tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92077604123690423482024-03-05T04:34:39.820-05:00Finn and Fish TalesA blog about a Finn and a Fish.TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.comBlogger393125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-50069542762113850492018-10-31T13:18:00.001-04:002018-10-31T13:18:35.719-04:00Happy Halloween!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Halloween from my little blood suckers!</span></div>
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TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-9330729460904004642018-10-02T14:03:00.001-04:002018-10-02T14:33:41.074-04:00The Great 2018 Irish Adventure -- Part IV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>If you missed the first part of our adventure, click the links...</i></div>
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<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-great-2018-irish-adventure-part-i.html">The Great 2018 Irish Adventure -- Part I</a></div>
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<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-great-irish-adventure-part-iii.html">The Great 2018 Irish Adventure -- Part III</a></div>
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The night of the last post (where we went to the cemetery, the beach, the castle, the abbey...), we arrived back at Uncle Con's house around 6:30. Conall felt warm and immediately asked if he could lay down and take a nap. !!!! He fell asleep at 6:30 and didn't wake up again until well into the night. He was so fevered at around 10pm. Now if you learn a lot about the individuality of each of your children when they are born and as they grow. I feel for Conall's partner in life because Conall honestly does get the dreaded MAN COLD. For the first 24 hours of any cold (no matter the size), he always gets very fevered (like a temperature over 102, one time he reached 103+) and is sick to the point where you question whether you take him to the emergency room, EVERY TIME.<br />
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And every time he gets sick, I always say to myself "Self, give this 24 hours and he will be fine." But every time, seeing him get as sick as he does, I always get super scared that this isn't a cold, that it's more. And this time, I'm also in a foreign country, even more I'm in RURAL foreign country. He began talking in his sleep around 10pm. And then he woke up and started having auditory hallucinations. He was hearing voices tell him things, which was kind of creepy. But the icing on the cake was when my four-year-old opened his eyes and said, "Mommy, I just had a bad dream. I dreamt that you were crying and you told me not to die." !!!!!!!!! I immediately looked at Eain and I'm like "WHAT THE F&%#??????" So after some internet researching and some serious fretting, we woke him up and had to ask a four year old to swallow a cut-up Advil just to get his fever down. It took about 20 minutes, but he successfully swallowed the piece of the pill and fell asleep. And sure as the sun shines in the morning, he woke up feeling better. Eain went to the local pharmacy in the morning, got some children's medicine and we gave him a dose the next day and by the end of the day, he was right as rain.<br />
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That next day, we went into Donegal town because they were having a car rally race called the Cannon Ball. There Conall and Finorah got to meet the Black Panther. There were all sorts of costumes and all sorts of cars. It was super fun for the kids to see.<br />
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<i>Conall even got to see his Lamborghini (which is always green with no lid (i.e. a convertible)).</i></div>
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<i>Jess in her spot</i></div>
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<i>On our last day, Eain got out some feed and let the kids feed the sheep closest to the house.</i></div>
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<i>And we took one final photo of all the wool the kids helped haul.</i></div>
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<i>And one final photo of them on the quad</i></div>
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One of our last evenings, we went to E's cousin's Mary's house. The big thing in Donegal for the teenagers is to buy a tractor for their vehicle. Apparently, it's less expensive than getting a car! Conall got to ride in his distant cousin's tractor. He was so excited! And that evening, Finorah got to play with a bunch of girls who were her distant cousins as well.<br />
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<i>On the flight home, Conall was playing with his men and he had on my neck heating pad that helps ease the pain of uncomfortable seats for me and my neck.</i></div>
<br />TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-19570121109482703382018-10-02T11:18:00.002-04:002018-10-02T14:33:50.285-04:00The Great 2018 Irish Adventure -- Part III<i>If you missed the first part of our adventure, click the links...</i><br />
<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-great-2018-irish-adventure-part-i.html">The Great 2018 Irish Adventure -- Part I</a><br />
<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-great-2018-irish-adventure-part-ii.html">The Great 2018 Irish Adventure -- Part II</a><br />
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One afternoon while E was out with Uncle Con hauling wool, the kids and I decided to walk to the end of Uncle Con's driveway. Mind you, at the end of the driveway is the single lane road that goes on for two miles before hitting the main road. </div>
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<i>On the way down to the end of the driveway, Conall found a couple of slugs. He was so excited.</i></div>
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At the end of the driveway and across the little road, Uncle Con keeps his three rams. Majestic was the first word that came to mind when we saw them. They like to stick together and when we walked down that afternoon, they were laying right next to the road (which isn't unrealistic as NO ONE travels on the road unless they are coming or going from Uncle Con's). </div>
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Being that E's family is from Donegal, his grandparents are buried there. We visited the cemetery in Drimarone and visited their grave. Conall was beginning to get super ornery (we didn't realize but he was coming down with a cold, which that story will come later). He was a complete bear for most of the day that day. So lots of patience was given and we went on his pace whenever Conall the Kraken came out.<br />
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While at the cemetery, Conall found a little frog. This photo seriously had me in stitches. The little frog was sitting so nicely in his hands. And when I got down to take the photo, apparently the frog tried to jump out of Conall's hands, unsuccessfully (obviously). But I didn't realize that Conall had that little frog held by his feet.<br />
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This was the last photo of the little frog from the cemetery. Conall was very upset to have to let him go (as he is with all the animals he catches) and so we had to take one final photo of them. Again, I was in stitches because that poor little frog was upside down in his hands. But he was so proud.<br />
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After the cemetery, we went to Inver Beach. The last time we went to Ireland as a family, we stayed at a cottage on the bay, which is directly across from Inver Beach. At the beach, Conall again found new friends. This time it was dead crabs. He was collecting pieces, legs, and full skeletons of dead crabs. Good times.<br />
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Finorah had such a blast at the beach. She was doing cartwheel after cartwheel. The girl is just getting into fashion and she tied her own shirt up. It was COLD, but the girl is a slave to fashion and she didn't care that her tummy was freezing. She felt good!<br />
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After the beach, we went into Donegal town. We were told that fairies live near the River Eske. So of course, we had to check it out. This was the highlight of both of the kids' trip. We were asked again and again to go back to the Fairy Walk.<br />
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The Fairy Walk was so much fun! We walked along the River Eske and tried to spot the doorways to the fairies' houses. Conall was very intent of finding a fairy and wanted to knock on every single door he saw, even ones that were quite difficult to get to. He was determined.<br />
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We found the large tree that appeared to be a fairy apartment complex. It was here that we made contact with the fairies! Those fairies refused to open their doors, but they would knock back to let us know that they were there. To this day, the kids are still amazed that they made actual contact with the fairies!<br />
