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My mother has given up facebook (for a hilariously funny reason that I will not embarrass her by saying) so I shall be posting more pictures on here. I have been neglecting this blog horribly, so maybe this will spur me to be more active here. Facebook has made me lazy because there is no need to spend time composing an entry with a decent length, it is all small snippets of feelings and

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Lily has been smashing all my preconceived notions about what her infancy would be like. I had assumed that she would be like the boys only you know as a girl. She is a bit of a diva and is doing things her way.Car seats and drives were a great way to relax the boys. Lily will often scream for hours when forced to endure time in her car seat. This has gotten better of late but made for very

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I completely missed blogging on an entire pregnancy. I had not been planning on being pregnant again but got a surprise in the form of a baby girl. We named her Lily and I got fixed so there should be no more oopses. I am glad to be done with childbearing but also a bit sad that I am done. I really don't like being pregnant but I do love babies.This pregnancy was especially rough because of

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We had a quick family party for Daniel after church. It is amazing how fast he has grown and how much he has changed this last year. Daniel is such a funny little guy and it has been a joy to have him in our family.

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I think that toddlerhood is one of my favorite stages. Daniel and I have been having a lot of fun with our morning alone time, it is nice having a little buddy around to play silly games with. Daniel's favorite game is Play With Forbidden Items which leaves me having to put a lot of things up and out of harms way only to have the older boys drag the things back out again when they get home.I

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I haven't had too much time to play with my camera as my husband just got the memory card last night, but here are a few shots for the Grandparents.

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December has been kicking my butt! We were going to put up our tree last weekend only to have my husband spend the weekend out of town in readiness for an impending boat crash that never happened. I am glad that it did not happen because right now the last thin the environment needs is yet another oil spill. One of the head lights in my van was out so on Monday I treked to town to get a

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I had been slacking while we lived in Kansas and did not take the kids to the dentist. We got a glowing recommendation for a pediatric dentist here that also is noted for working well with special needs children so I scheduled an appointment. They boys had a great visit, Daniel is the only one who cried and that was expected.All three boy have a tooth that is not forming enamel as it should

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It was a crazy start to the holiday rush. Evan and Harry decided that they wanted to be superheros. They have become very interested in Veggie Tales (thanks to us being able to watch our instant Netflix queue via our Wii on our tv) and there was an episode about Larry the Cucumber wanting to be a superhero. I drew the line at making them helmets with plungers for the ears so they could climb

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See if you can detect a theme to the ABC book Evan did in school.Ap CarWhat that is no one knows.Bap TruckAgain a bit of a mystery.Cloud CarDump TruckEvanFishHe draws human faces on everything, even animals.Garbage TruckHouse CarIgloo CarJelloKiteLego CarMonster TruckNestOld CarPlayhouse CarQuiet CarWrap CarThe WR sound counted for the letter R since the kids are not expected to know the sound

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We had Evan's IEP meeting with the new school today. Good news was that they just copied the one from Kansas. The odd news is that parts of it were missing somehow and they has no idea that he was getting PT and adaptive PE. Other good news is that after a long search a OT was found for him. The district is small enough that they do not have them on staff so they had to call around to see if

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I have been rather bad about posting pictures of late and I decided that it was time to play catch up. Here are a few from our last days in Kansas.My mother sent me these plants shortly after we moved in to our house in Kansas. This year was amazing for them and they got huge! I was sad that we had to leave them behind.This was a hydrangea that was there when we moved into our house in Kansas

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One of Evan's speech therapy goals is to be better at recounting past events so his therapist is having me send a note with information about what he did over the weekend. Here is his version:I went to church. I sang songs. I had bread and water for snack at church. I dropped an RV on a tow truck. It was my dad's birthday. I had a piece of cake. I sang Happy Birthday. We gave Daddy a phone (

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Apparently a company thinks I am full of crap because they wanted to send me coupons to what basically amounts to a laxative. They slapped a fancy name on it and the claim on the website was that it did not make you sit on the toilet all day, but still the intent behind the product was to "cleanse" your colon. So if any of you are feeling crappy let me know and I will hook you up ;)

