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Entries from August 2010

Stay-cation Day Two

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Day two of our stay-cation was another action packed day. We started with a family round of mini golf, cooled off at Splashdown Water Park, and finished up at Cold Stone Creamery for ice cream (some of us, more on that soon).
One of the byproducts of this stay-cation is that Thing 1 and Thing [...]

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Tags: Thing 1 · Thing 2 · family · pictures · travel

Stay-cation Day One

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

We usually take a family trip to the beach in the summer, which is anything but a vacation for anyone but the kids, but with our new addition this year we weren’t quite ready to go anywhere as a family of six.
Instead, we opted for a stay-cation with just Thing 1 and Thing 2. [...]

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Tags: Thing 1 · Thing 2 · family · pictures · travel

Can You Guess the Mystery Thing?

August 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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Tags: cute · pictures

New Take On An Old Game

August 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Remember Highlights Magazines when you were a kid?  I remember reading the old beat up copies at the pediatrician’s office.  One of the features was a puzzle where pictures were hidden in a page and you had to find them.  There were always kids who would color in the pictures as they found them, ruining [...]

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Tags: reviews

Lessons From Our First Football Game

August 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Yesterday was our long anticipated first trip to a pro football game. We’ve been to baseball and basketball games this year, but there is something about your very first football game that you never forget. Being there yesterday brought back my first Giants game with my dad. Also, having not been to [...]

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Tags: Thing 1 · Thing 2 · places · sports · stories

Just A Little Bit Excited

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Tomorrow I’m taking Thing 1 and Thing 2 to their first NFL game. It doesn’t matter that it is a preseason game. Or who is playing. Or that we’ll be sitting in the cheap seats. They have been looking forward to this since the winter.
The game isn’t until 7pm TOMORROW night [...]

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Tags: Thing 2 · pictures · sports

Totally Unprecedented

August 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment

It is 6:02am and all 4 kids are STILL SLEEPING! If this happened every day, I could be amazingly productive and write lots of blog posts every morning. I could get used to this. But I probably shouldn’t.
Oh well, looks like I just jinxed myself. I hear footsteps coming downstairs and [...]

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Tags: parents today · struggles

Playground Personalities

August 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Our three boys are similar in many ways. All very active, in constant motion, and competitive with each other. But they also have developed very unique personalities and it’s fun observe. A recent trip to the playground is the perfect observation booth.
To Thing 1 everything is a game. He wanted to throw the ball or [...]

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Tags: Thing 1 · Thing 2 · Thing 3