tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15998538762577799272024-03-14T07:53:27.217-04:00the LecaquesAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.comBlogger400125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-54739621630062439142017-03-16T13:12:00.001-04:002017-03-18T10:49:27.855-04:00Ian's birthSooo I don't know that I'll ever catch up on this blog or if anyone is still reading this, but here is a brief update on our lives this past year. Since I last posted:<br />
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<li>Jamie turned 6 </li>
<li>Thomas took a research trip to France</li>
<li>We packed up, said good bye to Knoxville, and moved to New York</li>
<li>Thomas began teaching at SUNY Orange</li>
<li>We announced we were expecting a third baby </li>
<li>Jamie started kindergarten and after 2 weeks moved up to first grade</li>
<li>We spent Thanksgiving in Knoxville with the Tietjens</li>
<li>We celebrated Christmas at our home here in NY</li>
<li>Thomas applied for, interviewed for, and was offered a job at Grand View University in Des Moines... Iowa here we come!</li>
<li>We've taken brief trips to Maine, Vermont, NYC, and Philadelphia. We're trying to make the most of our 1 year in the Northeast.</li>
<li>And about 2 weeks ago, we welcomed our third baby boy into our family!</li>
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Even though I'm so behind on blogging, I want to write up his birth story while it is still fresh in my mind.<br />
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As soon as we arrived in NY, I found a group of midwives I loved and immediately knew that I wanted to stay with them for my pregnancy and delivery. The only small issue was that the hospital where they deliver is in Kingston, about an hour away from Middletown where we live. But while that wasn't perfect, I also didn't think it was really a big deal since I was sure we'd have plenty of time to get there. Quick reminder: <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-james-thomas-lecaque.html">I was in labor with Jamie</a> for 20+ hours and spent 3 hours pushing. Then <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2014/03/jacobs-birth.html">I was in labor with Jacob</a> for even longer, 27.5 hours, with about 1 1/2 hours of pushing. So a quick labor and delivery was about the last thing on earth I expected.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My last bump picture at 39 weeks + 1 day</td></tr>
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As my due date approached, I hoped the baby wouldn't be too late but was a little worried because Jamie was born at 42 weeks on the nose. The waiting period after you pass your due date is the most miserable part of pregnancy and I did <i>not </i>want to go through that again. Luckily, as it turned out, I did not have to! On March 3rd, my exact due date, I woke up at about 5:00 in the morning with some contractions. At first I wondered if they were just extra uncomfortable Braxton Hicks contractions but as I experienced more of them that seemed less and less likely. When Thomas woke up at 6:30 or so, I mentioned that I might be in labor and he immediately wanted to cancel his classes for the day and get everything ready to go. I, however, was not in such a hurry. Given how long my other labors had lasted, I expected it to be another long drawn-out process. I told him he should still go to campus and just come home after his classes were over. Meanwhile I planned to take Jacob and go walk around the mall to see if things would pick up more.<br />
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But none of that ever happened. The contractions were coming much closer together than I expected that early on, and they also started to get more intense. Thomas went ahead and cancelled his classes. Everything was happening so quickly I didn't know what to think. I was very worried I would have another 20 hours of labor to go, and since I was already in rather a lot of pain, I didn't know how I could make it that long. At 8:00 I called my midwives to let them know I was in labor. Whitney, the one I spoke to and the one who would be at the hospital that day, suggested I come into their office in Kingston to get checked out, just to make sure it was worthwhile getting admitted to the hospital. We made plans to meet there at 10. When I got off the phone, I got in the shower to see if that helped with the pain (it helped a <i>lot </i>with Jacob) but somehow this time it made the contractions <i>worse</i>! They were suddenly even longer and more painful with very little break in between. I was starting to panic a little bit and I kept saying to Thomas, "It's not supposed to feel like this already!!" He called Whitney back and told her we were heading straight to the hospital. At this point it was after 9. With great difficulty, I got out of the shower, got back into my clothes, put on shoes, and got into the car. The drive to Kingston is normally nearly an hour but Thomas made it in about 40 minutes. Now that<i> </i>is a car ride I do not ever wish to relive. Thomas says he was super worried he was going to have to deliver the baby himself on the side of the road, but happily it did not come to that. We blared the Hamilton soundtrack and at first getting in the zone of the music helped me get through the pain but after a while even that stopped working. My water broke before we'd made it very far at all and by the end I was having very intense contractions every couple minutes and feeling a lot of pressure as well. Being stuck in the car and not able to move much was not fun, to say the least. We pulled up to the hospital at 10:25. Thankfully they had free valet parking, so we rushed out of the car and straight inside. They had a wheelchair for me but I could barely bring myself to sit in it while we were quickly admitted. Finally we got up to the maternity floor and into my room.<br />