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I have been making progress with the boxes and with getting settled into our new area. I attended a welcome party for the spouses association in my area. It was nice to meet so many friendly people. I also got a chance to get to know some of the wives that live near me in housing better. It is still a bit strange knowing that all my neighbors are working for the same place. Harry has been a

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I am alive still just very busy. We finally got a phone set up (got Vonnage since the local phone company was highway robbery) so I don't have to walk into town every time I want to make a phone call. That saves me a lot of time but it means I am exercising less. My dryer is now fixed so I am now doing laundry. The last appliance that needs to be put into working order is my dishwasher and

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I am feeling kind of frustrated right now. There are still so many boxes to unpack but so little time to actually do it in. I just want the boxes gone and the stuff magically put away. I don't want much do I?It really is amazing how much my mood is affected by being in a crowded and cluttered house. I almost had the downstairs whipped into shape and all the boxes out of sight when my husband

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.... for the household items that lost their lives in this move. The casualties are mounting thanks to careless packers and drivers that wanted to save some space. This has been a hard move for our furniture, nothing has escaped with out some sort of battle scar. It is a good we have mostly solid wood furniture or we might not have anything that survived. I will post pictures once the house

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Now all we need is our stuff. We have arrived at out new home and are settling in. I have begun the process of making new friends and otherwise getting settled in. I just wish I had my stuff with me to make life that much simpler. We are supposed to be getting it on Wed and I am counting down the hours. My husband's job turned out not to be the one he thought he was getting, it is a much more

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We are in California. The move was crazy thanks to the weather taking a warm turn. My husband handled the movers and I got to wrangle the kids. We got a motel which was nice since we needed a place for the kids to nap during the day when all the hubbub was going on.We had a semi eventful trip to Utah. My husband picked a long but more direct rout which meant we took longer to get there than we

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The packers are coming soon. Daniel has decided to start walking and the smile on his face every time he takes a few steps is amazing. He is just so darn pleased with himself. I hope I packed everything we need for the trip, I know that I have at least 6 or 7 skeins of sock yarn to keep my busy. Hopefully we will remember to throw the trash out before the movers pack it up.

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Time in Kansas is growing short. We are gearing up for the move which I hope will go smoothly. A visit to my husband's cousin gave us a dry run for the long drive that is ahead of us and a portable dishwasher. The house is now being advertised for rent and we hope to have someone in it very soon. This morning we had the fun of a clogged sink. My husband, Harry and I have an annoying hacking

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We are settling into our summer routine. Evan is going to have an extra long summer this year thanks to the move so I want to keep some structure going or I will likely want to strangle him by the end of summer. We do schoolwork after lunch, nothing too major but enough to keep Evan in practice.I really miss the morning quiet time that I used to get when the kids were at school and Daniel was

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This month has been stuffed full of events. We had a wave of illness that also coincided with the end of the school year. So I got a nice pile of laundry among other things to help distract me from the sadness of the end of school. The weather has also been rather damp, so the beginning of summer break has not been all that thrilling either.Below is a picture of Evan with his "girlfriends" who

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Today was Daniel's first birthday and we made an effort to make sure it was a fun day for him. We went to the zoo and had a blast!Giraffes are totally rad!Harry chasing a squirrel up a tree.Fish!I loves de fishes!The gorilla was out which thrilled the boys.Petting the goat was a lot of fun! I thought I had a really funny video of the boys talking to and petting this goat, but I hit the wrong

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We are going to be moving to California. It will be kind a sorta near where we were before, I tried to convince my husband that he wanted to move back to the same town we were living in, but the idea of a long commute made him cranky. Plus we have to move into housing, so really there is no choice in where we will live any way. It is going to be different living in military housing, a new thing

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So, we got the call we had been waiting for but ended up just as un enlightened as before the call came. The guy is giving my husband a choice between a highly sought after area that we personally would not like but an ok job, a not so great job in a place that I would be thrilled to live, a great job in an area I don't know much about that would be in the wrong direction from the one we are

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I have been absent from the blog due to me holding off posting in the hopes that I would be able to announce the news about our possible move. Annoyingly we are still in limbo.. STILL!!!!!! I want to find a certain person and smack him on the back of the head (with a cast iron pan), say a few swear words and them make him tell us if we are moving or not. This is beyond insane and it is stupid

