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My Baby J Turns Four! Part 2
The rest of the pics from Jonah’s birthday at home: Happy happy birthday my little son. Your existence may have caught us by surprise and you may be quite a handful at times, but we adore you and thank God for you. You bring silliness and laughter and big hugs to our family and so much joy to our hearts. God gave us a good…
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My Baby J Turns Four! Part 1
I don’t know how this happened and am not entirely convinced of its veracity, but apparently my baby went from this: Since this (thank my lucky stars) is not our party year, we celebrated family style with a lunch at Chuck E. Cheese. He can now even say, “Chuck E. Cheese” instead of the former “Chuckchee!” that used to be cheerfully called out every time we drove past. Sniff. …
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Gone to Grandpa’s, part 2
On New Year’s morning, I woke up to find them like this:
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Gone to Grandpa’s, part 1
And with that, Christmas was over and Phil had to return to work the very next day. He was scheduled to work a lot of hours right through New Year’s day while the kids still had over a week of winter vacation left. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to go spend a few days with Grandpa and Grandma even though we had to leave poor Daddy behind. …
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Christmas
Recapping Christmas. And trying not to be too discouraged that it’s now February and we’re just getting to Christmas. Long gone now are the past-season Christmas sales, the dried up tree, and even the ornaments and decor are all wrapped up and put away for another year (a miracle in itself, by the way). Yet here we are. One day I’ll get caught up. One. Day. Not this day though.
