tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25705618602606030072024-03-13T12:04:02.826-05:00Ashley, Grant, Kendra, Elliot, Paxton, Bridget, SethGranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216967237392666778noreply@blogger.comBlogger669125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-39217776258903451062016-07-10T17:58:00.001-05:002016-07-10T17:58:45.723-05:00Growing upLast summer marked a very significant even in the journey of our parenting: our oldest child lost her first baby tooth.<div>
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I was really taken aback by how much this event impacted me. I teared up as a texted my own mother to tell her that the tooth was loose. Maybe it was just pregnancy hormones, but it really hit home to me that, "WOW. This kid is growing up. She won't be a kid forever. It's already begun."</div>
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It was loose for a few weeks until one day I was reading to her before bed and she realized it was gone! Luckily, it had fallen out while she had brushed her teeth a few minutes beforehand and it hadn't even gone down the drain so we were able to recover it.</div>
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I'm pretty big on not wanting to stand in for any beings visiting our house to bring things for the kids (I'm very supportive of anyone who does, I just have my own reasons for not wanting to do it myself), but Kendra had asked if one of us could play Tooth Fairy for her tooth. Well, that I could handle, if she knows it's one of us *playing* Tooth Fairy, so we arranged for Daddy to take on the role. There was further request for wanting him to dress in costume for the occasion. Unfortunately Daddy was out of town to defend his dissertation (successfully, YAY!) so she had to wait a couple of days for that experience, but it was well worth the wait for her.</div>
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Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-48975558001217795882016-07-04T11:54:00.001-05:002016-07-04T11:54:43.912-05:00Summer funI bought a little fold up pool for the kids at the beginning of the season to pull out for them in the summer--though it was such a shock to our system we largely avoided the outdoors most of the time the first couple of months we were here. But we did finally set it up in August once things were just dully HOT instead of feeling your face peel off.<div>
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It was a very satisfyingly huge hit.</div>
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I got them a pool like this because my grandma had one and it was so, so, SO much stinking fun. Also, it was only $12. A very modest price to give my kids some of my own happiest memories from my childhood.</div>
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Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-42256657948115469272016-07-04T11:39:00.002-05:002016-07-04T11:39:17.548-05:00Playing aroundHave I ever mentioned how much super fun our kids are? Because they are a super, duper fun group of people to hang out with.<br />
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They are also quite the fan of selfie pics. One day I had Bridget in my lap to take such a selfie and Elliot approached. But she noticed that he'd taken off his patch and decided to help him out.<br />
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There's no story attached to this picture, just an accurate portrait of our sweet, sweet third child. He can often be found like this, with his blanket that's so special to him.</div>
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And Bridget. A beautiful, bald, ball of fun where ever she goes.</div>
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Another aspect about our children that continually awes me is how well they play and get along together. Don't get me wrong, I break up plenty of fights and I mediate plenty of interactions. But those interactions are the exceptions, not the rule, and are determined by the age/developmental level of the youngest one involved. They play and play and PLAY so dang well.</div>
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I love how goofy they are! Both individually and together, they're just an awesome group. Watching them grow up is a delight.</div>
Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-34392478765525105032016-07-03T20:52:00.000-05:002016-07-03T20:52:00.028-05:00Getting settled inWhen I looked at our archives to see where I needed to pick up, I was a little surprised to see how behind I am....but only a little. It has been one heckuva year...which is putting it mildly. I get the feeling I'm going to look back on this past year and wonder how I accomplished anything at all, much less that I *only* got a year behind on blogging while doing it.<br />
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After the finally-chronicled road trip to Texas, we spent the entire rest of the summer unpacking. I drove into the garage with the kids on Saturday evening and we woke up Sunday morning and started opening boxes. We actually decided to stay home from church that week partly because we lost track of time, and partly because we had no idea where we could find clean clothes at all, much less church clothes.<br />
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I had all sorts of grand plans to leave our apartment so clean and tidy for the movers...but when push came to shove I was actually more concerned about enjoying the rest of our time in Pennsylvania and left the place a wreck. This translated into our things getting put into boxes where they lay. Not to mention we had to be creative with storage so even though boxes were labeled by where they were packed, we really had no idea what we were going to find until we opened it. So in order to really put things away we kind of had to open....EVERYTHING. Luckily it was a small apartment and we moved into a very, very large house.<br />
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We tried to manage the chaos by keeping the packing materials in piles. The kids thought this was pretty neat.<br />
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With everything all strung out every which way, Bridget particularly was left to her own devices to find things to play with in lieu of actual toys. She never seemed disappointed with her alternate treasures.<br />
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And, sweet girl that she is, she even eventually realized what we were doing, picking stuff up and putting it away. So she was always being so helpful by bringing me things I obviously needed. While using the bathroom.<br />
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The kids, as per usual, handled the time of upheaval extremely well. These people seriously blow my mind because any time I need them to, they more than rise to the occasion. I have no doubt that all of our children are all going to thrive as adults because they roll with the punches so much better than I am able to, even now.<br />
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There was lots of exploring the new house and climate--it only took three days for Elliot to not need to ask where the bathroom was every time he needed to go and one day when I was sweeping a gecko leapt out from underneath the kitchen rug!</div>
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Though not always on paper.</div>
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And, in the spirit of being honest that we don't lead ENTIRELY charmed lives, a few more challenging moment as well.</div>
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But somehow...we did it! We got all unpacked and settled in before Grant had to report to work in the middle of August. And it was such a huge relief to knock that one down, there is truly no rest for the weary as we had to immediately gear up for the school year, and then dive head first into baby preparations.</div>
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It's kind of a miracle that I'm <i>only</i> a year behind on blogging...</div>
Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-22211589557611815982016-04-04T23:23:00.001-05:002016-04-04T23:23:11.314-05:00The Move Southwest: Visiting and making our way to TexasI know this is a huge backtrack, but I never did get around to blogging the rest of the trip we took as we moved, and I'd still like to do it.<br />
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When last I left off, we arrived in Kansas. We stayed with my friend Amanda, whom I've known for well over a decade now. She has take upon herself to be an adoptive aunt to our kids, and has <i>yet</i> to miss a birthday--it's truly impressive! I mean, we have like a <i>lot </i>of kids, y'know? So I was sooo happy to be able to put the kids down in the evening and then come out and spend some time with her, as if no time at all had passed since I was sitting at the end of her bed at the end of the day while we were roommates.<br />
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Aaaaaand, I didn't get a single picture with her. <i>Again.</i><br />