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These are the pictures from our visit to the state history museum. They were having a special car exhibit that was actually was a bit of a let down in my humble opinion (not enough cars). We made the best of it though and I think the kids had fun.I kept trying to get a picture of Daniel petting the buffalo fur but he kept looking at the camera and hamming it up. He is so cute it was impossible

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I have more spring break pics but the camera is upstairs and I am downstairs and I don't feel like fixing the situation so that we are both in the same room.Today I had a "fun" adventure. On the way back from taking Evan (plus the younger kids) to the big city for a cardiology appointment I got a flat. I was driving on a bridge and felt an odd vibration, at first I thought it was the road since

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After much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth the family room was cleaned. What should have taken an hour or so to do took part of the preceding evening plus all morning. The deadline was noon after which I was going to gather up all remaining toys and give them away. Daddy took pity on the kids and assisted them so that they were able to meet the deadline. Mommy was a bit sad that she

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To make up for the craptastic winter break the boys had thanks to awful winter weather we have been taking them to see some of the local sights. There is not a whole lot to do besides to go to the zoo (which we did on Saturday) but what there is to do conveniently enough involves vehicles, so the boys are thrilled.Today we took a tour of the local air museum. Here are some pic as proof that yes

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As I am quietly trying not to panic as I attempt to plan the Blue and Gold dinner for the ward I can't help but almost laugh at the irony of me ending up being in charge of it. I have never actually been to one! I have all sisters, so we were not exactly active in cub scouts or boy scouts. Last year we could have gone, but me being pregnant and really not wanting to deal with two rambunctious

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February was an odd month, it seemed to last forever then BAM! it was over and I was rushing to make birthday preparations for Evan. We are also in perpetual cold land and days after I finally stopped coughing I got sick again with another cold which is why I have been rather quiet. It is hard to concentrate on blogging when your head is killing you due to your sinuses being packed full of

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Ok so I have been rather quiet of late. I still have a nagging cough which was keeping me up at night but has finally decided to let me sleep. February has decided to be a busy month and my calendar is packed full of things that I must attend to. Daniel is rapidly growing and developing new tricks, one of which is pulling up into a standing position. His crawling had also gotten a lot better

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Well I was right about my last post. Thursday night or early Friday morning Evan tossed his cookies just the once leaving mom a fun surprise to find in the morning. At least this time he did it over the side of his bed so he did not sleep in it all night like he did once. I can't get him to come and tell us when he barfs in the middle of the night, he just rolls over and goes back to sleep. I

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I probably should not be posting this since I could be tempting fate. Saturday night Harry started crying and crying for no reason and would not be consoled. I sent him to his room to lie down thinking he was just tired. He ended up throwing up on his bed (thankfully my husband did the cleanup since he was closest). Shortly after clearing the contents of his stomach he was back up and very

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We have been having some really warm weather the last few days and as a result the snow is rapidly vanishing. I am giddy!If I believed in a hell where people are stuck in situations that are personally tailored to be especially awful to them then I just got a taste of hell. I left my house at oneish and did not arrive home until after 6 all for one doctor's appointment for Evan. I got to shove

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Today was a snow day which despite Harry pooping in his pants and biting Evan was welcome. The high was around 4 and I didn't really fancy going out in that kind of cold. The low tonight is supposed to be -11 with another single digit high. Luckily school is canceled for tomorrow so we will again get to stay snug in our warm house. Since I missed posting yesterday I am including two

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Sometimes life gets you down (like when the weather is insanely cold and more snow is predicted) and then life throws you a little something that makes you squee. I threw this in my list of patterns that someday I wanted to knit only to find out that it was taken down due to issues with the BBC (note to self: print patterns that you are going to knit when you decide to put them in your list

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No picture today but a bit of a whine. I am so tired of the snow. Last year it never stuck around this long and I am pretty sure that besides a few really bad cold snaps it was a heck of a lot warmer last year. This winter is brutal. We still have the snow from Christmas plus a few inches from Saturday night/Sunday morning and there is more snow in the forecast plus insanely cold weather. I

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Someone is distracting the boys when they are supposed to be picking up toys.

