tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12539711461618627062024-02-19T10:03:45.575-05:00A brief history of timeMy name is Lindsay and I am a stay at home mom and consultant for 31. My husband, Bryan, is the new Mortgage Sales Manager for Centier Bank. We have a five year old daughter, Lilly, a two and a half year old little boy, Jack, and an eight year old mix breed dog, Hank. The Peanut, Jack and the Doodle. Life here is a normal, average existance. But, it seems far from ordinary to us! I hope this blog will show just how fun and crazy it can be.
This is our life, our own brief history of time.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-56767655553314892842013-09-24T11:45:00.001-04:002013-09-24T11:45:50.326-04:00Movin' On Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After what seemed like forever, we finally sold our house. </div>
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This was the house that we bought when we first got married, before we were even married, actually. We ripped up carpet, scrapped off wallpaper, torn out plumbing and made it our own. We raised a puppy here, brought two babies home to this house and made countless memories. So, if you ask if we were sad to see it go...the answer is no. No, we were not.</div>
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The morning of June 14, the movers arrived and as we drank coffee and watched them pack the truck from the deck, Bryan and I agreed that it was the most relaxed and happy that we had felt in weeks.</div>
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Our house was sold and we were moving on to bigger and better things.</div>
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We had finally found what we had always wanted: A farmhouse in the country.</div>
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Had we sold our house when we first listed it, we would have missed out on this. Had I not emailed the right realtor at the right time about the dump down the street, she never would have mentioned this place, owned by her brother, not even on the market yet, the first house we had both ever agreed on. It just felt like home from the minute we walked in.</div>
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Of course, in a 1940's farm house there is always work to be done. We got a new septic system, and subsequently a new back yard. But, we were happy with our choice and the kids were thrilled. Who wouldn't love a full acre surrounded by fields? The only neighbor we can see is a beautifully kept horse farm across the street.</div>
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Our first major purchase was a riding lawn mower for Bryan, and a trailer for the lawn mower for me (a Mother's Day gift gone totally wrong). But, the kids liked it.</div>
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Getting ready for my 'We've Moved' picture.</div>
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There was/is a lot of work to be done, but it is the fun kind of work that we have all looked forward to. And, we've had lots of help. On moving day my mom came and helped, while Bryan's parents took the kids for the day. Then, later that week my mom, Aunt Tracy, Cousin Margaret Ellen, and Grandma came, cleaned, and unpacked all of the boxes that they had themselves packed only a week before. We've been here three short months, but a lot has happened and we are just now starting to really get settled. </div>
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-61037180362135393162013-09-24T10:49:00.003-04:002013-09-24T10:49:55.371-04:00North Side Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After the graduation celebrations were over we packed up our car, including an extra person and headed north. Morgan was planning to spend just over a week with us before flying back to Alabama. </div>
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We made a few stops on the way to prevent our guest from having to ride too long in between the kids on the 12 hour drive home. The first was at the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman Alabama. We have passed it several times and never timed it right to stop. It is a park located on the property of St. Bernard Abbey. The Grotto consists of a winding pathway through the woods in which 125 tiny replicas of religious and noteworthy structures are built from concrete, stone, wood, glass, and random other materials. The tiny buildings represent the life's work of Brother Joseph Zoettl. </div>
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Jack, taking a break on one of the benches.</div>
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I took plenty of pictures, but this just gives you an idea of what we saw.</div>
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After a long drive which caused Morgan to consider going back to the abbey to become and nun, we arrived home. We had plans, activities and fun. And, I took very few pictures. But, I did capture cake pop making. Lilly received this no bake cake pop kit for her birthday and we thought it would be a great idea to let her make dessert for everyone.</div>
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The cake pops were fun to make and decorate, but only Lilly was brave enough to try one...and then eat the rest.</div>
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Later that week we tried to think of activities that everyone would like. We went to the zoo, where Lilly insisted that I take her picture on almost every rock we passed,</div>
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Jack got a shoulder ride.</div>
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We saw a lion.</div>
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Lilly raced a cheetah...and Morgan dodged the camera.</div>
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We did several other things; went to a movie, ate Greek food, Morgan and I commandeered the living room TV for chick flicks every night and sent Bryan high tailing it to the bedroom TV. </div>
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But, the icing on the cake, and the main reason for Morgan's visit was this, our Big Night Out to see 'West Side Story' at Clowes Hall. It was Morgan's first time to see a live Broadway musical, and my first time to see 'West Side Story'...not to mention my first time to see a live Broadway musical with someone who was as excited about it as I was.</div>
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<br />Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-80632133351685577542013-07-27T16:05:00.002-04:002013-07-27T21:48:49.517-04:00The Changing Tides<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This year, instead of meeting Bryan's family in Florida for a family vacation we did something much more special, we went to Enterprise Alabama for Matthew's high school graduation. Matthew graduated, with honors, near the top of his class and with several other special recognitions. He heads to the University of Alabama this fall with a full ride, R.O.T.C. scholarship, not to mention a few other smaller scholarships. </div>
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Obviously, Matthew is a young man with a bright future and has a lot to be proud of. </div>
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But, to Lilly, Jack and family friend 'Little Matthew' Matthew is nothing more than an easy going, always smiling, over sized playmate that counts as an adult.</div>
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Other than Matthew's graduation, we didn't do much except swim at Cam and Ed's. It was perfect!</div>
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Lilly got brave and dove off the edge of the pool (not pictured: actually the picture of Matthew with the three kids is the only picture of Lilly from the entire weekend. She was very busy playing and swimming with her new friend Little Matthew). And, Jack got brave enough to jump off of the diving board. Before you call Child Protective Services, please note that Bryan's dad is NOT throwing Jack off of the diving board, he is only giving him a little push, after he jumped, to make sure that he cleared the board.</div>
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More swimming. Lilly (Gasp! She did make it into a picture), Jack and Granddad hiding under a 'boat'.</div>
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Jack became exhausted by the thought of what he would have to accomplish by age 18 to compete with Matthew. </div>
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So, he decided instead to bring Matthew down to his level and get him to pretend to be an airplane. </div>
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Congratulations Matthew! Bryan and I are proud of you and can't wait to see what the your future holds!</div>
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Several years ago my best friend, Courtney, moved to Pittsburgh with her husband so that he could earn his PhD. We planned to call and visit each other often so the move didn't seem that dramatic. What we didn't count on was that jobs, school, pregnancies, and babies would eventually make the trip almost impossible. For the past few summers we have planned to meet in the middle for a family weekend, but it has never worked out.</div>
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Finally, after seven years, we were able to make a plan and stick to it, and we met the Williams clan in Sandusky Ohio at The Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park and resort. If you haven't been to a Great Wolf (and you have children with no fear of water borne illness) then you are missing out. The resort is enormous with 30,00 square feet of water park, several activities that don't involve water, and huge family style hotel rooms, all for a reasonable price.</div>
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We arrived early Friday evening with the Williamseses hot on our trail. After checking in, we were walking to the lobby to check things out and ran into them in the hallway. It was quickly decided that the moms would unpack in the rooms while the dads took the kids to the water park. This proved to be no big deal for Grant since he has been home with the kids writing his dissertation while Courtney has taken classes for her Masters. Bryan, on the other hand, struggled with his task. When I came down to the water with my camera, I was quickly informed that Lilly had been 'missplaced' for several minutes. No worries, Lilly was found, learned a lesson about staying with 'her adults' and the kids were having a great time.</div>
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Jack and Maddie loved the area at the front for little ones. Jack liked the water fountains, and Maddie preferred the slide. She climbed up the stairs and went down the slide somewhere around a million times.</div>
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Yep, then this happened. </div>
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Within the first five minutes Lilly had led Bryan into almost every single area that the water park offered, just to check it out.</div>
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By the time we were able to get the kids out of the water park, dressed and ready for dinner it was late. It was much later than I will admit to feeding my kids. But, in an odd twist, it was one of the most relaxing and enjoyable dinners I've had in a restaurant with my children. Lilly sat by Aiden and they talked, colored and ate as if they were in their own little world and possibly (as Courtney and I like to believe) on a date. Jack and Maddie were entertained for much longer than expected with coloring and eventually smart phones. Bryan and Grant were able to order more than one beer, and I even got dessert. Crazy dinner with four kids, I know.</div>
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On our way to dinner, Lilly spotted this bear by the lobby. She saw a mom taking pictures of her kids on the bears lap and insisted that we get some photos too...every time we passed the bear.</div>
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Confirming Courtney's and my belief that Lilly and Aiden were actually on a date. We have been taking pictures like this for years and we've already started working on the slide show for their wedding.</div>
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The next morning, after everyone slept in and we had breakfast, we decided to take advantage of the some of the other activities. Here the older two kids, with Bryan's help, did a magic quest. The kids (adults) purchased magic wands, read clues from a magic book, and then searched throughout the hotel for treasure and artifacts. Here Lilly and Aiden are getting their instructions for the quest. Ironically, the screen that gives the starting directions was the hardest for us to find. It was right outside the shop where the wands were sold.</div>
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Jack taking a turn with Lilly's wand.</div>
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Searching for another treasure.</div>
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Lilly and Aiden casting their spells to open the magic book.</div>
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Bryan, joyfully searching for the next clue. He loved the magic quest and wanted to do it again and again. </div>
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We happened upon a show int he lobby. In an ironic twist, these animatronic figures sang a song with the chorus, "There's nothing to be scared of here", except for the creepy animatronic figures, of course.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsnoypqnUGxjpZJs0tlRAWqVAm54wshJD7Z8nx4gobTgocRYBQpFJp9ibr8SudJSG7VrMVDWBgUcYQHwxM1ilA7m85snBIHH8fw67lkyFT27eh_fXp2EvUlz7DN9FQetOM3AII9AlmtEA/s1600/DSCN1701.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" pua="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsnoypqnUGxjpZJs0tlRAWqVAm54wshJD7Z8nx4gobTgocRYBQpFJp9ibr8SudJSG7VrMVDWBgUcYQHwxM1ilA7m85snBIHH8fw67lkyFT27eh_fXp2EvUlz7DN9FQetOM3AII9AlmtEA/s320/DSCN1701.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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Lilly and Jack getting into the show.</div>
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And, again on the bear.</div>
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If you are planning to do everything that Great Wolf has to offer, you are advised to buy a pass. Courtney and I decided on the Paw Pass for the older kids and the Pup Pass for Jack and Maddie. Along with several other things, the older two got to do the magic quest and the little ones got to make their very own t-shirt in the Pup Club. I ended up coloring most of Jack's shirt because the Pup Club had a little area with trucks that he chose to play with instead.</div>
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After the magic quest, t-shirt making, and creepy animatronic songs the kids, and parents, were all ready for more water park fun.</div>
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This time we left Grant in charge of Lilly and, as you can see, it was a good call because he is closely monitoring her and Aiden in the lazy river.</div>
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Bryan (not pictured here) was obviously in charge of Jack.</div>
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It took just the smallest bit of coaxing, but once we got Lilly and Aiden on the water slides, we couldn't get them to do anything else.</div>
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Racing slides!</div>
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Both Lilly and Aiden, again with some coaxing, eventually went on the biggest of the water slides too. And, just like the little ones, once they did it they wanted to go again and again.</div>
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Jack and Maddie, however, had no interest in slides, but found some water squirters and ways to have fun in each section.</div>
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Lilly, waiting for the giant 700 gallon bucket to dump and shower the entire park with water.</div>
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Lilly taking a direct hit from the giant bucket.</div>
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After the water park we got some baths, dry clothes and, of course, the wolf ears that came with every one's pass.</div>
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Each of the kids was also able to make a stuffed animal. Someone chose a dragon and a theme was born. Everyone made a dragon except Maddie, who made a raccoon.</div>
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After being stuffed Jack puts a magic star in his dragon to bring him to life.</div>