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One of the reasons I had been so excited to deliver at this particular hospital was because of the variety of non-epidural pain management they offer. In addition to showers, a labor tub, birthing balls and stools, etc, they offer nitrous oxide (laughing gas) which, while extremely common in other countries like England, is rarely found in hospitals in the United States. It doesn't take the pain away but takes away your anxiety about the pain and helps you stay calm. I had been very much looking forward to using it and by the time we got there I desperately wanted it right away. But when we got to the room and Whitney checked my progress, she could already see the baby's head. He was already a good way down into the birth canal and it was too late for anything, including the nitrous oxide. I was a bit in denial because after my other 2 deliveries I just could not believe that the baby could have come down that far on his own. But he had and I was definitely feeling a lot of pressure and a need to push, so I did. I was standing on the floor leaning against Thomas and holding onto his neck for support while I squatted during contractions/pushing. Happily I did not have to push for long. At 11:05 a.m. on March 3rd, 2017, Ian Alexander Lecaque was born! It had only been 6 hours since I had woken up wondering if I was in labor and only 40 minutes since we had pulled up to the hospital doors. What an insane whirlwind of a morning.<br />
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Ian was delivered onto a pillow on the floor beneath me. I was then helped onto the bed and given my sweet boy, who I held and nursed for the next 2 hours without any interruption. He nursed like a champ from the get-go. I could tell right away he was chubbier than his brothers had been, and when he was finally weighed, he came in at a whopping 10 lbs, 1 oz. For my family that is really not out of the ordinary and I commented that we had finally had a Tanner-size baby. The funny thing is that I definitely had the fastest and easiest delivery with Ian despite his being the biggest of my babies. He was 22 inches long, exactly the same as both his brothers.<br />
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That afternoon around 4, Aunt Emily brought Jamie and Jacob to meet their new brother. Jamie was SO excited to meet him! Jacob talked as though he were also excited (as soon as he came in the room he told us he was going to "teach Ian to be a knight") but he was definitely a little wary of the baby and didn't want to hold him. He did give him some kisses and patted his head, and he warmed up to him more at home, though, so it's all good. ;) The boys had made super cute pictures for Ian and had put up a welcome home sign back at the house as well. It was so cute and sweet to have my 3 boys all together for the first time.<br />
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We went home the next day and began our life as a family of 5!<br />
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Between coming on his due date and having such a short labor/delivery, Ian kicked his brothers' butts at this whole birth thing. ;) Luckily I had been planning on having a natural birth (though I would definitely have appreciated the nitrous...). Also luckily, for the third time I had no tearing! When Whitney was checking to see if I would need stitches she actually commented, "I can't even tell you just gave birth!" This time around I didn't even have an IV or a hep-lock either. I love that I was able to choose my own position for delivery without anyone suggesting I move, and I super love that I was able to have that immediate skin-to-skin and bonding time with Ian for so long after his birth. His cord wasn't cut til it stopped pulsating (Thomas cut it this time...the only time he has) and he didn't leave our room or have a bath til the second day. It was definitely my best birth experience out of the 3. Such an amazing delivery and truly one of the most amazing days of my life.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-32482351130625014302016-06-01T20:29:00.001-04:002016-06-01T20:29:26.866-04:00BiltmoreAnd a third weekend in a row was spent with Mark & Sarah's family! They spent part of their spring break in Asheville, NC, and we met them at Biltmore for one of the days. Biltmore was built/owned by one of the Vanderbilts and is the largest privately owned house in the US. The one big downside to the trip was that it was an extremely windy, cold day. When we arrived, the wind chill was below freezing--not what you'd expect when you go to NC in April on your spring break! We took turns going in so we could tour the house without the littlest kids, so poor Christine and Jacob were stuck out in the freezing wind all day. The house was amazing! Seriously. My favorite room was the library, but the basement was also extremely interesting, with all the food preparation areas, an indoor pool, a bowling alley, and an odd "Halloween room." When we had all finished at the house, we went to the farm in the nearby Antler Hill Village, where we got to see animals, climb on tractors and wagons, play old-timey games, and watch a blacksmith and woodworker at work. The blacksmith was one of the highlights of the day. It was a very fun day and we all had a great time!! If only it had been a little warmer...<br />
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A tiny, tiny portion of the grounds...<br />