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I have been really missing having family around. I thought it would be fun to share a bit more about what is going on in our lives through pictures. I am going to try and take more random pictures of the kids (hopefully at least once a day but I am not going to commit to that).Daniel showing off his emerging self feeding skills. He is starting to actually get the food in his mouth the majority

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I enjoy taking a look at the past year, it makes me realize how blessed we have been and how much has been going on. Last year at this time I was crazy stressed out with being pregnant and having to deal with an upcoming surgery for Evan. We did not know if we were going to face a move soon after the birth of the baby. Kindergarten was something that was also weighing on my mind.Hindsight lets

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The boys were spoiled this year and we are still expecting a few more packages. I went a bit overboard this year as well, but stuck with simple yet fun things that should last awhile.This is Harry showing off two gifts. One is the doctor's coat that I got each of the boys. Evan asked specifically for one and I told him that grandma would get him one only I forgot to tell grandma so mommy had

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The presents are mailed and all the gifts have been bought. The weather relented a bit so that it was actually a nice cold instead of the awful hideous cold it had been making it a lot easier to get stuff done. A snow storm is supposed to come in tonight and give us a white Christmas. I don't mind a bit this time around because I have no reason to leave the house so I can hunker down and be

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Here are a few random pictures that I have taken recently.Last night the k-2nd graders put on a musical concert. Evan is wearing his elf hat that he made himself. I had been dreading the thought of going (thanks to the crappy weather) but it turned out ok. The roads were okish and the program was short.This is how Evan spent the majority of the program. He did stay in one spot and did not make a

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The weather here in Kansas has been awful!!! It if fricking cold (and by cold I mean it is snot freezes in your nose cold) and we had some snow on tuesday so all the roads are icy. Yesterday the kids had a snow day, which they were pissed about since they like school. I was less than thrilled to be stuck at home with two grumpy kids so I thought trip to Target you be fun. Boy was I wrong!

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I love messing with my kid's minds, that is half the fun of having kids. When else are you given free reign to shape how another human being thinks and also maybe slip a few silly things into that noggin. Lately Harry has been pestering me about what we will be having for dinner, not that he eats it, but he sure seems really excited about it up until it is on his plate. I have been telling him

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I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, I know that we did. I am now working my way through our leftover turkey desperately trying to eat it all before we are forced to consign it to the depths of our freezer in the hopes that some day we will remember we have it and actually eat it. My husband's cousin and her family joined us, so we had a full house. Daniel and his second cousin. They are

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It is hard to believe but Harry is now 4! It has been a year filled with a lot of growth for him. He is really starting to become a capable young child who can do lots of big kid things.Harry asked for a pumpkin cake. I have a friend that works for a bakery and she decorated this for him. He was very thrilled with his pumpkin cake and it was nice to have a small one so we did not have cake

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Yesterday was insane! It was insane is a pretty good way (for the most part) but still insane.Evan's kindergarten class made a Thanksgiving dinner to have at for lunch and of course parents were needed to help out and make sure that the kids were not picking their noses and then touching the food. It was fun and there were plenty of parents to help supervise. Evan's class seems particularly

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Last weekend Harry went to a birthday party (his first of the year). The day before he carefully chose a coloring book for his friend and I added to the present a package of crayons that I had bought earlier during the back to school sales. An hour before the party I hastily wrapped everything and made a quick card (I have oodles of card stock so I tend to make my own cards for things like this

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Halloween is over but the candy still lingers. The boys got quite a haul between the ward trunk or treat and going around the neighborhood. I think the quality of the candy has also improved since last year, one of our neighbors was giving out king sized candy bars.The PumpkinsEvan's pumpkin. He drew the shapes on the face (except for the mouth) and I carved them. Now that the pumpkin is a

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On Thursday the Kindergartners went on their first ever field trip. Evan's teacher asked me if I would come along and I arranged it so I could. I thought it would be exciting to go along and I was right, it was just not quite the exciting I had been thinking about. There were 58 kids total. Luckily Evan's class had enough parents coming a long that the groups were at most two kids. The other

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Yesterday while I was holding Daniel at Evan's OT appointment I felt a tooth in his little mouth. I knew that this was imminent due to his general crankiness of late and I am hoping that now that this one is cut we will have a bit of a break. I don't have any pictures, it is not like you would see it any way but I do have pictures of him eating solid food for the first time. We introduced solids

