tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28874876967310821942024-02-06T20:02:09.199-10:00Blah Blah BlogLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.comBlogger567125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887487696731082194.post-18605702804530473872015-04-01T17:25:00.002-10:002015-04-01T17:25:20.152-10:00My First Science Fair<br />
Pet Paw Preference - Avery<br />
School: Sweepstakes Winner<br />
District (or whatever level was next): Sweepstakes Winner<br />
Prepared: the night before.<br />
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Are dogs left or right pawed? Turns out most do have a preferred "hand".<br />
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"The Awesome Popcorn" - Miles</div>
School: First Place (this is below Sweepstakes)<br />
Prepared: Well in advance and all by himself<br />
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Does one brand of popcorn pop better than another. Couldn't use bagged popcorn because all of the weights differed among brands. Used 100 kernals and popped in pan for 2 minutes. Try each of three brands. Repeat and repeat again.<br />
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Findings - the "best" brand was Jiffy Pop - however, that brand was a white popcorn vs a yellow corn. Another girls project that tested different colors of corn, found white to pop the best also. <br />
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Is he his dad's kid or what?</div>
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My favorite slide from the whole science fair - not sure why this one didn't win:</div>
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PS - Here is another random school science project by Avery. </div>
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Photographed for posterity, disposed of in the name of sanity and order. </div>
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Rest in Peace.</div>
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Our favorite little honey-badger just turned five. Loves Lego's and Ninja Turtles, knows how to swim and ride a bike. Likes salad and junk food. Doesn't wear socks or underwear.Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887487696731082194.post-23655370848607046232015-02-25T18:51:00.003-10:002015-02-25T19:03:22.324-10:00School Days 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photos by <a href="http://sarawestbrookphotography.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sara Westbrook</a>Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887487696731082194.post-7547189816517612172015-01-27T09:30:00.001-10:002015-01-27T09:39:03.823-10:00Hello, 2015? Is this mic on? <span style="font-size: x-small;">tap tap tap</span><br />
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I feel like I have been missing something the last twenty-some months or so. Photos that have gone un-uploaded, thoughts that have had no where to escape and a general feeling of disconnect from cyberspace and all of the grandparents, aunts and friends that live there. <br />
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Lots has changed since I have been consistent in posting. We live in a totally different climate. I don't wear glasses anymore. I finally broke down and bought a smartphone (used on Ebay but still). My VW broke down too many times to make it a reliable primary vehicle, but I still have it, for now. We have a cat (yikes). Miles is a cub scout. Avery is a girl scout. Cruz learned how to swim. Ben doesn't get up at 5am for work. Otherwise we are mostly the same. Stay tuned!<br />
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It's a scary one folks...she's going as a tween.<br />
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Documentation of Miles' long hair that I hate and hope he will agree to cut soon (he says he wants to get it long enough so he can see what it tastes like...great)<br />
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For the record, she wouldn't listen to me about what type of fabric would make the best curtains. She wanted to choose the softest comfiest fabric - which obviously is a challenge to get to not flop over at the top, so we will remedy by pinning. We made the curtain rod with electrical conduit (more on that later). </div>
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Avery was selected to represent her class in the school spelling bee. Studying with her was excruciating. Each word had to be commented upon and dramatized, making it difficult to get through more than 10 words in a sitting. Eventually I just suggested that she watch Akeelah and the Bee and hoped that she would serendipitously get a word that she heard in the movie. The night before the event she was a little more serious in her studies. <br />
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It goes without saying that you would wear your (snow)leopard print pants for the main event. She was cool and confident and I felt pretty darn nervous. The setting instantly took me back a quarter century to my own participation in the district bee*. <br />
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Round one - R-O-B-O-T <br />
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She loved the experience and wore her everyone's a winner medal all day and evening long. <br />
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I feel like toilet paper holders are a bit of a problem child in our house decorating past. They aren't cheap and the ones we like seem to get loose beyond repair or break in some other fashion. Once again my monthly Internet bill is one I don't hate paying, because I get so much use out of it. I'm not going to pretend that I thought this up myself. All I had to do was Google, "sturdy DIY toilet paper roll holder" and I had a bevy of images to browse until I found one that would fit our aesthetic and skill set. </div>