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Our visit happened to coincide with a "Fashionable Romance" exhibit. Throughout the house were displayed costumes from wedding scenes in movies, including some of my favorites!<br />
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-24894155358054422912016-05-23T18:59:00.001-04:002016-05-23T18:59:08.341-04:00Easter in AtlantaI'm super behind in blogging again, so I'm going to try to get a bunch of posts up with mainly just pictures and little writing.<br />
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We spent Easter weekend in Atlanta this year, but we did Easter baskets at home before we left. Our niece Adriana got baptized that weekend and several other family members were able to come as well, which made for a very fun holiday weekend.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">first time meeting our newest niece, Eleanor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eleanor and Daddy :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">at Adriana's soccer game</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adriana's baptism</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">baby Eleanor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">baby Savannah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie & Eleanor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Savannah & Eleanor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cousins!</td></tr>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-15707224055429399172016-05-23T13:53:00.000-04:002016-05-23T19:00:33.101-04:00Thomas got a JOB!!We are very happy to announce that Thomas was offered and has accepted a tenure-track job teaching at SUNY Orange in Middletown, NY, starting this fall!!<br />
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Middletown is a small town (30,000 people) in the Hudson Valley, about an hour and a half from NYC (it's still considered part of the metropolitan area). We'll be moving there at the end of July. It's a little bittersweet, as we will definitely miss Knoxville and our friends here, but we are very, very excited and grateful for this opportunity. We are looking forward to starting the next phase of our lives!</div>
Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-41803617249569517502016-05-04T14:49:00.000-04:002016-05-04T14:49:38.331-04:00Jacob's birthday!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jacob turned 2 on March 23rd. I know it's a cliche, but I really can't believe 2 years have passed since this sweet and contrary boy joined our family. We had a fun day celebrating him. In the morning, I took the boys to Imagination Forest, a fun play place we'd never been to before. Thomas came home early so he could be there when Jacob opened his presents after his nap. For dinner we had the Tietjens over and made homemade pizza, and we followed that up with a monkey cake for Jacob and cupcakes for the rest of us! I think Jacob had a wonderful 2nd birthday!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of his presents was a cute little chair. I guess the shape was obvious through the wrapping paper because he inadvertently opened it when he sat on it that morning. :)</td></tr>
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Presents!<br />
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Happy birthday, Jacob!! We love you!Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-41614564755483634082016-04-29T13:46:00.000-04:002016-04-29T13:46:15.243-04:00spring break, St. Patrick's Day, and a visit from EmilySpring break this year included lots of hanging out with friends, play time, a day trip to Charlotte, North Carolina, a fun St. Patrick's Day celebration, and a visit from Thomas's sister Emily. The week was so fun and flew by unbelievably fast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas gave Jacob's clothes to Jamie one morning. I was very surprised he could even put them on!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Patrick's Day feast! Mandy made corned beef stew, Irish soda bread, and a rainbow fruit platter. It was all wonderful!</td></tr>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-21399442698695969572016-04-12T14:36:00.000-04:002016-04-12T14:36:48.729-04:00an ode to spring {in pictures}This has been our longest spring ever in Knoxville! It started warming up in February and yet we still haven't hit summer temperatures. We have thoroughly enjoyed this beautiful weather and have spent as much time as possible outside!! Here are our pictures from the last month and a half of heavenly spring weather!<br />
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My friend Mandy and I are both huge Beatles fans. On March 1, Rain, a Beatles tribute band, came to the Tennessee Theatre and we went to see them! We had so much fun!!</div>
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Jamie created his own paratrooper uniform, complete with parachute:</div>
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And Jacob wanted to get in on the action. :)<br />
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Nutella face!<br />
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I found this boy with sitting on our bed with an open tub of Aquaphor. He had smeared it all over his face and hands. When I exclaimed, "What are you doing??!!?" he replied, "Aqua on cheeks." Sometimes in the winter we would put it on his cheeks when they got too chapped. I'm just glad I found him before he touched anything else!! This wasn't fun to clean because it is made to block moisture and doesn't wash off easily.<br />
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These boys. What am I going to do with them??<br />
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"Make me a ridiculous lunch, Mommy."<br />
