Santa the Techie

Violet and I were talking yesterday morning about going to see Santa at the mall. She made sure to tell me that she thought she was going to be too nervous to talk with Santa. Here’s our conversation: Vi: I’m nervous to tell Santa what I want.  Me: you’ll do great.  Vi: can you tell…

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MISSING Tooth

In the previous post I said that I would update the blog when any progress occurred with Violets tooth.  As promised, I’m updating the status of the tooth.  After going down for nap, Violet was playing with her tooth.  After a few minutes of laying down while I was rocking with Hayden, I heard “MOMMY…

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Happy December!

After a very long day of Violet being sick, we all went to the City of Portage’s lighting of the Christmas tree and lights. Thank goodness for ibuprofen. The kids ended up having a great time. There were carolers and lots of people. After they lit the tree, there was another service at another park…

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Christmas Lists

This past weekend, Hayden and Violet made Christmas lists for Santa Clause. After going to Barnes and Nobel (which now has quite the toy section) the kids were not short on ideas for their Christms lists. Hayden and Violet drew these pictures completely on their own (except for the annotations which were added for the…

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Our Run

Today I got new running shoes since my other ones were getting old. In order to try them out, we went on a family run. Libby, Violet, Hayden, and I all got on our "running" clothes and grabbed flash lights and went for a run. The run totaled approximately .6 miles and the kids ran…

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Hayden’s Temper

The other day Hayden and Violet were playing in the family room with separate toys.  Violet started to play with one of “Hayden’s Toys” (We try and stress that no one OWNs any toys).  Hayden did not like this so he started throwing and pushing toys (at least he wasn’t hitting).  One of the things…

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Fire

A couple of nights back while Libby was on her run Violet was worried about fire getting her in our house.  She was worried that fire would come from the furnace up through the vents and get her in her room.  We talked about how the furnace was safe and that fire needs heat oxygen…

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New Pictures

The last time we posted pictures was at Halloween.  Since then, Libby ran a race the kids played at the park and they also had a dance party with glow sticks last night (we did lots more, but this is what was documented pictorally).  The new pictures of our adventures can be found here.

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Nightmare

Hayden wakes up in the middle of the night every once in a while having what we guess are nightmares. Last night I got confirmation that he is in fact having nightmares. When I went in to his room and got him calmed down I asked him what was wrong. He said "My toys went…

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