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Grant gets in on the action. Despite what his face says, he was actually having a really good time in his wolf ears.</div>
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In a rare and exciting moment, we were able to get a picture of all four kids, looking at the camera!</div>
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After making animals we went to the arcade to collect the tokens that each child was entitled to per their pass. At this point, we realized that the passes had become more of job, trying to make sure were got everything that we had paid for, and less of a fun way to save money.</div>
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At least Lilly carried her own dragon around the arcade for a while.</div>
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We were desperately trying to find ways for the kids to hurry and spend their tokens so we could eat dinner and get down to the lobby for story time, but they kept wanting to ride things that didn't even require that we put a token for a five year old to enjoy it.</div>
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So proud of my liberated woman. She hopped on a bike and said, "Aiden, let's race!"</div>
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Then, she proved that I have a lot of work to do because as soon as Aiden invited her to ride with him, she ditched her own bike and hopped on the back of his.</div>
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After a wild dinner of pizza in the room, we finally made it to story time and got the kids their "free" ice cream that came with the passes.</div>
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I have said it many times before and it never gets any less true....nothing attracts kids like an adult on the floor. Maddie and Jack opted for cuddles while they listened to the story. As you can see, Maddie may not be sure about sharing her daddy's lap.</div>
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Another thing that attracts children? A large furry mascot animal with a line waiting to have pictures taken with him. No one was interested in meeting the raccoon until a line formed, then it was all Aiden had ever wanted in his life.</div>
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And, of course, Maddie wanted to meet him too. Although, I'm pretty sure Maddie wanted to actually meet him, not because there was a line, but because she wanted to give him a hug.</div>
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It was a great weekend: A good plan, an equal driving distance for each of us, a lot of fun for the kids, pretty affordable for the adults, and a great way for our families to spend time together. At the end, we said our good byes and counted this weekend as a success and vowed to do it again...hopefully, it won't take seven years this time.</div>
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Last week at gymnastics was Super Star Show Off week. Bascially that means that parents, grandparents and friends are invited to watch and the class ends with each child recieving a medal after preforming one of their favorite skills for the audience.</div>
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For the regular class time Lilly showed off her skills on the bars.</div>
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Jack noticed Daddy watching from above and demonstrated a squat in perfect form.</div>
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Jack is still under three, so he has to do the Tiny Twinklers, or Mommy and Me, class. That means I have to help him on certain skills. Like the balance beam.</div>
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Waiting our turn for the bars.</div>
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One of Jack's favorite things, and something that he can normally do on his own: He puts both feet on the rope, holds onto the bar and swings.</div>
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Cartwheel! Lilly has been working hard on this one!</div>
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A brief break to wave at Daddy. Bryan went back and forth watching each of the kids and taking pictures. After Lilly relized he was there she looked for him, expected him to watch her without interuption and waved every time he came back to her area.</div>
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Lilly getting her medal.</div>
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Jack getting his medal. He loved it, was so proud, and couldn't be bothered to look up for a picture.</div>
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Super Stars!!</div>
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Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-44120447971129311172013-05-03T16:12:00.000-04:002013-05-03T16:33:50.181-04:00Lilly's The Fifth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
If you are four years old, the thing you look forward to the most is turning five. Lilly has been thinking about, talking about and looking forward to her fifth birthday for months and she had all sorts of plans as to how we should celebrate this monumental occasion.</div>
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Of course, like every other little girl turning five, Lilly wanted to celebrate in style...with a morel mushroom themed birthday party at her papaw's primitive hunting cabin an hour southwest of here. Um...OK...not what Bryan and I had anticipated, but oh well.</div>
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We planned the outing that Lilly had asked for, but hosted a small family dinner at our house the night before so she could open gifts. Everybody, well Jack and Samantha anyway, wanted to help open those gifts.</div>
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It's funny how things work out... The night before I picked up a good friend to go to dinner. She got into my car after loading a bag of hand me down dresses into the back and I ignored them and figrued I'd go through them later. The next evening when Lilly got up from her rest she came out of her room dressed as a goth princess. She had on faded black leggings, a black turtle neck and a black frilly skirt. The last thing I wanted was pictures of my sweet baby girl turning five dressed as if she was going to a Marilyn Manson concert. Enter the bag o' dresses. None of them had been washed or pressed, but I convinced Lilly that she could go through the bag and pick out which ever one she wanted, as long as she ditched the goth garb. She agreed...and then put this dress on backwards so she could see the bow too.</div>
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Since it was already stacking up to be a non traditional fifth birthday, I made Lilly her favorite pie for dessert and saved the cake for tomorrow at the cabin.</div>
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Jack, who doesn't care for pie, insisted on a treat from his Easter basket.</div>
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The next morning we ghetto packed the car and headed to the cabin. We didn't find a single mushroom as it was way too early in the season, but we had a great time anyway. Quite a few family members made the trip to celebrate Lilly's birthday and just enjoy the first nice day in months. We hunted, hiked and just stood around and ogled babies...Essek and Luke were quite the popular guys.</div>
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Lilly got a ride from Papaw after a walk in the woods.</div>
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Bryan got a compound bow for Christmas and this was the first time that he was really able to try it out. When he went to the sporting goods store to get arrows and accessories he thought the salesman was just trying to earn a higher commission when he suggested a $10 wrist guard. He wasn't. Bryan shot the bow once, hit the bull's eye, and developed a small bruise on the inside of his wrist. Much the the amusement of the other young men, the small bruise quickly turned into a huge welt surrounded by black, purple and blue skin. Needless to say, Bryan went back and bought the wrist guard that would protect him from the bow string.</div>
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Lilly asked for a mushroom cake and after quite a bit of thought, this was the best I could come up with. It's a jelly roll cake made to look like a dead elm tree with rice krispie 'mushrooms' growing all around it. How sad that these were the only mushrooms we had that day.</div>
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After Lilly opened a toy Stihl chainsaw Jack decided that he should get in on the action too.</div>
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Jack's favorite part of the cabin? Big surprise...it's the sandy soil. The kid loves a sandbox.</div>
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Papaw is quickly running out of arms.</div>
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After some playing in the dirt we got out a pinata and taught the children that if you hit something hard enough with a stick, candy will fly out.</div>
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Yep, even the little ones.</div>
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Sunday was Lilly's actual birthday and in a rare lack of planning we didn't have anything to do. So, we packed a picnic lunch and took it to the park.</div>
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And, played in some more dirt.</div>
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On the playground.</div>
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Some rocks.</div>
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We also rode bikes. By 'we', I mean that Lilly rode her bike and Bryan carried Jack's bike.</div>
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Climbed on giant stumps.</div>
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After engaging in all of the fun that the park had to offer we came home for some much needed rest and then walked to the restaurant across the street for dinner, and a giant ice cream topped cookie.</div>
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On the way home from dinner Lilly declared that it had been the best birthday ever. And, then she reminded us that we failed to play Pin The Tail On The Donkey at the cabin (the only thing that she actually requested to do). So, while Bryan bathed the kids I set up the game.</div>
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Happy 5th Birthday, Lilly! I can't wait to see what this year holds in store for you!Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-1153208205640507262013-04-11T17:13:00.001-04:002013-04-11T17:13:15.913-04:00Disney Dad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
As most of you know, Bryan took a new job at the beginning of this year. He was offered a better position at a better bank and, so far, it has been a positive change for everyone involved. Well, except for the first month or so. The company, Centier Bank (check it and Bryan out at <a href="http://www.bryantraylor.com/">www.bryantraylor.com</a>) is based out of Merrillville Indiana and Bryan spent most of February and some of early March out of town for training, interviews and hiring. </div>
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The kids and I stuck to our normal schedule and aside from less laundry barely noticed that he was gone. Just kidding, we spent most of our time crying and pining for him. One aspect of Bryan being gone from Monday to Friday every week was that he was eager to spend as much fun time with the kids as possible while he was home. This lead him to take on the roll of a "Disney Dad" You know, the term that describes a dad that only sees his kids on the weekends so he does whatever the kids want. Yep, that was Bryan. I was exhausted and just wanted to stay home and rest up for the following week, but it didn't take much arm twisting to get me to ditch my chores and head to the Children's Museum and the Indianapolis Zoo.</div>
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Bryan and Jack at the dinosaur dig.</div>
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I think the museum requires that children wear the safety goggles just because they are so cute.</div>
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Well, cute and disfiguring.</div>
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There's always a dad, probably another Disney Dad, that just can't stay out of the dig. </div>
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Lilly hatching her dino eggs. It was the stillest that she sat all week.</div>
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What's more fun than dinosaurs?</div>
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Not sure if she's protecting the eggs or doing some sort of a rain dance.</div>
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Trains...that's something that's better than dinosaurs, at least for Jack. He cried when we finally left the train area.</div>
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Ticket saleswoman. She sold me a train ticket to London...London Kentucky, I assume.</div>
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Pretending to be geckos with sticky fingers.</div>
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And, Hot Wheels, those are better than dinosaurs and trains. Yes, another exhibit that ended with Jack crying.</div>
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So much joy to be had in a giant room filled with toy cars!</div>
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I had just informed Lilly that this was the exact room that housed the Barbie exhibit. It took only a few moments for her to grasp the meaning of that. No Barbie exhibit. </div>
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Disney Dad, aka body guard, made sure no one took Jack's car or ramp.</div>
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Excavating. Yeah, excavating is better than dinosaurs too.</div>
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Lilly is my child. She, along with a couple other little girls, spent her time at the construction site collecting stray 'rocks' and depositing them neatly into an empty hole.</div>
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Then, Jack helped many of the other kids redistribute the rocks to the floor.</div>
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At the tree house on the next floor Jack made a friend. We still have no idea who was inside the tree house, but whoever it was kept Jack entertained for a long time by poking the puppet's head out of a hole and then disappearing as soon as Jack reaching in for him.</div>
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The chicken freaked him out a little and definitely wasn't better than the dinosaurs.</div>
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"Lilly, get off your ass!"</div>
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Playing dress up in the Egypt exhibit made up for the lack of Barbie.</div>
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Riding a giant Nile crocodile. Brave girl. Jack has the baby crocodile and has since pretended to be a baby crocodile several times. I can only assume that he is much more cuddly and cute than an actual baby crocodile.</div>
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Jack had to stand on the crocodile too. I think they were locking the doors at closing time as we were leaving this exhibit.</div>
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Before we left that house Bryan asked the kids if they wanted to go to the zoo. "Yes!" Lilly said and then rattled off a laundry list of the things she wanted to see and do. Jack's response, "Me ride the train? Yes."</div>
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Of course the zoo has a carousel too. Had to ride that. I hate carousels, when I take the kids to these places without Bryan I strategically avoid the area with the carousel. Glad everyone got to ride this time.</div>
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A very special thanks to Daddy for all of the fun during 'Disney Dad February' and a great big thanks to the grandparents who made both of these locations absolutely free for us. Every year for Lilly's and my birthday we get a Zoo membership from my mom and dad and a Children's Museum membership from Bryan's parents.</div>
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To avoid the heavy snows and biting cold of an Indiana February the Traylor family escaped to Key West again this year. Obviously, when we planned the trip we didn't realize that it would be 45 degrees the day we left, or that we were going to get several inches of snow at the end of March. </div>
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Oh well, Key West, as usual, was wonderful.</div>
