tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7728952017549817872024-02-02T03:59:04.398-06:00Bean on Paradeexhibition is exhilarationLE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.comBlogger371125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-47379116777352286362017-04-07T12:32:00.002-05:002017-04-07T12:32:57.501-05:00All the fingers on her little handMy baby. Look at her now...<br />
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44 inches tall<br />
42 pounds<br />
Sassy as all get out<br />
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<b>Highlights:</b><br />
First hair cut! We went to the lovely Ji Lee at EZSu Hair one. He was amazing and his wife and staff were wonderful. She chose to have it straightened afterwards and she looked so grown up!<br />
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I waited so long to cut it because I didn't want to risk loosing her beautiful curls. Four and a half years and her hair was almost reaching her waist when it was wet. She had a blast, charmed the whole staff and was generally the best version of herself. She didn't want to say any of the Korean phrases that she knows, but she was very polite. *Spoiler Alert* Her curls are still as amazing as always. She kept asking to have her straightened, so I bought a flat iron. I haven't been able to use it yet, because she always changes her mind at the last minute. How very Eleanor.<br />
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<b>Skills</b>:<b> </b><br />
Technically she can count to 15. She can count much higher, but she always forgets 16. Which make me laugh, because she's very focused on "when she's 16" as the pinnacle of freedom. She'll be able to drive and wear make up when she's 16, and that seems to be everything that she wants right now.<br />
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She's working on sight words and phonics, but I'd say she's still firmly in the "pre-reading" camp. She can write her name and asks me to spell other things for her to write frequently. She got her kindergarten readiness report from pre school and she's right on track, so that's great.<br />
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She did not get the gene to curl her tongue, but she really likes to stick it out anyway. That's not really a skill, just a quirk.<br />
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Running, jumping, climbing trees. Flipping every light switch in the house, even the high ones. Unloading the dishwasher. Setting the table. Feeding the dogs. Walking the dogs.<br />
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<b>She likes:</b></div>
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Make up, dressing her self and doing her own hair (Also My Little Pony, Jack Skellington and super heroes)</div>
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Playing in cardboard boxes</div>
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Coloring</div>
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Her cousins</div>
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Dress up and make believe (she doesnt' have an imaginary friend. She has a gang. Including Spiderman, Batman, a variety of My Little Ponies)</div>
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Cooking (especially chopping mushrooms with Uncle Glenn, and making her "compotito" at Amma's house)</div>
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How fast she's growing up! She's such a little person, with attitude and opinions and ideas. </div>
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-7942211499497700672017-03-31T19:39:00.000-05:002017-03-31T19:39:17.912-05:00Oh long forgotten blog...Well, between Christmas and the Lunar New Year, Jeremy and I lost our last remaining grandparents. (We didn't lose them. They died. Euphemisms are hard. Anyway.)<br />
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I also visited Portland, Scottsdale and had friends from Portland, Tulsa & Houston all come to visit me.<br />
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This year I will see the most amazing line up of bands in my whole entire life. U2, Depeche Mode, BTS & B.A.P. Not in that order, but still. It's amazing.<br />
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In fact, tomorrow I fly out to Anaheim to see BTS. 18 months ago (nearly TO THE DAY) I was in Anaheim seeing a different kpop group, Big Bang. I can hardly believe how lucky I am to get to see BTS in the same venue. It's 3x bigger than where I saw them in Dallas.<br />
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Oh yeah, and, uh, Eleanor is turning 5 soon. Like, in a week.<br />
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It's been a bit of a blur here, and next weekend Scarborough Faire opens. Woosh, sweep, life goes on.LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-29901934223447021262016-12-16T20:28:00.003-06:002016-12-16T20:28:46.775-06:00And then he was ThreeI'm a little late, but he's still newly three, so we'll roll with it.<br />
Garrison Kent! Age 3<br />
He's too cute and he knows it<br />
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Vitals:<br />
38.5" & 34lb, putting him at the 75th percentile for both. He's getting shorter. No, I mean, he's growing, but not as fast. Last year he was 90th for height & 60th for weight. He's evening out I guess. He's going to take after me. Sorry kid.<br />
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Highlights:<br />
A funeral, if you can call that a highlight.<br />
His first trip (and many subsequent trips) to a cemetery.<br />
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He came to hang out with us at Scarborough, in costume-ish, and had a blast. We spent a lot of time at my mom's pool this summer, and he loved that.<br />
He also had smores for the first time! It was a mess to be remembered.<br />
He's doing great at PDO and is social and ambitious. He also, you know, is a handful who doesn't listen all that well. Go figure. He did perform in the spring musical program last year and did pretty well, for the kid of the music teacher.<br />
He had a Big Hero 6 birthday party, with Baymax cake and balloons and it was very small and delightful.<br />
I've gotten pretty decent at giving him haircuts and he doesn't look like a total hobo, so that's nice.<br />
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His handwriting is... well, he doesn't have any, but he likes to pretend to write and trace when Eleanor is practicing her letters. He knows all the letters and as many numbers as Eleanor. Oh, and we started potty training today. I also took away all his pacifiers today and will send them to the Tooth Fairy as soon as a toy car can be procured for the exchange. (He hasn't asked for or needed a buppa in over a week, so I think we're good on that score).<br />
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He Likes: Chasing and climbing and playing with anything that can be a sword or a rocket ship. He loves to splash in the pool and is pretty good at paddling around in his little floaty vest. He still loves cars and ninja turtles and sharks and monsters. He wants to help me in the kitchen all the time, and was excited to get to help Uncle Glenn cook Thanksgiving dinner this year. He loves all the food, but broccoli has become a recent favorite. He's a bit more adventurous/easy going when it comes to trying new things than his sister. I'm enjoying that while it lasts. He likes when we all play with makeup and gets his toes painted, too. He loves loves loves tromping around in boots, especially to go splash in puddles. He's recently (in the last 4-6 months) started really loving stuffed animals. He loves brushing his teeth now! YAY!<br />
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He's not quite as fearless as his sister (who is almost painfully fearless, except when she thinks it's cute to be shy), but he is brave and tries new things even when he's nervous. The way he expresses himself is just incredible to me. His little mind works all the time and he's very different from his sister. I just love learning who he is as a tiny person. I love his crazy cowlicks that make his baby fine hair go everywhichway. He's started waking up with serious bedhead, and that's pretty great.<br />
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Being told no, and not getting his own way, like every other person on the planet. He hates diaper rash and having to put on his eczema cream. He doesn't like his hair being brushed or fussed with.<br />
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His stubborn streak. How cute he is when he's angry. Night terrors. He's losing his memories of my dad, but we're still telling the stories over and over and showing him all the pictures. Some of it will stick. He will remember that he was loved, and that's important.<br />
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<br />LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-30402390747990653042016-08-27T14:38:00.001-05:002016-08-27T14:38:19.200-05:00Summer HappenedWe did some stuff. Not as much as I wanted to do. Turns out losing a parent is really a bummer? And maybe I'm not handling it as well as I would like? And I'm kinda bummed and not as much fun to be around?<br />
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Still...<br />
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We had a lot of dance parties and movie nights. We played at indoor playgrounds and went to the park before it got stupid hot. We played Pokemon.<br />
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I organized many drawers and closets and my house is still too full of stuff.<br />