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I have to document this because it was the lowest price we paid before prices started going back up. It felt unreal.<br />
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Wearing Mommy's shoes :)<br />
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We started having beautiful weather towards the end of February. Lots of outside playtime!!<br />
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I found this on the camera. Baby's first selfie!! Hahaha.</div>
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An afternoon at Fort Kid with the Tietjens. This was our first time there, though I had been meaning to go for years! The kids loved it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the day Jamie lost his tooth. If you look closely, you can see that it was still there in this picture. I noticed it was gone about an hour later.</td></tr>
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And that's a wrap on February!! Hopefully one day I will be caught up on blogging again!Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-63262455051897462742016-04-01T14:30:00.001-04:002016-04-01T14:30:45.385-04:00Jamie's first lost tooth!Jamie lost his first tooth on February 29th. It had been loose for a long time, so we were very excited when it finally fell out! The day he lost it, it had been hanging on just by a little corner and he could twist it all around with his tongue, so we knew it would happen before long. That afternoon/evening we were playing at the park with some friends. We were in the middle of a picnic dinner when I looked at Jamie and realized the tooth was gone! Whether he lost it somewhere on the playground or swallowed it during dinner, we'll never know, but since we didn't have a tooth to put under his pillow, we left the tooth fairy a note instead. Jamie was super excited to find a gold dollar coin under his pillow the next morning!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie dictated the note and then added "Wut doo you doo with teeth?" though some of that is backwards!</td></tr>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-34234676952242917372016-04-01T14:25:00.000-04:002016-04-01T14:25:07.868-04:00new phonesTowards the end of February, we made a big change in our lives and finally made the switch to smartphones. I've been pretty anti-smartphone for a long time, and I'm still not at all convinced it was a good idea. In many ways I find having one too distracting, especially for someone with little kids, but I will admit that there are some perks too. My favorite thing about my new phone is its camera. Here are a few of the first pictures taken on it while we were playing around with it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-91470238293861199162016-04-01T14:16:00.001-04:002016-04-01T14:21:56.547-04:00Jamie's readingJamie and I finished our book of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Phonics-Primer-For-Beginning-Readers/dp/0941995003">phonics lessons</a> in January. It seemed that within no time at all, he went from reading <i>Hop on Pop </i>and <i>Biscuit</i> to being able to read nearly anything. The first longer book he read all by himself was <i>The Magic Finger</i> by Roald Dahl in mid-February. Since then he has read<i> </i>several other chapter books as well, and of course many, many picture books and beginning-reader books. I <i>love</i> finding him curled up with books all over the apartment, and I extra love when he reads stories to Jacob. There's nothing better than seeing him share my love of reading!!<br />
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-11833253528945532922016-03-29T13:57:00.002-04:002016-03-29T13:57:30.024-04:00weekend of gluttonyOne of Thomas's birthday gifts this year was a cassoulet kit. Cassoulet is a French dish, basically a stew of beans and meat and sausage, and it is one of Thomas's most favorite foods. His dad ordered him a kit that came with basically everything required to make it: duck confit legs, sausages, pork belly, 3 pounds of beans, rendered duck fat, etc... The kit makes an enormous amount of food, so we decided to invite friends over to share it, and eventually it evolved into a French-themed dinner party. In addition to the cassoulet, we made a salad and had a cheeseboard, and my friend Mandy brought homemade French baguettes. Sadly there are no pictures of dessert, but Mandy also brought a French chocolate tart, I made a berry clafoutis, our friends Jordan & Nicole brought macarons, and we also put out Le Petit Écolier cookies. It was an amazing meal, and by the end, we were all so full that none of us could move. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jordan and Nicole, Brittany, moi, Mandy and Klayton. not pictured: Thomas (oops, we should have gotten a picture with him!), and five little ones busy wreaking havoc </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">too full even to sit up!</td></tr>
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Perhaps foolishly, we scheduled this party for the night before the Super Bowl. Mandy and Klayton had a big Super Bowl party the next day with even more absurd amounts of food. Fortunately they made it a pajama party, so at least our waists were comfortable. :) We had a blast (kind of) watching (parts of) the game, playing games, and eating ourselves silly once again.<br />
