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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Como Town fun
Yesterday we took Ben & Maddie to Como Town, which has rides that are mainly geared toward littler kids plus a splash pad and play area. They had such a fantastic time. Here are some pics....
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Big kid week!
In addition to bunk beds, we also introduced Ben & Maddie to regular bikes -- with training wheels -- yesterday. They are over the moon about them and want to ride them all the time.
Big kid beds!
Ben & Maddie got their first bed today -- bunk beds -- and they are both sleeping in the top bunk (at least that's the plan...still waiting for them to fall asleep!). Amazing that we made it to 3 1/2 with cribs.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Summer swimming!
Boy, I've been lax about posting to my blog this summer! part of it is that we haven't been using our big camera - just the iphone cameras and those are hard to upload to this blog.
But today I took the big camera out to the lake and got the kids to pose for a picture before we went to the beach.
Here they are...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Tumbling
Today was Ben & Maddie's final tumbling class - the only one that parents get to attend. So, of course, we took lots of pictures!
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Such a cutie!
Over the years, we've gotten so many cute photos of Maddie. But I'm just amazed at this one because I took it with my iphone!
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Personal foray back to 1940
The release of the 1940 census records on April 2nd prompted me to dig into my family history a bit. After all, my parents were both born in 1940 -- just a couple months after the census takers would've knocked on my grandparents' doors. I wondered what life was like for my two, very pregnant, grandmothers. I knew one family was poor, the other quite well off, but the census records showed me just how different their lives were.
I published a story in today's paper about my little adventure back in time.
Here's the Census form where I found part of the Sylwester family (see the first line). My grandfather and great-grandfather were on the page before:
And some pics...
My grandfather, Erv Wolff holding my mother in summer 1940:
My father in the middle, with his older sister (left) and an unidentified cousin, probably in about 1942 or 1943, I'm guessing:
I published a story in today's paper about my little adventure back in time.
Here's the Census form where I found part of the Sylwester family (see the first line). My grandfather and great-grandfather were on the page before:
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My grandfather, Erv Wolff holding my mother in summer 1940:
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| From 1940 Census |
My father in the middle, with his older sister (left) and an unidentified cousin, probably in about 1942 or 1943, I'm guessing:
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| From 1940 Census |
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Happy Easter 2012!
Photos from Easter...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Potty training
We've finally made serious progress on the potty training front. Ben has been wearing underwear during the day -- full time -- for almost two weeks now, without any accidents. And the first thing he does every morning is run to his closet to get clothes and underwear.
Maddie is a bit more reluctant. She was insisting on diapers all the time until last week when I gave her an extra incentive. I gave Ben a wrapped present -- a book about trucks that he had been wanting -- and told him it was because he had gone a whole week wearing underwear without accidents. He was thrilled, of course.
Maddie started crying and ran upstairs and came back down with a pair of underwear, insisting that I put it on her. She thought that by simply putting on underwear, she would get a present, too.
It took awhile, but eventually I got her to understand that she needed to go a week wearing underwear and then she'd get a present, too. So the next day, she was quick to get some underwear and she did a pretty good job all week. A couple accidents, but mostly dry.
So yesterday they both got a small present and they were super excited.
The hard part is nap time. We want them to be in a diaper or Pullup for nap and that kind of derails the whole underwear thing. Most days we have a bit of a battle to get them back into underwear after nap. Ugh.
Maddie is a bit more reluctant. She was insisting on diapers all the time until last week when I gave her an extra incentive. I gave Ben a wrapped present -- a book about trucks that he had been wanting -- and told him it was because he had gone a whole week wearing underwear without accidents. He was thrilled, of course.
Maddie started crying and ran upstairs and came back down with a pair of underwear, insisting that I put it on her. She thought that by simply putting on underwear, she would get a present, too.
It took awhile, but eventually I got her to understand that she needed to go a week wearing underwear and then she'd get a present, too. So the next day, she was quick to get some underwear and she did a pretty good job all week. A couple accidents, but mostly dry.
So yesterday they both got a small present and they were super excited.
The hard part is nap time. We want them to be in a diaper or Pullup for nap and that kind of derails the whole underwear thing. Most days we have a bit of a battle to get them back into underwear after nap. Ugh.
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