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We went to two aquariums and my mom took the kids to the zoo. We saw a movie in the theater!<br />
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I made a pie. We did lots of swimming (of which I have no pictures) and had a pretty decent time.<br />
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They learned some stuff, and I got to go to a concert and a sauna and life goes on. Life is pretty good.<br />
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<br />LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-79176461982954067922016-05-09T14:04:00.002-05:002016-05-09T14:04:27.994-05:004 Years in a blink of an eye, and also an eternityI'm late. I got distracted. Eleanor is distracting.<br />
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The Vitals: 38lbs, 42 inches, which is right on par with her 75th & 90th percentiles<br />
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Oh! She makes up songs now! Improvisational music! My daughter! I'm delighted.<br />
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Skills: Running, jumping, climbing trees. Being a big helper in the kitchen. She's great on slides and is starting to figure out the swings (other than on her belly). She's tried dance a bit, but still has a hard time focusing and following instructions, so we'll try more this summer. Solid on the alphabet (though can't pronounce F or V), can count reliably to the mid-teens, is working on basic math. Her handwritting is... well, it needs work, but she can draw all the letters of her name. Now to get them in order. She sings & dances in music class. She's a pretty good line leader, door holder, light switcher and snack helper. She dresses herself completely, even if she still only gets her shoes on the right feet about half of the time.<br />
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I like: Her beautiful hair. The songs. The stories. Her sweet heart. Teaching her bible memory verses (and learning them myself, too). Our dance parties, my cooking helper, when she wants to follow instructions she's very very helpful. Her creativity. She always wants to make pictures for everyone and she says hi to EVERYONE. She says "when I was a kid" to describe the past, which is charming though inaccurate. She also thinks 16 is a grown up, so... yeah.<br />
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-9102020863137910302016-01-31T19:47:00.000-06:002016-08-27T13:56:15.038-05:00To write the wrong<span style="font-family: inherit;">I never thought I would write my dad's obituary. I don't know who I thought wrote them, but I never imagined it would be me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet, when the time came, it was just one small thing I could do, so my mom could focus on... the million other things you have to do to hold a funeral. The short one for the paper wasn't a problem. There's not much room for stories in 250 words that must also contain the details of the services compete with church address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The longer one, that went into the program for the funeral... that was harder. So everyone in the house helped: my mom, my brother, my aunt. I probably even asked the cat for spelling help. We tweaked language and details, tried to cram 7 decades of life into two pages in a folder church bulletin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love writing. I like to hear myself talk, even in pixels. I did not love writing this. Trying to put every single story and facet of my dad into words. His stubbornness and temper that were the flip side of his hardworking and passionate nature. How he loved to laugh, loved good puns and a "clean" dirty joke. Those things didn't make it in. There just wasn't room for every story. There wasn't time to retell his whole life and capture how much he meant to so many people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then I tried to write some remarks for J to read at the services. A eulogy? Glenn helped me edit that too, refining words until we had something close to what we were feeling. It was hard work, writing something joyful and hopeful in the midst of such somber reflection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My dad was diagnosed with endocrine pancreatic cancer in June of 2008. He lived an amazingly full and vibrant life these past seven and a half years. In some ways, my prayers were very eloquently answered. We had a multitude of good days together even after cancer. His bad days were few and his decline swift, which was a blessing, even though it feels, on this side of it after the fact, like being crushed. It's not quite right to say that his death was a surprise, but it's also not wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My dad had seven and a half years of wonderful life after cancer, and much of that is due to the fantastic care he received at the <a href="https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/diagnosis-treatment/care-centers-clinics/gastrointestinal-cancer-center.html">MD Anderson Gastrointestinal Cancer Center.</a> I will continue to donate to their ongoing fight. I think it's what Dad would have wanted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged for The Lord, your God, is with you wherever you may go" Joshua 1:9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Garry Wayne Boswell, a man of faith, a man of science and a man of action, died January 21, 2016 after a brave battle with pancreatic cancer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Garry was born to Glenn Leroy and Velma Mae Boswell on November 6</span><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, 1946 in Woodlake, California. After graduating high school in Stockton, California he continued his education at the University of the Pacific where he met his wife, Barbara Jonte . They were married in June of 1969, following their graduation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">In March of 1970, Garry enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam. Upon returning in 1971, he completed Advanced Officers Training, achieving the rank of First Lieutenant and was promoted to Captain within the year. While he was stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco, Garry and Barbara welcomed their son Glenn Haworth into the world on June 26</span><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, 1973, just two days before their fourth wedding anniversary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">During his time in Vietnam, he served as a hospital pharmacist, and he saw the value of continuing his education. After returning from the war, he taught as an adjunct professor at the University of the Pacific, then became a student again, attending the University of Southern California, where he achieved his Ph.D. He remained a faithful and devoted alumnus of both his alma maters, giving annually to both and a proud supporter of USC Trojans football team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Garry was drawn to pharmacy because it was his way to combine a deep love of learning and the sciences with the ability to serve people. He often said that the beauty of being a pharmacist was that every town in the world would always need a pharmacist, so he’d never be lacking opportunities to work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">In 1980, Garry returned to service in the Army, stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco. On October 11</span><span style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, 1980 he welcomed his daughter, Linnea Ellen to the family. As he matured in his career, he was captivated by research, and found himself on a path that led to specialized work in the field of pharmacokinetics. Garry continued to serve, remaining on active duty in the Army until 1992, then continuing in the U.S. Army Reserves, until retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1997.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Throughout his career, both professionally and in the military, Garry and his family moved around the country in pursuit of the challenges and opportunities his skill set offered. From the Bay Area of California, to Southern California, back to the Bay Area, and then on to Texas, Illinois, Nebraska, back again to the Bay Area once more, then near Houston, Texas and finally settling in Weatherford, Texas to a custom-built house that he and Barbara designed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Garry loved to travel and he brought his family along for the ride. Humble camping trips just a few miles from home were made extraordinary with exploration and discovery. On one memorable trip to Inks Lake in Texas, Garry, Barb and the kids found more than ten different kinds of wildlife in the space of about twenty minutes. Garry was a fan of adventure, exploration, good food, good friends and good fun. In retirement, he and Barbara were hardly idle. Between 2010 and 2015 they took 23 trips, totaling 257 days of exotic escapes around the globe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">In everything Garry pursued, he pursued it with his whole heart and mind. He never stopped asking questions and learned throughout his life. Whether it was running, tennis or golf, he approached even the most physical tasks with his mind, learning how to be better and more effective with each attempt. He loved to hunt, fish and hike and shared these activities with his family. He loved to solve puzzles, and even found this curiosity extended to playing first-person-shooter computer games with his son Glenn and son-in-law Jeremy. He was always learning how to beat the next level and solve the next puzzle, in life and in his games. His love of learning was applied in his woodshop, where he hand-crafted bowls, picture frames, and candle holders for family and friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Family was everything to Garry. He was dependable and he loved caring for his family. He was proud to be a Boswell, proud of his Cherokee heritage and proud that he was a descendant of Chief John Ross. He was available to teach, guide and advise. He adopted friends and made them family. To many people he was “just like a brother” or “a second father.