August 2015 - December 2015
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| Martin crawled on hands and knees Sept. 3rd! (9mo) |
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| Martin started shoveling food nonstop this month. |
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Ugh - this happened. The day I left for the beach.
Mike sort of survived on his own...
Then I came home and struggled to take care
of four human beings. |
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We have made wonderful new friends through our church.
We'd love to have them over, but it seems like we
don't have much for guests to do! |
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He is fearless. (Unless we're counting the car's
windshield wipers or jack-in-the boxes.) |
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Martin's bedtime is six o'clock sharp. By seven o'clock
he passes out, even on the dance floor at a wedding. |
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| Sometimes we match, okay? |
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| We are getting a lot of use out of this Goodwill find! |
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| Mike and I pulled some last minute costumes off. |
Elaine was so excited when we bought her costume, but not when the time came to put it on on Halloween night! It took quite a bit of persuasion - she got to see trick-or-treaters at our own door (Elaine: "I was a little wary at first...") - and then Daddy only managed to get her to one house. I eventually talked her into going back out and I dragged her to a bunch more, because I loved Halloween.
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| Elaine turned three! |
I am tremendously ashamed that I don't have more pictures of her birthday! I feel like the worst mom for not making a big deal of it. We were supposed to have friends over to celebrate the day before, but Mike was sick so we canceled. We celebrated on Monday at home with a fun day, pizza and cake.
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| Christmas we spent in Telford for Mammom and Pop-pop :)) |
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| Santa and family were very good to us!! |
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| Stockings were fun |
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| Applying chapstick |
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| Eating his cookies |
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| Christmas Mass |
Memories from September...
- Elaine: "We got that from Target." Randomly, about the kids' shampoo I had bought weeks earlier.
- Martin "ooo"'d through a straw for an entire walk.
- Mike turned 28! We took him to a good barbecue place. The food was great - the kids were terrible. Every time, I ask myself: why do we try to go out??
- On the phone with Mike:
Susie: "Daddy, we made you a surprise."
Elaine: "It's a cake! It's a cake Daddy!"
- Elaine: "Remember when Mark was here? It was just me and Mark in my closet. We were giggling..." She giggles while telling it.
- Martin was crawling on hands and knees very well.
- Elaine: "Who gave me this [broom]? Mam mom - it was a gift from Mam mom!" She remembered that from months ago!
- Mike gave a witness talk at a church event called "Unlock My Heart." When I put Elaine to bed that night, she was asking/worried Daddy was going to forget his keys. She kept repeating it, and I didn't really understand. We're not sure how she knew about the event, because we didn't specifically tell her.
- Elaine shook a banana - "Haha. Look - I taught the banana how to jump."
- When I told Elaine she couldn't have something she dropped to her knees, flung her arms down, and said: "I just can't live like this anymore!" That is a line from Frozen.
October...
- Mike and I celebrated our four year wedding anniversary! :) Mam mom and Pop-pop babysat while we went to an old favorite restaurant in Skippack (amazing food, dessert to die for).
- Martin started clapping! Over the next few weeks he will do it whenever he hears someone clapping or saying "yay."
- We went to the wedding of two friends from Villanova. It was beautiful! And so cool to be back at the church where we were married on our anniversary weekend.
- Then I stayed for a week in Philly with the kids at Mam mom and Pop-pop's house. It was so nice to visit longer. I did manage my goal of processing my belongings there - I think I had something like six boxes of donation and over five huge garbage bags of trash. Amazing!
- Martin really started to interact more and enjoy hide-and-seek and peek-a-boo.
- We got to visit Kelly and Sean and kids at their Williamsburg vacation spot. It was so good to get the families together!
Elaine said something to me about alligators.
Susie: "Who told you about alligators?"
Elaine: "Aunt Kelly."
Susie: Confused.
A few days later I went back to visit again and Elaine asks again about taking the "alligator." Elevator!
- Martin was crawling really fast.
- Elaine hears the timer go off while we're baking biscuits. "I hear the 'tiscuits!"
- Martin had three top teeth come in over a 7-10 day period. His sleeping was horrible. He woke up every hour on some nights.
- We did a weekend trip to Pittsburgh.