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My kids are a bunch of wierdos (I have no idea where they get it from). Harry still wears a diaper at night due to him being unable to wake himself from sleep to go to the bathroom (Evan is the same way and wears a pull up to bed). This morning he took his diaper off and started sniffing it. He explained to me that he was smelling it and that it smelled like poop. He was so serious about it

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We had Evan's IEP refinement meeting today. It was nice to see all the people who were working hard to make sure that he will get the best education possible. The big change to the IEP was writing in the need for a para explicitly instead of implying it like it was before. Also added was that Evan will get an extra half hour of PT but instead of it being at the school it would be at another

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Evan finally has para!!! I saw her with my own eyes this very morning. She should be good since she is a retired Kindergarten/1st grade teacher. It also looks like Evan will be staying in the same classroom he has been going to for the last few weeks, it was a change that was supposed to be temporary but as the weeks dragged on Evan became settled in the new classroom and it would be very

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Evan still does not have a para. They said they would get him one and then the next day it was pointed out that his IEP did not state explicitly that he had to have a para (I am not sure why this ended up that way, I guess the person that wrote was just a little too subtle and gave too much credit to the school district folk's intelligence). Then the next day they sent out evaluators to see for

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I am hopeful that my educational frustrations in behalf of Evan are over for the moment.All week Evan has been going to another Kindergarten class that has a part time para so that he would get some help and several afternoons another para has been able to come in the afternoon and also help out. This morning the teacher told me that the district had had an amazing change of heart and that they

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I hate to make this be a whiny poor Awesome Mom blog but today was a heck of a day and not in a good way and I need to vent a bit.While Evan's teacher and school has been amazingly awesome I am very angry at the school district. When Evan's IEP was written it was stated numerous times that he would need a lot of one on one attention and therefore needed a para to help keep him on track. The

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I knew it would happen eventually. Schools are a cesspool of germs and other nasty things. All said I think we got off relatively easy. Evan missed his first day of school due to illness and he lost his second tooth.Sunday evening I yoinked his tooth out, it was hanging by a thread and annoying me. The Tooth Fairy was a total slacker and did not come, but upon inspection of her gum stash it was

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Disclaimer: I was given this toy free in exchange for this review.My kids have a ton of toys, but the little kid inside of me can't pass up free toys, especially baby toys. Ebeanstalk sent Daniel a toy called a Skwish made by Manhattan Toy who specializes in developmental toys for kids. I had to wait awhile to write this as Daniel was not quite at the grab on and holding things stage when I

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All my fears and worries were for nothing, Harry went off with his preschool teacher just fine and there were no tears shed. I do think that my prep work (taking him to see his class every day after dropping Evan off) really helped him get to know his teachers so he would feel more comfortable with them.Evan seems to be doing fairly well at school. He likes to go to the bathroom when bored, so I

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I know there are excited grandparents so I am rushing to put the pictures of Evan's first day of school up. We got to meet his teacher last night when they had us drop off school supplies. She was not one of the ones that had attended Evan's IEP meeting, so I had not met her before. She seems really nice and has been teaching for 25 years, so I think she should be able to handle Evan. Harry was

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I have been all wrapped up in back to school planning. Mentally I have had to prepare myself for sending my babies off to school. I have also had a number of appointments to go to and paperwork to fill out and supplies to buy. Evan starts on the 12th and Harry starts on the 19th and then it will be sweet freedom (or as close as I can get with three kids). I can't help but be anxious about Evan

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I was looking for a use for leftover cooked chicken and wanted a comforting soup when I found this recipe. After making it I realized that the base made a great starting point for any creamy soup. I have adapted it into a potato corn soup and my husband thinks it would make a great clam chowder too (now all he has to do is get me to want to make it, clams make me want to gag). When I make the

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You know you are the parent of a kid with medical issues when you freak out about your child loosing a tooth rather than being excited. Saturday morning my husband woke me up to look at Evan's mouth which was missing a tooth. My mind immediately jumped to the worst possibility, that Evan had been goofing off and had somehow knocked his tooth out. I was already mentally planning a trip to the

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I was looking for a carrot cake recipe for my husband's birthday and stumbled upon this one. It is amazingly moist and delicious! I made it exactly as written and it was a hit with my husband and kids. If you are having a hankering for a different kind of cake then give this one a try.

