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| Caleb did a little gaming during the PTA meeting. |
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| But when it was time for the performance he was doing the hand motions with them. So cute! |
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| This was a cute song about "the blues" so Ethan had sunglasses on. |
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| That's Ethan's music teacher. She's lots of fun. You can tell she totally enjoys her job. :-) |
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| This is the student music teacher that Ethan kind of loves. ;-) |
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| This year I turned the big 3-5. I think it feels old to me because in medical terms it's "advanced maternal age" which just seems silly to me. It's also only 5 years from 40 which suddenly doesn't sound as old as it used to. This picture is from the birthday board at work. My co-worker does a great job of decorating! |
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| We had a giant birthday lunch at my parent's house. We don't get together as often anymore so when we do, we do it up big! This was "birthday lunch" for all of the fall/winter birthdays. Which is pretty much when everyone in our family was born! |
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| For my birthday dinner I chose the usual...Olive Garden. Partly because I love it and partly because I have two little boys who tell me that's where I'm eating. ;-) |
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| So I'm scrolling through Facebook one day and see this picture with the post "free kittens". I wasn't really looking to get another animal...but she captivated me. Ever since my mom got a cat I'd been thinking about getting one and of course the boys were begging for one but I didn't want one more animal to take care of. But I couldn't stop going back to that post and looking at her. I asked Mondo about it and he immediately said no. So I showed the picture to the kids. ;-) They begged and begged until I finally told them to drop it, we weren't getting the kitten. Hours later, Mondo came in and said, "I don't know why I'm saying this and I'll probably regret it...but we can have the kitten." What?! Really?! I knew I had to act fast before he changed his mind. I got into contact with the girl and found out that she lived in WEATHERFORD! Not close to me at all. But Mondo said he had customers out there and he could spend the day there then bring her home. Hooray! |
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| I got a box and put a towel in it for her car ride home. |
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| Clearly I don't know much about cats. Mondo called me several times during the hour trip home saying she was trying to escape! She'd pop her head out of the box and he would push it back in. |
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| Then he sends me this picture. She flew out of the box and was climbing on the chair. Did I mention I've only had outside cats...like in elementary school. |
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| He finally made it home. The boys couldn't wait to hold her! And of course we had to take her to Nana and Papa's and show her off. She had the tiniest, high pitched voice so she got the name "Squeaker". |
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| Lets go back to the story of me knowing nothing about kittens. I've found her in tons of places I never thought about. Like the dishwasher. |
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| And hanging from the couch. She was too small to jump on the couch so she'd scale the side. |
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| She was very interested to meet the dogs. Lexie could've cared less that we brought someone new home. But Gracie doesn't like new people on her turf. Except that she's never been around a kitten so I'm not sure she knew what it was! Squeaker would hiss at her and Gracie would take off running. She wouldn't even cross her path. And look how tiny the kitty is! Gracie only weighs about 12 pounds. |
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| I got her this toy to scratch her claws in the middle part and roll the ball around. She never scratches the middle part but she does love chasing the ball. |
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| The princess. I bought the smallest collar but it was still too big. I got one with a bell on it so I would know where she was! |
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| Ethan is very good with her. Very calm and gentle. |
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| And I'm learing what life is like with tiny, razor sharp claws. This picture doesn't even do it halfway justice what she did to my hands! And of course, she wasn't being mean, just playing. |
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| Here is Caleb modeling his Halloween costume the day it came in the mail. It fit him perfect and was so cute! |
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| I helped at his school party. We made "spooky brew" in his classroom. It was such a cute, simple idea. Just a hunk of dry ice with some apple juice poured over it. The kids were facinated with it! That's his teacher in the witch's hat. |
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| Most of his classmates posing with the teacher. |
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| They came home from school and carved pumpkins. I think I was more into it than they were. They were just excited to get to use a knife! |
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| Caleb's traditional pumpkin that I carved. |
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| Ethan did a good job...and gave me a heart attack with his knife skills. |
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| Watch out! It's Robin and Thor! |
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| Then they needed a silly one. |
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| This was at the church "trunk or treat". This is his best adult friend (and Mondo's BFF) Scott. Yes, that's where Caleb got his middle name. :-) |
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| Robin was super excited to find Joker! I don't even know who this was. I think it was a visitor. |
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| They always have to have a quick stop at Nana's to get some good candy! |
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| His buddy Will. |
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| They love to hand out candy so we had to make a mad dash home after trick or treating in the neighborhood. |
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| Checking out his loot! |
Last year (2012) was our first NICU reunion. We had it in the summer. It was our first one so we didn't really know what we were doing. We kind of sat around and looked at each other. ;-) After that one we decided to have the next one around Halloween so the babies could wear costumes and we could play games. It gave us a little theme. It was SO CUTE to see our NICU graduates all dressed up in little costumes. And it was also fun to see our co-workers in them too. |
| My fellow weekend warrior Shelly. Since we're together all the time our co-workers call us Batman and Robin. So of course that's who we had to dress up as! |
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| This was most of the gang. That was a lot of crying babies to get in one pic! I'm sure most of them don't have fond memories of their nurses. ;-) |
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| That's my supervisor in the candy corn shirt. And another co-worker in the clown costume. |
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| The planning committee. The two girls in the middle are "party animals". Get it? ;-) |
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| I made fall themed cupcakes. |
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| Caleb is slightly obsessed with Big Tex. We were so sad to hear about Big Tex burning last year. Caleb was excited to see the new Big Tex. I was a little disappointed with him. His boots are ginormous and make his legs look stumpy. |
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| He looks sad in this pic but he wasn't. Just not looking at the camera. |
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| I can't believe how tall he's getting! |
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| Out of all the yummy Fair food he gets so excited over pizza! |
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| Love this one! |
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| Now that's some Fair food...tornado tators! Mmmmmm...... |
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| There was a little show in the Food and Fiber pavillion that the boys got to be a part of. It was very slapstick but fun. I was impressed that Caleb actually participated. He helped this guy juggle. |
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| Ethan helped rope a cow. They were so excited to help with the show! |
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| We enjoyed some free ice cream while watching the beginning of the show. |
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| Haha, I love this pic! |
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| This is Mondo's dream car...no, really. He is DYING for one of these vans! It would be awesome to have for long road trips but not so practical for every day use. |
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| We went into a building that we've never been in. I didn't realize that it even had stuff in it. We were so glad we did because it was full of Big Tex stuff! |
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| His belt buckle. |
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| There was an area in this building to write a note to Big Tex. Ethan drew a picture of Big Tex and wrote "You are better than your old self." Too Cute! |
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| Caleb drew Big Tex and us. (He had trouble writing his name because the pen was jacked up.) |
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| This area was interesting. It was like a little shrine to the old Big Tex. |
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| Ethan and me inside the food court. We took a reprieve from the rain and ate inside. |
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| Caleb approves...of more pizza! |