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It was such a fun weekend, but we definitely overdid a little bit!! Monday night, as we were eating leftovers for dinner, Jamie looked at his plate of cassoulet for a minute and quietly asked for more salad. That is completely unlike him, but I think he (and the rest of us) knew our poor tummies had been a bit overwhelmed! We learned our lesson: Our next cassoulet party will <i>not</i> be the same weekend as the Super Bowl or any other day of gluttony!</div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-29837593727118772542016-03-06T14:00:00.000-05:002016-03-06T14:00:00.478-05:00January extrasNow that we're a week into March, maybe it's time to finish up the January blogging... Here's what's left that didn't make it onto any other posts.<br />
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January 1: New Year's Day<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob celebrating the new year. I miss his hair!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas and Jamie made a garden. This was part of a more elaborate game that I no longer remember.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie made dinner from the garden for Peter Rabbit and stacked up books so he could sit at the table.</td></tr>
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January 5: We went to see Sherlock: The Abominable Bride with our friends Mandy and Klayton<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I stole this picture from Mandy's fb :)</td></tr>
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January 12: cute playtime pictures<br />
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January 15:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie made this "pirate ship." He incorporates so many little details when he plays like this. My favorite is that he has toy meat hanging off the edge of the ship "so it can be preserved by the salt spray from the ocean." Seriously, he is the best.</td></tr>
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My friend Mandy & I went to a Harry Potter evening that a weird little shop in Knoxville put on. It turned out to be more of a "come look at our store" event than anything else, but they did have some interesting artwork and we got butterbeer and wands and saw a fire breather. So that's something. :)<br />
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January 18:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie snuggled up reading a book. I love love love it when I find him like this!!</td></tr>
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January 24: Mommy & her boys<br />
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January 27: Thomas & I saw Guster in concert. They were awesome and we had so much fun!!</div>
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January 28: I took Jamie to a "Very Young People's Concert" at the Tennessee Theatre. The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra played music and told stories to engage children in the symphony. They ended with Peter and the Wolf, which is one of Jamie's favorites. Afterwards we went out to lunch together. It was a great little Mommy-Jamie date. :)</div>
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<li>Thomas started a new D&D group (as if he has time for that!).</li>
<li>I joined a new book club. </li>
<li>Thomas had his first phone interview!! He has since had 2 additional Skype interviews, and he's currently on his way to his first on-campus interview! He also has another Skype interview next week. He's still applying for more jobs and next year is still very much up in the air, but it has been so great to see hiring committees taking interest in him!</li>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-41343703799694890222016-03-05T12:44:00.000-05:002016-03-05T12:44:22.294-05:00weekend in Atlanta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My brother Benj recently had jaw surgery and had some time off of work. During that time he found some absurdly cheap plane tickets to Atlanta, so he flew out to visit Mark & Sarah, and we headed down to see everyone too! It also happened to coincide with Christine's 3rd birthday, so we got to join the celebration. Sarah was pregnant with Christine when they first moved to Atlanta, so we have really gotten to watch her grow up. She's such a cute, sweet girl! It was so fun to celebrate her birthday and to spend time with family that weekend!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The weekend started off with Christine's super cute Snow White-themed birthday party.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lots of baby time too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We couldn't find Jacob's pajamas one night, so he got to borrow Christine's. Even though she is 14 months older than he is, they are about the same size. :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob & Uncle Benj. . .and Jacob is actually wearing Christine's pants here too, ha ha! The ones we took for him to wear to church turned out to be too big. It's nice to be able to borrow your cousin's clothes! ;)</td></tr>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-85868545427055749692016-02-17T16:03:00.001-05:002016-02-17T23:59:02.800-05:00Thomas's birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Thomas turned 31 on January 22nd. We had a fun evening with presents, pot roast, and carrot cake, and the next night we had friends over to continue the celebration! It was a great birthday!</div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-65515507797942042612016-02-16T13:01:00.001-05:002016-02-16T13:01:16.555-05:00snow day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Jacob had his first haircut on January 11th (21.5 months old). It was a tragic day. He had started to seem bothered by having his hair in his face, so it felt like it was time. I will forever miss his beautiful golden curls.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie was feeling a little left out since I was taking an absurd number of pictures of Jacob, so he jumped in for a few shots as well.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ONLY thing keeping him in that chair and allowing this to happen was that lollipop. And he got another when the first was gone. Even now, a month later, if you talk about haircuts he'll say "wowwipop!"</td></tr>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-60789285266118222112016-02-08T14:44:00.000-05:002016-02-08T14:45:23.519-05:002015 booksBooks I read in 2015:<br />