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<br />Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887487696731082194.post-23419673154917712522014-01-02T10:53:00.000-10:002014-01-02T10:53:01.283-10:00Hola 2014!With a giant bucket of Popcornopolis assorted mix by my side I am excited to welcome the new year and get back to the keyboard again (my right wrist and it's ulner nerve issues...less excited). Being a more faithful blogger is not my new years resolution*, it just so happens that we barely unpacked our computer a few weeks ago and I have been legitimately off-line and unplugged since last June. And it has been that long since I have had a kitchen also. We are only partially moved in to our new place (we made an Army sponsored move to Texas/Mexico) So much and so little has happened in the last six months but I hope to be able to fill in snippets as I download pictures from the camera and as pertinent events are recalled. I am also starting a new blog reminiscent of our Washington <a href="http://homesweetlot.blogspot.com/">house building site</a> that will serve as a very depressing record of our attempt to remodel an old house instead of building from scratch (the latter is way easier). The progress can be followed <a href="http://homesweetarroyo.blogspot.com/">here</a> once I find the courage to relive the last few months. <br />
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So, last I left off we were in the middle of this (packing to move):<br />
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Once we were packed and on the road we did this:<br />
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the highlight of the summer was this:<br />
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*This year my efforts will be toward speaking more kindly to my husband especially when discussing matters related to house improvements as terse words do not improve a tense situation (it only makes for good tv and we don't have a reality show). Hopefully the kids will be kinder to each other as a result of my example. Happy New Year everybody!</div>
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Cool things about El Paso. It's a fairly big city with the nearest big city (besides Ciudad Juarez) being hours away. It's also a university town. Because of these two things we have a vibrant but navigable downtown and a fair number of special events, one being the Sunbowl. I figured that someday we would catch a game, but as we have extremely charitable neighbors, someday became today, the 80th annual Sunbowl, where UCLA stomped the Virginia Tech Hokies 42-12. <br />
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The stadium is pretty neat, built into a hill with views of Mexico and the weather was awesome. Taking the kids to the game seemed like a fun family event and even though they are smiling in the pictures they didn't really love it. What they did love was the Sunbowl Fiesta at the convention center the night before with all sorts of entertainment and games to stand in line for. Three Dog Night played and sounded surprisingly amazing and the night was capped off with some fireworks. Just a usual Monday night in El Paso. <br />
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Isn't this super fun photography? The older kids and I were invited for quite the adventure with the ultra-genius artist <a href="http://www.photosbykerrie.com/">Kerrie</a> E. and her family. We braved a steep descent, train tracks and the possible threat of sea lions to get these night shots. That is me flinging fire above my head and below are the glow-sticked outlines of the kids and I. Hopefully this is as close to a rave as any of us get.<br />
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Make sure to check out this website, you won't be sad: <a href="http://www.photosbykerrie.com/">www.photosbykerrie.com</a> <br />
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These are some of my captures from the night below, it doesn't hurt to get tips from a pro:<br />
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In between the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 competitions we took a little drive to Hoosier town - Milan, IN.<br />
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Check out this bracket. It was handwritten and probably about 6 feet tall by 3 feet wide.<br />
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Going back to Indiana this month I remembered that I never posted my last trip there, which was in 2009 to celebrate the life of my grandfather Hank. Going back just isn't the same without him there. It is far less delicious for one.<br />
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Here are some words from his kids that were read at the service:<br />
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<i>As far back as we can remember our dad (my grandpa) was a hard worker. But when not working he enjoyed having fun with his family and friends. He definitely believed in giving 100% or more to whatever he was doing. In fact, his work ethic has probably been our curse in that we have trouble relaxing or being idle. This is also a trait in our children and grandchildren. Of course, this shouldn’t be a surprise to any of the Lyons family since it has been recorded that our ancestors were also like this. A book on “early pioneers of Johnson County” stated that Robert Lyons, who settled near this cemetery in 1823, was hardy, industrious and friendly to a fault. We have seen this trait over and over in our family and definitely in our father.