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There goes another tooth!

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Eve lost another tooth today.  The top, right canine.  These days it is so much more mundane than it was in the early days.  I knew she had a few loose ones in there, but she told me last night that her tooth was about to fall out. I felt it and boy was she right!  She wanted a treasure box from school though, so she didn’t wiggle too much.  Today she said a friend taught her out to get them out (“Just twist and pull. Easy!”) and she got her treasure box.  :-)

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The tooth fairy usually brings her gold dollars coins, which she never spends, but she said tonight that she was hoping for a dollar bill so she could add it to her doll savings.  I told her she can add the gold coins too, but she said they are way too pretty to spend.  :-)  The tooth fairy left a crisp dollar bill with a red heart stamped on it.  I hope that’s not too pretty to spend!

Easter weekend

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We had a busy weekend!  Easter fell just after Eve’s birthday so we did a little celebrating of both.  Friday afternoon we had friends over to play (and my bestie over for tea!), Rosy came to visit, and Alan and I went to a late-night dinner party.  We were all tired by the end of Friday, but that was just the beginning. 

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First tree climb of the season, I think.

Saturday included a trip to GemStar, cake baking, egg decorating, painting, and more.  Then Alan brought home a movie and is grownups were up until midnight! That made two nights in a row! 

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Rosy was in need of a few original pieces of artwork so she commissioned two little painters.

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Boring mommy made them move to the table because painting on the floor was just too messy!

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While they painted I did a little creative work of my own.

Oh yes, and Easter basket filling, of course!

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Pretty table, all ready for Easter morning..

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I like my own decorations. :-) I was excited to find these sugar eggs on Etsy. I have find memories of them in my own Easter basket as a child, and the eternal question as to whether or not to eat them.

Sunday was Easter, so we started the day with candy for breakfast.  Of course. The egg hunts, a trip to the playground, a little birthday party, and early bedtimes!

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There was no question for Eve. Sugar? Eat it!

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We had the usual Easter egg hunts. The kids still love looking for eggs!

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My masterpiece! Eve's final cake for this birthday. As usual it was an ever evolving project. I love how it came out.

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We did a few outdoor egg hunts as well, but it was chilly out there!

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There is still a fair amount of snow on the ground too! We were hiding eggs in snow banks.

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Daisy ran from window to window trying to keep track of everybody outside.

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Daddy attack! :-)

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Mad dash for an egg Alan hid up high. :-)

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Good thing Rosy was here. She took us on a walk to the playground to shoot some hoops.

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Aunt Katie and Popcube came over for awhile to hang out and eat cake. Eve was pretty wound up by this point!

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This giant slab of cake didn't help matters much.

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It's not perfect, but I'm pretty proud of how the cake turned out. I love the vivid colors! Rainbow parties are great!

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Alan sliced it in an odd way. This looks like a cake tunnel. Yum!

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After cake the kids proceeded to flail around on the floor, wrestling and laughing like sugared up wild ones!  The crash came about 15 minutes later, but some alone time and iPad time helped settle everyone down. 

That about (almost) wraps up Eve’s 8th birthday and Easter 2015.  Now for a few weeks of sugar detox!

Eve is Eight!

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I thought it would be fun to do an “eight for eight” post with the eight best pictures of the day… but then I thought, “who am I kidding?!” I take way too many pictures and like to share them all. So, here is a look at Miss Eve’s 8th birthday.

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My customary birthday display. The kids now come to expect them. I like to add my own gifts, but also little things from other people, like the cat card from Greg and Kathy, and the Happy Birthday note from the Kirkwoods. Lots of love for Eve from around the country.

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Happy Birthday Eve!!

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I got her some books, some science and craft idea kits, and an American Girl matching outfit. Lex got her a Lego Friends set.  She was pretty happy with all of it.

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I love Lex’s look in this picture. :)

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I tried several times today to get a nice picture of the two of us together. This one obviously didn’t work out.

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This isn’t quite right either! :)

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After school we had two friends over. I fed them all snack then we headed to the science museum!

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I mostly like this picture. Great sunlight and color. However, where are Eve’s eyes?! Pictures with glasses are tough!

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The museum has several great new exhibits! We had a great time!

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Buddies.

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Eve wanted to go to Panera Bread for her birthday dinner. I told her she could get a birthday treat and she chose a strawberry smoothie “all to myself!” Normally when she gets a smoothie the rest of us share it with her, but tonight she had one, with whipped cream, all to herself.

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I really wanted a nice picture of us together so I finally recruited Alan to help. The back camera on my phone is much better than the front camera!

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We all got a little silly.

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Daddy wanted in on the picture too! :)

Happy Birthday to Eve! We are pretty lucky to have her in our lives!

Eve’s Birthday Sleepover – Part 2

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The sleepover went well. I sent the girls to bed at 8:30pm and they continued to play and be wild. At 9pm I turned off the lights. The silliness continued (in part it was my fault because I provided them with glow sticks!) I was typing last nights blog post and wondering what to do next. What is proper sleepover protocol? Do I just let them stay up until they pass out? Do I insist on quiet? Separate them? Then I realized that it’s my house and I can do whatever the heck I want! I took away the glow sticks and reminded them it was sleeping time. Later I heard crying and discovered that Eve had bitten the one remaining glow stick in the room (bitten?!) and broke it. She had glow stick filling all over her hands, her PJs, her sleeping bag, and her mouth! Normally this would be a panic-inducing moment, but actually it happened once before so I did all the necessary panicking (and Googling) last time, so this time I was calm, cool, and collected. Secretly hoping that Eve’s tears would be the final straw before sleep. But nope, they rallied! :) Finally they fell asleep around 10:45 and I went to bed. Not to bad for a first sleepover.