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We swam everyday.</div>
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In fact, we had only been there about five minutes before both kids 'put their feet in'. By that I mean that they put their feet in before submerging most of their bodies with their clothes on.</div>
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It just wouldn't be a complete Key West trip without bicycles.</div>
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First night out, exploring the wharf and watching the pelicans who are watching the fisherman clean the day's catch.</div>
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A much easier boat to pose by than the ones tied up near by.</div>
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After dinner and heading home.</div>
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Surprisingly, Jack loved his 'bike hat' and wore it even when he wasn't on his bike.</div>
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Bryan used some points that he earned at work to treat everyone to a glass bottom boat ride. We've checked that off our list and probably won't ever do it again. It was fun and and the kids enjoyed riding on the boat and looking at the reef through the bottom, but the adults didn't enjoy the blazing sun, and gentle rocking of the boat. Pretty much everywhere you turned someone was puking into a baggie that they conveniently handed out near the concession stand.</div>
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After every one's stomach calmed down from the boat ride Bryan took us to a secret park.</div>
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Not at all the nicest place in Key West, but actually about two doors down from Jimmy Buffet's house. He came over and sang to us while we played.</div>
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Finally! A beach day.</div>
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Lilly chased birds and picked up shells.</div>
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Jack played monster trucks.</div>
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Vacation is hard.</div>
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Waiting for a table at our favorite KW restaurant, Blue Heaven. Papaw and Jack used this opportunity to play on the train.</div>
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It was not only the best meal of the trip, but also got the best behavior out of the little people.</div>
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The next day we broke off into groups. The boys rode the Conch Train and toured the island.</div>
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It was, pretty much, Jack's favorite part of the trip and he asked to do it every day after.</div>
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The girls went to the parrot sanctuary and then Grandma took Lilly home and I made my way to a spa. </div>
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Of course, we fit in more swimming before dinner.</div>
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Mallory Square is a must do, at least once, during every visit. Not only is it the place to watch the sun set, but there are street performers, hand made souvenirs, and great people watching. Lilly and Jack were most interested in the young woman with the Rat Circus and spent most of their time waiting for her to start the show.</div>
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Jack started to lose interest in waiting.</div>
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But, finally the show started. It was amazing and disturbing all at once. The ringleader of the circus explained that she got her start when she received a rat to train in a college psychology class, pointing out that maybe it doesn't always pay to send your kids to college.</div>
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Happy to be home.</div>
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Butterfly Conservatory, of course.</div>
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It's a popular place for people of all ages.</div>
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You are not allowed to touch the butterflies, something we had to remind Lilly and Jack several times.</div>
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But, Jack figured out pretty quick that you can still blow on them and they will fly away.</div>
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Lilly working very hard to keep her hands to herself.</div>
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My little butterflies.</div>
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A walk down the pier before lunch. It was very windy and I believe that if Bryan let go of Jack's hand he might actually fly away. Jack, not Bryan.</div>
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The kids found some sand while we waited for a table.</div>
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I mentioned it was windy, right? Sand in the eye.</div>
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Nothing a little swimming won't fix.</div>
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Yes, actually swimming. Lilly figured it out about halfway through our trip and we couldn't keep her out of the water after that. She was swimming the length of the pool, stopping for breath along the way, and even diving for shells on the lowest stair.</div>
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We spent that night at home and Papaw and Lilly entertained the rest of us with a rock and roll show. Papaw on guitar.</div>
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Lilly singing and dancing.</div>
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Before bed cuddles.</div>
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The true miracle of the trip was when we realized that Jack Traylor would eat almost an entire apple. This is pretty amazing for a guy who only likes pizza, chicken nuggets and chips.</div>
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Lazy day by the pool.</div>
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Maybe too laid back and lazy, the children evidently became bored and tried to escape.</div>
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Napping: She's doing it wrong.</div>
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Later that night we went to the Turtle Races.</div>
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Lilly's turtle won and she as given a key and a chance to open a treasure chest for a prize. Her key, unfortunately, didn't work. </div>
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Papaw and Lilly tormenting the stature of Key West's most famous fisherman.</div>
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My car has been a hot topic in the Traylor house for quite some time. It seems like I was constantly reporting some clank or rattle to Bryan and then one day, in the Costco parking lot, it just wouldn't start. We took it to the shop and had it evaluated. While my poor Trailblazer spent the night at the hospital, Bryan and I made some tough decisions at home. (Tougher for him than for me). Later that week we spent almost an entire day looking at, pricing, and finally test driving Chevy Acadias. After the test drive we settled on a Yukon and I drove it home that night.</div>
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This left us with quite the dilemma: Two licenced drivers, three cars. </div>
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Meanwhile in Alabama Bryan's sister and her family were experiencing a dilemma of their own: Four licenced drivers, three cars.</div>
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I think you can see the solution: A car shuffle, in Nashville.</div>
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The Nashville Shuffle.</div>
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Bryan kept my Trailblazer and sold his Hyundai to his sister. The only problem now was how to get his car to Alabama and him home again. After some googling and mapquesting we realized that drive time to Nashville Tennessee has a difference of about 45 minutes for the Alabama Maynards, the Kentucky Traylors and us, the Indiana Traylors. Bryan's parents had no interest at all in who drives which car, but the pull of all four grandchildren in one place at one time was just too much. So, we made a little family vacation of it. </div>
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We stayed the weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. If you've ever been there I don't need to say more...if you haven't then there's no way I could describe it. All, but four of these pictures were taken inside the hotel.</div>
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Morgan shows off her beautiful smile...Jack shows off his mean eyes.</div>
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I left Morgan in charge of my bag and camera and came back to about 15 self portraits. I considered posting the worst one, but was disappointed when none of them were bad.</div>
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Guess there's no need for photo shop when you are 16 and gorgeous.</div>
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Jack and the lion head fountain. According to the map of the hotel the lion head is 15 feet tall and made of solid gold. If you look closely you can kind of see it.</div>
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Aunt Cammie was showing Jack and Lilly something, but Lilly just couldn't resist posing for the camera.</div>
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One of the three thousand waterfalls that Lilly wanted to have her picture taken in front of.</div>
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Matthew shows off his mean eyes.</div>
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I have no idea what these two are talking about, but I'm pretty sure someone is getting an earful.</div>
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The hotel was huge and the stroller didn't offer the greatest view, so Jack was content to spend much of his time atop his Uncle Ed.</div>
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The last time that we stopped in Nashville on our way to Alabama we bought the kids each a pair of cowboy boots. Obviously, we brought them on this trip. I tried to get a picture of Lilly and Jack in their boots, but as you can see, Jack can run a lot faster than you would think in cowboy boots.</div>
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Just relaxing and watching some cartoons after a busy day.</div>
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Matthew learning some specifics about Thomas the Train at breakfast.</div>
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It wasn't an easy task, and this is one of about 20 pictures, but we managed to get a picture of all four grandkids together. Yes Grandma, we'll send you a copy.</div>
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Ballet by the fountain.</div>
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Just taking a little walk with the Daddy Guy.</div>
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It may surprise you to learn that there are so many bridges in the Opryland Hotel, but when you have a real river running through your establishment a bridge or two becomes necessary.</div>
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After the Maynards left the Traylors all took a trolley tour around the city of Nashville.</div>
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This is one of the trolley stops, Nashville's capitol, made to mimic our nation's capitol building in Washington DC.</div>
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Jack slept through most of the tour, but wanted to get out and have his picture taken in the grass too.</div>
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Later, in downtown Nashville we came across the King. Lilly was less than impressed with him.</div>
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She was, however, ecstatic to see a huge replica of her own red cowboy boots and insisted that we take a picture of her with it.</div>
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We can't be sure because no one kept an accurate count, but we think that Jo allowed my children to throw about $20,000 worth of pocket change into the fountains around the hotel.</div>
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Last night, just hanging out with a couple of country music donkeys.</div>
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Bye donkeys, bye Nashville.</div>
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I had decided that, instead of doing a bunch of small blogs to tell you all about each and every fun thing that we did to prepare for Christmas, I would do one big blog that encompassed all of December. I never planned on waiting until the last day in February to do it, but plans change.</div>
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After Thanksgiving my family, as is the tradition, went to our cabin in Rockville IN to hang out by the fire, ride four wheelers, and play in the woods. However, it was freezing cold and really windy that weekend, so the kids and I, along with almost everyone else besides Bryan and my dad bowed out. So, my mom and I took the kids to dinner and to downtown Zionsville to see Santa ride into town on a horse drawn carriage and light the town Christmas tree. You wouldn't believe how cold it was. Grandma ended up in the car and even Lilly asked when Santa was going to stop talked and light the tree. Jack never moved. I think he was afraid that any shift in his blanket might let in the cold air. Finally, after a few carols and a weird speech about Santa and Jesus being friends, Santa lite the tree and we evacuated to the warm car.</div>
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The following weekend the Traylors spent the day at Dull's Christmas Tree Farm looking for just the right tree...and enjoying all of the other things that Dull's has to offer.</div>
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Mazes in the hay.</div>
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Slides.</div>
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Porch Swings.</div>
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Bigger slides.</div>
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Group slides.</div>
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Hide and seek in the trees. This actually wasn't a planned game, but I left Bryan in charge to go to the bathroom and when I came back he was in the middle of a lively game of hide and seek...or more accurately a game of hide and "come out right now or we're going home!"</div>
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Photo ops in giant gifts.</div>
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And finally, the choosing of the Traylor Family Christmas Tree. </div>
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Riding on the horse drawn wagon. Everyone got really sleepy towards the end of the ride.</div>
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The waiting is the hardest part. Daddy waited in the line to have the tree shaken and bag while the kids and I waited on a log.</div>
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A couple of days later I abandoned my family to go Christmas shopping while Bryan and the kids put the tree up and decorated it.</div>
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Well, Lilly and Bryan decorated the tree...Jack mostly just played in the mess.</div>
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After a little break from Christmas it was time for Lilly's Christmas program at school. It was less of a program and more of a sing a long and it was a lot of fun. The kids sang one or two songs in front of everyone and then joined their parents and grandparents on the floor to sing some carols together.</div>
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Daddy had an important meeting at work, but Grandma and Papaw came to sing for Lilly.</div>
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The day of the Christmas program was actually the first day of snow. And boy, was there a lot of it. After the program we went to Grandma and Papaws to play in the snow and make some buckeyes. I can't be sure, but I think Lilly is being followed.</div>
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The excitement of the day wasn't over. Later that same night Santa was scheduled to come through the neighborhood on a firetruck. We waited and waited and finally....</div>
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we heard them coming. Instead of sirens the fire truck was blaring Christmas music and Santa was waving from the top.</div>
