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Saturday, August 17th, 2013
Technically it’s still summer, but someone forgot to tell Connecticut. And Virginia.
Sunday:
Life’s tough choices: cinnamon cider donuts or glazed cider donuts?
Giving directions in the maze
Brushing the princess’s hair
Monday:
Belle watching Belle
Being a princess is exhausting
Blue Icees are the best reward
Tuesday:
Pre-pre-school hugs
Purple dress with tiny pink foxes at Target. Go get one for your baby.
Building a dinosaur skeleton zoo, to keep dinosaurs skeletons for escaping
Wednesday:
Hello Hartford!
Doin’ sciencey stuff
Not swinging. Sitting. Because I was working. But she refused to get out (or put on pants).
Thursday:
I’ve been going to the clinic on base for 8 years and this was the first time I ever noticed the water tower. Observant!
Cooperative art
We pay $200 a year for an aquarium membership and they think the lobsters at the grocery store are just as good.
Friday:
Go on vacation? Nah, we’ll hang at this rest area and look at diggers.
Can’t you see I’m RELAXING? Knock it off with the pictures.
RELAAAAAAAAAAX
Saturday:
Man-time fishing on the lake
Jumper!
Golden child
I keep thinking there’s just one week left in August and I have way too much to do, but there are TWO weeks left in August…and I still have way too much to do. Well, no, not too much. I can never, ever get too much photography work and I’m super excited I have some shoots lined up already.
So excited I MIGHT have just ordered myself my dream camera. Now I have 6 months to pay for it. Please forgive me if there are a few extra sponsored posts next month – dreams are pretty expensive and I’m determined to finance mine on my own, without using the family (husband-earned) money.
Tags: Caroline, Connecticut, connecticut science center, evan, family, fun, hartford, iphone photos, lake, my week in iphone photos, princesses, school, summer, target, vacation, virginia
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Sunday, August 11th, 2013
Welcome to August in New England, where the weather cools down juuuuust enough to make life bearable, the days are still super long, and the kids can SENSE that I’m shipping them off to school soon so they start demanding the playground every day.
Sunday:
When you take gymnastics, every wall is a balance beam
The King of All Wild Things demands a rumpus.
Admiring herself in the table reflection. Vanity, thy name is Caroline.
Monday:
HI PIRANHAS! I LOVE YOU! YOU SO SPARKLY!
Want to see him wait patiently? Promise him grilled cheese.
Swinger
Tuesday:
I walked to the grocery store. The halfway point is the hospital where both kids were born.
MORE SWINGING!
Photographer (and model) in training
Wednesday:
Evan decorated her hair during a cat nap
Appropriate scooter attire
Creepy ass princess takes a bath
Thursday:
When you don’t have a photography studio, you improvise. Thank God for sliding glass doors.
Scooter pro already
Photography assistant for my evening maternity shoot
Friday:
She found the shirt she liked and wouldn’t even LOOK at anything else.
I got beat at Princess Chutes and Ladders by a 2 year old. It hurts.
Uh oh, I hear sirens…
Saturday:
TINY PRE-K SCHOOL UNIFORMS I CAN’T EVEN.
Photo editing while the kids watch a surprisingly not terrible fake Pixar movie about sea turtles.
Terribly grainy drive thru photo of the kids attempting the clapping part of the Cups song.
E’s hours are still killing him, but we managed to fit in some family time today, which was super fun. He even put up a curtain rod we’ve been meaning to put up for seven years. Maybe in another seven years we’ll fix the shower door that’s been broken since we moved in! Â No, probably not. That clothes pin keeps it closed pretty well.
Tags: aquarium, august, Caroline, Connecticut, evan, family, fun, iphone photos, mystic, park, photography, princesses, school, stay and play, summer, swings, week in iphone photos
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Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
DO ALL THE SUMMER BEFORE IT’S GONE.
Sunday:
I put away the changing pad (that I’ve used maybe twice ever) since I don’t have any babies anymore.
Fresh neighborhood eggs are a game of IS THERE A CHICKEN FETUS IN THIS OR NO?
Best spot ever for senior pictures? Probably.
Monday:
Tired.
Mess.
Tired.
Tuesday:
I WILL MISS YOU WHILE I AM AT SCHOOL BABY SISTER EVEN THOUGH WE ARE GOING TO SAME SCHOOL.
Mommy the donkey is my best friend!
Cloud or portal opened to another dimension by a tesseract?
Wednesday:
Our last gymnastics class. She’ll have to use her super strength somewhere else.
Our duck pond has an endless supply of adorable baby ducks and I cannot stop taking pictures of them.
Waiting patiently for her grilled cheese.
Thursday:
NO PICTURES PLEASE.
Tinker Bell rests in the tasting room of the winery. Being a fairy is hard work.
My sister and her boyfriend are EXCELLENT child watchers. I like them.
Friday:
The princess generously bestows bacon upon her people.
Beach baby
THREE GINGERS.