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Some of the early memories we have of dad was the thrill of sitting next to him on some of the heavy equipment he would operate. We can still remember the awe we felt as he could move those giant machines around so easily. Even today we still marvel at how smoothly and efficiently he could operate any machine. It was so easy for dad that Mark thought he could do it (Mark was a teenager who thought he could do anything). So, Dad gave him the chance to operate a bulldozer to level some ground. When Mark was done the ground was as flat as an old washboard. Mark remembered another worker on the project asking dad if Mark was his kid. In spite of the obvious lack of coordination dad said yes.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>When dad wasn’t working there were many fun times. And what was unique about these times was that whatever we were doing almost always involved many other family members (grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins) and friends. We thought that was pretty normal, but as we got older we realized that being together as an extended family, as we were, was not that common. There were family gatherings, picnics, camping, boating, fishing and hunting. Each “get-together” almost always turned into a memorable event. There was just something about the mixture of those family members and friends that could turn your average gathering into a story that would be told a hundred times. We are sure this is a genetic trait.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>We learned many things from Hank but three things stand out and have become kind of our motto for living. This is “work hard, have fun and be kind”. We loved our dad and will miss him. We are proud to be part of his heritage – the Lyons family.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Avery's first visit (second if you count in utero)</div>
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If you don't come back from a trip to Indiana 5 lbs heavier than something is wrong.</div>
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My paternal grandparents. A mismatch if there ever was one :)</div>
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Me and my dad in Indy, 2009.</div>
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White Castles, Beer (any) and Corn (smuggled over from Iowa). It's what's for dinner.<br />
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This is what happens when you eat too many White Castles...<br />
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<br />Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887487696731082194.post-56974866779182826392013-02-24T17:06:00.003-10:002013-02-24T17:06:58.398-10:00Winter RecitalWe just got back from a <em>lovely</em> two hours spent listening to beginning violin students. Each time I look forward to these performances and then each time I am reminded that there is indeed something worse than listening to your own children trying to tame the strings...and of course that is listening to other peoples children. I had to do it, now so do you. <br />
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Avery will will playing an 'Ode to Joy' remix for you, followed by Miles with a Norwegian childrens song 'Klokken Atte' played with a very out of tune E string for your enhanced listening pleasure.<br />
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I personally like this snippet of Miles enjoying the other performances. The music is actually not half bad on this one. <br />
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I am confident that I learn at <em>least</em> one new thing everyday. At least. This week was particularly enriching. I picked up some awesome new skills. Nothing I can put on my resume just yet but small victories nonetheless.<br />
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Project #1 - Radiant Heat repair. Our radiant heat mat shorted out about 2 years ago. I thought it might be time to remedy this. I did not locate the short and repair it. I hired someone who had really fancy equipment to come in and do that. It was pretty cool. But he identified some potential trouble spots where the wires crossed over so we were going to have to pull those up and rearrange them if we wanted the repair to last. So using some tools that I hadn't touched since a sculpture class in college (I know it probably seems like yesterday but it was oh, 13 YEARS AGO!!) I took up the remaining tiles. <br />
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Unfortunately in the process one of the wires got mangled in the process. So I got a quick phone course in splicing wires and I was off to Radio Shack for some butt splice connectors (The fifth-grader in me was embarrassed to ask for them by name - and the fifth grader in the cashier snickered at me when I did.)<br />
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The primary insulation contained three teeny tiny wires which each had to be spliced individually. They were too small for the smallest divot in the wire cutters so I had to use an exacto-knife. This was probably a job for a surgeon...but as Avery said "mom, it's so sad you had to do all of this work and dad just watched t.v.")<br />
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After exposing the six wires, I used the connectors to get them all joined together. This wasn't easy either. The wires were really hard to clamp down on due to their size, eventually they all got connected and voila when I turned on the juice the floor heated up. I then put a heat shrink wrap on and hit it up with the blow dryer to get on there nice and snug. Then we tiled over it and so far so good. (I know it looks like this was all done in one setting, but it really was a process over three weeks time)<br />
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About every fifteen years or so I get the urge to give myself highlights at home. Even though this did not turn out well last time I did it, after watching a few YouTube videos I was pretty sure I could do this. We didn't have YouTube last time I tried. I am needing to go in for a cut anyway and I figured I could either pay $100+ to have my boy Jose sunkiss my locks or I could try to highlight them myself and if I messed up I could either do an all over permanent color or pay $100+ to have my mistake professionally fixed. A few months ago Chelsey had taken me darker and let me have a little ombre fun which I really liked, but Chelsey lives too far away to have her touch it up. </div>
