You’ll have to click on read more to learn how she acquired this lovely eye decoration.

Posted on March 31st, 2011 by Kathleen
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Our Saturday outing on February 6th really wasn’t that exciting, but I didn’t want to miss a week in my reverse blogging.  I can’t remember what the original plan was, but we didn’t get our Saturday chores done soon enough so we decided to just take a trip to IKEA (just 3 miles away) with [...]

Posted on March 29th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Ila is a good little talker.  Her vocabulary is growing everyday and it’s often surprising what she can say.  I have recorded a little sample of her vocabulary here:
Listen for the following words:  unbuckle, no, walk, have a good day, and thank you.  She prefers to say “have a good day” over “good-bye” as you [...]

Posted on March 28th, 2011 by Kathleen
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I blame the fuzzy head that has come with my cold, but I neglected to document the second part of our March 5th adventure which was to stop and visit Zach’s grandmother.  She lives in Seattle and the interesting thing about her house is that every inch of it is covered with plates, music boxes, [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Our Saturday outing for March 5th was the Lego Store.  We gave the kids opportunities to earn a little money during the week so that they could buy something on Saturday.  The Lego store was in a mall in Bellveue, WA.  I left my camera in the van so I only have pictures from my [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Here’s his class picture for his school here in Washington: Also, he wrote me this letter at school one day.  At first I wondered who “Kathliny” was and then I realized that it was me.

Posted on March 25th, 2011 by Kathleen
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On March 12th, we went to the Renton Library for our Saturday outing.  This library is neat because it’s also a bridge:

It looks like a normal building when you pull into the parking lot, but then you walk around to the entrance (pictured above) and it’s almost startling to see that you’re right on top [...]

Posted on March 23rd, 2011 by Kathleen
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We’ve started going on family outings every Saturday and I’ve meant to document them here, but I have not done a good job.  I will start with this last weekend’s adventure and work my way backwards.
We thought the kids would enjoy a ride on the Ferry into Seattle.  We drove to Bremerton, took the Ferry [...]

Posted on March 21st, 2011 by Kathleen
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Here are the cards my kids made for their Grandma Cochran.  I love children’s artwork, especially when they start drawing more detailed drawings.  It’s a unique expression of what’s inside their brains.
Here’s Isaac’s letter.  He struggles with writing, but he is getting better. Next is Charlotte’s.  Her card is my favorite because it’s the most [...]

Posted on March 20th, 2011 by Kathleen
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I had a half a banana leftover and no one wanted to eat it, that is until I cut it up and put a chocolate chip on each slice.  The pieces looked like eyes so I got this idea:

Charlotte loved it and we’ve had this snack everyday since it’s inception.

Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Kathleen
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My kids love to celebrate holidays.  Really, they love to celebrate anything and admittedly, I find great joy in creating excitement and doing fun or unusual things.  So while I think I generally like the Irish, any celebrating we do on St. Patrick’s Day is really more for the joy of celebrating.
That being said, we [...]

Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Perhaps I was a bit hasty.  I realized halfway through the haircut that I was in over my head.  I have cut my girl’s hair before with no problems, but as I cut, I realized that I had been gradually slanting downwards.  I tried to fix it and ended up cutting it shorter than [...]

Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Kathleen
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We were excited to join Rochelle and her daughter for a trip to the Seattle Science Center.  We went on a free admission (thanks to Fred Meyer) day.  It was nice to get to know Rochelle and see all the neat exhibits. This post is really picture heavy, so you’ll have to click on the [...]

Posted on March 16th, 2011 by Kathleen
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We’ve had many invitations for playdates and outings since moving to Washington just under two months ago.  It’s been great fun. 
On a recent Thursday, Jessica called us up to see if we wanted to go on an impromptu outing to a place called Gym Starz. 

The kids had a lot of fun climbing [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Ila’s hair is getting long enough to be messy.  Here is her hair after a nap the other day:

I promise that I embellished nothing.  I think she may be entering that awkward in-between stage that all my straight-haired girls have gone through.  This is when I get impatient for pigtail length hair.
Here’s Nicole at that [...]

Posted on March 13th, 2011 by Kathleen
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This is how Nicole eats an apple:

She starts on one side and eats straight through to the seeds.  Notice that she ate the bottom of the apple.  When she gets to the middle she spits out any parts that she doesn’t like.
Today, I got out some butter to use in our dinner, but I had [...]

Posted on March 13th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Name:  Charlotte Rose Cochran
Age: 5 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 1 day (on 3/8/11)
Weight: 36 lbs 25th percentile
Length:   40”      5th percentile

I had originally scheduled her for an appointment in TN before we left, but the nurse suggested waiting till after the new year so that her visit could be in the same calendar year that [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Kathleen
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I haven’t had much time lately to work on unpacking the boxes left in the garage, but I finally organized my spices:
All I really did was write the names on the tops and group them together by type, but it has made them much easier to find and use and it provided me with a [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Isaac asked if he could hang a post-it note on the bulletin board in the office.  I told him yes, and later found this note posted:

A little while later he wanted me to see what he had made on his Lego Creator:

They made my day!

Posted on March 8th, 2011 by Kathleen
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As promised.  Here are the pictures of the master bedroom and playroom.

Posted on March 5th, 2011 by Kathleen
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