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I cannot even begin to describe the excitement that Jack experienced, having seen Santa in the flesh...and more importantly a fire truck. Only later would we realize the confusion that ensue from this episode. When we would talk about Santa, or see pictures of him on a sleigh, Jack would become almost violent in his insistence that Santa would come, on Christmas night, on a fire truck. He also assumed that Santa lived at the fire station and that every fire truck was, in fact, Santa running errands.</div>
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Leaving out some home made cookies, carrots, and milk for Santa.</div>
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The mayhem.</div>
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Playing with the trains that were in the toy box.</div>
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The next day Jack wasn't quite sure what to do or what to play with.</div>
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Playing outside to try and relieve the Christmas hangover.</div>
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After Lilly was born Bryan and I, obviously, started paying more attention the family friendly attractions around Indy. Attending the circus was pretty high on our list from the start, but it seemed like every year something stood in our way. The first year that Lilly was old enough, Jack was way too young, only a few weeks old. The next year I was only two or three days out of foot surgery. But, this year we had no excuse. Months ago we chose our day, bought our tickets and planned a whole day around the circus. We schedule meals, naps and Bryan's work around getting an early start and taking advantage of everything that the Ringling Brothers had to offer. Our tickets entitled us, not only a seat for the show, but also an up close view of the animals, performers and a slew of activities before.</div>
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To say that I was excited would be an understatement. I was not at all disappointed. It was one of our best nights out as a family. Things could not have gone better. Everything went according to plan, the kids were on their best behavior and the show was spectacular!</div>
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Earlier in the day I asked my friends who are familiar with downtown to recommend a place to eat. We got several awesome suggestions and decided on The Old Spaghetti Factory. We arrived about a minute and a half before they opened, and due to Jack's obvious excitement over the railroad caboose, we were ushered almost immediately inside of it to find a table.</div>
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You can't tell, but our table is inside the train car. The kids loved it.</div>
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Dinner was great and included ice cream. We were on a roll!</div>
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After dinner we walked about a block to the Feildhouse where the circus was. We waited briefly for them to open the gates and then quickly found our seats and headed to the floor for the pre circus shows. It was almost as if Lilly's eyes weren't big enough to take it all in. She clung to my hand and stared, mouth agape, around her, trying to take it all in. Some nice folks shifted a little to give her a front row seat to the warrior demonstration and she refused to budge when they asked for volunteers.</div>
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Later, though, when the clowns invited kids to come and join the conga line she leaped up and joined the dancers heading toward the limbo stick.</div>
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After that we made our way to another circle to watch the elephant paint. Jack couldn't take his eyes off the elephant and eventually earned himself a new stuffed toy when we went to the souvenir stand and he blurted out, "el-phant! pease!".</div>
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Lilly couldn't be torn away from the action long enough, even, for a family photo.</div>
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A five minute buzzer sounded and we made our way to our seats to wait for the show to start. This year's theme was 'The Spirit of the Dragon', prompting Lilly to chose a dragon from the circus store.</div>
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After an all cast performance the horses took center stage and Lilly declared that this was her favorite act of all, and then did the same for every act after this.</div>
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Then, the lion tamer...who Bryan and I worried might actually be eaten. Lilly was sitting with Bryan and when I asked if he was ready to shield her eyes if things went bad it was obvious that he was a step ahead of me. </div>
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Both kids watched the entire first half without moving or blinking. By the intermission we were ready for some snacks and a potty break, and Jack finished an entire tub of popcorn by himself during the second half without ever looking at what he was eating.</div>
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Then, came his favorite part, the elephants.</div>
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The ladies next to us got this with their cotton candy. None of them seemed inclined to wear a clown mask so they gave it to the kids.</div>
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Finally, the fire breathing dragon makes his appearance! And then, the show was over.</div>
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Our evening started at about 4:00pm when we left the house. We ate dinner, walked downtown, and made it to the circus around 6:00. The show started at 7:00 and wasn't over until well after 9:30pm. We got in the car and headed home at about 10pm. Did our kids fall asleep in the car after such and exciting and eventful evening? No sir, they both talked all the way home about the circus! This event was worth the wait and is most definitely on our list for next year!</div>
Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-50959693484701069912012-12-04T15:57:00.000-05:002012-12-04T16:01:28.571-05:00Diggers and Hoes: Jack Turns 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 Jack turned two. We planned a big party with construction themed decorations, a construction site cake and all of Jack's friends and family. </div>
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But, on Thursday, November 8, 2012, the four of us celebrated Jack's birthday just the four of us with a small celebration that included a a carry out pizza, a cheap and surprisingly disgusting cake from Target, a gift and a late bed time.</div>
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Lion cake...that both kids ate, but Bryan and I couldn't quite stomach.</div>
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Blowing out two candles.</div>
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Getting a little practice opening gifts.</div>
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Jack loved his race track, but instead of racing the cars he just liked pushing them around the track.</div>
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Now seems like a good time to mention Jack's best birthday gift: A baby cousin.</div>
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All day on Thursday I was watching my phone and getting updates from my aunt and cousin, who spent the whole day at the hospital, waiting on a baby. And boy! Was he worth the wait!</div>
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Essek Blaine Muckey was born late Thursday night and welcomed with love by his proud parents, Brecquelyn and Evertt. </div>
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We broke ground on Saturday with a construction themed second birthday party for Jack.</div>
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His cake, made by a local baker, was better than I could have imagined! I was so excited for Jack to see it, and not at all surprised when all he wanted was the 'hoe' aka backhoe off of the top.</div>
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Serving the food was a big job and required a lot of heavy equipment.</div>
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Lilly was probably more excited than anyone about Jack's party not to mention the project manager in charge of decorations.</div>
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The weather, unseasonably warm for November, combined with our good friends, who loaned us their bounce house, kept 16 kids busy and having fun outside. And, this, was my favorite gift.</div>
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The birthday boy enjoying his party. Yes, this is his happy face.</div>
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Because what is a construction themed party without a cowboy hat?</div>
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Dylan, who practiced all week in anticipation lead that crowd in 'Happy Birthday'.</div>
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And then, Jack blew out his candles.</div>
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Howdy folks. </div>
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Jack loves diggers (skid loaders) and backhoes (hoes) right now, but his insistence that he wear his cowboy hat everywhere leads me to believe that this would have also been a suitable party theme.</div>
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Cousin Samantha helping to open the gifts.</div>
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Choo choos!</div>
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Jack waiting patiently for the gifts to be opened. He wasn't really into opening them himself, but was sure excited to see what was inside.</div>
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Woo hoo! Something with wheels!</div>
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Thomas stuff! Lucky boy!</div>
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And of course, no construction birthday is complete without a couple diggers and hoes.</div>
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Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Jack's birthday. He had a great time on Saturday and I think he knew it was his special day.</div>
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And, as always, a special thanks to Tania for capturing all of the special moments on camera.</div>
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Every year, as the kids get older, holidays become more and more fun. But, also more frustrating. In the past I have enjoyed choosing a costume and dressing my kids up as whatever I wanted for Halloween, even last year Lilly and I were able to agree on a costume that was cute, warm and easy for me to make. So, this year I presented her with a great idea: Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf.</div>
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No Deal.</div>
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She turned that idea down immediately and wouldn't even discuss it. I tried to convince her by showing her pictures of elaborate costumes with beautiful red velvet capes, fluffy white tu tu dresses and adorable picnic baskets. She still wasn't buying it, but during one of these sessions, as I was trying to persuade her, once again, to be Red, Lilly saw a peacock costume. As this was a vast improvement over the many store bought character costumes that she had previously picked out, I outlined a binding agreement, we both signed it in blood and went searching for peacock feathers.</div>
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As it would turn out, Lilly was right all along...rather than being talked into a costume that she didn't want, she waited for the right costume to find her. And, in the process, Jack was spared the indignity of being dressed in a wolf suit, and instead got a new tool belt and hard hat, that he still wears almost daily.</div>
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The construction worker was pretty easy, Jack already had most of the things that he needed to complete the costume, flannel shirt, jeans, work boots, etc. All he needed were the accessories. Lilly's peacock, on the other hand, was a different story...peacock feathers aren't cheap, I had to buy a glue gun, and the building of the actual costume really were nothing compared to finding a plain, unprinted shirt in the exact right shade to match the feathers. But anyway...all of these things combined to motivate me to make it possible for Lilly to wear her costume at every available Halloween event.</div>
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We started with an invitation only special event at the Children's Museum hosted by my cousin Everett's company. The kids got to wear their costumes, tour the haunted house during 'lights on' hours, eat dinner, and participate in other activities and crafts.</div>
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Jack got his face painted for the first time. And, this shouldn't come as a shock, but during the painting Jack sat, stone faced and never moved. Then, touched his face and said "Spider? Spider?"</div>
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Lilly, of course, refused the artist's offer to paint her face with beautiful peacock feathers, and instead asked politely for a zebra face.</div>
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At the end of a fun and eventful night we tried to get a picture of the kids together in their costumes. This was the best that we got.</div>
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Close up of the zebra faced peacock.</div>
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Next on our calendar was the annual Boone Village Halloween Party and Costume Contest. As always, Bryan and I learn from our mistakes, and this time we took our group picture at the very beginning of the evening. Much better.</div>
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Lilly won first place in the costume contest for her age group and her smile when she got her trophy made it worth the effort.</div>
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It should be noted that the trophy was actually a lamp and has become something like the leg lamp from 'A Christmas Story'. Lilly took to using the prestigious award as a night light, and whenever I would walk into her room I would shut the light off. Whenever she walks out, she turns it on.</div>
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The night before Halloween we remembered that we hadn't carved pumpkins yet and got right on it. It's messy work, and given my aversion to unnecessary messes, pumpkin carving always falls into Bryan's ball park...recording this event through photography and clean up usually fall to me.</div>
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Lilly was a great helper and made sure to instruct Jack in the finer points of goop removal.</div>
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Under close supervision Jack removes some goop of his own.</div>
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Daddy carves the face that Lilly drew, taking a little bit of creative license.</div>
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After refusing to eat the labor intensive dinner that I prepared for them, both kids tried and ate some of the raw pumpkin rind. Not one of my happier moments.</div>
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The newly decorated porch.</div>
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Pumpkins all alight. The outstanding, clever and artistic pumpkin that Jack and I carved is on the left. The other one is Bryan and Lilly's.</div>
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Lilly requested a purple Halloween shirt with sparkles to wear to school. Target and I delivered.</div>
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Later that night, after seemingly hours of waiting and a severe drop in temperature, it was finally time to trick or treat. Jack, still unsure about what exactly was going to happen, Jack chose to ride in the wagon.</div>
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Lilly (impatiently) waited for him to get out of the wagon and follow her up the neighbor's driveway.</div>
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Eventually, she decided that dragging him was going to be the quickest way to get Jack to the door.</div>
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Finally, at the door. </div>
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After Jack was given candy at Miss Eileen's house (above) he wouldn't get back into the wagon and no longer required dragging.</div>