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> He loved animals, never passing up an opportunity to scratch a furry ear or chin. He enjoyed his saltwater fish tank, keeping it stocked with familiar fish, much to the delight of his grandchildren. He was baptized into the Methodist church along with his granddaughter Eleanor in 2013. He served in his Sunday school class and with the Meals-on-Wheels program and the Center of Hope. He believed strongly in working hard and helping those who couldn’t. </span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline;">It’s a bit shocking when you realize that your parents are fully formed human beings with lives of their own, outside of being just your parents. In 1999, I was living in my parents’ basement while attending college in Lincoln, Nebraska. It’s a cliche, but it was wonderful. I had decorated the side of their refrigerator with magnetic poetry. Four full boxes of it, including the Shakespeare and Genius editions, so it was full of fabulous and fancy words.</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline;">One day, probably a Saturday afternoon but I honestly don’t remember, I noticed a short poem on the front of the fridge. The exact words have been lost to the transient nature of fridge poetry, but what I do remember is that it was a tender love poem, just four lines long, but full of adoration and a sense of life-long commitment. It touched me, and I thought it was amazing. So I told my mother, “Hey, that’s a lovely little poem there on the fridge.”</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I never thought he was un-romantic. Not at all. He knew my mother so well, picking out gifts of clothing and jewelry with ease, knowing what styles she liked and what colors suited her best. He wasn’t against flowers for Valentine’s Day, or Tuesday. One of my favorite facts was that he arranged all the flowers for his own wedding, and that of my Aunt Cher, and later, I convinced him to do it for my own wedding too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt;">But there, in 1999, standing in that kitchen, I realized that there was more to my dad than I ever understood. I am grateful for all the years I had to learn just what an amazing man he was, and it is with a profound sense of loss that I learn: no amount of time would ever have been enough to know him completely.</span></div>
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-10230242028827961702015-12-06T14:34:00.002-06:002015-12-06T14:34:35.177-06:00Two years oldHi.<br />
I'm not incapacitated nor have I forgotten how to write.<br />
I just, kinda, got kpopped. A lot this summer.<br />
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Anyway, This is my child at 2 years.<br />
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The Vitals:<br />
He's tall-- 36" tall (officially one quarter inch taller than his sister at this age) 90th percentile<br />
He's heavy-- 28lb 11oz (heavier than she was too) 60th percentile<br />
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Highlights:<br />
This boy is fearless. He loves the pool at Amma & Papa's house, floating around in his little life vest with as little supervision as he can get away with.<br />
He wanted to play with the firecrackers at 4th of July, just like the big kids.<br />
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Skills:<br />
Climbing-- one time, like a week ago, he tried to climb out of his crib. He has a toddler bed now.<br />
Talking--all the sentences, all the words, paragraphs and grammar and questions and everything. He's super polite when he's not being a terror. He says please and thank you in adorable ways that not even Eleanor is willing to do. I spent the afternoon on Thursday with some not-my two-year-olds, some who are almost 3, and was just... surprised. I knew Garrison's language skills were a bit advanced, but I didn't really know what that meant. Anyway, again, this is not due to any superior parenting on my part. He's probably had less attention and focus than Eleanor did. He's just like this and I love it.<br />
He has almost all his teeth at least poking through.<br />
Letters and Numbers. Look, it's ridiculous, and I take zero credit as an awesome parent, but he knows all his letters on sight, can name them, count to 10, identify all the numbers 1 to 12. I don't even know. I swear it's not anything I've done, other than get him the Endless Alphabet & Numbers games on my phone.<br />
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anything with wheels<br />
blocks<br />
animals! Not just our pets, but all the toy animals he has. He's pretty good at identifying them too<br />
pretending to be a monster (rawr)<br />
the monster house (which is what he & Eleanor call the haunted house where J works)<br />
Moni & cheese<br />
applesauce<br />
cheese<br />
His sister<br />
snuggling<br />
jumping<br />
playing Ring Around the Rosy<br />
bathtime<br />
music (Sing Old McDonald, Mama!-- must be the animal thing again)<br />
Hats! Hoods! Headbands! Ponytails! Sunglasses! (all the things Eleanor hated)<br />
books, especially Little Blue Truck and The Pout Pout Fish (I highly recommend both)<br />
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I like:<br />
reading him books<br />
the snuggling<br />
how social he is. He runs up to all his teachers at PDO and calls them by names and runs into their arms for hugs<br />
His crazy fluffy hairs<br />
His fabulous pronunciations of things! He calls his pacifier his "buppa" because when J & I wake him up, we pull it out and say "bup!" He calls it "zooping up" his pajamas. He way he says "big tv" sounds like "victory" and I love that.<br />
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He dislikes:<br />
being told no<br />
certain textures--like artificial Christmas trees, apparently<br />
teething<br />
being in his room for "quiet night"<br />
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I dislike:<br />
teething<br />
the sudden need to push and tackle his sister<br />
tantrums<br />
the fact that he can get out of his bed and thus no longer plays quietly when he wakes up. I mourn the loss of my mornings with just Eleanor.<br />
He no longer says "guggle" and I hate it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First day of Mother's Day Out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">wearing a hand-towel like a little man</td></tr>
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Vitals: 26ish lbs. 32ish inches. I can't keep him still long enough to find out. Hmmm... he probably has a doctor's appointment soon to tell me these things. I should check into that (mother of the YEAR)<br />
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2 hair cuts total now. I'm not really getting any better at it. Poor kid.<br />
First playground--swings and slides<br />
first pony tail (he begged for one after I gave Eleanor one)<br />
First trip to Faire<br />
First puke! (milestones man...)<br />
He finished his first year of Mother's Day Out.<br />
He's got 10 teeth now.<br />
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Moderate proficiency with spoon and fork<br />
JUST YESTERDAY he started saying "Please" instead of only signing it. It was his first signed word.<br />
He says lots of words. More than I've bothered to count recently. He mimics nearly everything we ask him to say, which is really the best stage of verbal development.<br />
Animal identification. Monkey, snake & alligator are my favorite. He also does the noises<br />
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SHOES!!! He will put on any shoes he can cram his feet into, which is usually not his own shoes, but mine and Eleanor's.<br />
Balls--anything that rolls is fair game. Trucks are a recent addition. He's also a big fan of Eleanor's tricycle.<br />
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Climbing into things, the smaller the better<br />
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baby dolls<br />
hats<br />
BUBBLES<br />
snuggles ("guggle?" he says)<br />
Our pets. More so than Eleanor ever did, he's taken a real interest in the pets. He calls Banshee Bebee.<br />
His blanket & pacifier (which he calls his buppa. I don't even know)<br />
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He dislikes:<br />
being told no. (We have entered the age of fits and tantrums and hitting. It's not the best)<br />
Some foods, some of the time. I can't pin it down, it depends on the freaking weather, I swear.<br />
Being snuggled to sleep. This has been true for quite a while, just one of the ways he's totally unlike his sister (who still requires a crazy intricate stalling ritual before bed, EVERY NIGHT) but recently, it's very hit or miss. Some nights he wants to snuggle until he's asleep, other nights he's jumping out of your arms to get to his bed.<br />
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I like:<br />
All the smiles and snuggles.<br />