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<i>Shades of Milk and Honey</i> by Mary Robinette Kowal<br />
<i>The Girls of Atomic City</i> by Denise Kiernan<br />
<i>Yes Please</i> by Amy Poehler<br />
<i>Where She Went</i> by Gayle Forman<br />
<i>The Husband's Secret</i> by Liane Moriarty<br />
<i>Where'd You Go, Bernadette</i> by Maria Semple<br />
<i>Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife</i> by Peggy Vincent<br />
<i>Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell</i> by Susanna Clarke<br />
<i>Big Little Lies</i> by Liane Moriarty<br />
<i>Orphan Train</i> by Christina Baker Kline<br />
<i>The Rosie Effect</i> by Graeme Simsion<br />
<i>Mister Pip</i> by Lloyd Jones<br />
<i>The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories</i> by Susanna Clarke<br />
<i>The Light Between Oceans </i>by M. L. Stedmen<br />
<i>The Girl on the Train</i> by Paula Hawkins<br />
<i>Travelling to Infinity</i> by Jane Hawking<br />
<i>A Wrinkle in Time </i>by Madeleine L'Engle<br />
<i>The Goldfinch</i> by Donna Tartt<br />
<i>Island of the Blue Dolphins</i> by Scott O'Dell<br />
<i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i> by Kurt Vonnegut<br />
<i>The Night Circus</i> by Erin Morgenstern<br />
<i>American Gods</i> by Neil Gaiman<br />
<i>The Remains of the Day</i> by Kazuo Ishiguro<br />
<i>The Martian</i> by Andy Weir<br />
<i>Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</i> by Robin Sloan<br />
<i>The Colour of Magic</i> by Terry Pratchett<br />
<i>Station Eleven</i> by Emily St. John Mandel<br />
<i>Death Comes to Pemberley </i>by P. D. James<br />
<i>All the Light We Cannot See</i> by Anthony Doerr<br />
<i>The Lightning Thief</i> by Rick Riordan<br />
<i>Go Set a Watchman </i>by Harper Lee<br />
<i>The Bookseller</i> by Cynthia Swanson<br />
<i>Delirium </i>by Lauren Oliver<br />
<i>Deenie</i> by Judy Blume<br />
<i>Their Eyes Were Watching God</i> by Zora Neale Hurston<br />
<i>Pandemonium</i> by Lauren Oliver<br />
<i>Requiem </i>by Lauren Oliver<br />
<i>The Beatles Anthology </i>by the Beatles<br />
<i>The Invention of Wings</i> by Sue Monk Kidd<br />
<i>The Road</i> by Cormac McCarthy<br />
<i>Carry On </i>by Rainbow Rowell<br />
<i>At the Water's Edge</i> by Sara Gruen<br />
<i>Somewhere in France</i> by Jennifer Robson<br />
<i>After the War is Over</i> by Jennifer Robson<br />
<i>Career of Evil </i>by Robert Galbraith<br />
<i>Flowers for Algernon </i>by Daniel Keyes<br />
<i>Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation</i> by Philip Norman<br />
<i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</i> by J. K. Rowling<br />
<i>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets </i>by J. K. Rowling<br />
<i>Wintergirls</i> by Laurie Halse Anderson<br />
<i>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban </i>by J. K. Rowling<br />
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It was a year of surprisingly few re-reads (I <i>love </i>re-reading books. My favorite Oscar Wilde quote: "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.").<br />
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My favorites, not including ones I'd read before, in no particular order:<br />
<i>All the Light We Cannot See</i><br />
<i>Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell</i><br />
<i>Big Little Lies</i><br />
<i>The Night Circus</i><br />
<i>Where'd You Go, Bernadette</i><br />
<i>A</i><i>merican Gods</i><br />
<i>Station Eleven</i><br />
<i>The Road</i><br />
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also, chapter books I read with Jamie in 2015:<br />
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<i>The Wind in the Willows</i> by Kenneth Grahame<br />
<i>The BFG </i>by Roald Dahl<br />
<i>Little House in the Big Woods</i> by Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />
<i>The Carpet People</i> by Terry Pratchett<br />
<i>The Bad Beginning</i> by Lemony Snicket<br />
<i>The Reptile Room</i> by Lemony Snicket<br />
<i>The Wide Window </i>by Lemony Snicket<br />
<i>The Miserable Mill </i>by Lemony Snicket<br />
<i>Little House on the Prairie </i>by Laura Ingalls WilderAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-33896194712661367082016-02-08T14:24:00.000-05:002016-02-17T23:58:03.017-05:00DecemberPictures from December that didn't make it on to any other posts...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">helping make holiday treats</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously, I cannot keep this boy on the ground. Leave him alone for 30 seconds and he's climbing on something. Another 30 seconds and I guarantee he would have been IN the sink.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">yep, that's my toothbrush. Thanks for that, Jacob. (Can you tell Jamie LOVES having a partner for all his mischief-making?)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We got a book about WWI from the library book sale. Jamie and I read it together for at least an hour, and then he made up an elaborate game where he was a soldier in the war and fighting from the trenches. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie was playing Grinch, so he found his dog Max and he took some red thread and he tied a big horn on the top of his head.