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Towards the end of the night Jack left his bucket in the wagon, but was unwilling to give up the hammer. I don't think he'll require any coaching next year.</div>
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When we got back from our trip to Michigan we didn't have time to rest...it was off to school for Lilly. She is attending a three day a week preschool at the Ginger Bread House this year. </div>
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This was Lilly's first day, but most of her classmates started the week prior, due to our trip. We got there a little early to take some pictures, but Lilly got pretty excited when cars started pulling into the parking lot. I had also promised to paint Lilly's toenails for her first day of school and what color did she choose? Well, black, of course.<br />
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Lilly was ready for school to start and thrilled to see her friends from last year. She even walked hand in hand with a couple of them down the hall and into her classroom.<br />
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As you may have heard Lilly played Fall Soccer this year with the Zionsville Youth Soccer Association. And, when I say she played, I mean, of course, that she was on a team and received a shirt. I also mean that we went out and bought her the required soccer equipment. This does not, however, mean that Lilly played any real, actual soccer. She did, however, pretend to be a kitty, run with her eyes closed, twirl, pick flowers and, in an particularly exciting moment, she discovered a mushroom growing on the soccer field.</div>
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Bryan coached, Lilly met some new friends and we learned that her interests tend to lean more towards gymnastics and art. So, soccer wasn't so bad, after all.</div>
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Lilly's team was the Pink Panthers. Each team got to pick it's own name and at first the five girls wanted to call themselves the Pink Panda Unicorns, but Bryan and Coach Day persuaded them to just go with one animal.</div>
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Lilly, super excited about her first game.</div>
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Warm ups with Coach Day. Lilly and Alana, the other coach's daughter, were probably the least interested on the team. Mostly, they were just interested in the snack at the end.</div>
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Waiting for the kick off.</div>
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Lilly's throw in. This may be the only time that she actually touched the ball during a game.</div>
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I believe her eyes are closed in this picture.</div>
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Picture day. Lilly was beyond upset that she had to have her picture taken with a borrowed ball because Mommy accidentally left hers in the car.</div>
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Team photo. From left: Lilly, Coach Daddy, Alana, Cassie, Natalie, Julia, and Coach Day.</div>
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Thanks for a fun season guys! We probably won't see you next year. But, if Lilly decides in a couple of years that she'd like to try again...well...we'll be game. Although, I don't know if Coach Daddy will be.</div>
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Just after Labor Day we took a family vacation with my parents and my brother's family. In a surprising twist, instead of heading south to Key West we went north to South Haven Michigan. It was great. A three hour drive brought us to a quaint little house, tucked away near the end of a wooded drive and backing right up to the beach.</div>
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Well, not <em>right</em> up to the beach. There were 83 steps leading through the woods and down to the beach. Not really a problem until you consider that everything that went down had to come back up, and two of the people in our group had to be carried.</div>
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The 'sashaying' of Lake Michigan left perfect little pools for the kids to play in. Our first afternoon on the beach and we didn't plan very well. We remembered to bring some toys down the steps, but not bathing suits. So...all three kids went back up the 83 steps in their underwear or diapers with their wet sandy clothes in the pink bucket.</div>
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While the parents gave the kids an early bath, Grandma and Papaw went for pizza while Uncle Wes/Daddy read stories to Jack and Samantha.</div>
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The next morning was kind of chilly so we adjusted our plans accordingly. A group was elected to go to the grocery store, we settled into our house, and the kids all took an early nap.</div>
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The adults eagerly await the end of nap time so our first official beach day could start. It was worth the wait. Lilly wrote her name in the sand. Wes dug a trench. Samantha and Jack played and the rest of us mostly just watched.</div>
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Lilly did a little wave jumping.</div>
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And, built a starfish out of sand.</div>
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She was also able to get Papaw to go for a walk.</div>
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Jack dug in the dirt and decided that Uncle Wes was his personal hero. He followed him most of the afternoon and mimicked many of the things that he did. In this picture Jack is refining the ditch that Wes dug.</div>
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The next morning we headed to a park, but not before everyone demanded a little attention from Papaw. Papaw's going to need another arm and a bigger lap.</div>
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Pretty girl.</div>
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A rare smile from Jack. Jack seemed to develop a little more personality this week. He laughed, smiled, picked on Samantha...got picked on by Samantha...and even perfected his lion roar. He did this so often during nap time that we actually had to move Lilly to another room because she would legitimately try to go to sleep and Jack would loudly roar at her for almost an hour.</div>
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We did something fun every morning and then came back home for naps before hitting the beach for the afternoon. Bryan wasn't able to come for the whole week because of work. He came a couple of days late and left a day early, so he was pretty popular while he was here.</div>
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Here Wes and Samantha make the trip up the 83 steps for the evening. We was a little bit more worn out from this climb than Samantha.</div>
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We woke up the next morning to clouds and rain so we went to an interactive children's museum in the next town over where we all rode the carousel.</div>
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I don't even know how to describe this thing...it was one of those pin art things that is normally about the size of your hand, only this one was huge. After everyone had a turn making faces and hand prints, Bryan and Lilly got really creative.</div>
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Later that afternoon it was still a little chilly for the beach so we had to find something else to do. After naps, of course. Lilly patiently waited for Jack and Samantha to wake up.</div>
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When the little ones finally woke up, Lilly led us all on a walk.</div>
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Followed by dinner, baths, and stories from Papaw.</div>
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The next day was a park day, followed by a trip to town with shopping, dinner, and some sitting on rocks.</div>
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Wes, Kristy and Samantha left the following morning and the rest of us went to a you-pick berry farm.</div>
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We went a little overboard and picked way more berries than we needed. I made an apple/berry crisp that night, Bryan took a container with him and ate it on the way home that afternoon, and I still had enough left for two blackberry cream pies and assorted blackberry snacks for about a week.</div>
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Lilly loved running on the beach. She ran everywhere, back and forth just out of the reach of the waves...until she fell. You'll notice a costume change in later pictures.</div>
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Big trucks in a big sandbox.</div>
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Wave running.</div>
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And, wave standing.</div>
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Wave jumping.</div>
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And, not jumping.</div>
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Um, Grandma...I think you're being watched.</div>
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The girls.</div>
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The view from our deck on the last day. Can't wait to go to Michigan again!</div>
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Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-63992158636295727122012-09-03T11:04:00.002-04:002012-09-03T11:04:45.996-04:00The Greatest Weekend Ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
For a weekend with no plans this one sure filled up fast, and it was a blast. All weekend, every second was filled with something fun. </div>
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The kids and I started our weekend off with a swim date at Lucy's house on Friday morning.</div>
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On Friday night, Bryan took the kids to the Framptons' to play while Tania and I had a play date of our own at a sushi restaurant.</div>
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The kids and dads played dress up, bounced in the bounce house and rounded out the night with some cuddles and a movie.</div>
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On Saturday morning I almost became emotional when Bryan announced that he'd like to take the kids to the zoo before it rained. I used this time to get a pedicure and run some errands...alone. (smile).<br />
It was explained to Lilly that she would have to be a very good girl at the zoo and cooperate with Daddy or they would leave. Clearly, she took this threat to heart.<br />
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The imminent rains kept the crowds away and Bryan, Lilly, and Jack pretty much had the zoo to themselves.<br />
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On Saturday night we had planned to have a cookout for Bryan's birthday, but with an all day downpour on the forecast we decided to move our party to Snapperz in Carmel. What a great time, and a great deal. Adults are free, kids are cheap and the food is not overpriced.<br />
Bryan, Jack and Dylan at the top of the play scape. Peyton on TV. Did I mention this place was perfect...they even had football on the big screens. If they served beer Bryan would want to take the kids every night.<br />
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Jack in the bounce area for toddlers. He really liked it until others came to bounce too.</div>
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By now you have probably noticed that there aren't any pictures of the big kids, Lilly, Avery and Georgie, at Snapperz. It's not that we don't love them, it's just that the only time we really saw them was when the food came.<br />
In celebration of such a wonderful time each of the kids, except Baby John, got a frosting covered rice crispy treat. Jack's was shaped like a big truck and he ate it like a little mouse, nibbling on the corners and the tires. It gave him and awesome goatee.<br />
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Then, he worked on it a little more in the car.<br />
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After a lazy Sunday morning we decided to go for haircuts. Please see the previous blog. When naps were over we lazed around the house until dinner. During dinner the rain stopped and it was decided that we should put on our rain boots and go for a walk. A walk in it's true form never really happened, but some serious puddle splashing took place.<br />
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Jack asked "wa?". Translation: "Is this water? May I splash in it?"<br />
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He also added two new words to his vocabulary last night. "Splash"<br />
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And, "Stop!"<br />
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They were so cute and having so much fun splashing in the puddles that I just couldn't stop taking pictures. Then, I couldn't stop posting them.<br />
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Lilly was a much more effective splasher than Jack and he wore the evidence of that fact. <br />
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Yes, that's mud on his face, and I'm pretty sure, by his expression, that it's in his mouth too.<br />
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After exhausting that puddle and turning it to mud we moved onto another.</div>
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This is how Jack jumps. He also counts, "Un, eww, un, eww..."</div>
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When we were all done splashing we made our way home, had an early bath, followed by a family movie night complete with popcorn, blankies and cuddling. What a great weekend, no onto packing for our Michigan trip!<br />
Happy Labor Day!Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-10685208356856909502012-09-03T09:42:00.002-04:002012-09-03T09:42:47.089-04:00The First Cut is the Deepest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We had been putting it off for a long time, for fear that a haircut would cut away Jack's baby curls and turn him into a big boy with a single snip, but yesterday we finally did it. We got Jack his first haircut.</div>
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Luckily, he has a great big sister who volunteered to go first and show him how it was done...and stall for time in case I lost my nerve.</div>
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He's watching, but he's not so sure.<br />
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Jack picked the choo choo and climbed aboard for his haircut.<br />
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Like with most things, Jack accepted the haircut with a scowl, but without saying a word or moving a muscle. He just silently watched the lady move around him snipping here and there.<br />
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There goes what we affectionately refer to as Jack's tuft, it's the longest lock of hair he has and it still ends in a dark curl, from when he was an infant. It now resides in a small zip top baggie in his baby book.<br />
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We were not disappointed, our decision to cut was a good one. The lady did a great job of trimming Jack's hair out of his eyes, while still preserving our baby. And, of course, there were balloons.<br />
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The curls survived the haircut, fingers crossed that they stay forever.<br />
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Early in the morning on August 16, I kissed the kids good bye, wished Bryan the best and abandoned ship for a long weekend in Santa Fe New Mexico with my mom. A few years ago my parents were in Santa Fe and learned of an annual Indian market that they had just missed. My mom always hoped to go back for it, but it wasn't exactly high on my dad's list of potential vacation destinations. It was decided that I would be a much better companion for jewelry shopping, art gazing and jewelry shopping than my dad anyway, so my mom invited me to join her. Of course I accepted. </div>
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After a seemingly endless travel day, and a few scenes straight out of "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", we finally arrived in Santa Fe at about 4pm. We checked into our room and immediately made our way to the bar for a snack, and in my case a beer. That's when it hit me: I was responsible for only myself for the whole weekend. And, it felt great. I could eat when I wanted, sleep when I wanted, rest when I wanted and shop without having to rush.</div>