The word development. So much communication!<br />
He's still the cutest little boy I know.<br />
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39 inches tall</div>
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She wears 3T most everything, but pants are a struggle. Now that she's not wearing diapers, there's nothing holding her pants up, so the great buttless wonder goes around showing her tiny crack off. Because pants are dumb. Mostly she wears leggings, but needs a 2T waist and 3T length. I know she is not alone in this. </div>
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Octonauts, Daniel Tiger, playing with baby dolls, kitchen things, fixing things, using tools, doing "her job" which is whatever she wants to be doing at the moment, checking the mail, doing it "by MYSELF, Mama!" and being a "big helper." </div>
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She loves pasta in all forms: pad thai, chinese noodles, mac and cheese, spaghetti, whatever. If it's got pasta in it, she'll probably eat it. </div>
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Cheese, grapes, blueberry yogurt, peanut butter, pancakes, apple juice, whatever you're drinking.</div>
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Playing outside, chasing the dog, throwing balls, jumping in puddles, kicking dirt, scooping dirt, throwing dirt, moving dirt around the yard with her "shuggle" and bucket.<br />
Her blanket (which thankfully isn't just one blanket, but any of the muslin style blankets)<br />
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Eleanor is just so talkative, and sometimes she says the greatest things. <br />
She calls the Grinch "the Christmas Grump" and the Octonauts live in the "Octoport" not the Octopod and she loves to sound the "Octoalerp." Fs still sounds like S or B, which means Tinkerbell (Kinkerbell) is a "bairy" and she giggles like a maniac when the dog is "snissing" her. I cannot even replicate the way she says vinegar or velvet, but it's hilarious. V is sometimes b, sometimes z. She wants to turn on the tz, and uses "her" instead of "she." She has not mastered the R sound, but it does help with the fs, because she loves "fwied wice" when we have "shiny food." When you take a picture, she says "tease!" Her favorite song is The Wheels on the Bus, but she also likes to sing "Tinkle Tinkle Little Star" and the theme to Kung Fu Panda, complete with drum noises and "sweet!" at the end. She loves "Closing Time" by Semisonic, but thinks it's about her being born... because we watched YouTube video together where Dan, from Semisonic talks about writing that sing about his baby being born. (For the record, John Mayer's Daughters was playing when she was born. I had no say in that, but it's kind of neat.)<br />
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I've gotten her addicted to kpop. She asks for "her G Dwagon," which, as far as I can tell, is everything from 2009 to the present. Any earlier than that, and he's MY G Dragon. She also loves her TOP, and will tell you that Taeyang is a "mad boy" and he's cold, because he's not wearing a shirt. Oh, and it's not MY BTS anymore, it's HER BTS, thank you very much. She asks for the "nega chay challaga" song, and "wa wa geejeebay!" which just makes me giggle. </div>
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She will tell you, unprompted, that she loves you, that you're awesome, and which things are not her favorite. Things are frequently "almost done" as a stalling technique. If you ask her how she's doing, she'll say, "I doing great!" She loves to be a "big helper" especially in the kitchen. <br />
When I ask her to lay down, sometimes she asks to "lay up" and loves to climb into my lap during her bedtime book, which she will then insist she read back to you, with surprising accuracy. <br />
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She dislikes:<br />
raw vegetables, except tomatoes<br />
being told what to do<br />
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Getting to braid her hair.<br />
All her adorable outfits.<br />
The way she loves things--full of enthusiasm and joy and no reservations<br />
Holding her hand, painting her tiny nails & toes.<br />
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She pushes all my buttons sometimes with her independence and her defiance and her need to be the boss. Gee, I wonder where she gets that from. She also melts my heart with the way she clings to my neck at bed time, saying, "Mama, I neeeeeeed you."<br />
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This was on the calendar to be made the last week of February, but I pinned it for J and he was in Canada, so, I postponed. It was good, but I really need a shallower dish next time. The ratio of cheese/chips/messy stuff was off. Anyway, health food it isn't, but everyone ate it, so hooray! I think for once I actually followed the real recipe without going crazy off-book. Oh, I didn't put in the scallions, because I had a cranky teething toddler attatched to me. And I left out the carrots, because carrots don't belong on nachos. And I made my own taco seasoning, because I thought we already had some at home, but turns out it was chili seasoning. I also didn't really use the name brands listed, but it's a recipe from Betty Crocker, so you know, grain of salt. </div>
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Not pictured, <a href="http://www.themom100.com/the-mom-100-blog/recipes/cider-beef-stew/">Apple Cider beef stew</a>. Defintely a win. I'm not really a stew fan, but this was good. It tasted just like my mom's stew, only with a little sweet kick from the apples.<br />
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-39420796390171121022015-03-10T15:05:00.000-05:002015-03-10T15:05:10.037-05:00Videos!Ok, so, for Eleanor's first year, I made a video montage. It took me forever to get around to doing Garrison's, and in the process, I learned how to do some things that I wish I'd had with Eleanor's... so I redid hers completely. Mostly. Anyway, then I realized that I could do a 2nd year one for her, so I did. Yes, I'm working on a year 3 for her birthday next month. So, I'm putting them here. Ta-da! My kids, live and in color.<br />
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31 3/4 inches<br />
25 pounds</div>
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First weekend away from his parents! He spent it with my folks and has an excellent time.</div>
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Skills:<br />
Walking, running, climbing, opening doors & cabinets & the fridge.<br />
Eating everything<br />
Taking & signing. So, in addition to Panda (nanda), Garrison has followed in his sister's footsteps and he has his own version of Bagels' name, complete with hand motion, just like she taught Eleanor. He babbles and mimics all the time, so of course to us, it seems like he says a lot more than is probably reasonable to expect from a 15 month old, but about 25 identifiable and consistent words. He will say "up" now, complete with hand motions,. </div>
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All done<br />
Ball, bath, bye, bag, book, bubble, baby, bottle<br />
Dog, Dada, diaper<br />
Ella<br />
Mama, more, mouth<br />
Nose<br />
Please, Papa (which is actually baba)<br />
Thank You<br />
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More teeth! So, center teeth, top & bottom are in. Top molars have broken through & the bottom are very close.</div>
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He likes:<br />
Anything his sister is doing<br />
Cell phones/tablets<br />
Kung Fu Panda (he "sings" the theme song with us)<br />
Anything that rolls<br />
His pets<br />
Climbing under things<br />
Cheese, yogurt, oranges<br />
Baths, books, snuggles<br />
Being tickled under his chin<br />
People. This kid is so social & happy.</div>
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Diaper changes, because it means stopping the playing<br />
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His fluffy hair<br />
All the giggles & smiles<br />
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Dealing with another rash of doom (HFM. It was uuuuugggggglllllyyyy)<br />
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Let's start with my most dismal failure in the kitchen. Don't blame <a href="http://passionatepennypincher.com/2014/01/skinny-slow-cooker-cheeseburger-soup/">the recipe</a>, because I didn't follow it AT ALL. I sort of meant to follow it, but then one thing led to another and I'd left out steps and substituted too many things and what I was left with was NOT cheeseburger soup, skinny or otherwise, it was... beef... blah. The texture was all wrong, and the flavors were sort of meh, but like I said, it's all my fault. So, moving on.<br />
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This month's big winner though is this <a href="http://inspiredreamer.com/chicken-and-spinach-pasta-bake/">Chicken Spinach Pasta Bake</a>. It was delicious! I followed the recipe (mostly, I used skim milk instead of half-and-half, because when I went shopping, I bought the ingredients for <a href="http://www.budgetbytes.com/2012/05/roasted-garlic-pasta-salad/">a totally different recipe with spinach and pasta</a> and so had to make things work anyway, which they did, with just that one substitution). It also made a WHOA amount of food, but this time, Eleanor liked it, and so there was much more eating of it. I used veggie pasta (elbows, because that's what E picked out) and grape tomatoes cut in half. Now, this is the kind of dish that usually annoys me, because I don't want to cook all the food, then assemble it, and warm it up so the cheese melts. But I did, and it was totally worth it. This would be a great way to use up leftover chicken, or a briefcase chicken. Anyway, I loved this dish. I would make this a lot. It had vegetables in it, and everyone ate it. Hooray!<br />