Saturday:
Yard sale. Most of it’s on the curb now, it was not a smashing success. But at least it’s all out of my house.
Second day of the princess dress. I peeled it off her to wash it because 2 year olds are gross.
Watching more Watch Us Edit videos from Clickin Moms and it’s still blowing my mind.
It was a surprisingly good week, even if I continue to make poor choices in regards to my own bedtime. 11 pm has become midnight has become 1 am, which means I’m getting like 5 hours of sleep which means I am chronically tired which is my OWN FAULT and yet I keep doing it. I am not very good at learning my lesson. I’m also so, so excited about Ginger Snaps Pictures (website! facebook! in progress, so don’t judge too harshly) and the photography classes/workshops/critiques I’ve signed up for I CAN’T go to bed any earlier. I need those post-kid hours. Although I have managed to thoroughly wear them out several days this week so they took naps – NAPS! – and slept a full 12 hours at night.
This week will be almost as full as last week, which is my favorite kind of week. Even if I am tired.
Tags: beach, Caroline, cows and cones, dress up, evan, family, farm, food, gymnastics, house, iphone photos, lake, my week in iphone photos, mystic, princess, school, stonington vineyard, wine, yard sale, yogurt city
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Sunday, July 28th, 2013
Our week was busy, except for when it wasn’t because of the pouring rain and flash floods. But mostly busy.
Sunday:
I mean, I only have three doll houses, why not buy another one? (I did not)
Caroline is destined for music videos with lots of mind machines
I appreciate how the trees on the point hide most of the nuclear power plant. More scenic.
Monday:
I’ve never actually seen the state capitol before
Confucius say: Give a man $120 and he will give you an LLC.
Sometimes I take pictures of stuff I want to remember to keep on my phone, but then I forgot to leave them on my phone.
Tuesday:
The local tax office is located in part of an old TB hospital.
HUGS
We love the sunflowers
Wednesday:
Really excited for gymnastics
Playdates make me hungry, and this was super delicious
I told Evan he is my photography assistant, and he said that means he has to push the stroller.
Thursday:
Grocery store in the pouring rain
Destroying the house and having pillow fights in the pouring rain
Watching Thor in the pouring rain
Friday:
Princess Sadface returns
Five kids under a table.
Despite that face, the rainbow ice was delicious.
Saturday:
Home run!!
I never should have showed her how the front-facing camera works.
Restarted C25K. This time I am determined to finish.
The urgency to do as many things and have as much fun as possible before summer is over has hit. I was actually grateful for a rainy miserable day to stay home and relax (even though we ended up having friends over and totally wearing out my kids). July is almost over and August is going to FLY by and then Evan starts 5 days a week morning pre-k, which I am both totally ready and not at all ready for. They grow up so fast, etc etc, but I’m looking forward to a new stage where I have a lot more time to focus on things I love (especially photography) instead of just being Mommy.
Tags: baseball, boston, bozrah, c25k, Caroline, Connecticut, evan, farmers market, flea market, food, friends, ginger snaps pictures, gymnastics, hartford, my week in iphone photos, niantic, red sox, shopping, sunflowers, week in iphone photos
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Saturday, July 20th, 2013
Uuuuuuugggghhhhhhhh it’s hooooooot. We’ve been trying to hold as still as possible, although “still” isn’t really a word in these children’s vocabulary. I’m also going to blame the heat for messing up my iPhone and losing more than half my photos. Our trip to the lake, gymnastics, all of Thursday. Gone. Annoyed. And hot.
Sunday:
Chillaxin’
CLEAN ALL THE THINGS: Kitchen edition
Melting
Monday:
She insisted Zebra and Giraffe needed to see the aquarium too.
Tomato, artichoke hearts, pesto, two kinds of cheese on sourdough.
“Helping” with the seesaw
Tuesday:
Not even close to being big enough.
They’re doing Oedipus Rex at the Arboretum with truly terrifying puppets.
The sleepy twins fell asleep while I was at a photoshoot
Wednesday:
From Instagram: More sleeping.
From Instagram: More eating.
Thursday:
Oh yes, I’m sure you’ll sell a lot of these as impulse purchases.
The long-promised and long-awaited potty training reward.
Friday:
I wish I could tell you that giant drink was sugar free organic juice, but then I’d be a liar. (We saw Monsters 2. Cute but I liked Despicable Me 2 better.)
MOAR SLEEPING. SO HOT.
Saturday:
We’ve all been getting a LOT of checkups since Thursday.
At least it wasn’t permanent marker.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….
I swear we’re going to leave the house tomorrow, if only because I can’t stand sitting in my own sweat any longer. I am insanely jealous of my parents and their lake house right now (Happy Birthday Mom!) and need to figure out how to get there ASAP.
Tags: bleu squid, Caroline, evan, food, hot, iphone photos, my week in iphone photos, mystic aquarium, shopping, sleeping, summer, vacation
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