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First day of dance!

Heather — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:22:53 +0000

Jamie started dance in September and loves it! Jillian wasn’t three yet so she had to wait until January to start and today was the long awaited day. She loved it and followed directions well but also snuck out of the room twice to come be shy with me. Overall it went great. After her first “big girl” dance class I took her to dunkin donuts for her favorite egg and cheese sandwich. She went and pulled a high chair to the table and climbed in. I love how she is a baby when it suits her and a big girl when she feels like it.

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Happy Happy New Years!

Heather — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:25:10 +0000

I think we had a pretty good 2011 all in all! Some things that stand out to me (sure I’ve missed a ton of good ones but thats what happens when I don’t sleep enough):

2011 included a lot of silliness, potty talk, geocaching, Lego building and doll playing. Oh and beyblading (which terrifies our dog Casey!).
Jillian seemed to make the leap from baby to big girl.
Our kids went from being 2,4,6&8 to 3,5,7&9 (doesn’t have the same ring to it!).
For Easter Ben lost 4 teeth and Ethan 1 tooth in 5 days (and 2 of those teeth were Ben’s front top). Super sized marshmallows seemed to help the teeth out.
2011-the year the girls decided to start cutting their own hair (Jamie maybe 5 times and Jillian once).
Jamie graduated preschool.
Our quirky but wonderful 12 year old dog Reuben died.
Our first trip to Maine as a family of six! It was the highlight of 2011 really and we plan to go back in 2012 and hopefully many more years.
Also our first summer that we did not go to Lake Champlain. John’s first summer not going there since he was born
The girls moved upstairs to their new big-girl room. Leaving their old room to turn into an office (still a work in progress).
The 3 big kids played soccer.
In September Jamie started K and Jillian started 2 mornings of preschool! The boys started 2nd and 3rd, and both made huge leaps with reading.
Ben started boy scouts and Jamie daisy girl scouts.
In October Grandma and the uncles made a huge move to NC and Grandma Penguin had a knee replacement.
2 weeks before Christmas Jillian took a big spill and got a bunch of stitches on the bridge of her nose.

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Hope you’re having happy holidays! (now with pictures!)

Heather — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:31:19 +0000

I think we need more than 7 school days off! Seems this holiday vacation is flying by and not quite as planned but all in all the kids are good and mostly happy! As it seems to have been for most of 2011, I have unwritten reviews and excuses why but I will be better with this poor blog in 2012! (as long as I don’t kill this Mac! it is so not cooperating and gives me the rainbow wheel for just about anything I do)

ANYWAY here are some pictures… ~~well maybe soon (think its close to 1/2 an hour trying to get them off camera and into this post so I’ll publish and try later)!~~ from Christmas eve! The kids wanted to all wear the matching PJs that they all wore the last THREE Christmases (I had bought huge when I was pregnant with Jillian but only certain pieces still worked). Note to self: buy or make matching PJs for all of them BEFORE next Christmas eve!

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Happy Halloween!

Heather — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:25:05 +0000

What a fun night! We went trick or treating from 5:30-8pm and John’s phone says we walked around 2 miles. LOTS of candy and four happy kids are staying up super late watching a Halloween show before bed. Wish we didn’t have to wait an entire year to do this again.

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Maybe when we have the new office done?

Heather — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:19:53 +0000

Something has changed with me and the blog, I just never feel the pull to get on and write anything. I have a bunch of reviews to write and they wouldn’t take long but so much else is going on and I don’t sit down and just do it. I used to blog for fun, like how watching a tv show is a break from things I need to do but now the blog is just one of those need to do things that I have on my list. I think my Iphone is to blame! I can check email and facebook and play online scrabble and really that is enough for me! We are currently planning the move of our girls to the second floor and their little tiny room next to ours will become an office/craft room/homework zone. I think maybe with the computer on the main floor that I may get back into the swing of things. We’ll see. So much is going on around here lately. I thought as the kids got a little bigger that I would be able to have more time for myself but really that was wrong because now nobody naps and the amount of activities has grown. So far this summer isn’t the lazy time I was hoping for but now that the boys’ week of camp is over and two weekends of birthday parties in a row are done (the middle two kids each had a big pool party here) maybe that can change. If not at least we will have a nice long week of camping in Maine next month! So blog I still love the idea of you but I’d rather neglect you than the four kids or the messy house (for now anyway)!

*Oh and the constant sound of the MAC trying to eject the thin coaster some child stuck in the disc drive is another reason the computer is not so appealing lately!!!

So here is a post pinata picture because I hate to post without a picture!

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What Jamie has been up to:

Heather — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:01:39 +0000

Jamie’s fifth birthday is fast approaching and she seems to be fitting a lot of growing up into the end of her fourth year!

Here is my little worm rescuer after she cut her own hair (notice the backwards boys shirt on top of her dress).

Loving her Hello Kitty bathing suit from grandma!

I attempted a hair trim to fix things a bit.

My preschool graduate! How did that happen so fast?

Hey look! She learned to swim on her own (she can make it across the pool but still makes me nervous)!

This is Jamie’s first real haircut! She is looking a lot more grown up with the bangs (she took a fall on the sidewalk and bit her lip before) .

Not too grown up thankfully!

My sweet little girl, can’t you stay four a little longer?

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YAY for spring BUT….one last look at our wonderful winter!

Heather — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:12:08 +0000

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Spring!

Heather — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:25:28 +0000

I got so tired of everyone complaining about winter this year because I LOVE snow but I am going to admit that even though I was happy for our snow day this Wednesday, I am getting pretty excited about SPRING!!! It certainly doesn’t look like spring outside our house but with the longer days and plenty of eggs from our 4 chickens I’m starting to adjust to winter ending. Now can I order a few weeks of 65 degree sunny weather???

PS- don’t you just love those dark brown and speckled eggs my Cuckoo Maran is laying! She is supposed to lay dark brown but maybe its that she is so young that she gives me a lot of speckled too?

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fresh snow!

Heather — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:46:16 +0000

We had 2 big warm days last week and most of our snow melted. I was really happy to get about 4 inches last night to cover up all the dirty stuff. Its still winter and its going to be cold so we should at least have a nice supply of snow to keep things pretty and fun. The kids were out playing for a long time. The boys rebuilt their tunnels and they all did a little shoveling and had some “slow races” and tricycle races. I took pictures from the front steps, side door and garage because I am wimpy about the cold. They all had hot chocolate with the heart shaped marshmallows I got for Valentine’s. Jamie has to always have this mug now. She now likes Wonder Woman like I did as a kid. What more can a girl ask for, she is a super hero and a princess (right? I may need to brush up on this) and she has a see-through plane. If only she wore purple Jamie would be all set!

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I totally miss HALLOWEEN!

Heather — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:44:40 +0000

Halloween is my favorite holiday! Its the best part of Fall. I was thinking about it a lot today since I bought two Halloween costumes on sale for $2 each this morning (Yoda for Jillian and pirate for the boys – just to use as dress up). I am slowly taking down the decorations that are Halloween specific, at least I can leave the more general Fall things up a little longer. I wish I had written some more Halloween posts, like how I made Ben a jester costume for under $7 (my first time sewing any type of clothing!). But before its way too late I’ll just post some pictures of all our Halloween fun.

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