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">another day, another sink...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lots of arts projects going on, always</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made salt dough ornaments as some of our gifts this year. Jamie in particular had a great time making them. Jacob got to help paint a few, until he tried to eat them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the "before," but unfortunately I didn't get an "after" picture! He was such. a. mess!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randomly found this. Jamie had been copying out portions of one of Thomas's books.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made some more felt ornaments for Christmas gifts this year. these were for my brother Nathaniel's family</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">waiting to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens!! We saw it opening night and loved it, even Mr. It-Can-Never-Live-Up-To-My-Expanded-Universe-Expectations!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This may have happened a few times before Jacob finally got a haircut. Poor boy, ha ha!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another sewing lesson. This is the pillow he made for Peter Rabbit's Christmas present.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both my boys have been OBSESSED with playing with dried beans around this age! Jacob seriously asks to do this every single day. I often say no because there are a lot of days I just can't handle the mess it makes, but boy does he love it!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">playing at the park the day after Christmas... with no jackets. It was like 70 degrees!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went down to Atlanta for our niece Savannah's blessing on December 27th. We forgot the memory card and have literally zero pictures from the trip, so I borrowed this from Sarah's blog. Savannah is such a darling baby!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Year's Eve! We had an early fake midnight for Jamie and then stayed up playing games and eating snacks to welcome in 2016!</td></tr>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599853876257779927.post-6798545551234247632016-01-16T20:27:00.000-05:002016-01-16T20:27:28.086-05:00Christmas day 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Christmas day was very fun, filled with lots of presents, playing, and too much good food...just what you'd hope for.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas Eve right before these elves headed to bed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie got two rolls of masking tape, a magnifying glass, a half dollar, a bag of chocolate coins, an orange, and a candy cane in his stocking. He also got a construction Lego set and a baby doll (that he had asked for). I was a little frustrated when I could only find really girly dolls, not knowing if he would care whether it was a boy or a girl. I finally got one that had blue clothes...and then he decided it was a girl and named her Sally. I guess it didn't matter after all!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob had in his stocking an orange, a bag of chocolate coins, a candy cane, a box of chunky crayons, a new cup, and <i>Duck & Goose Colors</i>. He also got a Duplo construction set and some new play-doh. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">breakfast was overnight baked French toast with berries and whipped cream, plus bacon, orange juice, and gingerbread coffee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cute, cute Jamie made Peter Rabbit a gift this year (a little pillow that he sewed himself!). He helped Peter open it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of Jamie's very favorites!! He wore this almost all day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On a whim I picked up these $3 knock-off lightsabers when I saw them in the dollar section at Target. They were a HUGE hit and have probably been the single most-played-with toys from Christmas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my gift to Thomas...He was a little jealous of the boys' stockings when I made them, so I made him his own personalized one too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie's gift from the cousin exchange was a set of Darth Vader pajamas. He decided they were a dress-up instead. Put together with the cape and mask he already had and one of the lightsabers I bought, he now has a complete Darth Vader outfit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the Christmas decorations Jamie made for us throughout the month. Jacob colored the gingerbread boy on the left and Jamie made all the rest.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lightsaber fights in the dark</td></tr>
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Christmas Eve day was pretty low-key... mostly just food preparation and playing with the boys. We hung up our stockings and finished up any last minute gift wrapping. We had a delicious turkey dinner followed by acting out the Nativity scene and reading <i>The Night Before Christmas</i>. We ate pie, left cookies out for Santa, took a picture by the tree, and finally got the boys to bed.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob was pretty good about leaving the ornaments on the tree, but he loved to touch them. He'd go around poking them and saying, "Ball... ball... ball..."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie thought he was ruining my picture by jumping in at the last second, but it ended up with my getting a rare picture of his real smile. Joke's on him!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">from our Nativity scene... Jamie played both a shepherd and a wiseman. Jacob was not interested in being involved and escaped at the first possible moment.</td></tr>