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Last Wednesday Evan and Daniel had check ups with the family practice doctor. Evan was thrilled to have a "poitment" to go to until, in the midst of it, he found out he would be getting leg pokes aka immunizations. He is doing well on the weight and growth charts and now has all the immunizations he needs for kindergarten. Daniel shocked me by weighing in at 11 pounds 10 ounces. Harry kind of

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These potatoes are heavenly. They are a lot of work but it is so very worth it, especially when you want to wow people. For this recipe I like using Yukon Gold potatoes, they have a nice buttery taste to them that works perfectly with the recipe. I can also leave the skins on the potato and the texture of the dish is not tampered with.

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Not only is Evan going to be going to school this fall but Harry is as well. I had been planning on sending him to a preschool run by the parks and recreation department twice a week in the fall. Evan and Harry are so close in age that I knew Evan going off to school would make Harry very envious, plus I could use the break and go shopping for groceries with just one kid. Then when I was

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These mushrooms make an amazing appetizer or finger food for a party. I made them for my knitting group's Christmas party and they flew off the plate. The few I had left over after the party were amazing as leftovers, so if you are making these I highly recommend hiding a few in your fridge for later. I added a bit of onion powder and also followed the recommendation of some of the reviewers to

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Smiling baby! He has been smiling for about a week or so but I could never get a picture in time before now.A silly little boy that saw me taking pictures of the baby smiling and wanted me to take a picture of him sleeping. Yeah he is sleeping all right lolAnother silly little boy that saw me taking pictures of his "sleeping" older brother and wanted me to take a picture of him sleeping.Two

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I have been meaning to share some of my favorite recipes in a more organized fashion for some time but the baby stuff had kind of taken over my brain and my blogging. Please forgive any errors as I am typing this with a grumbly baby in my arms.Recipezarr has become my cookbook and while every recipe that I try there is not always a winner I have found a lot of winners. First up is The Best

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Life has been busy. It really is amazing how much time I spend feeding Daniel. You forget how frequently infants eat until you have one again. Some days it feels like all I do is feed him.My parents are in town for a visit (another reason for lack of blogging) and because of that we had Daniel's blessing (kind of like a christening in that he wears white but otherwise nothing like a

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Evan and Harry are always asking to hold the baby and occasionally I let them, watching them like a hawk the whole time. Poor Baby Daniel will have to put up with it until he gets too big for them to hold or at the very least active enough to squirm out of their grasp.All mah boyz (messy faces and everything)Evan is obviously the better holder of the two.I promise Daniel is not crying, he is

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I had about five hours of sleep last night and it is not looking good for tonight. I am not sure why Daniel is being such a stinker about staying asleep (this kid has some sort of radar that tells him when I am ready to lay down and sleep because that is when he gets grumbly and fussy. He sleeps great when I am not trying to sleep), but it sure is brutal having to take care of my every day normal

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Today marks the unofficial start of summer. We have a quiet day planned but did splurge on some steaks that we will grill on the good old charcoal grill. It is a bittersweet day for me since it is the last day of my husband's leave, tomorrow he is back to work, leaving me all alone with three kids.Luckily we have a nice quiet week ahead of us. It is the first time in months that we don't have

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Disclaimer: if this is a confusing post it is because I had very little sleep last night and I have a baby that is finally sleeping in my in my arms.We had Evan's first IEP meeting in preparation for Kindergarten on Wednesday. It was a very interesting process to get to the meeting and the meeting it's self was also rather eye opening. The preschool folks that did the evaluations were amazing.

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Once upon a time there was a happy squirrel named Sparky. He loved to run along power lines to reach distant trees. Once day he decided to try a new way down to the ground. Sadly for Sparky that new way down happened to complete the circuit. With a bang Sparky found himself in Squirrel Heaven. We lost power for a few hours and now have a dead squirrel in our back yard thanks to Sparky's

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It is hard to believe that Daniel is already two weeks old. He had a great check up, he is already back up and a little over his birth weight. When the doctor listened to his heart he did not hear the murmur, so it is very likely that when he has his follow up echo in a few weeks that nothing at all will show up and that the hole that is present in fetal circulation is closed even if it was a