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It occurred to me that we would be in the area for Father's Day and I honestly could not remember one single year that I'd spent that day with my own father...so we gave Poppa his first real Father's Day in Kansas City, he treated us to Legoland.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">We made a number of other visits. We stopped by for a playdate with the Bryants--I went to high school with Josh but as my male friends marry, I befriend their wives and Leah has become a dear friend. They have twin girls a few months older than Elliot and a boy who shares a birthday with Paxton. Fun fact: their fathers also share a birthday (like, the exact same day and year and the whole bit). We also popped in on my friend Brandy, who had ADORABLE twins herself the winter before.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I can't decide what is more jarring--seeing people I knew as toddlers grow up into adults, or see people I knew as adolescents with babies of their own. WEIRD.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">BUT I did get some pictures with the Deans--Halley and I lived on the same floor in the dorms our freshman year of college at KU. Fun, fun, fun times. It was so cool seeing our babies all playing together. I also happen to have an invested interest in her youngest baby, so it was particularly gratifying to see that lovely face in person.</span></div>
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Besides their grandparents, I was also able to take the kids to meet more of their relatives. Their great-great Aunt Susanne, who sent the beloved Little Lamb to Kendra when she was born...and with whom I did not get any pictures (I suck at taking pictures). And their great-grandparents. My grandpa is pretty awesome with kids we had fun stopping by to see them.</div>
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We had a lot of fun--I reeeeeally loved going <i>HOME</i>, and bringing my children through was so gratifying. But, all good things must come to an end so we eventually said our goodbyes to hit the road again.</div>
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I saved the two most important stops for last, simply because of geography. We left Lawrence one rainy morning and made our way down to north central Oklahoma to visit my Grandpa. I'd only seen him once in the past 15 years, simply because I've lived so far away for so long and just never made it down. So, we did it. I knew going in that short and sweet would be best, so it really was a brief visit--we were in and out of his house in less than an hour, but it was a really, really sweet hour. It turns out that both of their surviving great-grandfathers are awesome with kids.</div>
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From there, we headed straight east to Joplin and spent the night in a hotel. The kids were pretty into hotels, and even though this day by far at the most driving in any given day on the trip, we actually checked in the earliest of all the times we stayed at a hotel. Woohoo!<br /><br />The kids were awesome. Like, SO awesome the whole trip. This last hotel was pretty busy and there weren't any luggage carts available, but it was no problem! I had lots of valets with me who were all too happy to help!</div>
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We got a good night's sleep and then headed over for one final visit. My Great-aunt Fayanne. She. Is. AWESOME. She probably would have kept us a week if we'd let her, but I decided to do just another short visit. We also got to see my dad's cousin Tracy, and her daughter Whitney, who is my age and we grew up attending family events together, and her awesome son Mateo, who is in between Paxton and Bridget. Paxton and Mateo have a LOT of overlapping taste in toys, and when I said that it was time to go, Paxton really melted down about getting pulled away from Mateo's really cool stuff--I had my camera with me but had put it away thinking it was out of the question, but Tracy convinced me to go ahead. I'm so glad she did! I hadn't seen any of them since my grandmother's funeral almost exactly 15 years before, and it was sooo nice to. My Auntie is one of the most vivacious people I've ever met and has incredible spunk! She's pretty fantastic.</div>
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By this point, we'd been on the road for more than a week. It was time to get to Daddy and see our new home, so we went from Joplin down to Fort Worth to see the house he bought for us for the first time. It was a really pretty drive down Oklahoma and into Texas--there's a really nice-looking visitors center at the border on the highway we took but I drove right on past it because we needed to get to Daddy way more than we needed to get a picture of finally arriving in Texas.</div>
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And of course, I didn't get any pictures of our reunion with him, or of seeing the house for the first time. But, spoiler alert: I love it. There's a bunch of stuff we've already changed and more we want to do, but I really love this house!</div>
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Even though it's been so long since we took it, itt's important to me to document this trip because this was a pretty big game-changer for me. I moved 4 children 5 and under more than halfway across the country. By myself. While 20-22 weeks pregnant. As the Hungarians say, "That's not nothing!" But I did it. And not just by the skin of my teeth, either, we had a really good time. We were exhausted, but in a good way. It was huge and daunting, but manageable.</div>
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It showed me a lot about myself. Before this trip, I knew I wasn't a bad mother, but this trip convinced me that I actually kind of rock this gig. And our kids...man, we just have really, really, <i>REALLY </i>amazing children. I mean, they're not perfect--I just told a story about a pretty massive meltdown at one of our stops. But that's pretty typical of a two-and-a-half-year-old getting plucked from a toy he's super into before he's ready. So while I do feel that I rock this gig, I <i>only</i> rock this gig because I'm playing it with them. It made me SO excited to meet the baby that was on the way...and spoiler alert: he's just as awesome as the others.</div>
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So, I'm incredibly grateful for this trip. I'm so glad that we happened to move in a direction that allowed us to spend time with soooo many loved ones. My heart has been longing for Home, for all the people we visited and so many more we couldn't squeeze in, for years now.</div>
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Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-17943625415679087552016-03-26T21:08:00.001-05:002016-03-26T21:08:44.107-05:00Horseback Riding with Grandma and Grandpa!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Grandma and Grandpa Farnsworth recently came to visit us. Elliot recently had a really fun time posing on a pony and Kendra is in a huge pony loving stage, so they arranged for some horseback riding for the kids.</div>
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They had Elliot and Kendra wear these sweet helmets, even though the horses were very tame and laid-back</div>
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Elliot and Kendra started out by holding the horses and getting ready to lead them by themselves. Elliot's horse was named "Gamble" and hew as a very calm, although somewhat larger horse.</div>
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Kendra was very happy to ride Skylar. Skylar was smaller, but a more eager horse, and a faster walker!</div>
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Overall a super fun day! Thanks so much to Grandma and Grandpa Farnsworth!</div>
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And as far as he was concerned, it was Christmas all over again. He was SO excited about getting to be a cowboy. This kid is a pretty sweet little dude.</div>
Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-46295543629520670032015-12-19T23:41:00.001-06:002015-12-19T23:48:10.987-06:00CheesyPhone cameras will never be as good as actual cameras at taking pictures. That's just a fact. But, as they get better at the job, I've found myself taking more and more pictures with my phone because I happen to have it on me most of the time. Besides the lessened quality of pictures, the other major downside is that the shots I take don't automatically get integrated into our family's collection like things I take on the DSLR or my point and shoot.<br />
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So tonight, after much supplication from my sweet husband (because pretty much any task from me for anyone needs repeated requesting--I'm kind of at a point in my life where at any given moment I've got several balls in the air that I'm trying to juggle so I get distracted pretty easily, heck even at this moment I'm rocking a baby with my foot while I type) I finally made the past 9 months worth of photos available to him to get into our collection. It turned out to be hundreds of pictures.</div>