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The first night we didn't do much except take in our surroundings. Here is the beautiful church at the end of the street where we stayed.</div>
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Friday morning we were off to an early start, although I woke up on my own without a child crying for me. We headed about and hour north to Taos to visit the Pueblo...which was closed...until 12:30pm. Good thing we got going early. Oh well, we shopped in Taos and had lunch before returning to the Pueblo after 1. The Taos Pueblo is the oldest continuously inhabited pueblo in the country. It was amazing. We shopped (shocking), talked with some of the inhabitants and toured the pueblo.<br />
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We were only 12 miles from the Rio Grande Gorge bridge, so we figured, 'why not?'. I'm glad we did, it was breath taking and I just kept taking pictures. None of them captured the scale of the gorge. And then, a semi went across the bridge and we could feel the whole thing bouncing. We made a pretty speedy exit after that.<br />
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Mom and I got a little adventurous on our way back to Santa Fe, taking the 'High Road to Taos'. Even if you are going from Taos to Santa Fe the signs all read 'High Road to Taos', strange... Anyway, it was a highway through the mountains and a lot of fun...although we were pretty excited to see the interstate at the end of it. <br />
Here we are at a scenic overlook. I'm pretty sure Mom was going to leave me.<br />
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The 'High Road to Taos' takes about twice as long as the low road and it's pretty desolate (although we passed four post offices) so we were thrilled to see this, even if the bullet holes were a little unnerving.</div>
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The next day, Saturday, was our first taste of the Indian market and our shopping day. There are no pictures. There wasn't time. The streets were lined with white tents, boothes, and the middle was packed with people. Jewelry, Indian jewelry, was the most commonly sold item, but there were people selling arts of all kinds: pottery, paintings, bead work, stone and wood carvings, even a guy making turkey calls (we bought two). The list goes on and on. Because there were about a million people and only ten restaurants we decided to make a reservation. All they had available was 5:15 (blah). But, by 5pm we were worn out and ready for dinner and bed. Ha! This is pretty much the only picture from that day, and the only picture of me so I felt obliged to include it.<br />
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During the market there were lots of dances and programs to give visitors a taste of the culture. We saw these little guys on Sunday and they pretty much stole the show. There were four or five other dancers with them, a drummer and a singer, but no one could take there eyes from he little guy in the back. He danced his steps and shook his rattles at all of the right times, mostly because he kept peeking around the girl in front of him to watch the young man that was leading the dance. <br />
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Santa Fe and the Indian market was unexplainable. I bought some jewelry, gifts for the kids, and a handmade silver money clip for Bryan, but I took home much more than that. It was a wonderful trip and I hope to do it again. Maybe next time Lilly will come...or maybe not. Thanks again, Mom, for a wonderful weekend.<br />
I know what you are thinking....what about Bryan and the kids? How did they do all on their own for five days? Bryan's mom and Aunt Peg we kind enough to visit that very weekend and help out with the kids. I'm pretty sure that he would have been OK, but a little back up never hurt anyone. Thanks ladies for making my vacation guilt and worry free!Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-19017245121209673752012-08-01T14:37:00.000-04:002012-08-01T14:37:15.655-04:00BIG TRUCKS!!<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
It's no secret that Jack loves big trucks more than anything else in the world. So, when a friend of mine told me about a 'Touch a Truck' event near us I knew that I had to take him. Lilly spent the morning with Papaw so that Jack and I could go just the two of us and it was a lot of fun!</div>
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The event was pretty simple, stadium parking lot, 36 trucks, trailers, tractors, and other random equipment. Children were allowed to touch, climb on and 'drive' whatever they wanted. Jack was a loved seeing all of the trucks, but was a little apprehensive about getting too close to each of the trucks...until he saw the front end loader. </div>
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After the loader he was eager to go with all of the strange men into their trucks. What a good lesson! Oh well...a fireman is OK, right?</div>
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Hope so, because Jack sure loved 'riding' on the ladder truck.<br />
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Probably the most familiar to Jack was the mail truck, as he waves at it and yells 'big truck' almost every day when the mail comes.<br />
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When he was on the old fashioned fire truck all Jack said was 'hot'. Probably due to the black leather seat that had been sitting in the sun on the blacktop on a 103 degree day for four hours, but I guess I'll never know...</div>
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All in all it was a great morning and Jack loved seeing all of his favorites in their actual size.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-7995763515392350662012-07-31T23:03:00.000-04:002012-07-31T23:03:54.601-04:00National Lampoon's Southern Vacation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, I guess I'll start where we started...our driveway...on Saturday morning. </div>
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On the 14th of this month Bryan and I (mostly Bryan) packed the car and we headed south. </div>
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The plan was to take three days to get from our house to Bryan's sister's house in Enterprise AL to meet the up with the whole fam and then everyone would make their ways down to Florida later in the week. We had some stops planned to keep the kids happy and we were content to take our time traveling to avoid meltdowns. Our first planned stop, a little rock shop near Mammoth Caves National Park in Kentucky, was a bust. We missed the exit and Lilly was devastated, as the rock shop was something she had been looking forward to. So, we were desperate to find a replacement stop. We settled on a Railpark and Train Museum outside of Bowling Green KY. The best part of this stop was the way we got there. I pointed to the sign on the interstate and Bryan turned off onto the exit. I suggested we just follow the signs to get the museum while Bryan wanted to punch the name and address, which we didn't know, into the navigation screen, which I didn't know how to use. After a few tense moments 'we' decided to hastily turn into a small parking lot to try and find the exact location of the museum. When we couldn't get the museum to come up on the nav screen we 'discussed' our plan for a few minutes. Now I was in the driver's seat and 'we' decided to keep going in the same direction and look for a sign. Needless to say we both got a good chuckle out of the fact that we sat in a parking lot for 10 minutes arguing about where the museum was and the whole time it was around a curve and about 75 yards away.</div>
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So...anyway...here's Lilly riding one of the toy trains at the museum. The lady who gave the tour assured us that she had been to Chicago, San Diego and New York and this museum rivals any of the museums in those cities. I guess I'll not being going to any museums in those cities because I'll just be disappointed because I was sure disappointed by this one. Oh well, Lilly had fun and Jack learned to say "choo choo" and enjoyed watching the model train go around the track. </div>
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And, here's Bryan roasting Jack over a pretend hobo fire.</div>
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Later that evening we made it to Nashville TN, our first planned stop. We didn't, however, plan very well on our hotel. We decided that we might get a better deal by using price line at the last minute, a strategy that has worked well for us in the past. But, this time our system failed us. We ended up at the Hotel Indigo int he pouring rain. Google it...really...if you are a young, hip black couple with no kids it is the place for you. For nearly $200 a night it was nice, trendy and lacked a bathtub, elevator from the parking garage, luggage cart and most things that make traveling with a child more convenient. It took Bryan three trips up and down a small stairwell to bring all of our things up to the room. But, it was a nice place, the room was huge and we were able to walk to a number of restaurants...although, we kind of felt like we needed to sneak the kids in and out.</div>
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We settled on Italian and the kids ate great after a long day in the car. Jack even discovered that he like calamari and an older woman at the table next to us complemented me on the behavior of my 'beautiful children'. That was a first...and would be a last for this trip...</div>
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Jack and his calamari.</div>
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The next day in Nashville was spent walking around downtown, shopping and site seeing before heading to the Adventure Science Center.</div>
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Of course we had to get some cowboy boots in Nashville.</div>
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Adventure Science Center. Please note the glass pyramid on the top right of the building.</div>
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Jack getting really involved in some trains.</div>
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Lilly on the magic school bus.</div>
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Jack. Magic school bus.</div>
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When you first walk into the front doors you are greeted by two sets of stairs. These stairs lead, obviously, to the second floor, but also into a labyrinth of intern organs that you climb on or into and they all lead up, up and up. Within ten minutes of arriving I had followed Lilly into this maze and we emerged at the very top of the glass pyramid that you see in the picture of the building. I don't like heights, but we were so far into the exhibit that I couldn't find Bryan and I couldn't let Lilly go on alone. By the time we were at the top I was sweating, nauseous and dizzy. Yeah for me. When we got down and I told Bryan about the horrors that I had just experienced he was desperate to do it as well...but, without any of the nausea and dizziness...although, he tells me that the sweating wasn't from nerves, but from the sweltering heat of the top of the 3 by 3 glass pyramid.</div>
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Lilly at the top.</div>
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An exhibit that I'm not proud of, but it's one of the few pictures of my from out trip. There was an aging experiment where they take your picture and calculate what you will look like in 10, 25 and 50 years after smoking or sun exposure. As a non smoker I chose to see what I'd look like if I never use sunscreen again. The results are not pleasing. This is me at 82. </div>
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The Adventure Science Center wore everyone out and we made pretty good time between Nashville and Birmingham AL, our next planned stop, so good in fact that we continued on to Montgomery with no issues.</div>
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Thanks Grandma for the travel pillows.</div>
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After smooth sailing from Nashville all the way to Montgomery AL, things started to fall apart. It was almost 8pm Alabama time and we hadn't fed the kids or made a stop in a long time. Our navigation system told us that we had about two hours of two lane country highways to go before reaching Bryan's sister's house. We calculated that if we stopped to eat and stretch our legs it would be almost 11 before we arrived. The thought of traveling for another two hours with crying children and then having to unpack and get those children to bed did not appeal to us. So, we stopped for dinner, got a cheap room at a small Inn and ended our travel day.</div>
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At dinner Jack chose to haul his meal around in his construction equipment rather than eat any of it.</div>
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But, everyone was excited about the little hotel room. It was an old fashioned, family owned, inn with about 20 small rooms and a common grassy knoll. It was a great stop. The kids played, and the owner actually brought out some of his kids' ride on toys, while Bryan unpacked the car. The room had a double bed and one twin. Lilly was beside her self with joy about the little bed just for her. And, in a rare moment of kindness, she offered to let Jack sleep with her in the little bed. He refused.</div>
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We were up and at 'em early the next morning and made it to Cam and Ed's by about 10:30. We, of course, caught all sorts of hell for our decision to stop with so little time left to drive, but we handed over the kids and all was forgiven. </div>
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Jack almost immediately found a seat that he liked...the dog bowl. He spent quite a bit of time here, the only problem was that he couldn't get out of his own.</div>
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Jack and Granddad having a serious conversation about big trucks at dinner.</div>
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One night, Morgan's friend came over to meet the fam and Lilly was quite taken with her, especially when the older girls started taking turns playing the piano and singing. </div>
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We spent three days at Cam and Ed's and then made the under two hour trek to the beach on Wednesday. Well, it should have been under two hours, but our navigation system decided to get cute and send us to a beach resort about a 20 minutes away from the one that we were actually staying at. But, eventually we made it to the villa, unpacked the car chose a room and headed to the beach. Actually, we headed to dinner, but when Lilly laid eyes on the beach it was a done deal...she was going to get to that sand and there was no talking her out of it.</div>
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Of course Jack wanted to play too. About a foot from the steps leading down to the beach he stopped, dropped and started digging in the sand with his backhoe.</div>
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After a kind of tumultuous start to the evening, that included getting lost on the way, circling a parking lot several times while looking for a place to eat, only to finally find a place through a Winn Dixie parking lot, we ended up having a great dinner and Lilly lead the boys to an ice cream place while Jo and I did the shopping for the rest of the weekend. The next morning we were ready to hit the beach and in a couple of hours Cam's crew joined us and we were in full force.</div>
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Lilly on the beach, exfoliating herself with sand. There was enough sand in the tub that night to make our own beach.</div>
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I don't think Jack ever did realize that there was a large body of water nearby, he mostly just played in the sand as if he were at home in the sandbox, or on some kind of job site.</div>
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After the beach Lilly, and almost everyone else, wanted to rinse off in the pool. Within minutes Lilly swallowed several gallons of pool water and immediately threw it back up along with some of her lunch. Only those of us in our little family group saw it and we were all out of the pool in seconds...except Lilly...so, Bryan had to stay in with her.</div>
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After he got out, Jack lead Uncle Ed and Matthew around the pool and demonstrated his new driving skills when he, and in turn both of the 'adults, would stop every couple of feet, prop his foot up as if it was on a gas pedal, turn his like a steering wheel and say, "brrrrrrm".</div>