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After an intellectual conversation with the girl from Sally Beauty I had the confidence and the equipment to go for it. All for under $10, and that includes the conditioning repair pack she upsold me. So, with one package of Clairol peroxide powder, some 30 developer, a sheet of foil, a plastic bowl and a disposable toothbrush courtesy of my local dentist, I was in business. </div>
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Also somewhere in this week I successfully represented myself in court against an unwarranted speeding ticket. I don't have any pictures of this project but I learned some things about requesting discovery and raising reasonable doubt that I hopefully don't have to use in the future. </div>
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And, if you have a Brother printer and want to know how to get those ink cartridges to last longer, I have a hack for you that I will post when I get back from being a mother. </div>
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This picture doesn't have anything to do with anything...except that maybe it does. I get online in the morning to check real estate listings, or to blog... and then what happens...I end up getting sucked in to either horrible horrible news stories and link after link of awful things that humans are doing to each other or themselves, then that eats at me all day <em>or,</em> on a good day<em> </em>I end up looking at videos of girls burning their hair off while curling, Asian guys playing the violin (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSBefGi7F-Y">this</a> is my particular favorite) or pictures of people being blown in the face with a leaf blower (more @ <a href="http://www.demilked.com/leaf-blower-portraits-tadao-cern/">demilked.com </a> - while there check out the pics of people with their <a href="http://www.demilked.com/scotch-tape-portraits-wes-naman/">faces scotch taped</a> (we are totally doing this sometime) or amazing design ideas or these <a href="http://www.demilked.com/high-resolution-sun-images-alan-friedman/">pics of the sun</a>, whoa!). Humans are brilliant and awful and hilarious and cruel and everything we do is on the Internet. <br />
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If I'm not on the computer I am cleaning.<br />
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Or trying to be a better human/parent/wife/daughter/sister/friend/...human covered it didn't it.<br />
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So what's up with the Westies lately? February isn't over yet but I'm just gonna get a jump on this recap thing.<br />
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<strong>Me:</strong> I wore contact lenses last week for what might be the very last time. I'm getting either Lasik or PRK in a couple days, so if you have any advice for me either way, tell me now. I'm pretty excited to see.<br />
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<strong>Ben:</strong> Has one very full time job and does it very well. I debated over whether to share this email that he was forwarded, but it makes me so proud of him and if people scotch-taping their face is worth recording, then this definitely is:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">MEDCOM MAMC<br />Subject: Patient comments (UNCLASSIFIED)<br />Classification: UNCLASSIFIED<br />Caveats: NONE<br /><br />There have been many wonderful comments on the new patient satisfaction survey but I had to share this evaluation of Dr. Westbrook from the parent of a special needs child:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You know what, it's aggravating at first to wait, but we're military and we're not waiting for fast food or anything. This young man is fantastic. Very good bedside manner. Has a sweet way when patient/patient's parents are breaking down due to scary news. I would wait two hours to be heard and understood like this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. <br /><br />Dr. Harsha...wonderful.<br /><br />Absolute trust in their abilities</span>.<br />
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I got this email the day after Valentine's Day when Ben went to work at 5am, got home at 10:30pm and went back to work on a call at 4am the next day. For him to have any kind of bedside manner on this type of schedule is beyond me. <br />
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At the moment Ben is at a work-related training course in Las Vegas and apparently he's doing a fair job in his hobby as well. <br />
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<strong>The kids</strong> - I can't think of anything specific about what they have been up to the last few months so I will just comment on their general personalities and behaviors at this point in time. Avery still loves to stay up late (reading, watching movies on her portable DVD player or folding paper) and she remains agreeable and easy to get up in the morning, although she is starting to take a long time to put her hair into a ponytail because she strives for perfection. You would think that someone who wants to have every hair in place would not want to wear the same outfit everyday. I don't know where the perfection thing comes from (actually I do but I am protecting the innocent) but I am pretty sure that I wore my hair in a ponytail everyday along with the same black stretch pants and rotated camp t-shirts. She is also like me in that she is a money saver and takes excruciating care in how she spends it (excruciating for everyone else). She about killed me at Chuck E. Cheese (I