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However, even with hundreds of pictures, we noticed that we have a LOT of shots of Bridget that are pretty similar...</div>
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This baby girl has one CHEESY grin! And man, does it light up all of our lives! Bridget arrived in the world just a darling little thing and these pictures really let that shine through. She has also turned out to be our most expressive child by a wide margin as well. We are constantly cracking up at the faces she's making at us or others (because while she's delightful towards us, she gives MAJOR shade and stinkface to any stranger who has the audacity to look her in the eye). And she's also the most verbally advanced of our children--just today when she handed Grant something she wasn't supposed to have and he tossed it aside she exclaimed, "That's not nice!" It was awesome.</div>
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We use that word quite often when talking about any one of our children. They're really such fantastic little people whom we happen to have the privilege of raising and calling our own.</div>
Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-13742474140577105722015-12-15T23:21:00.003-06:002015-12-15T23:21:41.095-06:00Going to the ZooMy parents bought us a wonderful and thoughtful Christmas present this year: a membership to the Fort Worth zoo. We immediately took advantage of these delightful Texas winters to go check it out. <br />
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It was just about the perfect zoo: lots of great animals and scenery but not so big that the walk from one place to another makes us want to go home early. We had several really interesting close encounters. <br />
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<br />Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216967237392666778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-79760635243186785942015-11-10T22:56:00.000-06:002015-11-10T22:56:05.890-06:00New sleeping poseAshley has started letting Seth sleep on one of those C-shaped pillows and I think it's just the cutest thing!<br />
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Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216967237392666778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-65301185113306339432015-11-07T16:19:00.001-06:002015-11-07T16:19:16.194-06:00Matched SetSeth and I got home from the hospital yesterday and now that we've spent some time seeing his face, we noticed something interesting.<div>
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I've mentioned before that among Grant and his siblings, there is a Small, Medium, and Large version of the same brother. Grant is the Large.</div>
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Among our own family, we've had a trend of our children <i>either</i> looking like me <i>or</i> looking like Grant. We call it "Lady Puppies" and "Tramp Puppies" because at the end of Lady and the Tramp, you see them together with their puppies and instead of being mixed, which is what typically happens when dogs breed, there are several puppies who look just like Lady and one that looks just like the Tramp. And I couldn't quite tell whether Seth is a Lady Puppy or a Tramp Puppy because while I definitely saw traits that are one or the other, it was difficult to say if he favors one.</div>
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Until we got home and feeling so sentimental, I started looking at newborn pictures of his older siblings. We definitely have a matched set here:</div>
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The top picture is Elliot, an hour or so after his birth. The bottom is Seth, not more than 10 minutes after his own. They look pretty dang similar to me, especially when compared to the brother between them:</div>
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Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-86964716294409509072015-11-04T22:53:00.000-06:002015-11-04T22:55:35.820-06:00Newest member of the familyThis morning Ashley woke me up a little early to give me some great news: she had been laboring through much of the night and was pretty much ready to be taken to the hospital. We arranged for someone to watch the kids and headed straight down. On arrival the nurses skeptically asked how we know we are in labor. Are you kidding? We are professionals at this. Well, Ashley is.<br />
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Labor was a few hours...three or so. Then it came time to push. I expected this to be our easiest birth (Ashley isn't sick, she went in with a great attitude, and she has four babies worth of experience under her belt) but the delivery part was unexpectedly hard. Like real hard, even if it was a relatively short 12 minutes. I was a little confused by how much trouble she was having, actually. As our baby came out we learned why...he's a monster. (Yes, that's right, <b>HE...</b>none of us knew the gender until today).</div>
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Welcome to Seth Verdell Farnsworth, born today around noon</div>
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You can see that he's a little large in my arms. That's because he arrived weighing a whopping 11 pounds 3 ounces. Yes, you read that right. He's the biggest newborn you will ever run into. 23 inches tall. The nurse said she could easily imagine him crawling as he is. She also said the placenta was absolutely enormous. What a weight off Ashley's back, so to speak!<br />
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Mother and son are doing great. This was a natural birth with no epidural or anything and with no complications other than some unexpected frustration with how difficult he was to bring into the world. All things considered, Ashley is due some serious congratulations and respect.<br />
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The first few pictures out of the box that include mommy aren't 100% fit for the internet, but if you have ever wondered what an 11 pound, 3 ounce baby looks like moments after birth, take a glance:<br />
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The doctor said he was just a hair off of setting the record. I'm not sure whether that means the hospital record or more likely her own delivery record, but he is quite the special baby any way you look at it, and in so many respects. We are super delighted to welcome him to the family.Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216967237392666778noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-22588766239618208182015-10-31T01:05:00.000-05:002015-10-31T01:05:00.331-05:00One Last Spring in PennsylvaniaI knew I hadn't posted in a while, but wow. I didn't realize I'd gone multiple <i>months</i> without any action. There were a few technical difficulties with uploading new pictures but mostly...it's just been a pretty crazy Summer and Fall, y'all. Like, moving a family of 6 halfway across the country, getting settled into a new house that's while spacious and in good repair is a long way from our ideal home so there's always something we're working on, and preparing for a 5th baby in 6 years in a brand new location with no built-up support system is just no joke. It doesn't help that the elementary school bell rings at 7:35am, which is more than a full hour earlier than it did at the old school, and I most often blog in the evenings. Evenings are really, really short when you have to get up before 6am.<br />
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Which are all, of course, very much First World Problems. But blogging and other non-essential tasks have been very much put aside. Actually...plenty of essential tasks have not gotten necessary attention as well..but, I'd rather be up to my eyeballs with busy in this blessed life I lead with my wonderful husband, our amazing children that we just can't stop multiplying, and all in our sturdy, safe home that we're all building together than on my own with heaps of time to do whatever I pleased.<br />
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But. On with the show.<br />
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I had been hoping to complete the record of our visits with people in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma before backtracking, but those stories will have to wait.<br />
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Of course, before we had those visits, and after our long, hard winter, we had one last Spring in Pennsylvania. It was a pretty fun time. A SUPER cool thing about having a lot of kids really quickly is how fast your family turns into a big group of PEOPLE who hang out and interact and do stuff together. Awesome!<br />
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It's always fun to see them be friends. Kendra has been reading books to her siblings for almost a year now, and it's really, really cool to watch.</div>
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Such beautiful matching girls!!</div>
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The Farnsworths' very first Pinewood Derby!</div>