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After the Fairy walk, we hit up Donegal Castle. The kids had been dying to check out a castle in Ireland. At the entry way, the kids were given a scavenger hunt to try and find throughout the castle. It kept them really busy and it was really fun!<br />
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After Donegal Castle, we hit our final stop for the day. We went to the Donegal Abbey. It was ruins of an old abbey and a very old cemetery. We walked through the ruins and looked at the old stones. By this point in the day, both kids were exhausted, but Conall was especially worn out.<br />
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Our last stop of the day was at a really old cemetery that was next to Inver. The kids were exhausted and they didn't even get out of the car. The cemetery was next to the beach and the bay.TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-65474201509693294232018-09-14T10:02:00.000-04:002018-10-02T14:34:03.128-04:00The Great 2018 Irish Adventure -- Part II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<i>It may be an Irish thing, it may be an Uncle Con thing. But the door to his house stayed wide open 80% of the time that we were there. And when the door was open, this was Jess's spot.</i></div>
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Uncle Con's farm goes all the way to the top of that mountain. And all the mountains have names. Uncle Con's mountain's name is Mentecreagan. On the way out to Uncle Con's, there are a couple signs for the BlueStack Walking Trail. The Blue Stack Mountains begin near the property and Mentecreagan is one of the Blue Stacks.<br />
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One day, E, the kids & I decided to take the quad out and try to drive all the way to the top of Mentecreagan on the quad. It was quite the experience, an experience Finorah wanted to quit at least three times. There were lots of BUMPS, lots of turnarounds, and LOTS OF BOGS... In order to get to the top of the mountain, we had to find a couple small ground bridges that go over the bog trenches that naturally exist on the landscape of the bog. We may have also almost tipped the quad. Quick thinking got the kids off, my legs over the high side and E throwing it in four wheel drive. There was never a question of us actually tipping over, but it was enough for Finorah to put her foot down and "be done". We found the small trail going up halfway. We stopped at the top of the trail, only halfway up the mountain. We didn't have the right footwear. It was still beautiful, even if we didn't make it to the top.<br />
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<i>If you look closely, you can see Uncle Con's farm about halfway up on the right. And you can also see the beginning of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benbulbin">Benbulbin</a> (which is the mountain near Sligo) 3/4 of the way up on the right and just below that, the Donegal Bay which leads into the Atlantic Ocean.</i></div>
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While we were there, E worked quite a bit for Uncle Con. The kids got to participate in herding sheep. They were able to be "gates" to keep the sheep from running down the driveway and herding them into the gate to go into the field. There was also a lot of wool hauling. Uncle Con is the main wool collector in the area. He collects the wool, paying the farmer and then sells the lot to the businesses. He had collected over 4+ metric tons of wool (in a later post, you'll see just how much that really is). He sells the short wool to be used in clothes and the long wool will be used in carpet.<br />
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<i>Just one of the many "lifts" they did to pick up local farmers' wool.</i></div>
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<i>The wool is paid by the weight. Once they arrive home, they weight it to see how much each bag weighs.</i></div>
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At least every other day, we would go into Donegal Town to get out and see people or see sights. And almost every single time, the kids got a "99". We would sit in The Diamond, which is the town square to eat them. The crows abound in Ireland and Conall was desperate to catch one. Alas, he never did.<br />
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Uncle Con's home is heated by a wood-burning stove, which they use to burn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat">peat</a>, or also called turf. He has his own bog and once a year, he hires someone to come in and cut peat, which is stored in a little outside room attached to the house. The peat bucket gets filled daily and the kids helped fill it on multiple occasions. If you ask Conall what peat is, he will tell you it's mammouth poop. Hmmmm, wonder where he got that one from.<br />
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On Uncle Con's property, there are two old, old stone houses. One is called Tullniglack and the other is Cloughveen. E's grandparents lived in Tullniglack until the 70s. But because of the thatch roof, it's nothing more than stone walls now. Cloughveen is the home that is near and dear to E. His mother was the last person to be born in the house and it was the home that his mother lived in until she left as an early teen to make money to bring home to the family. One day, we drove out to Cloughveen to show the kids. The nettles were high, so you can't really see much of the house. But on our last trip to Ireland, you could see<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2013/07/may-wind-always-be-at-your-back-ireland.html"> the home structure better</a>. While at Cloughveen, Conall saw a frog, grabbed through nettles to get him and started to cry. So E, being the good dad that he is, reached into the nettles to grab that little sucker. Both were tingly for most of the day.<br />
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E's mother was also over while we were there. She was visiting a friend, Rose in Ballyliffin. We drove over to pick her up. While there, we swung by Rose's family home where she grew up. There were chickens running all over the place. The kids & I were in heaven.<br />
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<i>Honestly, how beautiful is this. Chickens, flowers, & the ocean.</i></div>
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Rose's home was located on the same site as the castle in Ballyliffin, Carrickabraghy Castle and also on Lagg Beach. Both of which, the photos just don't do justice.<br />
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<i>This horse was in his pasture next to the castle and was absolutely gorgeous.</i></div>
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As I mentioned in my previous post, the kids missed the first week of school due to a trip that we took to Ireland. The last time we were in Ireland as a family was <a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2013/07/may-road-rise-up-to-meet-you.html">five years ago</a>. Finorah was about 18 months and I was three months pregnant with Conall. E has wanted to make the trip over for the past four years. E wanted to name Conall after his Uncle Con and he really wanted Uncle Con to meet his namesake. After finding a new airport with super cheap flights, we were on our way!</div>
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We flew into Dublin and E's family is in Donegal. For those not in the know, Dublin is on the southeast side of Ireland and Donegal is on the northwest side. The drive up was 3.5 hours. We rented a car and we were off. Unfortunately, the car we rented combined with the fact that we were on the wrong side of the road and it took E a bit to get used to shifting with his left hand, poor Conall who is prone to get car sick, got car sick three times on the way up. We stopped in Cavan after he got sick the first time to walk around and get the kids some lunch.<br />
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While in Cavan, we went to a restaurant where Finorah proceeded to break her soda glass all over the floor. The place was so silent after it fell, that it took a bit of reassurance to Finorah that she wasn't in trouble. There we also found goujons (goo-johns), which were the kids' food staple and were simply tenders made from real chicken, not processed chicken and chips, which were a fancy name for french fries. The kids loved the fact that it was the same food, but had different names.<br />
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Uncle Con lives about 15-20 minutes outside of Donegal near a small town called Frosses. So after the "99" outside of Donegal Castle, we headed up to Uncle Con's which is where we were staying for the week.<br />
