Hair still red, temperament matches.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lena turned 6 and can like....read stuff now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We thought about moving into a larger home to accommodate our expanding family needs then we stopped thinking about it. Then we started thinking about it again and now we're back to not thinking about it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Simon discovered Indiana Jones and the Indiana Jones Lego x-box game and I am too embarrassed to admit how good he is at it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We took a road trip to Virginia and North Carolina.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We had Easter with the Vaisey cousins and survived a long 13 hour drive home with a red headed whiny pet parrot in the back middle car seat.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I instagramed most of it. I blogged none of it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not sure I'm ready to recommit to regularity so while I put a pin in it</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here is the overload:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">#anyquestions?</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-19779030073734226152012-02-21T15:26:00.001-05:002012-02-21T15:30:09.079-05:00There Was This One Time In February When I Got My Camera Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hey! did you know </span>that when you have more than two children, odds are at least one of them is crying/whining/having a complete mental and pysical breakdown at any given moment?<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9AYg0dJaBCxI7Mh3-wB6_4loowo93RVy9aMaO1vs2l8?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="531" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cuIRNZ6Nviw/T0Pv1mShUaI/AAAAAAAElJc/ZPQJmiDE5E4/s800/DSC_6148.JPG" width="800" /></a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2QeC1wa-4AYOc2UStb-QRIloowo93RVy9aMaO1vs2l8?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="531" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Px6Bl3WzZo0/T0PtZD1SJPI/AAAAAAAElIw/A6C8OoCSnNc/s800/DSC_6127.JPG" width="800" /></a>Also chances are good that one or more of them can simultaneously be found making faces/laughing/saying something that is hilarious and totally whack.<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/22wcdyRW8zyUXSU7mukiA7Tgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="600" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h2Mcmphgz7s/T0P7_MI15rI/AAAAAAAElMY/9QtcrhpTdjA/s800/February%252020127.jpg" width="800" /></a> Many times children will sit to allow for love and adoration to fully set in. Asleep is one preferable example. Sitting in the snow is another.<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kMIrvoaAJhl6MrBcIV0OSbTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="600" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lKxVm4jzzzw/T0Pw64EU8rI/AAAAAAAElKU/GXXD9Dt9WDo/s800/February%252020126.jpg" width="800" /></a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CSUnoHGdjnlT3ysHyLohcoloowo93RVy9aMaO1vs2l8?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="531" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0dekrOShClc/T0P51E0agVI/AAAAAAAElMA/tmcd9lVZTNk/s800/DSC_6125.JPG" width="800" /></a>It goes: one emotion then another.<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/L3ZqBiqEXIQJ34Qwned75rTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="571" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GcQNVlrU8N4/T0PtxzioHtI/AAAAAAAElKM/-lpVvQI4-uU/s800/February%252020122.jpg" width="800" /></a>Children of all emotions must be played with in the snow. Fathers are especially good at this, regardless of the catastrophe that is getting children robed/disrobed for such ocasion. Mothers are especially "good" at this. <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/v3E2ojJGJk2mtI8H-5cFLLTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="571" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L7dBCubMYqI/T0PuVDiPMVI/AAAAAAAElJI/TbREQ7TxZUw/s800/February%252020123.jpg" width="800" /></a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/paxWLJnRsJdUp7naBfGyRrTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="500" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cU1FPwaQNls/T0PvidgibII/AAAAAAAElJY/_gzidDU3oHY/s800/February%252020124.jpg" width="800" /></a>Can you feel the love?<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xL9ADrvRI9xAdwZ_TGpAL7Tgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="600" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ykDntVe_37c/T0PwSj0oW_I/AAAAAAAElJo/tFKh1qE71X8/s800/February%252020125.jpg" width="800" /></a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Remind me to tell you about the time I went to Phoenix last weekend by myself for my grandparent's 50 year wedding anniversary but actually traveled for more time than I was there. Rude!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tired tired tired! And, lazy blogger! But, before my next trick (unloading all my instagram photos upon you) I thought what better way to start off this month of love and Valentines than with some heart warming Lena Booth:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She is extra Yin and heavy on the Yang.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and happy.</span></div>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-30327949786060722822012-01-25T18:54:00.003-05:002012-01-25T19:02:14.580-05:00There's Always A Birthday In January<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year we experienced our first with-invitations-and-friends-legititamately themed-birthday party:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fun (synonyms for fun: loud, busy, germ infested) place of his choosing for Sime and his friends to burn some wintertime steam? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Check</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Friends and Balloons? Check</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Food and Cupcakes? Check</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Presents? Check!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Goodie Bags*? Check</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">*and as an added special bonus (to their parents delight?) everyone went home with a hand crafted lightsaber that doubles as a summertime pool saber!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Simon woke up that Saturday morning his sweet and easy to please self (whew) and he proceeded to gasp at everything he laid his eyes on all day, from the balloons to the cupcakes, to the birthday banners and the plates and napkins.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sometimes I wonder why I go to any trouble for birthdays, but Simon reminded me all day. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He had so much fun and was so happy all morning. It was birthdaytastic;)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was on the ball this year with the pre-party buying and most of the best things came from etsy (r2d2 cupcake tops, banners, lightsaber candies, darth vader t-shirt) I think the most I did was spray paint the mini waters with left over gold paint to look like c3pO (this four year old's got a thing for droids) and instruct BabaJuje how to assemble the lightsabers with trusty duct and electrical tape while we were busy jumping in bouncy houses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The moral of the story is next year, who knows if these children will have their birthdays remembered. I'm trying to be prepared, so when the disappointment comes pouring in we can look at all theses pictures and say, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Remember how much fun your 4th birthday was?!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and we will remember it was goooood and fun. Then the new baby will cry or something like that.</span><br />