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I have been rather wrapped up in baby stuff which is normal at this stage. Here is a bit of a run down on the stuff that has been going on:Daniel decided that he would give nursing a shot, but only for one day. He latched on beautifully and nursed proving to me that he could do it. But in the middle of the night changed his mind and wanted to have a bottle. Once that decision was made there

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The many faces of DanielThe peaceful sleeping faceThe Overlord is displeased face.The almost gas smile face.The "Rarw!" faceThe gentle kiss from big brother face.The cute little toes! (try not to drool on your keyboard)

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And for the first time the baby came home with me.The delivery went pretty smoothly. I was apparently contracting rather frequently while they were monitoring me, so it was very likely had the original c-section date been there I would have had to have gone in earlier. I had been kind of having the feeling that things were beginning to start so I was glad that I was able to hang on long enough

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I will try and get my husband to update with pictures and everything. He is a computer guy but still clueless in the art of blogging and actually clearly communicating the information that is necessary for people to know so I may have to bribe him to even try and then write out a post on paper for him to type here. He also has no idea how to post pictures, so this could get interesting. I am

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I have been dreading Evan starting Kindergarten. Due to his heart defect and stroke I always knew that learning issues would be very likely. How could they not be? Most kids get all the oxygen they need to their brains from birth. Most kids do not have damage to a significant portion of their brains. Still, I hid my head in the sand and pretended that Evan's issues were largely physical in

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The boys dancing around our defunct yard light. Harry modeling my newly finished mittens. I managed to finish them in time for the weather to get nice and hot rendering them useless until next winter.This is a very blurry picture of Black Fish and White Fish our newest fish in our tank. The danios we had in there died (probably because I was horrid about remembering to feed them but I have

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I got a call this morning shortly before I had to be out of the door to take Evan to a follow up pacemaker appointment in the big city. It was my OB's office wanting to reschedule my c-section for the 1st. Which is one day before my in-laws are coming to town and my husband starts his time off that he scheduled for the baby. Greaat!Luckily I have a great visiting teacher who was able to watch my

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Life is chugging along. I had my second to last pre baby OB appointment (eek!) yesterday. I actually weigh a pound less than what I did when I first came in. The Ob is not worried since I do have the diabetes thing going on and I was rather pudgy before going into this pregnancy. It is rather obvious that the baby is growing nicely.I have officially given up on potty training Harry for now. He

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Thanks for the wonderful birthday wishes. My birthday was a very adult birthday. No one showered gifts on me or followed me around making me feel special at every moment. I still had a lot of errands and every day things to do. It was not a horrible day since I made it a point to get a nap. I figured I deserved it since it was my birthday after all. My big fun thing will come on Friday, my

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So now I am entering into my thirties. My twenties were a time of huge change, it is strange looking back on them and seeing what I have become. When I turned 20 I was single, childless, and still very new to being an adult. Now I am more practiced at being an adult, even though I would much rather be a kid and be able to avoid a lot of the un fun stuff that comes with being responsible. I am

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It has been a crazy stress filled week for me. Saturday we went to two egg hunts, one thrown by the ward and one by my husband's work. Sadly not a lot of pictures were taken because my pregnant body was too slow to get action many shots before the action was over. I may do some recreation shots at a later date, if I can remember to, but considering my spacey mind I would not hold my breath.I

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So on Friday we finally (!!!111!!!!!!!!!) learned that we were going to be graciously allowed to stay here for another year. (Imagine that sentence with a massive helping of sarcasm) My husband thinks that the person in charge of deciding who moves where ran out of money in the budget to move people and caved in and let us stay. Thank goodness for some budget cuts I guess. It sucks that we

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You guys are good! The names were pulled from a list of awful names that were sent to me by the NP that works for Evan's old cardiologist. She was trying to be helpful (with friends like her, who needs enemies? lol) when I mentioned that we were having a hard time coming up with a name for the little guy. I suppose to could have tried to claim that I was in labor, but that would have taken too

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My husband and I are having a hard time agreeing on a name. It seems like what he likes I hate and what he hates I like. We have managed to come up with a list that we can't narrow down so I thought I would put it out there for you all to look over and add your input.Urlington DarkrinHuntquail WatcatLeCreed LeonimandasDexman CobarttPlease be kind, it has taken us months to come up with these

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