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Uncle Con's is absolutely beautiful. It is set deep in sheep country. The road that leads to his house is a single lane with grass growing in the middle. If you meet a car on the two mile drive out to his place, you have to pull off into the ditch to let the other car pass. Uncle Con lives at the end of that road, so we saw no other cars pass his house unless they were arriving to visit.<br />
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Uncle Con has over a thousand of acres and hundreds of sheep. He also has a quad, which Conall fondly named the "gator" bc my parents have a John Deere gator that he loves to ride on while in Iowa. We had taken the quad out multiple times during the week to visit far reaches of Uncle Con's property (which I'll get into more later).<br />
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Uncle Con also has a border collie named Jess. Jess was there the last time we were in Ireland. She had a companion named Spot who has since passed (God bless his soul). While we were there, Spot was the kind one and Jess was aloof. She liked to get into Uncle Con's truck and sit to get away from all the kids that were around then.<br />
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This time, Jess was kind and patient, especially with Conall. She is such a sweet, sweet soul. The only time she growled at him was when Conall tried to lay on her (twice). She isn't used to such affection -- I mean, she is a working dog afterall. When I tried to kiss her on the forehead for the first time, she got scared and ducked her head. But she warmed up to me quickly when I started slipping her food from my plate.<br />
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<br />TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-28517042814894491132018-09-12T09:46:00.001-04:002018-09-12T09:46:42.931-04:00First day of school<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, this seems a week or two late, but yesterday was our first day of school. With our recent trip to Ireland, the kids missed the first week of school. This year, Finorah is in 1st grade and Conall is in PreK. Finorah is a bus rider, both in the morning and in the afternoon. We all walk to the end of our cul-de-sac and she boards the bus with 8 other kids in our neighborhood. Conall is in school every morning from 9:00am -- 12:00pm. This means that for the first time in two years, I have some regularly scheduled time to myself! When Conall turned 2, the following fall, we enrolled him in the same preschool Finorah was in. It gave me Tuesday and Thursday mornings with both of them in school. Last year, Conall was in morning preschool MWF, but Finorah was in afternoon kindergarten. It led to mommy madness sometimes.<br />
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This year, Finorah was totally thrilled to go back to school. She really loves being in the school environment and was excited to make new friends (as her school has three first grade classes and they switch kids around). Conall was moving into the five-day program at his preschool (his preschool had four Step Two classes) and there are only 4-5 kids from his last class in this class. He was a little more reluctant to go to school. With the promise of a turtle, a dollar every time he went to school without pitching a fit, and a motorcycle dropoff, he went to school.<br />
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Finorah had a spectacular day, of course. She made two new friends and though she didn't remember their names, she assured me that she would learn them by the end of the week bc names are repeated all the time at school. She is in the thick of the cold we picked up in Ireland, so she was exhausted by the time she got off the bus and in the house. She perked up real fast though when the neighborhood girls knocked to play outside.<br />
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<i>The sass is strong with this one...</i></div>
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Upon pickup, Conall had THE BEST DAY EVER! It was super cute that he was so excited about his school day, telling me his teacher was amazing and that he made a new friend. He wasn't sure of the boy's name, but did know that he had a blue shirt on and he could put the basketball all the way up in the basketball hoop in the gym. 😂 He was also exhausted by 2:00pm and then the school day story completely changed, saying he didn't like it. This morning was a little bit of coaxing him to remember how much fun he had the day before and he went off without a protest. We may have to do some coaxing for a week or two, but I think he will have a great school year.<br />
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<i>This is his "model -- full fledge" pose (which I think is supposed to be his full fledge model pose).</i> </div>
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<i>This one is out of focus bc I was cracking up too much. He told me that he wanted to do another pose and proceeded to sit down and say "This is the meditation pose".</i></div>
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We also made a pumpkin for Conall's school. It was a kitty kat made of candy corn. The kids named him Stanley Ebenezer (after one of our kitties at home). Finorah thought it would be better to name him "Stab"ley Ebenezer bc he was a Halloween kitty. In the end, we decided that Stanley suited him better.</div>
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Conall began preschool for the first time last past September. To say that the transition was rough for him is a major understatement. His school week was Tuesday and Thursday mornings. His first week at school was very rough with lots of crying at drop off and during the school day. But we persevered. He cried at dropoff until at least February, but the teachers would always report that within minutes of being in his classroom, he would stop crying and the day would be tons of fun for him. We were very lucky to have such amazing teachers for Conall. They saw through the fearful little dude who was difficult at dropoff to see the sweet amazing little guy that I know and love. He loved making projects at school and bringing home those "surprises" to show me.</div>
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Finorah's school year was spectacular. She is a great student and she began actual preschool, which was five-day mornings a week in preparation for kindergarten. She was always excited to go to school and even wanted to go to school through ear aches because she didn't want to miss a moment. Her teachers were also super wonderful and won't be soon forgotten by her. Her school year was so great that she actually cried during the last week of school because she didn't want the school year to end. </div>
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This weekend was a "special" weekend for us. This past weekend was the first time, Finorah & Conall became members of the "Egg Delivery Express". Back in June, I got 8 days old chicks through the mail. In November, I got my first egg. Two months later, I'm pretty positive all 8 hens are laying, but due to the shorter days, we usually only get 4-5 eggs a day (I'll do an all-about-my-chickens post soon). In the past two months, I've given a dozen here and there, but we haven't delivered any eggs in the neighborhood yet. Well, this past weekend, we had enough eggs in the frig to give away two dozen to our neighbors.<br />
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The kids were so excited to deliver the eggs. Unfortunately, we picked a time where one of our neighbors were gone and the other only had their oldest home. But, the deliveries were made and the cul-de-sac enjoyed eggs from my girls for the weekend.<br />
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This weekend also saw a new makeover in our house. Finorah loves putting on makeup, as all little girls do. But this was a first for her. She must have seen me filling in my eyebrows on Saturday evening and decided to give her eyebrows a lift. She has quite the imagination and loves making herself pretty. I think that she is a trendsetter and foresee purple eyebrows as a trend coming in 2017.<br />
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And this morning, Conall was watching his iPad and I had to giggle at how long his hair has become. His headphones acted as a headband and pushed his hair up in a spiky do.<br />
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Being that we have finally stopped running from the holidays, the holiday hangover has set in. All the holiday decorations are down and the house feels cold and bare. So I'm trying my best to do some spring cleaning in hopes that spring comes quickly. Last weekend, we got a little bit of snow. So on Sunday, when the temperatures were frigid, E tied the snow sleds on to the three-wheeler he bought before Thanksgiving and took the kids around the yard 5-6 times.<br />
