I did my rounds checking on the kids and thought I’d just snap a fairly typical scene about an hour after formal bedtime.
Isaac read a LOT, and had come out to tell Kathleen all about the book:

Charlotte was asleep. Often she’s awake with her cat or just thinking, but sometimes she falls asleep quickly. Usually [...]

Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Zach
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Charlotte and Nicole are learning to appreciate each other.  They like to be together and they like to hug.  I would still rank Isaac #1 in Charlotte’s choices for a playmate, but I can see the bond growing between my two oldest girls.  Nicole looks up to Charlotte and tries to imitate her and wants [...]

Posted on May 2nd, 2011 by Kathleen
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Zach has made some good arguments in favor of switching our online photo storage from Flickr to Picasa.  I have not uploaded any pictures to Flickr since he has made this recommendation and now I’m woefully behind.  I thought I’d share some recent shots here with commentary as I mentally prepare for the switchover.

Posted on February 21st, 2011 by Kathleen
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So I’ve taken a few fun videos recently, but neglected to share them, so here they are:
This video of Ila saying the word dancing and dancing was taken before the first step videos that I posted yesterday:

This is a fun one of Nicole falling asleep at the table:

At the end where it looks like she [...]

Posted on February 11th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Did we mention that we’re moving to Seattle at the end of the month?  I’m more than a little worried that I might not be all packed up in time, but turning my focus from parenting to packing results in things like this:
I thought Nicole had fallen asleep when I hadn’t heard from her for [...]

Posted on December 12th, 2010 by Kathleen
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From Isaac: Isaac was originally going to write a chapter book about Grandpa’s birthday in which he surprised his grandfather by jumping out of the cake.
From Charlotte:
I wanted her to write her name on the back.  She refused to write it and said that if she wrote her name on the back then [...]

Posted on November 19th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Here are some letters the kids wrote to their grandparents.  I had them in an envelope to send, but before I put them in the mailbox, we booked some flights for grandma and decided to just give them to her in person. Isaac was going to write a letter to each grandparent, but then he [...]

Posted on November 15th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole bumped her head on Thursday. She had been playing with a blanket on her head when we heard a loud thump and a cry in the hallway. Her head swelled so quickly that it was as if you could actually see it getting bigger and it was very scary looking. I started to panic. [...]

Posted on November 1st, 2010 by Kathleen
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The other day we arrived at the gym after a big rain and Nicole could not resist splashing in every puddle along the way to the entrance. While this is not an uncommon thing, on this particular day she could not pull herself away from her favorite puddle. I tried the “I’m going to leave [...]

Posted on October 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole is a funny girl.  She loves to cheer about stuff.  She usually says “Yay!” followed by some noun.  Yay!  Shoes.  Yay!  Dog.  Yay! Tree.  Yay! Rain.  Yay! Bird.  Yay! Hotdog!  And when she watches something like Baby Einstein, she cheers about everything she sees.  Yay! Toy.  Yay! Cow.  Yay! Water.  Sometimes I like to [...]

Posted on October 3rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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My mom came down to Tennessee to help while Zach recovered from his surgery.  She arrived on Friday night and was able to stay with the kids while I picked up Zach from the hospital and then got his perscriptions.  Zach was miserable all week and barely emerged from our room.  He ate almost [...]

Posted on September 11th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Because we miss you a lot and wish you were here.
Charlotte and Nicole Dancing:

Informative little Nicole:

Ila eats, claps, and “talks”:

Sorry, no Isaac video, I’ll have to capture one of him afterschool sometime for you.

Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole loves to color, but for some reason her favorite thing to color on is words.  This means that every-time I write her name on one of her drawings, she scribbles all over her name.  Here is an example of her Art:
While scribbling some of the red scribbles she kept saying “oh, no [...]

Posted on August 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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She went from crying in pain all though the day and night, to getting her cast put on, but not knowing how to move.  She learned to crawl, climb, and walk.  She cried over not being able to bathe, she hated having her hair washed in the sink.  The cast cover was a bear to [...]

Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole loves the bath.  Not being able to bathe because of her cast has been a challenge.  She’d cry for a bath whenever someone mentioned one.  Three weeks and two days after breaking her leg, she was ecstatic to be in the bath again thanks to a waterproof cast cover.  I only wish we had [...]

Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I heard some noises that made me think Nicole was having some trouble, when I opened the door to her room, this is what I found:

Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I took this video of Nicole using her walker this morning

Later, I turned on So You Think You Can Dance while I fed Ila and Nicole just got up and started dancing in circles without her walker

And finally, this last one is just for fun.

Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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