know) last week when it took her 2 hours to spend 15 tokens, deliberating over every game and every possibility of how to spend those darn things. At the end I was even taking tokens out of her cup and just sticking them in random games just so we could be done (and it takes A LOT for me to be wasteful like that). Miles on the other hand... Miles spent his tokens in about 10 minutes then went to his wallet and bought another 20, bam bam bam, GONE. The best part is that he wore a fanny pack that he bought at the AWANA store with his AWANA bucks and he had his tokens in there, easy access, then he would stash his tickets in there too. He would also wear the same thing everyday to school if I let him. It has to have an elastic waistband. And it always comes back home filthy because he loves playing tackle soccer at school. And he hates to eat. Cruz on the other hand...when I asked Cruz if he wanted to go the park the other day when we were walking Chambers Bay, he said "YES! Is there food there?" (And he just now as if on cue, came into the office saying "mom, I'm hungry!" so pause, I have to go get him something to snack on, which will likely be a yogurt (have you tried the choibani kids chocolate chunk greek yogurt - so good!) a big carrot (he doesn't do baby carrots, an ethical issue maybe), an apple, a string cheese or a pb and honey (he doesn't wike jewwy) or whatever it is that you're eating. He is also generally nude and/or on the iPad. I don't think I celebrated this before but he is 100% potty-trained as of last September, so I don't really feel like I have a baby in the house anymore. And while I should be excited that we don't have the diaper expense anymore, he uses about a half a roll of toilet paper per trip, so I think we're about even there. Here he is taking a business call. <br />
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To balance out the trip to Chuck E. Cheese, we got some culture at the MOHAI grand opening in Seattle where our friend Meka works. We also got some <a href="http://seriouspiewestlake.com/index.php?page=dahllia-workshop">Serious Biscuits</a> while in the neighborhood. A couple pics of the kids enjoying this outing as well as some fabulous moustachery can be seen<a href="http://manchaks.blogspot.com/2013/01/well-it-happened-we-finished-building.html"> here</a>. We also took the kids on a family date (Miles didn't want to go on a family 'date' because he was worried that there would be kissing.) to the Glass Museum in Tacoma. I forgot my camera but the visit was inspiring. <br />
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We came, we saw, we skiied. After checking out what our friendly neighbors to the North had to offer in the summer, we knew it was only a matter of time before we would be back and we got an offer we couldn't refuse - free lodging and good friends (McArthur's) to spend time with. We swapped real school for ski school and I would do it again in a second. I learned that I prefer skiing to snowboarding, and we were spoiled with perfect weather conditions and tons of runs to choose from. The best part was probably skiing with the kids. We rode to the top of Whistler mountain, skiied down a bit, took a lift back to the top, crossed over to Blackcomb mountain on the 1.88 mile Peak2Peak Gondola and skiied down to the base with Avery and Miles. Here's a little (shaky) glimpse of our adventure:<br />
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Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887487696731082194.post-31694538670896913092013-01-14T19:00:00.000-10:002013-01-23T10:57:59.432-10:009!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887487696731082194.post-58165833152714398642013-01-08T06:59:00.001-10:002013-01-08T07:00:20.549-10:00Um, How do you spell that?There always seems to be a funny story about what people name their kids, either in the news or passed around among friends. Some of the most famous (Lemongello and Orangegello) have been written off as urban legend, but I don't know if that's because even once a true story starts getting sent as a mass email it's truthfulness becomes suspect or what. (I am actually quite positive that someone has named their children these names, I just don't know about the accuracy of surrounding details). Recently in the news someone named their baby Hashtag - a girl. When you have family members and friends who are teachers or doctors you often get to hear of some good ones. Some of my favorites include:<br />
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-<strong>Velvet </strong>and <strong>Velvida</strong> (sp?)(twins)<br />
-<strong>Pajama</strong> (pa-juh-may)<br />
- <strong>Courvoisier</strong><br />
- <strong>Amazion</strong><br />
-<strong>La-A</strong> (la-dash-a) (this name has been seen and confirmed by two people I know and trust - in different hospitals!)<br />
- <strong>Million Dollar Baby</strong> (if someone can legally become Metta World Peace or Trout Fishing in America then why the heck not?)<br />
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Since it is football season, which always brings some delightful names into the spotlight, I thought this spoof was pretty funny:<br />
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And for the record, using suspect judgement when naming children is not unique to any one race or nationality. Except for in Iceland, where we <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/in-iceland-blaer-should-be-allowed-to-be-blaer/article6922044/">learned recently</a> that you can only select your childs name from a state approved list, even if it is a nice name with a nice meaning. In fact here is a spoof on the excellent baby-namers from the state of Utah for good measure:<br />
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What are some of your favorite names you've heard?Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356743321663606237noreply@blogger.com3