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Poor Con. The snow was kicking up from the front of his sled, as evidenced by the mittens in the third & fourth photos. The poor kid kept trying to move his handmade scarf out of his mouth and his snow-laden mittens would put more snow on his face. The sled rides didn't last long, but they had fun while it lasted. <br />
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Another big event (besides the return of school this week) was that Con moved into his big boy bed. Yes, he is almost three and he has been sleeping next to me for the entirety of those three years. In fact, he never even slept in his bassinet during our hospital stay on his delivery. That kid has always been snuggled in next to mama. I held him in the hospital while he slept and his dad slept in the bed next to mine, as I watched the Super Bowl and tried to stay awake for the commercials. To be fair, I didn't sleep very well at the hospital, not because of pain, but because of my bed -- it was an pneumatic bed. Every time I moved, that stupid bed would inflate or delate -- and it was SOOOOO loud. Thank goodness we only stayed in the hospital for 36 hours. When we got home, the little boy slept next to me in our bed, cordoned off by pillows on either side. I had been sleeping on my side for 7 months, so it was ingrained in my head to not roll forward onto my stomach. And he always slept so wonderfully next to me.<br />
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Well, after almost three years, he has officially be moved. I thought that it would be a hard transition for him. And it may end up being. But right now, he is taking his big boy bed transition amazingly well. We lay with him until he falls asleep (just like we do with Finn) and we go in and lay with him if he wakes in the middle of the night until he falls back asleep (just like we did with Finn when she used to wake up in the middle of the night). After he is adjusted to sleeping in his bed, we will slowly be weaning both of them of us laying with them to fall asleep. While there are nights, I wish I could just ship them to bed and shut the door, I try to remember that these nights aren't going to last forever and that in a few years, I am going to long for the nights when they both wanted me to snuggle with them while they lull off to dreamland. It's crazy how fast time moves sometimes.<br />
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I have finally stopped from all the holiday running -- on January 9th -- almost 17 days after we began. The reason that the post is titled "in the Modern Era" is because I forgot my big-girl camera and everything that I snapped was taken on my phone. And while I was cursing and cussing because I had to start deleting songs, apps, and texts from my phone in order to save memory for photos, I am thankful that my phone is decent enough to capture memories. Unfortunately, Eain's family came late and we only got to spend three hours with them over the holidays. They stayed at our place while we were in Iowa due to convenience and hopefully we will get to spend more time with them.</div>
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<i>One caveat -- this is not our entire December, this is just all the holiday things that we crammed into December (minus the kids receiving their video messages from Santa as I'm sure that no one cares to see our dirty faced kids' faces while they react to a video message that none of you have seen).</i></div>
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This year was our second annual trip to the North Pole Express in New Hope. Con was so patient waiting for the train (but that's when the patience ended for him).</div>
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These are my kids -- I couldn't get Con to look at me and smile at the same time. Do what I do all the time -- deal with it.</div>
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Finn spying on Mrs. Claus and Santa as they visited with others on the train</div>
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Conall had his first holiday program. See that stud there in the checkered shirt, suspenders, & red pants? I was so proud of him. He hasn't had the best response to school (at least to drop offs) and the Halloween parade was a disaster. E had a meeting and couldn't attend with me, so I expected nothing less than a full blown meltdown. He was amazing!!! He waited until the end of all their songs to see me and want to leave his seat (where we took our seat on the floor in front of all the parents bc the director wanted to ensure that the kids get to experience their program even if they were quite ready).</div>
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Here are two of Conall's songs. The second song, he was a sour puss the whole time. I was furiously trying to shake my imaginary bells to get him to do it while he stared at me. I found out later that he was mad because Miss Pam gave him a green bell when he wanted a blue one.</div>
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Mrs. Claus even made an appearance!</div>
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There was tons of things to do after the program. He got his hand painted with a candy cane. Like the red nose for the reindeer pokey?</div>
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Every year, I make ornaments for family out of the kids' thumbprints. This years turned out great!</div>
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Finn's program was amazing as well. She practiced so hard on her songs.</div>
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Here are two of the three songs that she sang. She really loved that Marshmallow World song.</div>
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And guess who stopped by??? The big man himself!</div>
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We were lucky enough to have E's parents join us and they got their photos taken with Santa as well.</div>
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The week before Christmas, we went to Shady Brook Farms, which is a huge drive through light display. We all piled in the back of one of our neighbor's truck and had so much fun.</div>
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Christmas Eve with the cousins</div>
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The annual Christmas Eve in Christmas jammies (who can you guess was mad about her non-colorful jammies?)</div>
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Christmas morning with the gifts that Santa brought for them (we had to call him on Christmas Eve and tell him where we were so he knew where to deliver the gifts to).</div>
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Lumberjack Con</div>
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Serial Killer Finn</div>
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These two are only separated by five months and they were intently watching something on the iPad.</div>
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They were so intent that they missed Finn dancing like a mad women in front of them.</div>
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Mimi & Papa's beautiful holiday decor (at least some of it)</div>
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When we got back from our long drive, we had the kids open up the gifts that E & I gave them. We were so excited to give them!</div>
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And finally, I took photos of all the holiday cards that we got this year (if you sent us a card, I thank you). I love getting holiday cards -- it makes my kitchen so festive.</div>
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In one of my last of many (MANY) trips to Michael's this holiday season, I meandered the holiday aisles like I always do. This time, everything was 70% off. It was like my holiday freak flag tripled in size. I think that I ended up with wreath hangers in my cart, holiday tags, candles & more. I also ended up with about 16 sets of light. This year, I decided on LED lights for my outside lights -- big mistake, HUGE. LED lights are supposed to be energy efficient, they say. LED lights are supposed to last 3 years, they say. LED lights are the biggest pain in my ass EVAH. Within the first two weeks, I had sections of my lights go out -- only to then turn back on the next day. One day, I had literally 50% of my lights out. The very next day, no joke, 98% of them were back on. Never again. I'll be the old lady clinging to her rabbit ear TV before I buy LED lights again.<br />
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Anyways, while perusing the holiday extravaganza, I came across gingerbread house kits. We have never decorated gingerbread houses. But these were only $2.99 and they were already constructed!!!! Just pop them out of the box and start decorating. So decorate we did. And it was an amazing time.<br />
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Finorah took her job so seriously. She meticulously placed frosting and then would search through her bowl of decorations to find the right one and place the decoration perfectly into place. There was a strategy and she had a plan in her head.<br />
