Auntie Christina turned 31 on tax day; we celebrated the previous weekend! We brought the donuts to help celebrate…!
Inevitable screen time….Sigh.
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flashback to Auntie Christina’s bday
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last week at Studio Sprout…
"here, mom. you water the plants!" (she decided to water her shoe instead!)
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“here, mom. you water the plants!” (she decided to water her shoe instead!)
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She.is.Ironmaaaaan!
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new art (and name-writing!) by Cameron!
new art (and name-writing!) by Cameron!! She still needs help with A’s and N’s.
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Cameron made a huge break-through in writing her own name just this past week! Every now and then at story time, I’d encourage her to write it out (she’s known how to spell her name for quite some time now), but she was always reluctant. Now, she’s just eager to keep practicing!
We’re so proud of her…!
This is a picture of a princess, by the way.
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Aww!
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Cameron whipped up this picture this morning just for Tom. She was just on the floor, drawing and writing while we were busy doing other things. She didn’t get any help at all with spelling “DAD”! Yesterday, she drew a picture for “MOMOE” (Mommy).
She still lacks confidence writing her A’s and N’s, but for sure she is super motivated to write stuff on her own, so I’m sure it won’t be long….
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Chloe’s first strawberry shortcake. Looking forward to a whole season of this yummy stuff!
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Preschool Easter Egg hunt
…wherein Chloe is told to find eggs and looks completely perplexed when one is pointed out to her (being vegan since birth, she’d never seen one!)! It was pretty amusing. Also, Cameron was wonderful at redistributing her “extra” eggs (each child was allotted a max of 2).
Can you tell Tom dressed her? Dots, stripes, Spartan helmets….She makes the combo look so good, though.
She got the hang of it…kind of!
Chloe is actually remarkably good at sharing right now. Sometimes, I feel she’s too good at it…like when she wants to share slimy half-chewed food with me and strongly insists I let her put it in my mouth.
Cameron, on the other hand, is an old pro at this egg hunt stuff!
These kids are sweet.
Cameron can already propel herself along on the swings! She can also pull herself up into the seat. She is strong! Also, where the heck did that giant bling come from (green ring on her finger)! She got it from a birthday party for twins Ben and Sarah. I’m so glad she’s forgotten about it since it’s a choking hazard for Chloe. But, for a while there, she was good about placing her rings on the ring tree along with mine and Tom’s!
Passover Highlights
Oh, yes. We did have a seder…well, kind of! It was on a Saturday and it was the last night of Passover (I believe). We just couldn’t manage it during the week what with school, work, 3 days of swimming (instead of 2) owing to a make-up class, the girls’ Friday school Easter egg hunt, etc., etc. And then, I’m embarrassed to say, we didn’t even make it through the Haggadah. We were running so far behind in preparations that everyone was famished before the meal was even half-way cooked!
We had all good intentions to start prep early on Saturday, but then Dylan was complaining of ear pain. Since we had 3 days of swimming, I suspected swimmer’s ear and figured we should get the antibiotics ASAP. He missed his eye appointment (while Cameron and I went to our’s) and trudged along with Tom to Urgent Care. A couple of hours later, they discovered he had huge wads of earwax in his ear!! And, several hours and a couple of ear treatments later, they were home and Dylan was complaining that everyone was shouting! What a bonus! No ear infection, AND they flushed his ears out. The medical staff were quite impressed with the amount of build-up!
Anyway, once we finally got going on our celebration, it was food first. Afterwards, we decided it was too late for the kids to possibly have the patience to sit through the Haggadah, so we just had them find the Afikomen and, while they played, us grown-ups chatted and called it a night.
That headlamp must have been the secret to Dylan’s success. He found the afikomen inside his made-from-cardboard-box microwave oven (oh, why did we ever buy any toys or play things at all?!).
This year, we had matzoh ball soup with disintegrated matzoh balls (still quite tasty!!), yummy carrots, a delicious charoset made by HAKT, salad with balsamic vinaigrette, and cantaloupe and watermelon…oh, and drumstick from Tofoo Com Chay. We kept it simple. I missed having matzoh toffee, but that stuff is just bad for you anyway!
Here’s our simplified seder plate. No carved lamb shank this year!
We simplified everything but look at how much fun this girl is having!
Chloe couldn’t eat the carrots (she hasn’t had almonds yet) or the charoset (which had walnuts), but she ate her fair share of melon and matzoh ball soup, enough to drench her clothes!
Here’s Dylan with the prize. He really wanted the prize to just be the afikomen, no other treat beyond that!
Well, it was fun, if incomplete. Next year will hopefully be a bit more sane!
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New ‘do from school!
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