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Bridget is just the most delightful person! Though she's also very wary of strangers so we'll often tell people how friendly and happy she is only to present her and she gives the newbie the stinkiest resting stink face you've ever seen.</div>
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She is also 100% DADDY's girl. Like, sometimes it hurts my feelings a little bit to see how much she prefers him and reflect on how she always has. But then again, one of the sweetest images in my memory is always going to be one of my husband loving on our children. It just makes my heart swell up so much it seems like I can feel.</div>
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Three of the brother's in Grant's family have such a striking physical resemblance that it has many times been said that they're all the same, just in Small, Medium, and Large. Here are Medium and Large as a matched set on Easter.</div>
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Their sister is in there, and they're not very patient. I taught her to lock the door for privacy. I know about needing privacy when using the toilet. I've been on the other side of this door many times myself.</div>
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Elliot finally upgraded out of the same model of cable-temple glasses that he'd been wearing since he was less than a year old into big boy glasses!</div>
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We were able to make one last trip out Dayton to visit Grant's brother and his family, which was SUPER nice to do--we loved living driving distance from them and while now we're a good driving distance from other people, we definitely miss the access to these awesome Farnsworths. Bridget is quite a bit younger and smaller than the cousin closest in age to her, and it was really cute watching him assert himself as NOT the baby in the group.</div>
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Baby Selfies! They never get old.</div>
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We were able to hit Chuck E Cheese with some friends just after school finished, it was pretty fun.</div>
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One story that is not photo documented was our saga in house-buying. In mid-April, I took a trip out to Texas and scouted out a bunch of houses in a number of different areas. We went under contract with one that felt like a pretty great fit for us--it was in a decent location to be a not-horrible commute, it was a large upgrade, but not among the largest we'd seen, it was nice but not so nice that we'd get mad at our kids for being kids and wrecking things from time to time, it was in a culdesaq that was on no-outlet street so VERY little traffic, and also right on a trail that lead to a big running path, and the price was significantly lower than comparable larger houses.<br />
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Long story short, the seller had legal issues that prevented him from selling the house so our closing date came and went with no house becoming ours.<br />
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We tried not to panic, but it was CRAZY stressful.<br />
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So, we sent Grant down this time to go out with our realtor and get a different house the first weekend of June. Unfortunately, almost all of the houses that I'd seen were gone. And several great options were bank owned, which were out because we wouldn't be able to wait (bank owned properties are optimal for people who already live in the area, not people on a timeline and a short one at that). And in a whirlwind of a trip, he found us another house that was significantly bigger and nicer than the first one--and as fate would have it, we met a previous tenant of the first house who gave us some insider information about it that made us grateful to have dodged a couple of bullets.<br />
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We did our closing remotely, and to GREAT relief had no problems with the transaction. We even got to keep our moving date.<br />
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And here we have some VERY celebrated signed papers for our very first house! Seven years of marriage, a fifth baby well on the way, and pretty weird to be adult enough to be home owners.<br />
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The very next day, I loaded the kids up while Grant stayed behind and handled the move.<br /></div>
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And thus ends the pictures of our time in Pennsylvania. Our family grew and changed so much in our time in that town and apartment...while we look forward to new growth and adventures down here in Texas, that place will always be significant to us.</div>
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The hotel we stayed at had a free breakfast, so I had the older two put on their shoes, strapped the babies into the double stroller, and we rolled over to the breakfast room.<br />
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Now is just as convenient time as any to note that ANY time during the ENTIRE trip that we were not in the van or a hotel room, I had the babies strapped into the double stroller. It made getting in and out of the van take almost 10 minutes longer. It made getting through any closed manual door a big hassle. But it was a HUGE sanity saver to have them strapped into place any time I was physically vulnerable. Paxton, while dear to my heart, is a flight risk. Kendra needs little direction in public and Elliot needs a bit but is very good about following it...but Paxton is pretty content to go where ever he wants when ever he wants and you really have to stop what you're doing and physically direct him because he's two and even the best and brightest two-year-olds struggle with following verbal cues when they're in new and thus exciting places. And at 14 months and tenaciously walking, Bridget also needed to be strapped into a seat.<br />
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So, we took a look at the breakfast options and then I parked the stroller at a table in the line of sight of the food. I helped the older kids get their food first, then I made a trip for the babies, and then finally got something for myself.<br />
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And again, the kids all handled themselves beautifully in public, doing nothing but charming the other guests around us. They all ate surprisingly well, too, so I felt really good about the start of our day. With that, I filled up the milk cups and we headed back to the room to get dressed and ready for our day.<br />
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The rest of the morning was a little hairy. The kids were all still SO enthralled with being in a hotel, but enthralled kids tend to be quite active, and I was trying to get myself and them ready, while also preparing for another day of travel. I asked my mom to call the room because a huge selling point was the novelty of the phone. They did enjoy it, but it didn't provide as much distraction as I was hoping it would, but we got out the door and to the lobby desk to check out.<br />
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Only when I turned away from the desk to grab my keys, I couldn't find them. They weren't in my purse. So I started searching through the bags I'd put on the luggage cart and no luck. It took almost half an hour and two trips back to the room to find them--in my desperation to keep the kids entertained while I got everything ready for the day, I'd handed them to Bridget and they'd wound up in one of the drawers of one of the dressers in the room. It was a rough experience because I was flustered that it delayed the start of our traveling for the day and I actually go a little nuts when I can't find something I have recently had in my hands. I'm pretty sure it's part of some undiagnosed neurosis, but it doesn't pop up very often and doesn't last long when it does, so I try to handle it by taking good care of my keys.<br />
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Keys <i>finally</i> in hand, I took the kids out to the van and buckled them up and then pulled up to the lobby door, where I left our things on a luggage cart. Then I took some time to clean out the mess from the day before and get situated for this day before heading out.<br />
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Being in a van, there was a bit of a logistical situation with how to effectively meet the needs of all the kids while still trying to make good time. The first thing to address was Bridget, as she'd proven to be difficult to care for even with an extra pair of hands in the vehicle to take care of her while I drove. I decided to put her in a front-facing seat. I <i>know</i> that the current recommendation is to keep kids rear-facing until at least two and as long as physically possible after that. I <i>know</i> that many parents have kids Elliot's age who are rear-facing. But the legal requirement is 1 year, and Bridget's birthday was 2 months before our trip and after a lot of very careful deliberation, I decided to put her in a front-facing seat so that she would be able to see more (and be more entertained) and so that I would be able to hand her things from the front seat. I also brought the rear-facing carrier with us in case I changed my mind. Paxton is already front facing on the passenger side of the middle row in the van, but I could reach him very easily, too, so the babies were good.<br />