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Conall, well... Conall just wanted to eat all the things. He started out placing frosting here and there. Then he realized that he just could squeeze and a bunch would come out all at once.<br />
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All in all, gingerbread housing decorating was a success and it will probably become an annual tradition, if I can find the houses that are already constructed.<br />
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<br />TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-89949638022160650892016-12-20T08:00:00.000-05:002016-12-20T08:00:19.351-05:00The head scratcher Pennsylvania seems to be where blogs go to die. Or at least my blog did that. To be fair, this blog was more for myself, as a record keeping for memories and memories of my kids to be looked back on. And I feel horrible that I lost this year -- a year filled with firsts and big developments for my kids. I still have two drafts set up for both of the kids' first days of school this past September. Each filled with photos, but just needed words.<br />
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I am at a total impasse of where to go from here. Being that this is for my records, do I go ahead and word/photo vomit the past year on you guys? Or do I just give a couple highlights and move onward and upward? <br />
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Until that point -- enjoy one of the most recent photos of the kids before school.<br />
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Our past holiday cards:<br />
<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2015/12/happy-holidays.html">2015 -- The Code of the Elves</a><br />
<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2014/12/happy-holidays.html">2014 -- A Very Murphy Christmas</a><br />
<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2013/12/happy-holidays.html">2013 -- I Triple Dog Dare Ya</a><br />
<a href="http://featuringfinorah.blogspot.com/2012/12/happy-holidays.html">2012 -- Santa We Can Explain</a><br />
<br />TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-55740125944959436022016-09-14T13:10:00.003-04:002016-09-14T13:10:58.505-04:00August Road Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
In August, we went on a road trip. We stopped in Cleveland for a weekend and then drove to Iowa for a couple of weeks, stopping back in Cleveland on the way home. I'll post my photos from my phone later, but here are some highlights from my camera.</div>
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Fish became a lawnboy. </div>
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He loved riding on the lawn mower with Papa. </div>
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He also became a "popcorn" boy (as he lovingly refers to corn on the cob). </div>
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Papa put him to work shucking the sweet corn for dinner one night. </div>
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Despite the faces in the photos, he actually really does love sweet corn. </div>
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Finn got out my Barbies from when I was little. It was fun to watch her play with my old toys. </div>
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Fish had to have pigtails a couple of times while we were there. This is just photo evidence. </div>
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She is such a sassafras </div>
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Wanting to be just like sister </div>
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We hit up the local aquamarine while we were there with cousins.</div>
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We also had the opportunity to drive down to Iowa City and see Kinnick Stadium -- where the Hawkeyes play. </div>
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Their cousins Owen & Reid celebrated their birthdays with a party. It was really fun! </div>
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Fish crashed the motorized truck into the tree. </div>
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He thought that if he couldn't see me, that I couldn't see him to yell at him. </div>
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There is a field on the far side of our neighbors. Calling it a field isn't quite right. It's an open space next to a pond. But the pond is only a pond during the spring and when it rains more. It's been pretty dry here, so there really isn't a pond right now. And even when it is a pond, it's more a goose-poop puddle as the Canadian geese who like to congregate in our neighborhood so to take a dip. Wednesday evening, I was walking along the perimeter of our yard with Munk and saw a bunch of flowers out by the pond. I went out and saw that they were at the perfect height for Finn. A plan was hatched for the following morning (and I invited to take photos of our neighbor's girls as well). Well, later that evening, the owners of the property started mowing back by the pond and I went to sleep thinking my beautiful idea was foiled.<br />
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When I woke up Thursday morning, I walked out to the pond expecting to find nothing, but saw that he only cut the far side of the property and I could still get some photos. Unfortunately, the sun rose too quickly and it was far too wet back there to get the kids there, so I postponed until that afternoon. I knew that I wanted to get into a couple of the photos as well, seeing as how the last photos I have of me and the kids was back in November of last year. We got all ready, E came home and when we were walking over there, the owner was mowing again! I was so upset, but we tried to grab a bunch of photos while he was mowing farther on the other side of the property. I'm glad that E told me to just take some photos and see how they turned out. They were amazing!!!!!! (And when the neighbor came out with her girls, the guy stopped mowing out there so we could grab our photos quickly. So kind of him.)<br />
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<br />TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-17113762039572619962016-06-06T18:10:00.000-04:002016-06-06T18:10:12.126-04:00Stream of Consciousness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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---It's been a LONG time since I've done an update. So long in fact, that I had to check back in time to figure what I need to discuss with you. The last "life lately" was WAY back at the beginning of December of last year! Quite a lot has happened since then (obviously)...<br />
---The first big thing I kind of hinted at in one of the previous posts. In the photo of the kitty memorial garden, I mentioned Lucy. Lucy got out of the house on December 20th when Eain's family was here for the holidays. It was unseasonably warm outside (in the low 70s) and apparently, she had the serious drive to get outside, having tried to get out at least 6 times that day (with the kids going in and out of the house). She got out one final time and hasn't returned. We put up signs all over the neighborhood. I joined two local pet lost & found groups on Facebook. I still religiously post about her on a monthly basis in both the lost and found groups as well as our local Facebook community page. The local people have been sooooo amazing. I have to say that I have received no less than 75 phone calls over the course of the last six months. Every one of them was followed up on and either the kitty that was called on had moved on or it wasn't her. But just know that if she is still out there, someone will eventually find "the kitty with the circles on her side". I think that it might be harder actually losing them than having them "go to Kelly's house" (our endearing term for heaven). I constantly search for her when I'm out driving around in our neighborhood. Hopefully she is either having the time of her life or resting peacefully with our other pets at Kelly's house.<br />
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---We are settling into our not-so-new home quite well. In fact, the house that I wasn't that excited to move into has now endeared itself to me. Our Cleveland home worked well for us during that time period in our life, the time period of us being a new married couple and then having one baby. But once we had our second, questions were arising about how we were going to make the bedroom situation work. The Cleveland home was set up with two bedrooms upstairs and two bedrooms downstairs and I wasn't really comfortable putting one child downstairs. In our Pennsylvania home, all our bedrooms are upstairs -- so no issues! In fact, our not-so-new home is the perfect setup for us. There are two master suites, both having their own bathrooms. So we naturally took the master that was next to the other two smaller bedrooms and had the potential to have a huge walk-in closet. But now, any guest that we have stay with us basically has the entire opposite half of the our upstairs to themselves. The kitchen in our not-so-new home is also so much nicer. The porch is absolutely amazing and we are going to be living out there this summer. & I feel like we have a lot of extra room. And I feel like I can put my own touches on this home as there is much to be updated. Where in Cleveland, everything was pretty much updated and we really couldn't see putting more money into something that worked just fine for us. So overall, I'm so happy with my new home and realize the error of my ways in not wanting to move into this particular house back in last August.<br />