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I also made my life 1000 times easier by doing something so simple that I can't believe I haven't done it earlier. Actually I can, because I sort of hate chopping vegetables, which is why I conned a friend into doing it for me. HAHA! Anyway, my friend chopped up a metric ton (slight exaggeration) of onions, celery, carrots & bell peppers. Oh, and some zucchini. We stuffed 4 quart-sized bags full of diced veggies and I put them in the freezer. Now, I mixed them all up, because that's a combination that I use in lots of things. Ground beef & rice supreme, soup... other stuff... anyway, <a href="http://www.dessertnowdinnerlater.com/2013/09/freezer-vegetables/#_a5y_p=2530680">freezer vegetables</a>. Exactly what I need, when I need it, in the right mix, in a bag in the freezer, so it's super convenient. No pictures of this one.<br />
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And then there's my face. For Valentine's Day, I tried to follow <a href="http://www.prettydesigns.com/15-beautiful-pink-eye-makeup-looks-2014/">this tutorial for using my Too Faced Chocolate palette</a>, and I was pretty happy with it, until I tried to take a picture of my closed eyelids. My blending skills are lacking a lot of... patience, which led me to<a href="http://www.xovain.com/makeup/blending-eyeshadow"> this blending tutorial</a>, which maybe helped a little, but my eyelids are... wrinkly. And I took my pictures before I put my eyebrows on, which was silly.<br />
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Then, I got the OTHER Too Faced chocolate bar palette, and it comes with a little booklet, so I tried to do one of those. But I had an argument with my crease, and I think I'm just done taking pictures with my eyes closed, which is a stranger sentence than I thought.<br />
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Bagels let me play with her face, and I tried to do a <br />
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<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/77405687316598482/">fancy cat eye thing</a>. It's always more difficult to do someone else's face because even though you can have both eyes open all the time, it's not your face! Different shapes, textures, everything. Blah. But her eyelids are infinitely smoother than mine, so that helped a lot.<br />
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-15757655147360756132015-02-09T15:04:00.001-06:002015-02-09T15:04:06.825-06:00January Pinterest Project roundupYes, we're nearly halfway into February, but you know. Babies.<br />
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So! Here's what I cooked and did with my makeup in January.<br />
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I kept my goal of one Pinterest thing a week. Go me! 1 down, 11 more to go!<br />
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January was the month of "Things with lasagna in the title that aren't actually lasagna at all"<br />
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Then I made <a href="http://www.cookingclassy.com/2013/12/lasagna-soup/">"Lasagna Soup"</a> which does actually call for lasagna noodles, to be fair, but I made it with... farfalle, because I had leftovers from the other "lasagna" recipe. I did not add fennel seeds, sugar, or parsley of any variety. It was still delicious, but even more unphotogenic than most of the things I cook.<br />
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Then, there was the hilarious Friday where I attempted to make <a href="http://www.fifteenspatulas.com/waffle-iron-grilled-cheese-sandwich/">"Waffle Iron Grilled Cheese." </a> Bagels was there to witness the utter failure on my part. So, the problem here is that I don't have a regular waffle iron. I have a fun, animal shaped waffle iron. It's adorable, with a lion, an elephant, and a giraffe. Excellent for waffles for the wee ones. Not at all suited to grilled cheese for anyone. The cheese oozed everywhere. The bread got soggy. There was lots of giggling, but no wailing or gnashing of teeth, so, lesson learned.<br />
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As for my face, I attempted to do <a href="http://fotoplot.com/p/1684840918/makeup-com-delineado-egpcio">this</a>, and it was such a failure that I can't even show you the pictures. Because I didn't take any. I decided to scale back a bit, really not overestimate my skill level and try something a bit more basic. Like <a href="http://gallery.sephora.com/photo/tart-s-lcl-precision-long-wea-liquid-liner-11615?icid2=beauty+board:profile:photo+album_photo&crlt.pid=camp.kc98b5yUnPlI&crlt.pid=camp.l7ymIlLT4l7F">liquid eyeliner</a>. Because I'm a glutton for punishment, apparently. Let's just ignore my eyebrows, and the place where I blinked and forgot to move the eyeliner away, and the fact that I still couldn't get the nifty winged effect with my eyes open and focus instead on the positives. Like the fact that <a href="http://www.essence.eu/en/products/eyes/eyeliner-kajal/e/product/liquid-ink-high-shine-eyeliner/">this amazing eyeliner</a> exists. And is only sold in GERMANY. Luckily, I know people, because I really want to try the waterproof & the matte & the CRYSTAL IN ALL THE COLORS! Because, you know, why not?<br />
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-86045705910016131222015-01-31T20:57:00.001-06:002015-01-31T20:57:52.609-06:00They just keep growingSo, I did a 13 month post for Eleanor because I was announcing that Garrison was on the way.<br />
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So, I'm going to tell you some stuff that Garrison is up to at 14 months.<br />
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Talking! He says Mama, Dada, Ella, Puca, Tukko (kukko, really), ball, book, hi (my personal favorite), bye-bye, water, and signs drink, milk (which just means drink, because he doesn't actually like milk anymore), all done and please.<br />
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Ok, in my head I had a lot more to report, because it seems like he's doing something new EVERY SINGLE DAY, but I guess it's really just words. He's gotten to the point where he gets angry if you take his toys away, and by toys, I mean whatever he's picked up--including dog hair--and isn't as easily distracted anymore.<br />
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He had his first haircut last week. I did it at home, and hoooooboy, do I not have any skill in that area. Luckily, his hair is fluffy, and he's rarely still, so all my mistakes are pretty well camouflaged. He wasn't totally traumatized, though his sister did IMMEDIATELY demand that I cut her hair too.<br />
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Oh, and he finally got teeth! 2 teeth! 1 about 2 weeks after his birthday, and one right before Christmas. His two front teeth. On top. It's adorable. There might be a third (on the bottom) trying to make an appearance, but he won't let me in there to look, so who knows!<br />
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We've gone to the park a few times to enjoy the sunny January weather, so he's gotten to get on the swings a bit. And climb around in the grass.<br />
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When it's not sunny and 70 degrees, I make him wear this RIDICULOUSLY adorable hat from his Aunt B.<br />
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Also, he likes to get going so fast he loses his balance and smashes his face into things, sometimes causing bleeding head wounds. That's fun and exciting. I'm so glad I had a girl first, because I'm so tempted to write it off as a boy thing, but no. Eleanor was the EXACT SAME.<br />
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Speaking of being the same, Garrison desperately wants to be doing whatever she is doing. All the time. Thankfully, Eleanor is learning to share a little better these days and can most of the time be coerced into sharing with a few Daniel Tiger songs. (Seriously, all the dollars to PBS for that gem of a show!) So, of course I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to dress them in matching t-shirts!<br />
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Eleanor has finally ditched her paci and diapers. My baby. She's a ridiculous 38 1/2 imches tall and still hovering around 30 lbs. Garrison is not closing that gap as quickly as I thought though. He's still hanging out at around 32 inches, 25 lbs. But they wear the same size shirt. Because of course they do. </div>
LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-12035808706617036452015-01-01T11:28:00.001-06:002015-01-01T11:28:16.446-06:002015... Let's do this<div dir="ltr">
I was reviewing my <a href="http://beanonparade.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-i-can-control.html">2014 goals</a>. My 50 by 2015 fell super flat on its face. Moving totally derailed a lot of things for me, which is an excuse, not a reason, and I understand that. Fresh start. We'll see how far I get. </div>
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I did purge sheets & towels & get new ones.</div>
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I did walk 500 miles.</div>