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For the older kids, I decided to give them most of a days worth of snacks at the beginning and let them choose when to eat it. I had other things I could distribute when we loaded up after stops, and I did but I started each day with giving them both a full water bottle, a full snack cup, and a loaded "lunch bag".<br />
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About a month before we left, my mom sent us these, preloaded with treats she knows the kids like. I knew when saw them that I wanted to use them for the road trip, but I was having a hard time figuring out how. Then a day or two before we left, I came up with the idea of not worrying about letting <i>all</i> the kids benefit from the bag and just giving them to the older two, who would be able to open both the bags and the containers in them without help. And voila! The problem of passing snacks to the older kids was solved! I filled the cups with things each kid prefers and packed a bag of chips and two bags of fruit snacks in each one and handed them to Kendra and Elliot. Elliot was so attached to his that he had to bring it with him EVERYWHERE. The whole trip.<br />
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And so, though getting off much later than I wanted to, we finally pulled out of the hotel parking lot at noon with yet more rain drizzling down on us. Though when I opened my email to get the address of the hotel I'd picked for that night to plug into the GPS, I realized that I never got a confirmation email for that hotel stay, which probably meant that my reservation didn't go through. Since we were going to be on I-70 all day and I didn't immediately need directions to the city where we'd be staying, I went ahead and decided to call someone for help than try to handle it myself.<br />
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My sister-in-law Debbie, whom I'd just seen the day before, was very happy to sit at her computer at home and figure it all out for me, and we got another suite confirmed at the same hotel I'd chosen in Columbia, Missouri, though not without me needing to pull into a gas station parking lot to fish out my credit card to read to her.<br />
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I hoped that the stop was just a fluke and that we'd be able to easily cross the rest of Indiana without needing another one. Oh, how I hoped.<br />
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Not long after stopping for the credit card, Bridget suddenly got unusually fussy. I tried handing her several different things, but it was obvious that whatever was bothering her, the things I was passing her were <i>not</i> cutting it, so I listened to her and found another gas station, less than an hour's drive from where we'd started that day and stopped for the second time.<br />
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And it's a good thing I didn't just let her cry it out and chalk it up to a sleepy baby, because there was a real problem. I'd given her a pouch of yogurt and instead of eating it...she had doused herself in it. When I opened the door, I found a ridiculously sticky baby! So I stripped her down, grabbed a clean outfit out of my easily accessible stash of extra clothes, and wiped down her carseat before unloading everybody else and heading into another gas station. I ended up giving her an all-out bath in the sink of the bathroom, and doing my best to rinse off her dirty clothes. Once she was situated, I had us all take a potty break for good measure because even though we hadn't covered much ground to show for it, it had been a couple of hours since we last went at the hotel. I decided to splurge and let the kids pick out drinks--I could definitely use a Diet Coke at this point! I felt like such a rock star...<br />
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...until we had to stop less than an hour later due to overfull bladders. Kendra had chosen a 24oz bottle of Gatorade and she drained <i>the whole thing</i> immediately. Things got really urgent right after we had passed Indianapolis and it took us a while to find a place to stop, but we got it taken care of.<br />
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I wish I could say that was the last stop in Indiana...but it totally wasn't. In fact, our next stop was so long that we all got out and use the bathrooms, came back and filled up the car, and then had to go in and use the bathrooms <i>again</i>!<br />
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We only needed one more potty break in Indiana...but then we had to stop again at the first rest stop across Illinois border. So, it should be no surprise for me to report that we needed 5 hours to travel just over 150 miles. But, I had my brain firmly wrapped around the fact that traveling with kids meant I'd need to stop a lot and I was crossing into a new time zone and gaining an hour on the clock, so it was all good.<br />
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And, because I fueled up at a couple of these stops, (ever optimistic that <i>this</i> time we'd be able to cover significant ground before needing to stop again) we zipped right through Illinois and well into Missouri, only stopping again less than an hour from the hotel! I saw a Wal-Mart and decided to grab stuff to feed the kids at the hotel that evening since we'd be getting in significantly earlier than we did the night before.<br />
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There were even still a few rays of light in the sky when we got there! The kids were squirrelly again and this room was significantly smaller, and without an actual door to separate the rooms, which was suboptimal, and we were all pretty cranky. And when I told Kendra that Paxton and I were sleeping in the big bed and she and Elliot were sleeping on the sofa, there was <i>much</i> weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth...poor thing was the only one who hadn't napped in the car (not that others weren't still pretty beat). Luckily the sofa had a chaise lounge along with the pull-out bed, so I put her on the pull-out and separated Elliot onto the chaise lounge so they wouldn't disturb each other in the significantly smaller pull-out bed.<br />
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We slept in a little, but didn't have as good luck at the breakfast serving lots of things the kids were willing to eat, but luckily I had options that I'd brought in that case so this time I just loaded up with things and brought stuff back to the room and fed them there. And I had the good sense to turn on the dang TV while I got everybody ready for the day and packed up our stuff so they weren't so wild (packing up wasn't tooooo crazy because I put everybody's clothes for the trip in a large laundry basket in the back of the van, and then I pulled out what I'd need for the next day when we arrived at the hotels and put them into a small carry-on bag, so even though I was dealing with five people's worth of clothes, I was only dealing with 1 day's worth at a time).<br />
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Our departure from the second hotel went much more smoothly, in part because I kept <i>very</i> close watch on my keys, and in part because I'd figured a few things out from the day before. And we were off significantly earlier in the day than we were the day before. I did need to stop for gas, but I just paid at the pump and left the kids in the van and we made the rest of our drive without potty breaks--we'd stopped in Columbia, Missouri which is about an hour and a half outside Kansas City, and our final destination was less than hour outside KC.<br />
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Driving through Kansas City is always a thrilling experience for me because it was a very common destination as my paternal grandmother lived there, and it is very much like coming Home. In fact, my grandmother's backyard faced I-70, and we drove right past it. And then going through downtown Kansas City and hearing Elliot call my favorite skyscraper there a castle was pretty fun. Paxton noted that, "Oooooh, it's dark in here!" and "Mommy, look! It's tunnels!" when we were going through sections with lots of overpasses, which I remembered thinking similar things when I was driven through them. And then outside the city, the kids started spotting signs with Jayhawks on them, the mascot of the University of Kansas with which I affiliate even though I haven't graduated (YET), so they all know what Jayhawks are. I loved it! Sharing my own childhood with my children...it was awesome.<br />