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---Speaking of our Cleveland home, it sold at the end of April. And it sold in the same way as the move went. In the worst, horrible way possible. Our realtor really wasn't anywhere close to being in the realm of being on our side. It left a terrible, terrible taste in our mouth. It was a really sad way to close the chapter on our old home that I cared deeply for. While I recognize that it wouldn't fit our family, I still miss being able to relive memories while walking through certain rooms and having flashbacks of different times over the past 7 years.<br />
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---And speaking of having a second master that is perfect for guests, life sometimes throws you huge curveballs. And my best friend/sister from another mister had a huge curveball sent her way in January. I won't get into her story as it's not mine to tell, but she chose to move to Philadelphia to start fresh. She stayed with us for three months (February through May) and it was amazing to have my chosen sister back in my life again (chosen because I got to chose her to be my sister). The last time that we had physically been in the same place was when she came to visit me in Cleveland the week before Finn was born -- so you can do the math on how long ago that was. She quickly became a big part of our family and fit in so seamlessly, it was sublime. She moved to Philadelphia in the middle of May and while I hadn't seen her for four years before, I miss her when I don't get to see her for more than two weeks. But she is living an amazing life right now and I'm so happy that I get to be a part of it (and that I get to experience city living vicariously through her as well as sometimes going down to visit for a night here and there).<br />
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---Finn finished school and is out for summer break. Holy hell, is it going to be a long summer. I've made it through one week and I feel like she has already been out for about a month. I'm in the process of making a bucket list for our summer to hopefully alleviate some of the summer boredom that is going to set in FAST and to hopefully make some amazing memories.<br />
---In the fall, when Finn starts school up again, she will be in preschool. She is going to be enroll in five-day preschool because we decided to enroll Fish in the two-day Step 1 program for two-year-olds. It ends up that he is going to have either Finn old teacher or her old assistant -- they are splitting up Step 1 into two classes (the older class and the younger class), so we will see who he gets in the fall.<br />
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---An update on Fish. I'm not sure if even mentioned at all our concerns with Fish's speech. If I didn't, very briefly he wasn't speaking as much as he should have been and our pediatrician out here was concerned that he was lagging behind. I wasn't particularly concerned (and neither was our pediatrician in Cleveland), but I had to jump through the hoops of getting him a hearing test (which he hated) and also scheduling an early in-home intervention evaluation (which he passed with flying colors). I feel like he was always slightly behind linguistically -- but that he surpassed all the physical milestones that were supposed to happen at his current age. Well, he is a jabber-jaw now. He still uses a lot of vocal syllables that don't make sense in his sentences because he recognizes that everyone else is speaking in full sentences and he wants to as well. He definitely gets his point across and I think it's beyond cute when it's all "aaaaaaah" and "uuuuuuuuh" in between the words that he wants to use to complete his thought. He can easily say 5 word sentences, but will add in about 5-7 extra "words" to make it seem like he is telling a complex sentence.<br />
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---And lastly on Fish, he is still using his binky. Finn had given up her binky already for a month at the age that Fish is currently at. But Fish is very attached to his binky. I'm hopeful that by the end of this summer that we will break him of the bink. But it's going to be a LONG summer... His current obsessions are trucks and doing anything just like sister (including wearing dresses and playing with My Little Ponys).<br />
---Finn update would just consist of her being a serious sasser. Not much more to say than that. She is so smart -- too smart sometimes. And she is the boss and the leader when she plays with friends (and on the rare occasion that she plays with Fish). Her current obsessions are makeup and legos.<br />
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---We are trying to update the house little by little as you could have probably seen in the phone photo posts. I've done a lot of painting with T (my bestie -- I put her to work). We painted both the kitchen and the main master bedroom (both shades of gray). We ungraded our closet into a walk-in closet -- which is absolutely amazing. We also upgraded our pass-through fireplace doors (on both sides). I'm currently trying to remove the wallpaper in the first floor water closet. Knowing that it's a water closet, I'm sure you recognize that it's a teeny room. But nonetheless, I will NEVER EVER wallpaper anything the rest of my life, just to save the person that comes after me from having to remove it if it's not their tastes. I'm currently just using fabric softener and a putty knife. It's easy work, but time consuming work. Anther project in the works is the laundry room (upgrading our current slop sink into an apron sink and vanity). On the further down the road list are all the bathrooms upstairs (two of them are still in their 1970s glory and the other was done to mimic the others, I think).<br />
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---The pets' update. Munk is turning 11 this year. He is overall doing well (I haven't taken him to the vet yet since being out here, but I'm scheduling that within the next month). His lumps and bumps are getting bigger (in fact, we had one surgically removed in Cleveland and there is another growing underneath the other armpit). We will see what the vet says about them -- none of them concern me but that one under his armpit. He is moving slower, but still gets his puppy-on when someone breaks out a tennis ball. Stella is turning 14 this year. She has a really bad eye that was scratched two Christmases ago. I took her to the vet out here and we were putting drops in her eyes multiple times a day. Her eye hasn't gotten any better and there was talk of surgically removing her eye. She also needs a bunch of teeth removed (probably all of them due to tooth rot). I need to schedule her for a second opinion as the vet I was going to was the type that was quantity not quality of years (she wanted me to take Stella to a cardiologist for a heart murmur that was diagnosed back in 2011). I need to see a vet that is going to shoot it to me straight about her condition. Norman is doing great and turning 5 this year. He misses Lucy dreadfully, but T had brought her cat Bennie with her when she moved up with us. So for three months, he had a new kitty to play with. In fact, he is so starved for attention and touch that he is letting the kids pet him (which is new to Norman). He was always around the kids, but never letting them pull on him the way that Lucy would. Now he sleeps with us sometimes and lets the kids pet them when we are going to sleep for the night.<br />
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---E's update is short and sweet. He works a lot. He tries to be present when he is home with us and tries to make it home in time for dinner every night. Sometimes he makes it, sometimes he doesn't. But he is home for dinner way more out here than he was in Cleveland. I also try to keep him busy on house projects. I make sure to do all that I can by myself, but I usually end up asking for some assistance and he takes over. He moved all the motorcycles over to PA at the end of April and so with the summer here, I'm sure he is hopeful that he will be able to fart around in the garage.<br />