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I did purge my closet so it only contains things I wear (and costume pieces, which I also wear, but much less frequently). However, my wardrobe is still mostly things I wore while pregnant or nursing, so it's not exactly flattering.</div>
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I did not get full emergency kits for the cars, but we both have jumper cables now.</div>
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I did wear more makeup, though not more jewelry. I need to find a way to make it more accessible. I think that will help.</div>
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For 2015, I want to start making & doing stuff from my Pinterest boards. My goal is one a week. One meal or makeup thing or organization trick or kid craft. I started early, and this week I made this soup <a href="http://backtoherroots.com/2012/12/03/handmade-holiday-vegetarian-five-bean-soup-mix/">5 bean vegetarian soup</a>, I even made it in jars as gifts for friends too, though when I cooked it I didn't add a can of diced tomatoes. I added a handful of crumbled bacon. And only put in half the salt. It was delicious. For New Year's Eve, I did my face like <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/88242473924100714/">this.</a> Sort of. </div>
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-85223659749984588752014-12-03T13:54:00.001-06:002014-12-03T13:54:11.158-06:0012 months. 1 year. However you slice it, I'm not readyEven though his birthday is WEEKS later than we were anticipating, I'm still having a hard time believing it's been a year already.<br />
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24 ish pounds, 32 ish inches. Official numbers after his doctor's appointment next week.<br />
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First Thanksgiving! (Since the little turkey wouldn't come out in time last year). He slept through dinner on Thursday, but devoured all the foods once he woke up. We repeated the seasonal food experiment on Sunday with J's family and the result was the same.<br />
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First steps! A whole month sooner than Eleanor did, he's walking!<br />
First lemon. While Bagel's parents were in town, we had lunch & gave him a lemon slice. He was totally unfazed.<br />
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Skills:<br />
Walking. He took some tentative steps, then 2-5 steps in a row, then he was off. He still crawls (usually when he falls after trying to run), but more and more he's choosing to stand and walk.<br />
Signing- milk & food are the two most common, though we see the occasional please or more.<br />
Waving<br />
Talking- Mama, Dada & something that sounds like Ella, or Nora. He's trying to mimic us, and that's pretty adorable.<br />
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Works in progress:<br />
This child is still toothless. So, there's that. (It slows him down when it comes to eating NOT ONE BIT) But he does have bumps on the top that feel like teeth might come out of there soon. Maybe.<br />
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Words. He's trying out a lot of sounds, and soon, we'll understand what it is he's trying to tell us. <br />
Spoons. He really wants to feed himself and he's actually not that bad with sticky stuff.<br />
Brown eyes? His dark grey is starting to show some tan flecks.<br />
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He likes:<br />
All the food<br />
Anything Eleanor is playing with or touching<br />
His paci & blankie<br />
Music<br />
Pouches<br />
Things that light up & make noise<br />
Taking his socks and shoes off<br />
Peek-a-boo<br />
Baths<br />
Chasing the pets<br />
Playing in cabinets<br />
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He dislikes:<br />
Getting his fingers pinched in cabinet doors<br />
Not getting to have what Eleanor is playing with<br />
Runny noses<br />
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I like:<br />
Watching him learn. I'm amazed every day.<br />
Babies in hats. How independent he is, most of the time. I mean, most of the time he's pretty independent and most of the time I like that. He feeds himself, can hold his own bottle, entertains himself. It's great. Until I miss my tiny squishy baby.<br />
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I dislike:<br />
Runny noses, ear infections, and all that nonsense.<br />
His hair lays down 87% of the time now.<br />
That soon I'm going to start calling him a toddler.I'm not ready for two toddlers in the house.<br />
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I love this boy. I knew I would, but after all the fun I had with Eleanor, a boy was hard to imagine.<br />
He's happy and charming and just so fun.<br />
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-43836516373043737482014-11-03T18:21:00.003-06:002014-11-04T07:23:46.786-06:00Eleven months<div dir="ltr">
So, eleven months is dangerously close to a year, and this baby is still a baby, so can't be almost a year old. Still...</div>
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Vitals: Still 23ish pounds and 31 inches</div>
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Haunted house going! </div>
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First Halloween! </div>
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First head wound! </div>
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First icky cold (that was still mild & required little help)...I think.</div>
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Skills:<br />
Walking with very little assistance<br />
Climbing things<br />
Standing & clapping, at the same time<br />
Signing food, more, milk, mama, all done<br />
Waving<br />
Wookie noises<br />
Blowing kisses</div>
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Works in progress:<br />
Walking with no assistance<br />
Giving kisses</div>
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Colorful food. He eats all the vegetables out of stuff first. <br />
Chasing his sister<br />
Blankets<br />
Peek-a-boo<br />
Boxes<br />
Tickles<br />
Going for a ride<br />
Splashing</div>
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Nursing. He has completely weaned himself from me. We're supplementing with formula until next month when we'll switch over to milk</div>
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I like:<br />
Being with him for Mother's Day Out. I get to see him learn & grow. He gets to socialize. It's working out really well.<br />
Snuggling<br />
Watching my TWO kids play together<br />
Double bath time. It's so much easier when they're on the same schedule</div>
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I dislike:<br />
Bottles. I mean, I'm grateful for them and the convenience of knowing that anyone can give him one, but I do miss nursing, for totally selfish reasons. I'm glad he made the choice himself & we didn't have a difficult weaning process, but I wasn't quite ready. I still snuggle him and get good cuddles when giving him a bottle though.</div>
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The Vitals:<br />
Holding steady at about 23lb<br />
30.5" I think. Maybe 31", it's hard to get him to be still</div>
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Started Mother's Day Out<br />
First move to a new house<br />
Sleeping in a real crib, not a pack & play</div>
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Skills:<br />
Standing. By himself. Alone. Unassisted. <br />
Climbing stairs<br />
Clapping<br />
Rolling balls & chasing them<br />
Throwing things<br />
Babbling. Lots of mamamas & dadadas, but only occasionally with purpose</div>
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Cruising. He can do it, but knows he's faster on the ground<br />
Walking. He can do it holding on to our hands & I think if I got him a walker toy he'd conquer the world<br />
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He likes:<br />
All the food<br />
Peek-a-boo<br />
Wooden blocks<br />
Balls<br />
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His smiles, which he hands out freely<br />
Long pants season. Babies in jeans are the cutest<br />
That he takes his afternoon nap at the same time as Eleanor now. Hoooooooray!</div>
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The Mohawk is gone, though he still has a little Alfalfa sprout in back<br />
His complete disregard for safety</div>
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It's October, and that means costumes and I'm so excited to have 2 kids to dress up! Eleanor is starting to express OPINIONS about what she wears, so this is going to be fun. Sadly, I can't find where I packed his alligator to take his 10m picture just yet.</div>
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My baby girl is hardly a baby anymore. She's running and planting seeds in her "garden" (read: patch of dirt conveniently located to get current position) and generally just being amazing. </div>
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Tall & not as leggy as I thought. 37' She wears 2t pants, 3t shirts & dresses. I guess she's got more torso now. She hovers right around 30lb and has for nearly a year now. She's front facing in her car seat, which she can climb into & out of on her own.</div>
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The past six months have been such a blur in so many ways. She had her first teeth cleaning appointment, and she was amazing. Fluoride, flossing, the works. I mean, she's been to the dentist 5 times since she broke her tooth at ten months. She didn't want a toy at the end of her visit, she wanted a dental mirror. </div>