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color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/obXlgKDdbbynYufBqf9MFLTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"></span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CxCirMDi7FL_Cqj3NIcIe7Tgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="600" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-oj8C1QM3Iqc/TyCJM7FaQkI/AAAAAAAEjRA/yoMu8NS__5w/s800/Simon%252527s%2525204th%252520Birthday12.jpg" width="800" /></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FYH0bLcn071RE6oBu6JbBrTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="566" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OaZGIanAQ5I/TyCJOmDNQXI/AAAAAAAEjRI/QfqUlnEyphU/s800/Simon%252527s%2525204th%252520Birthday13.jpg" width="800" /></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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And I LOVE that four year old. Really really really love him.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-3202383654637386752012-01-13T12:59:00.001-05:002012-01-13T12:59:34.854-05:00Well Here They Are:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the THREE BOYS!!!
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A repeat overload for the 2 whole people who follow me on instagram...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the best I can do really for pictures to provide you with because I haven't picked up my real camera since Christmas morning. I have picked up loads of toys, food off the ground, many articles of clothing, even a crying baby off of the kitchen floor that was kicking and flailing on his back. Why just yesterday I picked Simon up after the poor thing fell out of the car and face-planted on my friend's driveway. I've even picked up the phone and called some people, like Rebekah for example when we talked for something like 3 or 4 hours the other day. But the camera phone and those filtered square boxes are just too easy. Picture, caption, done. It gives me an opportunity to work on my one liners. This year will most likely be filled with the easy way out. I can do hard things, but I prefer not to. Such a great lesson for the kiddies, no?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The past two weeks have been filled with preschool applications(it's seriously like college), midwife appointments, school volunteering, preschool co op helping, and planning for Simon's 4th birthday party on Saturday. It will be Star Wars themed and there will be other four year olds. You say, "Kelly, why do it to yourself?" I say, I'm not, I bought everything this year and will make nothing short of boxed cupcakes and maybe some lightsabers that take under 5 minutes to produce. I'm just trying to be consistent with this year's family theme: If you can buy it so it's easier, buy it. If you can hire someone so it's easier, hire them. If t.v. helps, watch it.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like to think it's the more realistic approach instead of underachievement. I would be totally flattered if you followed suit. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep them alive and happy and don't yell and be discouraged, take the pressures off everyday life and buy, hire and watch instead:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay tuned for more inspiration coming your way! (are you appalled or laughing) And try your best to ignore the glaring downslope my parenting ideals have taken since 2006.</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-53090762208543897192012-01-03T19:57:00.001-05:002012-01-03T23:33:43.938-05:00You Should Know, I'm Blogging About Christmas Right About....Now<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then a short 3 hours later she fell asleep on the way home and we were a family of 5 again. She didn't like that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We celebrated our 7th anniversary this year like the true parents we are and attended a lights celebration at Lena's kindergarten. After the kids sang they played a slideshow of them doing various things in their classroom and it was accompanied by a very sentimental country song that made me cry right there in my seat in the dark. Cue the lights! Then we talked about how it feels like we've been parents longer than we've been married. I love being a parent. Being married is ok too. </span><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JCbTNJpG8OLgd-GSpfXJyrTgt3cTeqJGxwz7-Ub8C5E?feat=embedwebsite" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="640" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-InA4H9CMMLU/TvXx06HfyfI/AAAAAAAEbJE/t6MoMeoHOY0/s640/Dec%2525202011%252520iPhone%252520PnVs3.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And since Christmas isn't for the schools we have to supplement at home with forgetting to water our Christmas tree and eating too many Christmas treats and hastily opening the door to about 30 neighborhood Christmas carolers the other night. I think 2 out of the three children were crying and dinner was burning and I was probably wearing something awesome. Then they sang the figgy pudding part and I smiled and shut the door. I'm a good neighbor like that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aside from 3 sick children and a dying tree this week I think we're ready for action on Sunday. And to think I found myself complaining we <i>had</i> to go to church on Christmas! I'm pretty sure that is NOT honoring the true meaning of Christmas. I plan on starting now, after I get Lena's teacher a gift card and get dressed and make a dent in the laundry and vacuum up pine needles and wrap all the presents that are scattered in the basement. Why do I always wait to do that? Next year I'm going to do more true meaning stuff and wrap all my presents as they arrive. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or maybe we'll just buy a goat for a family in need instead of it all.