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We got to Lawrence, where we'd be staying, just in time for lunch so we met my Mom at a McDonald's with an indoor playground. We arrived the first day of a major heat wave, and while it had been a pleasant 68 degree when we got into the van in Columbia, when we got out in Lawrence, it was 100 degrees. And plenty humid. As we got out of the van, Kendra announced, "Mom, it is HOT here. Like...REALLY, really hot." And she repeated similar observations the whole time I got her siblings unloaded. All I could think was that we were heading a LOT further south where we'd experience a lot more of this level of heat...the poor thing.<br />
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Mom showed up at the restaurant while we were finishing up our potty break in the bathroom, and we had our meal before showing them the playground. I'm not entirely sure who had more fun...the kids getting a chance to really run around and play, or Mom watching and hanging out with her grandchildren. Both of my parents just light up around our kids in a way I've never seen them before, and it's really, really satisfying to observe.<br />
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We stayed at McDonald's a really, really long time. I figured that the kids had spent the two previous days mostly cooped up in a car, they could use the exercise. When we'd had our fill, we went over to Mom's place to hang out for a while before heading to where we were staying to get the kids tucked in for some good sleep (hopefully).<br />
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And! We did it! The bigger part of driving was OVER. Now we could settle in and start making our rounds...Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-10715269631622013342015-07-15T02:12:00.001-05:002015-07-15T02:12:06.105-05:00The Move Southwest: Hitting the roadI've been wanting to record our travels for quite a while, and I feel like I'm never going to have the time unless I sit down and make it. So even though it's late, and I really should be in bed...I'm going to try to get this up tonight.<br />
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Warning: this post is going to be heavy on text and light on pictures, which is pretty opposite of how I typically like to blog our family. But I want to remember the details and the best way to do it is write them down. <br />
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Our plans for this move changed SO. Many. Times. It was sooo stressful! Just thinking about it makes me feel stress and the moving part is all behind us now! But what we ended up doing was hiring a moving company to pack and load us up (that part never changed), which they scheduled with us to do on June 18th. We decided that I would pack up the van and head out with the kids that day and take them to make loooong overdue trips to visit so many people who have never met them and who I haven't seen in far too many years in Kansas (and the surrounding areas) while our things made their way down for Fort Worth. Grant would stay behind to direct the movers, clean the apartment, and go straight to the house in our beloved little Aveo, and be there to get a few things set up (like beds), before we arrived.<br />
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So, that morning, I loaded the kids up and we left the apartment...and went to the gym. Yes, I started my cross country trek with a very hard and long workout, and I would totally do it again. I actually ended up forgetting a couple of things at the apartment, so it worked well that we didn't leave town straight away. We crossed back to the place and grabbed the things I'd forgotten and then I took the kids to say a couple of last goodbyes, including one last stop at the other Farnsworths' house in town. That was pretty hard for me, I've REALLY loved being in the same town as these guys. I love them an awful, awful lot.<br />
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With a very active morning under our belts, we headed out of town the exact same way we'd driven into it almost five years earlier--as the other Farnsworths' house was the first place we went when we arrived.<br />
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During the years we've been here, the most common trip we've taken has been to see another of Grant's brothers and his family, who lived a 6 hour drive away. So when I planned out my trip to Kansas, I decided to plan it with a little more driving than that per day, which was going to put us just across the Ohio/Indiana border that first day.<br />
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I was really surprised by how smoothly the first leg of the trip went. Before I left our extended family's driveway, I popped a movie into the on-board DVD system and we drove straight through Pennsylvania and into Ohio with no stops, though going through Appalachia on a rainy day meant I had to slow down over parts of the biggest mountain because it got quite heavy. Bridget had fallen asleep soon after we hit the road and stayed that way until we stopped, so although the older kids noticed the heavy rain, it didn't affect our journey.<br />
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We hit Akron just in time for dinner, so we stopped at a McDonald's there. We all went potty/changed diapers, ate, and then there wasn't a PlayPlace, so I had the kids spend 10 minutes "walking" laps around the dining room to get a little movement going. Even though this is rather disruptive, there were only a couple of other patrons there, and the kids were being extremely well-behaved--the other customers all smiled and were clearly not annoyed by them walking around, so it worked extremely well.<br />
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As I loaded them back up into the van, it started to sprinkle. By the time I'd taken a few minutes to arrange things inside the van, start a new movie, and we got back on the highway, we were in the middle of a CRAZY storm, exponentially worse than what we'd driven through over the mountains. And it all happened in a place where there weren't a lot of exits around. In fact, we were caught in flash flooding several times, where all the traffic bottle necked over the least-flooded-looking bits of the highway. It was rather intense, but I'd actually driven through much worse and in the much smaller Aveo, so I stayed pretty calm.<br />
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Getting out of Akron took a while, but we made it. The skies cleared and I even made a phone call to a friend to pass the time because that stretch of interstate on I-71 between I-76 and Columbus is the most boring piece of road I've ever driven, and I've driven it quite a few times. Our next break was at a rest stop just outside of Columbus, which was a little disappointing because I was hoping to make it past the city before stopping because I knew we wouldn't make it the whole way without getting gas but our bladders just couldn't wait...but I forgot about our disappointment when we stepped out of the rest stop building and saw fireflies twinkling around the trees. Even though it was late (I was originally hoping to be in the hotel by this point), it was a no brainer to extend our stop and enjoy the fireflies for a while. The kids were delighted to chase them and I was delighted to witness it.<br />
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The Firefly Friends were a real treat, but we did need to get back on the road. So we loaded back up and continued on our way. One of the reasons I've driven that horribly boring section of I-71 is because it's part of the route to that other extended family we visited while we lived in Pennsylvania. When I planned taking the same route to Kansas, I just thought about making things easy for me by taking a familiar path. However, I had a surprisingly strong emotional moment as we drove past the exit that would have taken us to their house--we weren't taking it to stay with them for the night because they were traveling themselves. We'd visited them a few weeks earlier and said our goodbyes because as we were moving to Texas, they were about to relocate to Japan for a military assignment and I'm going to miss them very much. I'm going to miss not having access to their family like we did when we lived driving distance from each other.<br />
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But I kept driving. As nice as it would have been to keep going until we crossed the border and got to our exit at the hotel, we needed gas. So, we fueled up and went potty again for good measure...it turns out when one passenger is a 4-year-old boy and another is a 20-weeks-pregnant woman...lots of potty breaks are needed.<br />
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At long last, we crossed the border and arrived at our hotel. It was lightly raining again, but we made it inside. I booked a suite so I could separate out the children and let the deep sleepers (Kendra, Elliot and Bridget) sleep deeply away from the Wild Card who gets up a lot (Paxton). I really thought that getting into the room after 11pm would have surely meant the kids would want to just collapse into bed.<br />
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Y'know, I feel like most of the time I have this Mommy Gig down...and then I have moments that humble me and remind me that I way, way, way do NOT know it all about raising children.<br />