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We went back to the haunted house where J works. Last year she went as a hippo and was really too young to understand and be scared. This year, we talked a lot about going to visit the monsters, and play peek-a-boo. She put on her tutu and flower headband and loved it! She giggled and grinned. She launched herself into J's arms, not at all bothered by his makeup. </div>
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Sentences. Full, developed, mostly grammatical sentences. <br />
She tells stories. As in, you can ask her what she did today, and she'll tell you a sequence of events. <br />
Her imagination has really taken off. She's fantastic at looking at some random object and making it whatever tool she needs in the moment. <br />
Staying awake on the drive to my folks' house<br />
Feeding the dog (that's her morning chore)<br />
Setting the table. Not well, but she can do it.</div>
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Daniel Tiger<br />
All the movies, especially Brave, Tangled & Mulan. Nemo & Monsters Inc. aren't in heavy rotation anymore<br />
Grape tomatoes<br />
All the fruits<br />
Cheese of all kinds<br />
Quiche<br />
Noodles<br />
Pop Tarts (unfrosted strawberry, because I'm not a total monster)<br />
Mama's breakfast (which is chocolate Belvita <br />
Going to school and church<br />
Playing in the dirt<br />
Being outside<br />
Being our "big helper" <br />
Washing her hands<br />
Going upstairs<br />
Her blankie & paci<br />
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Getting a ponytail<br />
All raw vegetables that aren't tomatoes<br />
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The level of communication! It's just mind blowing to have whole conversations with her. She can express her opinions and we can negotiate. <br />
Her curly hair. I have no idea what to do with it most days, but it's beautiful.<br />
Her delightful mispronunciations. She wears a baby suit (bathing suit) to go get in the cool (pool). She gardens with a bucket and a shuggle. She likes to snuggle under her co-wees (covers). OK, she can say covers (co-wers) but I'm not encouraging that. Combo letter sounds are still hard, so snack is 'nack and clock is...hilarious. She mimics everything we say. EVERYTHING. <br />
Her fearless attitude (except she learned about being afraid from Daniel Tiger & that's kinda lame, though it did help us with the haunted house, so he can stay).<br />
Daniel Tiger. Yeah, the songs help us so very much. We sing them daily. </div>
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The willful attitude<br />
Boundary-testing<br />
The return of the bottle? Since we moved, she's been asking for a bottle again. I'm hoping she settles in & gives it up again soon</div>
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<br />LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-64660854304430757922014-09-04T17:50:00.001-05:002014-09-04T17:51:09.815-05:009 monthsNine months! It'll still be a while before Garrison can claim the "been out longer than in" award, but it's quickly approaching.<br />
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The Vitals:<br />
Height: 29 inches. Looooooong baby<br />
Weight: 21 lb 3 oz. How is this possible when he does nothing but eat?<br />
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Highlights:<br />
Uh... listing our house for sale? Which for Garrison just meant a lot of unscheduled car rides.<br />
First day of Mother's Day Out (which fell on the day he turned 9 months, so I'm gonna go ahead and count it)<br />
Food. Lots of food. All the food. The kid is a bottomless pit at the moment.<br />
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Skills:<br />
Standing (still holding on)<br />
Pulling up<br />
Holding his own bottle or pouch<br />
I'm still putting sleep on here, because it's still new-ish, but the nights where he wakes up more than once are rarer than the nights he doesn't, so I'm gonna take it.<br />
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Works in Progress:<br />
Standing alone<br />
Cruising<br />
TEETH (I think I finally felt the beginnings of one pushing through, but COME ON, it's been forever)<br />
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Food<br />
Singing (ours and finding his own voice)<br />
Eleanor. He watches her with such fascination<br />
Chasing us from room to room, and little boy is FAST<br />
Bath time<br />
Rolling over as quickly as possible during diaper changes.<br />
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He dislikes:<br />
Having anything removed from his mouth, which is sad for him, as he insists on putting EVERYTHING in there--lint, paper, pill bugs, dog hair, the cat's tails, all the toys<br />
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I like:<br />
His speed. I can actually walk to another room and ask him to follow me, and he does! Amazing!<br />
His soft fuzzy head. His mohawk may be going away, but he's still soft and downy.<br />
His enthusiasm at seeing people he likes<br />
He's figuring out how to get hand-flappily excited about things, and it's the best<br />
Sleeping for stretches of time that can be measured in multiple hours. That's pretty rad.<br />
We almost have something close to a routine established. There's a definite rhythm and pattern to our days that is somewhat predictable.<br />
SQUNCH FACE! He wrinkles his nose in the most adorable way at pretty much anything. It's fantastic.<br />
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I dislike:<br />
The excema on this face that causes him to constantly scratch<br />
The seemingly randomness of his willingness to settle himself to sleep.<br />
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LE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-17046042045496029652014-08-04T13:30:00.006-05:002014-10-07T15:34:39.546-05:008 monthsThe Vitals:<br />
Big. Many pounds and also inches. Home scale says 21.5 lb. I cannot get him to sit still long enough to measure.<br />
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Meeting Flynn Rider, or rather, Zachary Levi<br />
Pool time at Amma & Papa's house<br />
Bath time with sister<br />
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Skills:<br />
Crawling. A lot. He started crawling about 2 days after my last post and has just gotten faster and more determined as the days go by.<br />
Sleeping! Finally! And I'm not going to elaborate, because I know what happens when you talk about baby sleep on the internet. Things aren't perfect yet, but we've seen INCREDIBLE improvement this month. I'm starting to feel human again.<br />
Charming the masses with his crazy fluffy mohawk<br />
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Works in Progress:<br />
Pulling up<br />
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Teeth? I don't know. There's a lot of chewing and a lot of drooling, but he remains totally toothless for now.<br />
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All his sister's toys<br />
Chasing the dog & cats. He's not very fast, but the animals don't do much to get out of his way, so it's a fairly even match<br />
Cold wipes. Still. It's so weird, but saves me getting a wipes warmer, so that's cool.<br />
All the food! It took a while to get there, but he's caught on that food is delicious and is trying to steal things off of everyone's plate.<br />
Also eating anything he can get his hands on, including dog hair, pill bugs and carpet fibers.<br />
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He dislikes:<br />
Having things taken out of his mouth, like dog hair, pill bugs and carpet fibers<br />
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How easily he smiles & giggles<br />
He chatters much more than I remember Eleanor ever doing<br />
That he's learning to soothe himself<br />
That he follows me from room to room<br />
His crazy grey eyes, that sometimes look like they have brown in them, sometimes hints of green, but mostly just a really pretty grey.<br />
He is fascinated by Eleanor. I love watching him watch her<br />
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I dislike:<br />
That he follows me from room to room! I can't just leave him sitting to play with toys anymore.<br />
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All in all, it's been a good monthLE Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10875348216787326397noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-772895201754981787.post-64938599588893692952014-07-13T21:50:00.000-05:002014-07-13T21:50:46.513-05:00I cut my hair & met Zachary Levi. These things aren't connectedSo, a friend on Twitter recently chopped her hair off into this super great swoopy sort of pixie cut thing. And though I swore after chopping all my hair off after high school graduation that I would never, ever do that again, I found myself considering it. So I pinned a bunch of pictures, made plans with my husband and got myself to the local salon. Now, I've always had pretty good luck there. I get decent cuts/color, but... never exactly what I asked for. That pretty much sums up my experience this time too.<br />
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What I wanted:<br />