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The next day started off as kind of a dud. We woke up to rain and it continued for several hours. But, the moment it stopped Bryan, along with Wes, had Lilly and Jack out the door and looking for fun. They found it at the other end of the resort in an area called Harbor Walk Village. There were shops, restaurants, bars and random activities. Jack rode in the the stroller, but Lilly got to jump on a trampoline. Jo and I got there just in time to see them strapping her into the safety harness.</div>
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She was a little unsure at first, but eventually started jumping higher...</div>
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and higher. She was all smiles when her turn was over and asked to do it again. So we steerred her towards some other things.</div>
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Lilly driving a remote control boat. Not sure what Bryan is doing.</div>
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Jo, taking on the role of stereotypical tourist, if only she had a large camera around her neck too. Oh wait...that's me.</div>
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Leave it to Lilly to find a stage...and Jack to find something dangerous to climb on.</div>
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Aside from the group picture that follows, this is the only picture of me on this vacation, and one of the few of Morgan. Please notice that we had to take it ourselves.</div>
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We had been so impressed by what Harbor Walk Village had to offer that after the kids got up from their naps we headed back over there for dinner and entertainment. But, not until Jack had his after nap cuddle and snack with Matthew. Not sure how much of the trail mix Jack actually got, but he seemed happy.</div>
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In a vain attempt to impress Lilly I put aside my fear of heights and motion sickness and go on a zip line for the first time ever. I briefly imagined myself (on a 10th anniversary trip that I'm sure Bryan is planning) zip lining through the canopy of the South American rain forest and thought that this would be a much better time and place for a panic attack so, I gave it a try. The smile you see in the picture below is fake. I was nervous and felt sure that I was only moments from either my own death, or the humiliation of climbing back down the steps in front of everyone and passing small children who were on their way up to bravely zip line across the small man made lake. </div>
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Well, I did it. The first step off of the platform was one of the hardest of my life. But, after that it was a lot of fun and I can' wait for that trip that Bryan is surely planning.</div>
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Clearly, you can see how impressed Matthew is by my bravery in overcoming my fears.</div>
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After I was done risking my life our heard made it's way to the arcade where Jack got to ride a motorcycle and Lilly robbed Matthew of about 20 minutes of his life that he'll never get back. He volunteered to help her chose what to buy with all of her tickets. It's probably not something that he'll ever do again.</div>
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Just hanging out with a big truck and drinking some milk.</div>
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Not sure what Bryan's doing in this picture, but it just wouldn't be a beach vacation without this ridiculous yellow flowered shirt.</div>
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While all the other kids played on the playground Jack used his playground time to hand out piles of rubber mulch.</div>
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Within 60 seconds of Lilly being on the playground Bryan had lost sight of her, but heard almost every other child calling her by name. She's never met a stranger.</div>
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Getting a ride on the way back to the car.</div>
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Story time with Grandma. Obviously, Granddad is more into the story of Barbie the Pet Vet than Jack.</div>
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Lilly had woken up from her nap with a fever the day before, but seemed to feel OK, but today the fever was higher and she just wasn't herself. So, instead of a big adventure to the beach everyone relaxed around the villa for a little while and did some fishing. Lilly was actually the only one to catch anything and it wasn't even a fish. It was a snapping turtle.</div>
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Did I mention that everyone was fishing in their pajamas?</div>
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Lilly noticed some 'friends' a couple of doors down that were outside and fishing too, but when we explained that she shouldn't go near them because she wasn't feeling well she was content to wave and say 'hi'. Jack on the other hand continued waving and saying 'hi' for about ten minutes.</div>
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PJ fishing with Daddy.</div>
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A little later Bryan and I decided to go to the pool. We were hoping to get Lilly out of the heat and that the cool water might bring down her temperature and make her feel better. In the spirit of togetherness everyone decided to join us at the pool instead of ditching us for the beach. It turned out to be a fun pool day filled with water squirters (which lead to threats of violence) and a swim race (which could have lead to a heart attack). I think Bryan and Ed both would have killed themselves to beat Matthew.</div>
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But, they didn't need to over exert themselves, they just put him in the middle.</div>
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And, pinched him out at the end. </div>
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Bathing beauties.</div>
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Getting a ride from Daddy on the way home from the pool.</div>
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After naps Ed insisted on going to the mall. Morgan and I were all for it until we realized he meant the Bass Pro Shop, but by then it was too late to turn back. So, Lilly got her picture taken with the giant shark.</div>
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And, everyone went to see the giant fish in the aquarium.</div>
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Then, we saw the train. It is obviously intended for little kids, but Lilly asked Matthew to ride with her in such a way that refusal was not really an option.</div>
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We played mini golf. That's really all that I'm going to say about that. It was pretty much a disaster.</div>
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When everyone walked off of the golf course (without finishing our round) the Maynards went one way to drive go karts and we went the other way to drive the ones that Lilly could ride on with Bryan. At first we weren't quite sure what she thought about it. She held on and wouldn't let go to wave at Jack and I, and she never cracked a smiled, but when the ride was over she was smiling and excited and claimed to enjoy it.</div>
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Before we were even out of the car Lilly noticed the little ferris wheel. So, after go karts she wanted to take a ride. As we waited in line her excitement only built and when it was finally her turn to get on she was beside herself. Then, when the ferris wheel started she circled around by us and yelled, "It's going really fast!" And, when she circled around again she joyfully, and very quickly, yelled, "This is very scary!" At the end though, she was smiling and wanted to go again.</div>
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Every time I pointed at the swings, the only thing that Jack was big enough to ride, and asked him if he wanted to take a ride he would shake his head 'no' and point at the train and say, "choo choo". Poor guy, he just didn't get it. But, I was finally able to talk him into the swings. And, he was determined not to smile.</div>
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The next day was our last beach day so I figured it was time to break out Jack's new shirt: Have you seen a little boy with blonde hair and blue eyes and a t-shirt that says 'bull shit'? (If not, then you clearly haven't seen 'The Jerk' and you probably think we're horrible parents).</div>
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After dinner on the last night we walked across the street to do some shopping because the money that Lilly brought to spend was burning a hole in her purse. This may come as surprise, but she bought a shell necklace.</div>
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We had a great time in Florida, but best of all was just spending time with Bryan's family and watching Lilly, Jack, Matthew and Morgan interacting with each other.</div>
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Usually, Bryan's family is here for the Fourth of July and we celebrate in style with a cookout, swimming, a neighborhood parade and fireworks (Which come to find out Lilly thinks is all for Ed's birthday. Not sure how she came up with that, but somehow his status as a soldier along with the American holiday combined in her mind to make the entire affair about him). But, this year, since we have planned a family vacation (that I'm sure you will read about in a couple of weeks) we all decided to stay put for the Fourth. It turned out to be kind of a dud anyway. The fireworks were canceled due to the extremely dry weather and the excessive heat made it almost too hot to even swim. But, the neighborhood parade went on as planned and Lilly rode her bike in it for the first time ever. </div>
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Here comes the parade, and if you look close, you can see my family pulling up the rear. Evidently there was a water stop along the way and my kids will never pass up a drink. I think they get that from their dad...</div>
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Finally, here they come. Lilly and Bryan spent the morning decorating Lilly's bike and Jack's wagon for the festivities. Lilly even picked out a hat for Bryan at the craft store.<br />
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As you can clearly see, Nathan was thrilled to be a part of the parade.<br />
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George and Georgie were the only ones able to keep up with the group, possibly because George was willing to body check small children who tried to get ahead of them.<br />
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Jack was still enjoying his water stop even after the parade ended.<br />
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Lilly ditched her helmet pretty quick, but I was able to get a picture of her Fourth of July outfit.<br />
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After the parade Georgie stuck around to play in the water table for a little bit and then we went inside for lunch, naps and some AC. We didn't do much all day, but Bryan and I were able to get a little bit of work done.<br />
Later that night we had a good ole American meal of BLT's, cheese potatoes and corn on the cob. <br />
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Please stayed tuned for two weeks from now for some more exciting pictures of our Alabama/Florida adventure.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-68139229038068652012-07-02T22:28:00.001-04:002012-07-02T23:09:49.904-04:00Septic Peanut<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
Earlier this month, on June 1, Lilly began complaining about her leg hurting. She said that it hurt and then played at Grandma's in the morning, did some gymnastics with the neighbor girl in the afternoon and tormented Jack that evening so we didn't give her complaint a whole lot of weight, especially since there wasn't anything visibly wrong. Then, the next morning she didn't get out of bed, again complaining of pain, and I noticed that her leg seemed a little warmer than the left, but she had been warm in her bed so we decided to go about our morning and take a look in a few minutes. Lilly played a little while Bryan made breakfast for the kids and I opened our garage sale. I came back in to examine the knee and we noticed that it was in fact warm, and was already kind of swollen. We decided that I'd run Lilly over to the immediate care center after she ate. I checked on the garage sale, got dressed and made a cup of coffee. In that time Lilly's knee had gotten bigger and was now hot, and that heat was spreading. She was already starting to show signs of fever. Away we went to the immediate care center, fully expecting to be home in an hour or two with an antibiotic or a knee brace.</div>
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I explained to the nurse and then the doctor what was going on and obviously they asked me about injuries, falls, or bumps. There were none. The doctor did a brief exam and casually told me that he thought it might be an infection and that Lilly's temperature was just over 99. He sent us to X-ray to rule out a break. They X-ray showed nothing except a lot of fluid around a little knee. When Dr.Romero came back in to talk to us he casually mentioned septic arthritis and suggested (very casually) that I should take Lilly to Peyton Manning Children's Hosptial at St.Vincent's. He explained that to be sure that his diagnosis was correct some blood work and labs would need to be done. He assured us that he could run the labs there at his office, but that we would probably have to go to a hosptial anyway for treatment and that they could do the lab work quicker and it wouldn't have to be sent over from his office. At this time I still thought that I would take Lilly home in about an hour with an oral antibiotic. When Dr. Romero asked me if Peyton Manning was the children's hosptial that I planned to take Lilly to and I said yes I was a little surprised when he nodded his head and said, "Great, I already sent Lilly's X-rays over and spoke with them, they know that you're on your way." That seemed really efficient.</div>
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As it was now nearing lunch time and Lilly was saying that she was hungry I asked Dr. Romero if I had time to stop and get Lilly something to eat. He assured me that lunch was OK and there was nothing so emergent that she couldn't eat, and that eating wouldn't effect any possible treatments. Lilly and I swung through the drive thru at Steak N' Shake and headed to the hosptial ER. Already, I could tell that Lilly was feeling worse, but she managed to drink about half of her milkshake before we got to the hosptial. I carried her in because it hurt too bad to walk at this point and sure enough, the triage nurse knew that we were coming. We had to wait about 15 minutes, which is an ER record. Lilly's temp was now 101.5.</div>
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We were put into a room and a nurse came in to do an initial exam. The nurse explained that the doctor, who hadn't even seen Lilly yet, had ordered some blood work and I was a little surprised that she put in an IV to take the blood. Then, the doctor came in and explained that Lilly's symptoms were such that she wasn't planning to wait for the labs to come back before calling the pediatric orthopedic surgeon to get his opinion on a course of action. The options were this: Either they were going to pull fluid from Lilly's knee to test it and then make a decision, or they would prep her for surgery and test the fluid while she was under. Most of this was not what I expected. That's about the time that the blood labs came back. Lilly's white blood cells were very high, indicating quite a bit of infection in her little body. I was shocked at this point to learn that the doctor planned to admit her to administer an IV antibiotic. We were now just waiting to see what Dr. Bellflower, the orthpedic surgeon, wanted to do. It was clear that the knee was infected, but if the infection hadn't gotten inside the actual joint then surgery wouldn't be neccessary. This is the point in time when Lilly's 1/2 of a junior milkshake came back to haunt us: they would not put Lilly under until 5:30pm since she had "eaten" at 11:30am.</div>