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Like the moment about 40 minutes after I opened the door to the hotel room and the kids were still bouncing off the walls, even though it was now nearing MIDNIGHT.<br />
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But. We did get everyone wrestled into jammies and down for the night...Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-4358498229764533332015-06-09T06:58:00.001-05:002015-06-09T06:58:20.188-05:00The long, long, long, REALLY long winterThis winter was a humdinger. It was so, so, long--like, school was still getting cancelled and delayed well into <i>March</i>, long. And it was so, so, hard--like, we'd had more accumulation of ice and snow before Christmas than I remember getting most winters of my whole life. <i>And I've lived in Chicago</i>. And it was so, so, COLD--there is usually a hard, deep freeze in January any place that has a winter when the temperatures dip and stay well below freezing for a week or two, but this year we not only got our scheduled one in January, we spent the entire second half of February and part of March in one as well. And besides all that...it was so, so lonely--Grant was on the job market, and traveled so much, which is great because it meant he had a lot of interviews...but man...it was a big ball of suck logistically.<br />
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But! We made it! I honestly wasn't sure there for a while because at several points I gave myself a marker, "We just have to hold on until..." and have three blizzards in a row hit or something similar. I'm really not exaggerating when I say, "big ball of suck".<br />
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Christmas loot gave plenty of distraction, and the biggest hit by far was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kidoozie-Build-A-Road-X-Track/dp/B00850I4DM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433848167&sr=8-1&keywords=cars+and+tracks">this awesome track set</a> my Dad sent one of the boys. It's seriously amazing because you can easily shape into any formation you want and since there are no grooves in the tracks, you can drive anything on them, so while the monster trucks that came with the set got plenty of miles in, our extensive train collections finally had tracks to ride.<br />
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But, infinite possible configurations of track...and their favorite was a straight line.<br />
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Having 3 babies in less than 3 years means life often looks like this. Which is awesome and exhausting and overstimulating and wonderful somehow all at once. <br />
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Pig Piles remain a favorite pastime amongst our children--there is actually someone under that blanket calling out, "Pig Pile on ME!" <br />
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And I wanted to capture the boys in their coats and hats--we got smiles and reactions every where we went, so I wanted to remember. Note that Paxton's is EXTREMELY bright. I did that on purpose because he's the flight risk. <br />
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We also went to Wegman's a few times--this particular store is a problem because they changed the type of car carts they have and I can only seat two children at a time in them, or put two children in the basket of a regular cart to put the baby in the seat up front, which is risky because the main things I buy at this store are produce and fresh bread and...little boys tend to squash things that can be squashed. And Elliot was just still too young to walk with us. But it was still a good outing from time to time, because we'd only buy our treats (though there are a LOT of treats available at Wegman's...seriously, I'm going to miss this store so much) and since we were only buying treats, the actual shopping only takes a few minutes, which leaves plenty of time to stand and watching the model train that goes around tracks hanging from the ceiling. We seriously spend over 75% of every trip to Wegman's watching the train.<br />
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When Grant travels, I like to keep my life as simple as possible, because I've found that keeping things low key while he's gone means I'm not crazy frazzled when he gets back. At least not <i>too</i> crazy frazzled. But one way I do that is I buy 2 dinners while he's gone--we get pizza once and McDonald's once. They'll definitely eat both of them, and it's brainless with no prep and little clean up for me, which is by definition a Win. I typically hit the drive through and bring the food home, but I went the bold and daring route and took them into the restaurant a couple of times as well. And they'd blow my mind being such awesome kids that it was manageable to do on my own with four of them before the oldest was even six years old.<br />
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Bridget went through a short but adorable tongue-sticking-out phase. Luckily, we caught it. And when I went through the winter pictures, I couldn't help but notice how many more pictures there were of her than her siblings. This fourth baby has no shortage of captured moments of her infancy...<br />
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Finger painting is a highly recommended Sensory Play activity. Paxton likes to do it in ketchup and syrup, which as far as I'm concerned is a Win because that's two activities with one mess.<br />
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And the box our Amazon Subscriptions come in every month continues to be a favorite toy. While at first it was more of a house-type structure, this winter, it was usually an "egg". <br />
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Elliot spent most of his time at home in the Fall going completely naked, which...whatever, as long as he's using the toilet and letting me wipe him, I don't care. But when Winter settled in, finally started wearing underpants, albeit backwards more often than not. <br />
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And Bridget found the one cabinet I purposefully do not baby-proof, the one where I keep the tupperware.<br />
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Kendra decided to make all her Valentines this year--so for every single one of her 22 classmates, her teacher and the 2 aides, she came up with something like this: <br />
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And, looking back on all these pictures, the thing that really comes to mind is the little "We Did It!" song at the end of every episode of Dora the Explorer. Because we did. Sometimes just barely by the skin of our teeth...but we did it!Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-84132590279529440702015-06-08T06:22:00.000-05:002015-06-08T06:22:00.740-05:00Fall Photo Dump<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our standard fresh-out-of-the-bath series we like to do at about six months:</div>
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Poppa came to keep us company while Daddy was at a conference. </div>
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I was able to attend Kendra's Halloween party at school. She was one of only 3 Elsas in her class, but they all had different dresses, so it totally worked out. </div>
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Ready to storm the complex! Our kids still get more out of making the rounds than they do actually eating the candy. </div>
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My mom sent a pack of cookies to decorate, and they had a <i>ball</i>. </div>
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Bridget's development actually slowed down quite a bit after rolling and crawling so early, but it still happened pretty dang fast. When she became aware of that window outside, she often tried sooo hard to peek through it! </div>
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I found a couple of Paw Patrol costumes on clearance after Halloween to add to the dress-up box. They were pretty happy campers about it. </div>
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Usually Elliot is the one to join a photo op but this time Paxton cozied himself in. </div>
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Such a great kid. </div>
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She just needed the right motivation to pull up--such a Daddy's girl! </div>
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I had lots of mornings like this with the boys this year--Kendra at school, Bridget down for her morning nap, and we got to play. I super love staying home with them... </div>
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Kendra was sent home with a bear to assemble and dress. She chose for hers to be a rainbow ballerina bear, she did the coloring and chose the other materials and I helped her place them.</div>
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This kid can rock a fedora, even when eating lunch. </div>