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A pixie. But longish. Swoopy, but not super dramatic. Not blonde either, but you know, able to tuck a little behind my ears, but up off my neck. Something that wouldn't require a lot of fuss. No diffusers or a ton of product just to get it to sit still on my head. Not too much to ask, but maybe it is, with my super fine, straight, boring hair. Still, I was going to attempt it. It's just hair. It grows, and I was definitely tired of the length it was, so I was going to cut it and while I liked having a short bob, it was more work than I wanted to make it presentable. So, after pouring over a lot of pictures, this is what I decided on. I knew there was probably going to be product involved, but I hoped for the "apply to damp hair, comb through with fingers, go retrieve the toddler from wherever she's gotten to that she shouldn't be and grab the baby before he eats too much dog hair and try not to care if your shirt has someone else's bodily fluids on it so long as you don't smell too bad, just call it good" kind of styling routine. That I can handle.<br />
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This is the cut I wound up with:<br />
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It's short, and pixie-ish. Not as long or as swoopy as I would have liked, but that just gives me growing room, right? I've had some time to wash it and play with some new products and sort of figure out how I think it might work on a daily basis. I do like it just air-dried, so that's nice, but a little bit of goop helps keep it more in place for going out in public, because I like to look fancy at the grocery store. I do like having bangs again. I still don't recognize myself in pictures of mirrors yet. After a bit of playing, I think this is what I will look like most days.<br />
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SPEAKING OF PICTURES!!<br />
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So, there's this thing called Nerd HQ run by <a href="http://www.thenerdmachine.com/">The Nerd Machine</a> which is a company that Zachary Levi & Dave Coleman founded. If you don't know who Zachary Levi is, go watch Tangled. He's Flynn Rider. Only my second favoritest Disney prince in the history of ever. (Ok, he might be my ACTUAL favorite, but I'm sentimental, and Prince Phillip will never ever be removed from the top of that list.) And then go watch the series <a href="http://www.nbc.com/chuck">Chuck</a>. Because it's fun and light and cheesy and I fell in love with it in the first episode when Chuck first sees Sarah and starts singing the Vicki Vale song from the Prince Batman soundtrack... wait, not Prince Batman like Prince Phillip. The soundtrack to the Batman movie with Michael Keaton that Prince did. I loved that cd. And went to Great America (which is what the Six Flags park in Gurnee is called) when I was in middle school and stood in line to sing the songs while waiting to ride the ALL NEW FANCY Batman rollercoaster. Anyway, we're watching the first episode, Chuck starts singing this sort of obscure song that I love from my pseudo-childhood and I made J pause the show so I could geek out over the fact that he was singing the Vicki Vale song! Only to have Chuck explain that in the episode just a few seconds later. Ooops.<br />
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Anyway, Nerd HQ did a fundraising thing this year, and I contributed 0.0001% of the total amount raised, which was sadly only 33% of what they needed, but turned out to be enough to get the attention of sponsers to make the event happen anyway. Which is great. Not that I'll be able to go, because it's in San Diego and that's far. BUT! I will watch the videos on YouTube like always. Which is how I found out about this whole thing in the first place. Because I was too many minutes down a Tom Hiddleston YouTube wormhole when I stumbled across his visit to Nerd HQ. Which is where I really saw Zachary Levi as a non-animated character. So anyway. I donated. And I made Bagels donate, because she's been a fan of Zachary Levi for longer than I've known her, so you know, that seemed fair. ANYWAY, though we fell short of the end goal, we did raise enough for a FANTASTIC perk, which is that one donor got to have lunch with Zachary. And maybe Dave & Shekina (Zac's sister). I don't know all those details, because that donor was not me. BUT that donor lived in Austin, and after their lunch, there was a meet & greet & sign stuff & take pictures event. So I told Bagels that we were going to do that, because COME ON!<br />
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So, we both registered for the event separately, because... I don't know. I registered first, but didn't add her to my party because I was in Borger waiting to go to my husband's grandmother's funeral and not thinking clearly in a hotel room with my two kids and 4 more niecephews. So then Bagels registered too.<br />
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Then I saw a tweet from The Nerd Machine saying that an e-mail would be going out to everyone who RSVP'd, but I never got an e-mail, and Bagels didn't get an e-mail and we were confused and long story short (too late), they lost my reservation. Or the Internet ate it. Or whatever. They had no record of me ever RSVPing. Which, bummer, but at least they had Bagel's info and she's the real fan here, or she saw him first, or whatever. BUT THEN! The amazing volunteers at The Nerd Machine worked with Sarah to add me to HER reservation, so we still got to go! And they remembered us when we showed up, and everyone was just friendly and accommodating and wonderful. So we waited a not very long time, and then from the balcony above us, Zachary Levi pokes his head out, and you guys, he looks JUST LIKE HIMSELF, which is about the stupidest thing I've said in at least 48 hours, but... you know... tv and movies, people don't always look like that, even on YouTube, but... he looks and sounds and talks just like himself. Which is beautiful. Ok, he's really tall and kind and gracious and sincere and intense in a super non-intimidating way, and I'm getting ahead of myself.<br />
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PRO TIP: always bring a baby to an autograph signing! Garrison wasn't the only kid there, but he was definitely the youngest in our group, and possibly the youngest of the day, and I know I'm biased, but come on! My kid is kind of the greatest. He's beautiful and social and likes everyone and smiles at everyone and is such a flirt. Seven months is just such a great age! So, as soon as we make it up into the room, Shekinah comes and is flirting with Garrison, and I wish I had talked to her about the cool and amazing stuff SHE does, but I was just glad for the distraction of getting to talk about my baby and not freak about about meeting celebrities. She was so thoughtful and asked about his name, and Eleanor, and she snuggled him, and I almost didn't get him back. She called Zac's attention to him, and Zac looks up from signing autographs and breaks into this HUGE grin and says, "HI Buddy!!" and my heart just about flopped out, because... COME ON!<br />
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When it was our turn to go get our DVDs signed, Zac (and yes, I'm calling him Zac now, because he held my baby, so we're buddies, and that's just that)looks up and says, "Oh, there's the cutie!" and... seriously? Improv training kicked in and many years of being a smartass, so I said, "Yes, and this is my son Garrison." Because that's just... I mean, how do you NOT? So I handed Flynn Rider my baby, and we took this picture:<br />
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Now, Garrison was in PERFECT form, smiling and being adorable, and the second Zac took him every flash in the whole room went off spontaneously and it was the greatest, but Bagels is laughing in this picture, because Shekinah was cooing and talking to Garrison to get him to smile for the camera, which he did, and then everyone in the room said "Awwwwwww" at the same time, which was truly hilarious, but caused Garrison to make this face.<br />
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Then I word vomited all over, because I cannot shut up, ever, but I wanted to make sure to tell Zac that all his volunteers were wonderful, and then I was thanking him as he was thanking ME and he's just so humble in the midst of all this, while his partner and sister are just chatting with us like we've been buddies for years instead of just strangers who drove 200 miles to get pictures and autographs with a celebrity.<br />
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But aside from the obvious--he's tall and beautiful and was very nice for the 10 minutes we spent in the same room--which is more than enough reason to like a celebrity. I've liked many for less. But the more I learn about the things that he does and what he cares about, the more impressed I am, and the more I believe that he's the kind of celebrity worth the quite large amount of liking that I have. Not that you have to have reasons that are deep and profound for being a fan of anything or anyone, but it's really nice when someone you are drawn to turns out to share more than just the same planet as you. So I'll continue to support The Nerd Machine & Nerd HQ and Operation Smile and Zachary Levi with my few dollars and my prayers and when Garrison is older, I'll tell him the story of how he met the real Flynn Rider.<br />
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And I may have used the meeting as part of teaching Sunday school this morning. Because when I thanked Zac for all he does, he IMMEDIATELY, without hesitation or (apparent) artifice, gave all the credit and glory right back to God, which... YEAH. He's being a faithful steward of his gifts and using those gifts and his position to share what he is passionate about with a watching world, and I think that's just the greatest. I think he's pretty great, in case that wasn't evident.<br />
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