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---Speaking of the garage, he is going to have to share his garage for about4-6 weeks with a brood of chicks! I'm getting chickens!!!!! This has been in the works since December when E went and picked up our chicken coop for $200. There will be a coop reveal later when we finish the chicken run (and I finish painting on the inside). The chickens are actually on their way as I type!!! They are getting overnight shipped to me and I'm going to be picking them up from the post office tomorrow morning (hopefully). To say that I'm excited would be a small understatement. And to say that E is not, would be the same.<br />
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---I think that about gets everyone up to date. If I think of more, I'll post it later. I'm hopefully that I can keep in the swing of posting regularly again. It keeps me behind the camera -- when I started looking at the photos from the past year for the kids' yearly updates, I realized how much I wasn't taking photos anymore. I missed so many opportunities for photos, I felt like. So hopefully, we are on the upswing of posting more.<br />
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The second half of May</div>
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School Daze 31.1<br />
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The peep show is coming! The peep showing is coming!<br />
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This is totally staged by Finn (the two of them on either sofa "sleeping").<br />
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School Daze 31.2<br />
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Someone was naughty and pushed the iPad off the counter. The screen shattered, but it still works! We put tape across the front so the pieces won't fall out and he is still using it (three weeks later).<br />
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His favorite song to sing. In fact, if you ask him to sing a song, this is what he sings.</div>
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Being a silly boy<br />
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School Daze 31.3 Simply amazing...<br />
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Fish LOVES the garbage truck. We have to stand outside and wave to them as they pick up the cans.<br />
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Static cling at the park for her picnic day at preschool.<br />
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Finn getting her certificate for preschool. She isn't graduating yet (but this school also doesn't do graduation).</div>
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Sibling love<br />
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School Daze 32.2 (32.1 was picnic day and we were so rushed to get out of the house, that I didn't get a photo that morning).<br />
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First half of May phone photos</div>
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I never learned how to french braid as a child. So I taught myself on Finn's hair. This is my best yet!</div>
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School Daze 29.1</div>
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Finn wanted to make sure that Unicorn got in the photo too.</div>
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Morning Fish</div>
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While Mama was away visiting a friend, they had a movie night!</div>
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The next morning, Daddy took them out for breakfast, but it was raining so they didn't get to play. *insert sad face*</div>
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Another home project knocked out! We replaced the old fireplace door in the kitchen with a new black modern one.</div>
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It was her Mother's Day program at school so she had to dress the part.</div>
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Her Mother's Day program was so sweet. She sang songs and then gave me a flower & a special project. We got to sit and eat a snack. But I mentioned that we were going to have lunch with Daddy & Brother afterwards and she was over it. She ran and got her coat and we were out of there so fast I couldn't even blink!</div>
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Her special song. Makes my heart melt.</div>
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Lunch for Mother's Day (ish)</div>
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My babes</div>
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Sharing a soda-kind of date</div>
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That weekend we went to the "Please Touch" Museum in Philly. They got to ride their first carousel. </div>
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We also went to the thrift store that weekend. Finn picked one thing. Fish just couldn't stop picking things -- guess he loves a bargain.</div>
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This was my Mother's Day gift. A teeny wine glass, a tiara, and a donut. My kids totally get me.</div>
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Everyone got in the act.</div>
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My house red and Norman eating my cilantro in the background. Funny thing about this photo is that I had read that day that I should put my herbs in a vase just like flowers to make them last longer. I put the cilantro in the glass that day. The next day, it was DEAD -- like D.E.A.D. Martha's going to have to do some great things to make me gain my trust in her again.</div>
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Finn's bestie at school had a birthday party.</div>
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This is after they took the cake off the table to cut it. He was very concerned about the location of that cake.</div>
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April phone photos (Part II)</div>
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Pew Pew Pew!</div>
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My kitty garden for Harry Kit Kat & Lucy<br />
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Munky in the Flower Jungle<br />
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Driving Fish around</div>
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School Daze 27.1<br />
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My view most nights<br />
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Sounds of Fish</div>
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School Daze 27.2<br />
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Mommy & her babies<br />
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So handsome<br />
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So pretty<br />
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School Daze 28.1<br />
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School Daze 28.2<br />
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Before & After of the gray paint (that looks blue) in our bedroom<br />
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Finish bedroom paint</div>
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School Daze 28.3 -- high kick Fridays!<br />
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Fish had to get in on the high kick Friday<br />
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Playing in a clothes basket<br />
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April phone photos (Part I)</div>
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How I find my kids sleeping 15 minutes later</div>
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April was the month of painting in our house. We started in the kitchen</div>
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The new and improved color</div>
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Norman trying to nap</div>
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Fish in snapchat imagining he has facial fair</div>
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Playing with her flight attendant Anna</div>
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Showing off his handyman skills</div>
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Chasing geese behind our house</div>
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(Notice the gray paint that Munk ended up with on his side)</div>
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The finish product of the walk-in closet</div>
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I did a panorama of my shoes in my closet. I thought it turned out pretty neat.<br />
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School Daze 22.2</div>
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Fish got a coat from E's friend who took a trip to Japan. I think he wore that coat nonstop for about a week.</div>
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Another new tradition is the back-side of the story. She always wants to have me take a photo of what her hair looks like from behind. And of course, Fish has to be involved.</div>