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We don't do Santa. The kids have seen enough holiday specials from our childhood that they know the story of Santa, but we've never had presents come from him, or written him letters, or taken any of the kids to get pictures taken with him. But this year a local store had an event with Elsa and Anna, and Santa happened to be there as well, so I made an exception. </div>
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And when Kendra was preparing to leave for our outing dressed in costume, Elliot decided that he needed one as well. </div>
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Kendra thought it was pretty fun. </div>
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And Elliot was pretty shy, which is pretty typical for him around new people. It always throws me off guard because he's <i>so</i> outgoing at home, but he really freezes up in new surroundings. Everyone loved the firefighter, though. I can't say I blame them... </div>
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While Paxton doesn't have any official issues and no doctors have ever expressed concern, we really got worried about him this year. He was born much longer and leaner than any of our other children but he just got so, so skinny. I started doing some research and kept finding suggestions about using Sensory Play to help kids with this type of issue. "Sensory Play" basically means activities that make a mess. The only problem is that I discovered all this right before Paxton broke his arm, so while I wanted very much to start incorporating some things into his days, it had to be dry because of his cast. So I started with some shredded foil for gifts since it was the holiday season, and it was a pretty big hit. </div>
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I tried to put away the Bumbo once Bridget outgrew it...but it somehow keeps getting back out. </div>
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Merry Christmas!</div>
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One Date Night, I got a text from the babysitter saying that Paxton had locked himself in his room and that cereal was flowing out the door. I was a little confused by what she was talking about, and we laughed hysterically when I unlocked the door and we found this: </div>
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I had purchased a double box of Fruit Loops from Sam's Club, and apparently left the second bag on too low of a shelf in his room (where you can see, he shares his bed with shelving units) and he took it, opened it, and...had some Sensory Play. </div>
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Photo Dumps are lazy blogging, it's a fact. But it sure does cover a lot of ground when you're as backlogged as I am...Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-12087480490475117052015-05-31T20:02:00.001-05:002015-05-31T20:02:08.887-05:00Lion HuntsLast summer, the kids were pretty into "Goin on a Lion Hunt" (a song game that Grant plays with them fairly frequently). So, they'd circle the piece of grass outside our patio door every chance they got. Clothing was optional for some.<br />
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Bridget was too small to participate, even though she was rolling really, really early, but she had her own fun little trick where she'd look up to check out who was holding her.<br />
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These kids are pretty dang fun. We feel really lucky that we get to be their parents.Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-48682950411154554392015-05-16T22:01:00.002-05:002015-05-16T22:01:33.886-05:00Our Last Bug FairWe are currently making our plans and preparations to leave State College, but the first thing we did to make ready was attend the Bug Fair one more time. Our kids have really enjoyed it and it was really fun again.<br />
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Looking at bugs, touching bugs, learning about bugs, listening to songs about bugs, making craft bugs...maybe lying down on the floor for a few minutes because that's all so exhausting...but still, a super fun day out with the family.<br />
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It's so much fun that they're big enough and numerous enough to do stuff like this with them.<br />
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We will definitely miss the Bug Fair...Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-87477424414256442252015-04-22T21:22:00.002-05:002015-04-22T21:22:16.213-05:00Labor Day at Spring CreekI was soooo tired over Labor Day weekend...but when we got home from church, I was able to take a nap.<br />
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So since I was all rested up, we got wild and crazy with it and took the family out on Labor Day. Nothing much, just a park with a creek running through it. The kids looooved it.<br />
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These kids are pretty dang awesome, and we love hanging out with them so much.Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-31202020065347054122015-04-22T21:08:00.003-05:002015-04-22T21:08:46.039-05:00Elliot and his babySeriously. She's his baby, I just grew her for him...<br />
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He is always highly interested in her whereabouts and joining her whenever he can.Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-64689098159082333802015-04-22T21:05:00.000-05:002015-04-22T21:05:02.474-05:00Trains!When we first brought Thomas the Tank Engine in our home, I purchased a number of second hand die-cast trains and gave them to Elliot. But it turns out that Elliot is pretty hard core about his train playing and wanted to be able to connect ALL OF THE TRAINS, which lead to much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth when he would connect too many of them and the line would break as he pulled it along the carpet.<br />
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So...sucker that I am, I went back to eBay and secured wooden ones instead. Though we've extensively grown <i>that</i> collection as well and now he has a ridiculous quantity of wooden trains. But he loves them, so it's worth it.<br />
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But now that he has his wooden ones, when Paxton needs a train fix, he has the die cast ones to turn to, which he does.<br />
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Paxton is an extremely clever little boy. He figured out that the trains stay together if you put them on tile instead of carpet. Our little engineer!Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-82017989875738262062015-04-22T20:50:00.000-05:002015-04-22T20:50:49.355-05:00Playing with the babyBridget is such a sweet little girl. So when she started doing her "Superman!" move, I had to get down and play, too.<br />
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Babies are so much fun! Especially ones as sweet as our little Bridget.Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-73617274206004967812015-04-21T08:35:00.001-05:002015-04-21T08:35:18.621-05:00The Big KindergartenerSo, a while back, we welcomed the most beautiful baby I'd ever laid eyes into our family...<br />
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And then we BLINKED and she was ready to start Kindergarten. Honestly, we're pretty freaked out by how quickly <i>that</i> happened...<br />
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So, we went to an Orientation while all the other kids had their first day of school.<br />
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Today is April 21, there's about 7 weeks left of school...and she still waves back at me from the bus every morning once she gets on.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">I know that someday she'll be too big and cool to wave to her Mom from the bus, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kendra has done very, very well at school. When she went in for her screening before the year started, she was handed a box of crayons and asked to identify the colors. Upon seeing the labels, she announced, "Oh, I'll just read the color words! This one is, 'Purple-Voilet'!" It was hilarious! I'm amazed at what a great job the teacher does keeping everyone at different levels progressing--I know I didn't learn how to read until First Grade, much less START Kindergarten a fully functional reader!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the gym I go to, one of the babysitters is a para at another elementary school in town during the day, and lately she has been bringing in worksheets that get left in the copy room because Kendra enjoys filling them out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Such a big girl! </span></span>Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655434530418133917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2570561860260603007.post-41382404594009515332015-04-21T07:42:00.003-05:002015-04-21T07:42:36.872-05:00Photo OpsI think it's okay to do a good, old-fashioned photo dump sometimes...this is one of those times.<br />
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