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So, the next step was to test the fluid inside Lilly's knee joint. I will spare you the details, but after the doctor pulled the fluid from Lilly's knee she wasn't shy about telling me that it was some of the most infected fluid she had seen in a while. She sent it to the lab, but assured me that she didn't need the labs to know that Lilly was going to have to have the surgery to drain and rinse her knee.</div>
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It was about 2 or 2:30pm at this point and a lot had happened since Lilly and I had left the house. My mom, who had been about and hour and a half away at a music festival with my dad, gathered up her things and headed home. She came to the house and picked Jack up (because I had his carseat) so that Bryan could come to the hosptial. Bryan and blankie arrived shortly after the procedure to pull the fluid from Lilly's knee...she was still loopy when Bryan walked in and pretty much thought that he was there to join the party. At this point we were just waiting until the labs came back and until Lilly could be put under for surgery. We watched movies, played princesses and sent texts to nervous grandparents.</div>
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I have to take this oportunity to mention the child life specialists at the hospital, especially Miss April. She came shortly after we got there with a little doll with an IV and explained an IV to Lilly. Miss April had pictures, medical equipment and toys. Lilly was able to see and touch and ask questions about almost everything, the IV, the tubing, syringes, masks, rubber gloves, and anything else that was going to be used on or near her. Miss April even had toys to leave in the room, a little tub filled with Disney princesses and dresses. This was especially appreciated since I left the house that morning with almost nothing. I also need to point out that upon realizing that Lilly would be awake in the hallway when we would say our good byes, April not only volunteered to dress for sugery in front of Lilly so that she would know that it was still her new friend under the mask, hair net and scrubs, but also walk to the OR with her and stay until she was asleep so that she wouldn't be afraid. Lilly in her hospital gown, preparing for her IV. </div>
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At about 5pm the labs came back, suspicians were confirmed and our ER room was flooded with doctors and nurses as we met the anestesiologist, surgeon, surgical nurse practisioner and a slew of other specialists. By 5:30 we were heading down the hallway to the OR. We gave Lilly kisses, told her that we'd see her in a few and parted ways. As Bryan and I made our way to the waiting room we heard Lilly say something and everyone with her crack up laughing. Clearly, if she was cracking jokes she wasn't afraid at all. After surgery, which only took about an hour, we met Lilly in the 'wake up' room, where she slept off her anesthesia and was in no hurry to actually wake up. Finally, when I mentioned to her the her Uncle Wes had had knee surgery, she sat straight up, looked around and asked, "Is he behind one of these curtains?" Well, no he wasn't, but then Lilly asked for a drink and declared that she didn't want to hang out there any more. So, we made our way to a room, where we would stay for a minimum of 48 hours while Lilly recovered, stayed on IV antibiotics and waited to see what bacteria might grow in a petri dish.</div>
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The petri dish experiment was a double edged sword: If something grew in the perti dish then doctors could identify the bacteria and type of infection in Lilly's body, which meant that they could tailor the antibiotic treatment to target that specific bacteria. But, that might mean that we could potentially have a longer hosptial stay. If nothing grew in the dish AND Lilly was responding well to the broad spectrum antibiotic that she was already on then she could switch to an oral version and go home after 48 hours. The problem with this is that obviously we would be curious about the infection, but also Lilly would have to go home and take, three times a day for three weeks, the worst tasting antibiotic in history. The nurse explained to us that it tastes quite similar to raw sewage. When I repeated that description to the doctor he chuckled and assured me that is was actually more like kerosene.</div>
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Lilly finally settled into her room after a long day.</div>
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By the time we got to our room and got settled it was close to 9pm and the cafeteria was closed so, Bryan went and got dinner for us (and grabbed my overnight bag from a good friend who dropped it off for me) while Lilly and I watched a movie. When we found out that Lilly would be spending the night in the hosptial the staff was really good about making it seem like it was a big, fun adventure. They told Lilly all about the fun things to do in the children's wing. Lilly focused in on the playroom and wanted to see it that night. After a few bites of dinner she asked again and we debated for about 30 seconds before deciding that 10pm was not at all too late for a four year old to visit the hosptial play room. Lilly deserved something good so we loaded her into a wagon, trailed her IV and wheeled her to the playroom where she examined the toys, listed what she would play with the next day, and picked out a couple of books for her room. Pictured below are the first smiles we had seen for several hours.<br />
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After the playroom, Bryan read stories and headed home. Lilly and I didn't take any time to fall asleep and had a pretty uneventful night. The next morning, Sunday, we ordered breakfast, saw most of the doctors and then Bryan came and took Lilly back to the playroom while I ran home for a shower and a deep breath. I got this picture via text message while I was at home. So happy to see her up on her feet!</div>
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The surgeon assured us that Lilly's only limitations were the ones she placed on herself. Basically, if she felt like standing she could stand, if she felt like walking she could walk. He explained that kids are a lot like dogs in that they won't do anything that hurts and if it doesn't hurt it is probably OK. </div>
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That day we had visitors, deliveries, movies, and trips to the playroom and Lilly continued to improve with her antibiotics. Monday showed even more improvement with Lilly devouring a huge lunch, walking to the playroom and having her drain removed and dressing changed. Nothing was growing in the petri dish, but the antibiotics were clearly doing their job. We found out that afternoon that if Lilly was able to keep down two oral doses of the antibiotic that they would release us. This was much harder than it seemed and the medicine was much worse than we had imagined. But, like a trooper, Lilly kept it down and as good as their word...the three seperate doctors that needed to sign off on us did as they promised.<br />
We were so excited to get head home and then, just like when she was a new born, so nervous when we got her there. In the two hours after we got home Lilly fell, spiked a fever, spit her medicine all over the kitchen floor and passed out cold on the couch.<br />
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We carried her to bed and counted ourselves lucky to be home.<br />
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Within the next couple of days Lilly was back to her old self again and has shown nothing but improvement since. </div>
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At the follow up with her surgeon we were given a script for physical therapy and were released, and encouraged to swim. "The more she swims, the less physical therapy she'll have to do." is what the Physician's assistant told me. So, swim we did. Lilly has been in the pool almost everyday since then and we were released from physical therapy before we really even got started. </div>
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During this whole event Bryan and I realized a couple of things, but the main thing is this: We are fortunate, so very fortunate. We are lucky that we have an immediate care center that is right down the road. We are lucky that we have a first class pediatric hospital less than ten miles from our house. And, we are so, so lucky that we were in that hospital for only two nights for something that was easily treated with surgery and medicine. </div>
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Thank you to everyone who thought about or asked about Lilly, helped out with babysitting and errands and made Lilly's recovery easier on all of us. I can't begin to express how grateful we are to have so many people in our lives that love our kids.</div>Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-77098111759798535702012-06-26T08:53:00.000-04:002012-06-26T08:53:27.120-04:00Swim Season<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
Every year I start the summer with a swimming blog and they are mostly all the same: pictures of the kids in crystal blue water.</div>
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But, this year swimming is not just a fun activity, it is a requirement. As you will see in the next blog, Lilly had knee surgery at the beginning of the summer and has been encourage to swim as much as possible to aide in her physical therapy. That means that my days for the past three weeks have been spent hurrying through my household chores so I can have the kids in the pool right after lunch.</div>
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Everyone is getting braver in the water and Lilly is enjoying swim lessons again this year. So far, she seems to be showing improvement after each lesson and only struggles with one thing. The other day while practicing my dad encouraged her to try and keep her face in water and mouth closed to avoid swallowing water. "I can't." Lilly said, "I need to talk."</div>
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Lilly and Jack enjoying the floating papasan chair. Jack is a wild man in the water. He tries to run in this little chair and he'll jump off the edge to you, muttering something that sounds like counting before jumping.</div>
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But, he likes to relax too, and float around in an inner tube.<br />
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No matter what Jack is doing there is always time for playing with trucks. He often takes time out of swimming to drive a 'big truck' around.</div>
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Little mermaid practicing her swimming.</div>
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Will she jump?<br />
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More time for trucks.</div>
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Kick, kick, kick!</div>
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After swimming last Sunday Grandma made dinner for everyone. While waiting for dinner Jack was able to talk Uncle Wes into reading a story about, you guessed it, a truck.<br />
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After dinner we made the trek to the lake to feed the fish and see if Daddy caught anything. Lilly and I simply walked up to the lake. Jack, on the other hand, acted like we were hiking through the plains of Africa, high stepping over tall grass and stopping every few steps to look for lions and take a break.<br />
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Daddy caught a couple fish and Lilly caught one too. She was very eager to touch each fish before Bryan threw it back, but the one that she caught flipped right as she reached for it and after that she was less than excited to pose for a picture with her catch.</div>
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Then, Jack discovered a sword in Grandma's recycle bin. (aka an empty wrapping paper roll). </div>
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I know the last few pictures have nothing to do with swimming, but they were cute any way.</div>Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1253971146161862706.post-66585753184338067022012-05-30T14:49:00.001-04:002012-05-30T14:49:49.898-04:00Matthew Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We Traylors are an average family and we celebrate most of the major holidays exactly as you would expect: We have turkey for Thanksgiving, we decorate a tree for Christmas, we waste hundreds of dollars on explosives for the Fourth of July, but this year we decided to do something a little different for Memorial Day. In fact, as far as Lilly was concerned we didn't even have a Memorial Day, she chose to call the entire weekend "Matthew Days". So, that is the holiday that we celebrated this past weekend. </div>
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Bryan's 17 year old nephew came up for the race. For those of us who live in Indiana there is only one race, but for you non-Hoosiers that is the Indy 500. Bryan has been dreaming and talking for years about taking Matthew to the race. For a long time Matthew wasn't old enough to enjoy it, and when he was...he lived in Germany and that seemed like a long and expensive trip just for the weekend. So, this year, with Matthew in the US and and old enough to travel alone, Bryan was finally able to extend his invitation.</div>
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What Bryan hadn't counted on, of course, was that now he would have to share his buddy with two other people. One of which was beside herself with excitement about Matthew's arrival. She woke up on Thursday morning and wished Bryan, Jack and I a "Happy Matthew Day". Then, told all of her friends at school about Matthew's impending visit, and of course, wished them all a happy holiday. Later that evening while Jack and Bryan went to the airport to collect our guest I took Lilly to her T-ball game. During the game she came over to ask me if Matthew was here yet. When I told her that, yes, Daddy had picked him up, she wanted to abandon her team completely and walk off the field. I said 'no'. When we finally got home from the game Lilly insisted on waiting outside to greet Matthew and wish him "Happy Matthew Days".</div>
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Thursday night we hung out at home, had pizza and played outside. Friday Bryan and Matthew went to the track for Carb Day, and into the garages thanks to some passes from a friend, while the kids and I swam.</div>
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Even though he has his license they wouldn't let him have the keys to this car.<br />
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Or, even sit in this one. I believe this is Tony Kanaan's actual race car.<br />
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Later that night we all met up for dinner and playing...and more celebrating of Matthew Days. Lilly took advantage by having Matthew read to her every night. Every time she asked for one more book the answer was the same..."yes". <br />
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Saturday was the true "Matthew Day" as the kids got to spend the entire day with him. We packed a lunch and headed to the water park where Matthew acted as playmate...</div>
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and, security detail for Lilly.</div>
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Jack obviously didn't remember Matthew from the last time he saw him, but it didn't take him long to start celebrating Matthew Days by following Matthew around and saying, "Matt Matt Matt".</div>
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After the water park we spent a lazy day in the pool, where everyone, including Bryan, who was starting to get a little jealous at this point, got to swim and play with Matthew.<br />
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Needless to say, by the time we got home everyone was tired. Jack took a nap, and Lilly watched a movie while Matthew slept. I'm sure Matthew won't be too happy that I posted this picture on my blog, but it was too cute not to share.</div>
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Then, of course there was the race. I sent my camera with Bryan hoping that he and Matthew would forever capture all of the memories that they made at Matthew's very first race. They did, but this was the only picture of the two of them...the rest are of cars going by and the crowd. I didn't even save most of them on my computer.</div>
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We had a great "Matthew Days" and can't wait to celebrate next year, although hopefully we'll have a "Morgan Days" before the end of the year. But, don't worry Morgan, you won't have to go to the Brickyard. "Morgan Days" will be less about racing and more about shopping and theater.Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03757357786626563094noreply@blogger.com0