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Because Father's Day falls during the summer, her school celebrated it in March with Donuts with Dads. She was so excited to have E come in to her school.</div>
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Father & Daughter</div>
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We took a quick trip back to Iowa in the middle of March. Finn loves baths at Mimi & Papa's. Here's her new dress after a fresh bath.</div>
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Not sure how Fish got donut sugar on his forehead!</div>
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On the eve of St. Patrick's Day, we set a leprechaun trap baited with a little bowl of fake gold coins (yellow paper cut into circles).</div>
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The next morning, we found the trap was tripped and the kitchen chairs were knocked over, but no leprechaun. He did leave some candy behind though!</div>
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About 5 miles from my parents' place there is a huge wind farm. There are about 17 windmills out in the middle of vast Iowa farmland. It's really an awesome sight to behold.</div>
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My little babushka.</div>
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My cutie pa-tootie.</div>
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Look at all that candy from the Iowa Easter egg hunt!</div>
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Someone was exhausted from all the egg hunting that afternoon. Also of note, that thing that looks like a blanket covering her is actually the snuggie that I used to use when I was little. It was a pillow that I got when my first Xmas. She loves snuggling with Mommy's snuggie.</div>
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We were watching the Northern Iowa game, which went into double OT (I think) and it was past 10:30, but he just refused to fall asleep like Finn did. He is going to be my diehard sports fan -- right along my side during all my Hawkeye heart attacks.</div>
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Finn had space camp at her preschool and she graduated.</div>
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This is what our kitchen looks like on a daily basis.</div>
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Daddy was fixing Finn's hair and Fish was fixing Daddy's hair</div>
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Getting ready for our backyard egg hunt on Easter</div>
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Do kids mix with a dinner party? In our house, anything goes!</div>
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<i>LATE POST: I had this sitting in the draft box since early April and just never got to finishing writing it. Post is going to be short because Easter was over six weeks ago and well, brain farts.</i><br />
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On Easter morning, we got together with the neighbors and had an Easter egg hunt between our two houses. The kids had a blast and got WAY too much candy. Finn had her hands full with another boy who would watch her to find out which way she was headed. She would find the eggs, but not run fast enough to get there before him and he would scoop up the egg she was headed for. But she definitely got enough eggs -- no doubt. Happy belated Easter!<br />
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<br />TheScientistsWidowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02977182663414844641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207760412369042348.post-48918183926192551152016-05-03T17:05:00.000-04:002016-05-05T15:08:57.026-04:00Irish in the fields<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have a field behind our house. It's a field that is now 3/4 open. But when we moved in, half of it was fenced it. It used to hold a donkey, three goats, and some sheep. Now the half that is left just contains sheep. Behind in the sheep, there is a hill of green that you can see in some of the photos on the right. I like to call that place "Dirt Mountain". When they opened up half of the field, they moved the one goat left and her two babies over to Dirt Mountain. So we have to walk around the sheep enclosure to see the goats. For little kids, it's a long walk...<br />
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E went to Ireland to help with the lambing again this season. When he came back, he brought Fish a hat. And so because they both have their very own Irish sweaters and because the weather was overcast and misty-rainy, I decided today the weather was very reminiscent of Ireland. So we headed over to the sheep and shot some photos quick. Apologies for the photos all being the same (basically), but I honestly couldn't decide which ones I thought were better (usually I cull out about 70% of the photos). I think that it's because I haven't actually taken good photos of the kids since last November. And Fish definitely loved his shillelagh (which was just a longer stick that I found on the way.<br />
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A little look inside Finn's school day. </div>
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Fish was starting to take interest in the potty (for a hot minute). </div>
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The night before my trip, Granny & Opa were here and the kids wanted to put on a dance show for them, hence the dresses and Katy Perry.</div>
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February was also the month that I was blessed to have my best friend in the entire world move up from FLA to live in Philly. I flew down and we road-tripped all the way up to PA. It was one of the best trips of my life. We drank our way through the South and Mid-Atlantic and also did a lot of fun things, like ghost tours in Savannah, the Biltmore in Asheville, and World of Beer in Charlottesville.</div>
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We were also blessed to have Bennie's presence on our trip. She was hours of entertainment in the long hours in the car. </div>
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The Biltmore, which has some amazing wines BTW.</div>
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This photo sums up the entire trip. We had a huge blast and it was really cold.</div>
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Opa & Granny came and started with E & the kids to watch them during the day. </div>
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Daddy was in charge of compiling Finn's Valentine's for her party on that Friday. </div>
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Fish got a tattoo while I was away as well. </div>
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When I got home, we decided to FaceTime (which was how the kids kept tabs on me on my trip). Yes, my kids were up until 10:36pm on the day that I came back. </div>
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Fish was crowning Munky with the Barbie duct tape crown. </div>
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Playing hide & seek -- look who's peeking. </div>
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Handyman Fish </div>
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Finn got to wear a crown on her birthday at school. </div>
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Fish is also taking up the model pose. </div>
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We puppysat Lona for our friend who was in Japan for three weeks. Fish liked her crate.</div>
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We had a little birthday party with the neighbors for the kids' birthday party. It was a big hit. </div>
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My beautiful girl </div>
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The goat had babies!!!! </div>
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It was SuperHero Training Camp day. </div>
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This is a photo from the school FB site of Finn using her super-human strength to life dumbbells.</div>
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School Daze 21.3 </div>
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Fish wasn't feeling well that day. Poor baby. </div>
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Fish & I were able to go into Finn's classroom and read a book from home for her birthday. She is the one that's in the gray/white striped shirt with the purple bow on the right. </div>
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School Daze 22.1 </div>
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A new thing that has also developed in her daily school photo -- shut eyes. She likes to voluntarily shut her eyes for photos.</div>
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