On the Plus Side, Plain Exhaustion Has Helped Me In the Weight Loss Department

-We started patching Seporah’s eye a few days ago. We discussed with the opthamologist and she said we’d probably be doing it for 1-2 years based on her current exam. Right now we’re only doing it 3 hours a day though, so thankfully she doesn’t have to go to school with it on.

-Steven’s now able to walk around with relatively no pain, hopefully sometime by February he’ll be able to run again.

-Christmas came early here. We’ve been using our USAA card for 5 years racking up points apparently. We didn’t know it, but you can trade in the points for gift cards. I was not planning on getting the girls anything (grandparent’s are the bomb, so they had some things), but now I’ve got all these gift cards for Walmart and Target. It was totally sweet let me tell you.

-Felicity pooped in the potty 2 times this week! So excited to be almost done with the diapering stage of our life.

-Seporah got the Good Citizen of the Quarter at school! Super proud of her. She also did a school performance of Brown Bear, Brown Bear a couple of weeks ago that Steven (wink, wink) needs to put up.

-We actually sent out Christmas cards this year. Steven designed them and we both mailed them out. It’s a good thing Steven took the initiative because if it had up to me, it just wouldn’t have happened. Good intentions are just that intentions.

December 19, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments 

My knee and a Felicity story

So this is my knee post surgery.  I have been laid up since Saturday, although I am feeling much better today.

So on to the Felicity story.  She woke up last night at around midnight and came in to wake me up to tell me she had to go potty.  She normally doesn’t do that, she normally just goes in her diaper and gets changed in the morning.  I’m happy that she is pottying, but not happy she is waking me up.  Anyway, I know I have to wake up and make sure she gets her diaper back on, because she never puts it on herself.  I wait about 10 minutes, and get up, and walk into her room and ask her if she put her diaper back on.  She smiles and says “Yes Daddy”, all proud of herself.  I am surprised, and pat her bottom over the blanket to make sure, and sure enough there is a diaper down there.  The next morning I am surprised with a urine covered child, from head to toe.  She had put the diaper on inside out.  =)

December 10, 2010   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

She’s Suppose to be Little Red Riding Hood, Not an Evil Jedi

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December 2, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments, Pictures 

Making a Gingerbread House

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December 2, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments, Pictures 

Wow, Someone’s Got the Mad Skillz

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November 29, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments, Videos 

Felicity Said She Looked Like Little Red Riding Hood

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Daddy said he took off like 20 silly bands, apparently he missed a yellow one though. LOL.

The best part about Santa was the cookie according to the girls.

November 28, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments, Pictures 

Seporah Owns More High Heels Than Her Mother

Not that that was a difficult accomplishment considering I own none. But it’s still kinda funny to think about. Steven took the girls out and got the Christmas outfits to go get their picture taken with Santa and apparently Seporah insisted on the black high heels to go with. They are super cute. Felicity’s were black with little frogs on them in case you were wondering.

November 27, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments 

And We’re Back

So our computer went on the fritz and it took awhile to get another one. It was really rather annoying. I’m not sure what we all did before computers. No sarcasm intended, I’m totally serious here. I NEED Hotmail, Facebook and Google. Google is amazing BTW. LOVE it. Anyways we went to Kauai and met up with my parents and my grandparents. This was the first time my grandparents had met the girls actually. So it was pretty exciting. We did some fun things and sat around and chatted a lot too.

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Great-Grandpa sitting on a train. We went on tour of this plantation that told the history of some of the agriculture of Kauai. It was actually pretty interesting. The girls said the best part of this was getting out and feeding the piggies (ie the wild boars).

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Grandpa Russ, Grandma Pam and Seporah at the Waimea Canyon. This scared the snot out of me. What you can’t see is the little fence directly behind Grandpa Russ and the VERY steep drop off directly behind that. Scared the snot out of me I’ll tell you what.

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Daddy and Seporah laughing at a blowhole. Essentially the wave came in through these caves where there was an opening that blasted the water through the top. Making it looked like there was a whale blowing water out. The girls said it was dolphins doing it.

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Behind the condo where we were staying. We got to watch the sunset over the water, it was quite beautiful to watch the sun go to sleep.

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Felicity playing at the blowhole.

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Great Grandma Yeske and Grandma Pam. You can definitely tell they’re mother and daughter.

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And one more mother-daughter shot, just a different set.

November 24, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments, Pictures 

Seporah knows ALL her colors

Felicity: Icek (they pronounce it with a k at the end for some reason) is white

Seporah: No it isn’t

Felicity: Icek is WHITE!!!

Seporah: No it isn’t

Felicity: ICEK IS WHITE!!!!!!!!!

Seporah: No, Icek is glass color

Felicity: oh. ok.

November 24, 2010   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

Dress Up at Target

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Just in case you don’t this about me, I can totally rock a fedora or cloche. Seriously. When I’m at a store and put one on, people I’m with do a double take because I actually look good in hats. I have quit wearing them since the ones I have gotten messed up by Thing 1 and Thing 2. So I don’t usually wear them in public anymore. However I saw a huge selection of them at Target and had to try on one that was oh so cute. I really, really wanted it, but decided the black cloche with black feathers and black flower off to the side would just get ruined along with the other ones. While I’m doing this my little love bugs decide they’re going to play dress up too. The above outfit was all Seporah and if you’ll notice the big Hollywood sunglasses are over the top of her regular glasses. It was adorable. Felicity played dress up too, but my cellphone doesn’t capture extremely wiggly/running 3 year olds, only 4 year olds willing to hold still for 10 seconds.

November 11, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments, Pictures