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Here were the activities we planned for each day:<br />
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1. Make paper countdown chain<br />
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2. Write letter to Santa<br />
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"Deer Santa clos<br />
I love the prezens yuo breeing. Thai are wudrfl. I'd Lice a bag uv hcoclit coyns, a cadie cain, a toy, a dol hows and sum dols. Miu bruther wons sum plaito [play-doh].<br />
Jamie"<br />
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He also included some pictures of presents for Santa. Cutie.<br />
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3. Angel Tree - Jamie picked out a toy for a boy about his age (some sort of alligator truck).<br />
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4. Cooking decorating with friends - Our friends the Tietjens came over and decorated sugar cookies with us. We had a lot of fun.<br />
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5. Home Depot kids workshop<br />
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6. Put up the Christmas tree<br />
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7. Decorate your door like a snowman<br />
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8. String cotton balls to look like snow<br />
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9. Make paper snowflakes<br />
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10. <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2015/12/thomass-graduation.html">Daddy's graduation</a> and playing with cousins (I knew we wouldn't have time for anything extra that day!)<br />
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11. Christmas shopping - We went to the store so Jamie could pick out his present for Jacob. Ahead of time he decided he wanted to get a board book about Elmo, and he found a really cute one.<br />
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12. Watch <i>How The Grinch Stole Christmas </i>(animated version!)<br />
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13. Meet Santa - Jamie loved this and was brimming with questions to ask Santa when it was his turn. Meanwhile, Jacob hated every second of it.<br />
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14. Learn about Hanukkah - We read some Hanukkah books from the library, made potato latkes for dinner, and played a dreidel game.<br />
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15. Make <a href="http://www.agirlandaboy.com/journal/archives/0011622.html">borax snowflakes</a> - This is one that didn't end up happening.<br />
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16. Christmas color-by-numbers<br />
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17. Make cinnamon ornaments (we used <a href="http://backtoherroots.com/2013/12/10/super-easy-homemade-cinnamon-ornaments/">these instructions</a> but didn't do any painting)<br />
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18. Watch <i>Home Alone</i><br />
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19. String popcorn and cranberries - Didn't end up doing this one.<br />
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20. Make a gingerbread house - A huge tradition in my family! Previous editions: <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2009/12/holidays-and-like.html">2009</a>, <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2012/01/christmas-break-part-1.html">2011</a>, <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2012/12/gingerbread-house.html">2012</a>, <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2014/01/gingerbread-house.html">2013</a>, <a href="http://lecaque.blogspot.com/2015/01/festivities.html">2014</a>. We had a little bit of trouble this year with a cracked roof piece, but I "glued" it back together with frosting, and after it dried it was fine. It was also Jacob's first year helping, which basically meant Jacob's first time eating a ton of candy that was intended for the house. He only put on a couple of pieces; the rest went straight in his mouth! Jamie was super creative and planned almost all the decorations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">roofless because the frosting wasn't hard enough yet on the cracked part</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie's awesome snow fort idea</td></tr>
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21. Drink hot chocolate - <a href="http://ourbestbites.com/2009/11/ultimate-hot-chocolate/">Homemade hot chocolate</a> with <a href="http://ourbestbites.com/2009/12/homemade-marshmallows/">homemade marshmallows</a>. Yummmmm.<br />
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22. Take a drive to look at Christmas lights - A couple of homes close to us have special light shows that are synced with Christmas music that you can tune to on your car radio. Those were awesome.<br />
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23. Make cookies for Santa - This didn't end up happening either because a large basket of Christmas cookies and brownies arrived from Thomas's Uncle Geoff that day and we decided to share those with Santa instead.<br />
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24. Read <i>The Night Before Christmas</i> and the Christmas story from the Bible - more on this later!Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266514331616032663noreply@blogger.com0