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| May 2007 |
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
To Barbara With Love!
This pic was taken last week when I got home from work. The girls will be starting extended-day at St. Andrews in a week and that unfortunately means their weekly "playdate" with Barbara won't be happening. I feel good that Barbara is helping someone else we know with their baby because she is one of the most genuinely compassionate people I have ever met. The girls love her so much and vice versa. Barbara will always be a part of their lives. And recently I think she got a great complement, one of the girls said that they had THREE grandmas "Dee Dee, GramE and Barbara!".
Adventure
Kids are great. Everything, if positioned correctly, can be an adventure
While en route to Holden Beach, NC this Friday night our trusty Ford Explorer decided to start mis-firing. Thankfully Scott heard the noise and then the check engine light started blinking. We were about 30 miles outside Columbia, SC and at least 3 hours from the beach. Of course it was nearing 6pm and we knew repairs shops would be closing soon. After consulting the owner's manual we found out that a blinking light means "get service now-- you're going to melt something." Verizon 411 actually came through for us providing the location of a Goodyear in Lexington, SC (the Columbia 'burbs). I need to write a big thank you to the mechanic who agreed to make our car a priority on a holiday weekend. At this point the girls were hysterical b/c they thought we were NOT going to the beach-- but when we positioned this as a big adventure, that we'd stay in a hotel (Holiday Inn Express, really not so bad!) and walk to a restaurant they were enthralled. This pic was hanging out on the bed before dinner Friday night.
While en route to Holden Beach, NC this Friday night our trusty Ford Explorer decided to start mis-firing. Thankfully Scott heard the noise and then the check engine light started blinking. We were about 30 miles outside Columbia, SC and at least 3 hours from the beach. Of course it was nearing 6pm and we knew repairs shops would be closing soon. After consulting the owner's manual we found out that a blinking light means "get service now-- you're going to melt something." Verizon 411 actually came through for us providing the location of a Goodyear in Lexington, SC (the Columbia 'burbs). I need to write a big thank you to the mechanic who agreed to make our car a priority on a holiday weekend. At this point the girls were hysterical b/c they thought we were NOT going to the beach-- but when we positioned this as a big adventure, that we'd stay in a hotel (Holiday Inn Express, really not so bad!) and walk to a restaurant they were enthralled. This pic was hanging out on the bed before dinner Friday night.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Boston- April 2007
Scott and I were able to go up to Boston for Keith's thesis exhibition during Spring Break.
Here's an album from the openign reception and a few from dim sum with Ted/Andrea/Daniel/Summer.
Keri/Eric-- I have no idea where our camera was during our short/sweet visit but we had fun with ya'll too!
Meanwhile, DeeDee took great care of the ladies during our mini-break.
Here's an album from the openign reception and a few from dim sum with Ted/Andrea/Daniel/Summer.
Keri/Eric-- I have no idea where our camera was during our short/sweet visit but we had fun with ya'll too!
Meanwhile, DeeDee took great care of the ladies during our mini-break.
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| MFA Boston- April 2007 |
Cinco de Mayo
Dinner group @ our house! Also a few from Inman Park festival. Click post title to view May album
Spring Break Photos-- Part I
Here's an album of pics from our trip over Spring Break to DC.
Ones from Boston are coming next.
Ones from Boston are coming next.
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| Spring Break 2007 |
Last Day of Kindermusik
This is a pic with Miss June, Eliana and the ladies on their last day of Kindermusik (a week ago-- I'm behind).
Mom & Dad's 40th Anniversay
A few pics from April 15--- Mom and Dad (GramE and PopPop) celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary! We had a fun brunch at our house
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| Mom & Dad's 40th Anniversar |
Luke Skywalker
This is not just a TKCG shirt that has been cut off. THIS is the "Luke Skywalker" shirt, due to the fabulous "floppy" arms, just like Luke! She wants to wear it to bed every day. If Sydney had her way she would also wear it in public. While I'm proud of employee 9A (see corner of shirt), we had to draw the line somewhere.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Sweet Dreams
I'm a litlte groggy today, mainly due to a very sweet incident with Leah last night.
I awoke in the middle of the night to hearing the girls' door open and Leah shuffling in to our bedroom. She said "Mommy, I having bad dreams, I need to sleep in your bed."
Knowing it would be a mistake to let her stay the night in our room, I begrudingly told her to hop in the bed. Scott and I talked to her and asked what the problem was. She repeated again that she had bad dreams, though she couldn't say what they were about.
It would have been easy to just scoot over and let her stay the night cuddled in our not-big-enough-bed, but we were terrified that she'd start to think it was OK to sleep in our bed every night. Instead we reminded her about thinking "happy" thoughts before falling alseep and asked her what some of those might be.
She answered without hesitation "Princesses! Picking flowers! Swinging!"
My heart swelled that she knew so quickly what thoughts would make her happy.
At one point we tried negotiating by telling her she needed to go back to her room since her sister would miss her. Leah didn't miss a beat and said "Sissy will be fine without me."
Once we went through a few more happy thoughts she agreed to go back to bed.
An hour later, the exercise repeated itself, this time I was too tired to argue and she simply crawled next to me and went to sleep. The only reason we noticed is by this point Sydney was up as well, yelling about her "special blankie". Again, we transferred Leah back to her her bed while settling Sydney down.
When the alarm went off just a few hours later we were both totally out of it. It took me forever to get out the door this morning, I felt like we had a night with twin babies all over again.
But their needs are no longer as simple as putting a pacifier in their mouth and turning the music box on. I just hope that we can always remind them of their happy thoughts (and that they take a nap today!)
I awoke in the middle of the night to hearing the girls' door open and Leah shuffling in to our bedroom. She said "Mommy, I having bad dreams, I need to sleep in your bed."
Knowing it would be a mistake to let her stay the night in our room, I begrudingly told her to hop in the bed. Scott and I talked to her and asked what the problem was. She repeated again that she had bad dreams, though she couldn't say what they were about.
It would have been easy to just scoot over and let her stay the night cuddled in our not-big-enough-bed, but we were terrified that she'd start to think it was OK to sleep in our bed every night. Instead we reminded her about thinking "happy" thoughts before falling alseep and asked her what some of those might be.
She answered without hesitation "Princesses! Picking flowers! Swinging!"
My heart swelled that she knew so quickly what thoughts would make her happy.
At one point we tried negotiating by telling her she needed to go back to her room since her sister would miss her. Leah didn't miss a beat and said "Sissy will be fine without me."
Once we went through a few more happy thoughts she agreed to go back to bed.
An hour later, the exercise repeated itself, this time I was too tired to argue and she simply crawled next to me and went to sleep. The only reason we noticed is by this point Sydney was up as well, yelling about her "special blankie". Again, we transferred Leah back to her her bed while settling Sydney down.
When the alarm went off just a few hours later we were both totally out of it. It took me forever to get out the door this morning, I felt like we had a night with twin babies all over again.
But their needs are no longer as simple as putting a pacifier in their mouth and turning the music box on. I just hope that we can always remind them of their happy thoughts (and that they take a nap today!)
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