I was hoping they’d sleep in a bit, but of course, nope! All three kids were up at 6:30am. Alan and I made it until 7:00. Not too bad, right?! :) I made rainbow pancakes and everyone just hung out.

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Rainbow pancakes! Yum! 

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This isn’t a very good crop and I can’t edit on the computer… and my phone is in the other room… so anyway, Eve and her Girl Scout friend loved the Wizard Of Id comic this morning.

Also this morning I got a text from a friend asking if I could watch her boys for a little while. Sure, I said, why not?! Eve’s friend left, and I had time for a quick shower before the boys came over. Fortunately my kiddos kept it together and played very nicely with the boys. They ended up staying for quite awhile and everyone had fun.

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These two decided to start a “Save the animals” club and spent quite awhile making invitations for other friends and making info cards about endangered animals.

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Save the Animals.

After everyone left (including Alan who went to the gym), the kids and I crashed. We had lunch and read some Percy Jackson until I fell asleep on the couch. Then the kids retired to their rooms for more reading.

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I just want to take a million pictures of this beautiful girl laying in the sunshine.

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She made a nest of blankets and read in the sunshine. I love this girl! I can’t believe she’s almost eight!

And so wraps up our first birthday celebration. One down, two to go. :)

Eve’s Birthday Sleepover – Part 1

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Eve decided to have a sleepover birthday party this year and today was the day. In fact, today was a very busy day. We started with karate, as usual on Saturday, then Eve had to run a cookie booth with her Girl Scout troop. She was partnered with her buddy and they had fun. While they did that, Lex and I ran some secret birthday errands.

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Cookies for sale! You don’t see any cookies because they hadn’t fully set up yet, but I wanted to take a picture and get going so I didn’t wait for the actual cookies to appear. :)

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Crazy girls ready for birthday fun! 

After cookie time was over I picked up both girls and we headed to the aquatic center to start her birthday festivities. At karate I ran into the dad of one of Lex’s friends and we ended up making plans for his buddy to come swimming too. I had been so busy thinking about Eve’s party that I didn’t make plans for Lex, other than “tag along” plans. :) I’m glad his friend was able to join us.

Eve had invited three friends, but unfortunately one woke up sick this morning and couldn’t join the fun. Another came for swimming, but couldn’t join us for sleepover fun.

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Just hanging out, waiting for another friend to arrive.

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A wild crew!

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Handsome boys.

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Silly girls.

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Waiting for the bucket to drop…

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Splash!!

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All smiles. :)

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Three down the slide… I don’t think that’s allowed, but I won’t tell. :)

After everyone was tired of swimming we headed home for pizza and craft projects. With just one friend here it felt more like a playdate than a birthday party, but still fun.

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Eve was pretty excited to find balloons when we got home! (One of the birthday errands Lex and I took care of earlier in the day.)

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Balloon girl!

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Happy birthday to you! Birthday cupcakes for the party.

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I love this girl!

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Awesome cupcakes! I might write a whole separate blog post on the cupcakes alone.

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They went out to play and came back twenty minutes later covered in mud! Good times. They spent the next twenty minutes washing their feet and making soap beards on their faces.

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Later they did some painting. For some reason Eve was really set on painting bird houses with her friends. (we bought them at the store, for cheap, sorry dad!)

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Lex painted a cool lighthouse.

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At 8:30 I started to get them settled. Hoping maybe they would fall asleep. Silly me.

It is now 10:15 and they are still going strong. Just the two of them. I don’t know if four would have been better or worse. I’ve shut off the lights, taken away the glow sticks, and not sure what comes next. Other than another glass of wine and hoping they pass out soon!! My last trip up was because Eve broke a glow stick and got it all over her self. It’s non-toxic, so no worries, but she was scared. I got her cleaned up and changed and hoped maybe that would be the final straw, but alas, I hear them still going strong.

Luckily, tomorrow is a no-plans day! Well, maybe “luckily” isn’t quite the word since I totally planned it that way!!

A letter from the president

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So, last month Eve wrote a letter to the president and today she got a reply back! She was SO excited! She bounced around the kitchen and was shaking a bit when she opened it. I have no idea why so was so excited, but boy was she! She told me she told her classmates that she had written to the president and now she could bring in his response to share.

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The package contained a letter, a photo of Mr. Obama, a photo of the family, a few coloring and sticker sheets, and a few flyers about The White House and the art collection inside. It was a neat little package. She read the letter and hugged it to her chest. I had a hard time not laughing at her the whole time!

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Dear Mr. President, apparently you have a big fan in this little girl. :)

Sexting and NPR

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I was driving with Eve in the car the other day.  She was quiet so I decided to turn on the radio, something I rarely do with the kids in the car.  Usually we just listen to music CDs.  NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” was on and that seemed innocent enough so I left it on.  After a few minutes they came to a question like this, “This guy (I forget his name) got in trouble for sexting while doing what?”  The answer turned out to be sexting while performing surgery and the panel got into a humorous conversation about what exactly that looks like.

Eve: “Mom, are they saying sexting, or texting?”
Me: “Texting.  They’re saying texting.”
Eve: (pause) “Oh.  That’s boring.  Can we put on some music?”
Me: “Yes we can!”

There is a time and a place for a conversation on sexting, but that was not it.  I think we need to have a conversation on sex first, then sexting!