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And weather report states it will be 40 and sunny this Christmas day and that is truly a Christmas miracle. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the truth is, I am so grateful for the birth of our Savior and the birth of my three sweet children and hard working husband. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Especially during country songs and Christmastime.</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-62700747843647385452011-12-13T12:52:00.000-05:002011-12-16T23:13:42.702-05:00It's Like This<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then there was a certain day I was home alone with Calvin and gave him and bath and suddenly I found myself soaking wet kneeing on tile floor and discovered he is more than just a pretty head of red hair. And I was entranced by his roundy cheeks and funny faces, bucky teeth and wet curls. I was caught in a moment with my third born I had hope for the future. Another one of these?! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then he got mad and slipped and then tried to climb out of the bathtub and I was snapped back to reality and suddenly found myself very hungry and annoyed at all the messes around me. I tripped over a toy left at the top of the stairs and thought about the movie Ghost Dad where he actually died from that very thing. I found three pairs of dirty undies in Lena's closet and an opened box of frosted mini wheats on her bed. I wondered then, to myself, if I should make her sleep in shredded wheat.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I probably won't shower today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yeah, it's like that.</span></div>
</div>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-620751140831640852011-12-13T10:32:00.002-05:002011-12-13T11:04:59.320-05:00My Dog Ate My Keyboard But Actually It Was Other Reasons Altogether<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not sure how it happened. A 5 weeks hiatus. Record lows. </span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I appreciate the comments and emails in my absence, although I must say my personal favorite came from Chelsey who said she looked me up on Facebook to make sure she didn't see any "RIP Kelly". HA! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because if it's been 5 weeks and I haven't uttered so much as a single inter web posted word I must be dead. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or pregnant.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with a baby...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for the fourth time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">May the heavens open up and send us the best they've got! And if that doesn't solicit at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>least</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> 20 comments of "hang in theres" and "everything will be great" or "sanity is over rated anyway" maybe one or two, "who needs cleanliness and order?" then I'm leaving forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And If you saw this coming, you should have anonymously phoned in your warning. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's what friends do;)</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-22723300278094580002011-11-01T12:41:00.003-04:002011-11-01T12:45:30.911-04:00We Made October Count At the Last Second<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So in the shivering 45 degree cold, late Saturday afternoon, we trekked through the soft mudded grounds at Powers Farm Market.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A <a href="http://whoopsyvaisey.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall-tradition-if-we-ever-had-one.html">tradition</a>(<-click) <a href="http://whoopsyvaisey.blogspot.com/2009/10/were-all-on-patch.html">if we ever had one</a>(<-click). (and <a href="http://whoopsyvaisey.blogspot.com/2008/10/pumpkin-patch-check.html">here!</a>)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So we carved on Sunday and trick-or-treated on Monday and just like that October 2011 vanished into thin air.</span></div>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-6869492533227097662011-11-01T09:54:00.003-04:002011-11-01T09:54:55.736-04:00Happy Halloween<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From Eloise, Nanny, Bill, Skiperdee, and Weenie</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our only group </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">shot came from inside the very nicely lit gymnasium at the end of the trunk-or-treat last Wednesday night.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And as soon as her precocious yet mischievious ways and scraggly blonde hair grew in, I knew Lena was destined to be Eloise for Halloween, the rest of us was a snap:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The End.</span></div>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30577079.post-37853321457570864712011-10-21T10:29:00.001-04:002011-10-21T10:33:10.033-04:00The Part Where I Begin Speaking Strictly Fall Related Matters<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img height="800" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PL0_u539cx8/TqF61Wf5q5I/AAAAAAAEQAA/YZNG2EOPYoI/s800/Kelly%252520Phone%252520Pics20.jpg" width="800" /><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">he did not get his eyelashes from me but I wish I could get mine from him</span></i></b></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The fallish thing we've done aside from our trip to Virginia was Simon's preschool co-op field trip to the apple farm. There were sweaters and boots, there were trees with apples, there was cider and 7 three year olds with their moms and many younger siblings. Oh, and afterwards there was ice-cream. Slightly less fallish, but with pumpkin on the menu it seemed more than acceptable.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In our front yard we have one of those trees that hangs on like a balding man to his comb-over, clinging to its last leaf until just after the first snow fall, letting down a consistent blanket of yellow and orange in the inbetween time. I've been meaning to get out there and get the clean up started but I just can't bring myself to do it. Vacation messes up everything. And our small window of fall simply cannot afford dilly dallying. I think it's pessimistic of me to admit after the second week of a month I pretty much declare that month over. I'm the same with birthdays. Two months past your last birthday, you're basically the next year older. That's probably why sometimes I actually have to take a second to remember how old I really am.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now that we've recovered more or less from suitcase mode I dedicate myself and my children to the season. To the season! Because it's almost over you know.</span>kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07290768246005281983noreply@blogger.com3