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My Week(145) in iPhone Photos

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:

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When you take gymnastics, every wall is a balance beam

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The King of All Wild Things demands a rumpus.

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Admiring herself in the table reflection. Vanity, thy name is Caroline.

Monday:

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HI PIRANHAS! I LOVE YOU! YOU SO SPARKLY!

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Want to see him wait patiently? Promise him grilled cheese.

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Swinger

Tuesday:

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I walked to the grocery store. The halfway point is the hospital where both kids were born.

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MORE SWINGING!

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Photographer (and model) in training

Wednesday:

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Evan decorated her hair during a cat nap

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Appropriate scooter attire

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Creepy ass princess takes a bath

Thursday:

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When you don’t have a photography studio, you improvise. Thank God for sliding glass doors.

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Scooter pro already

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Photography assistant for my evening maternity shoot

Friday:

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She found the shirt she liked and wouldn’t even LOOK at anything else.

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I got beat at Princess Chutes and Ladders by a 2 year old. It hurts.

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Uh oh, I hear sirens…

Saturday:

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TINY PRE-K SCHOOL UNIFORMS I CAN’T EVEN.

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Photo editing while the kids watch a surprisingly not terrible fake Pixar movie about sea turtles.

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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!  No, probably not. That clothes pin keeps it closed pretty well.

Time To Renew

Monday, August 5th, 2013

Our Seaport membership lapsed last month, even though I’ve been planning to renew since March. I even went into the office to do it, but got distracted by the free lemonade and coffee and keeping my children from destroying the antique furniture.

I’ve been thinking maybe I’ll just wait until next summer to renew, since they close for part of the winter anyway. But we drove past last week and Evan started shouting “I WANT TO SEE MY BOATS! I LOVE BOATS! I NEED THE BOATS!” and Caroline cried. I told them we were going to get ice cream and they still insisted they wanted BOATS instead. (I threw in the playground and they acquiesced, but only because I promised the Seaport another day.)  Then I found these in June’s photo file when I was transferring it over to the external storage. I don’t think I can miss the rest of the summer and fall at the Seaport.

Besides, Chowder Days are in October and only crazy people who hate deliciousness miss Chowder Days.

p.s. We left Evan’s hat on Long Island earlier this summer. I really need to get it back.

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My Week(144) in iPhone Photos

Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

DO ALL THE SUMMER BEFORE IT’S GONE.

Sunday:

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I put away the changing pad (that I’ve used maybe twice ever) since I don’t have any babies anymore.

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Fresh neighborhood eggs are a game of IS THERE A CHICKEN FETUS IN THIS OR NO?

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Best spot ever for senior pictures? Probably.

Monday:

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Tired.

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Mess.

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Tired.

Tuesday:

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I WILL MISS YOU WHILE I AM AT SCHOOL BABY SISTER EVEN THOUGH WE ARE GOING TO SAME SCHOOL.

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Mommy the donkey is my best friend!

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Cloud or portal opened to another dimension by a tesseract?

Wednesday:

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Our last gymnastics class. She’ll have to use her super strength somewhere else.

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Our duck pond has an endless supply of adorable baby ducks and I cannot stop taking pictures of them.

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Waiting patiently for her grilled cheese.

Thursday:

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NO PICTURES PLEASE.

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Tinker Bell rests in the tasting room of the winery. Being a fairy is hard work.

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My sister and her boyfriend are EXCELLENT child watchers. I like them.

Friday:

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The princess generously bestows bacon upon her people.

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Beach baby

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THREE GINGERS.

Saturday:

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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.

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Second day of the princess dress. I peeled it off her to wash it because 2 year olds are gross.

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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.

My Week(137) in iPhone Photos

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

As I type thing, I am drinking a boozy milk shake that contains a ground up chocolate chip cookie and coconut fudge ice cream. Just to give you some context on how TOTALLY worth it the 16 hour drive to South Carolina is.

Sunday:

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The rarest animal in the aquarium: my husband

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Cupcake face

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I took this picture with a telephone.

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She’s a cat burglar making her getaway.

Monday:

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PEEK A BOO

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Extremely loud trip to BJ’s

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Happy Birthday Mr. Sendak. We’ll keep the wild rumpus going for you.

Tuesday:

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Hanging up his coat for his last day of school

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She really, really loves lemonade

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Taking the animals to the vet

Wednesday:

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Stuck in traffic and we haven’t even left Connecticut. Evan’s face explains it all.

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Too cool for Delaware

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Old timey fun with Mormor

Friday:

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Spoiled, spoiled children

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Spoiled, spoiled me

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Never leaving.

Saturday:

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Pre-pool relaxation

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A very Low Country lunch

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Who needs forks when you can pick up your cake like a sandwich?

I can’t even believe we have MORE DAYS of vacation before we leave…and when we do we have MORE FUN STUFF to do before we go back to Connecticut. My children are going to sleep for a week when we get home. It will be glorious.

My Week(135) in iPhone Photos

Saturday, June 1st, 2013

Based on my pictures, I think we can officially say summer has started here.

Sunday:

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Is this a New England thing? I hadn’t ever had it before we moved here and now it’s my favorite.

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Shopping helper

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All 15 episodes watched in one day. Obsessed.

Monday:

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Photo of the parade photographer. So meta.

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Dual swinging skillz

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Screw you, tree helicopters. Say hello to my little friend, the leafblower.

Tuesday:

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Gas station fashion shot

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No, of course I didn’t feed the kids donuts for lunch. Why would you think that?

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PLEASE SWING PLEASE SWING PLEASE MOOOORE SWING!

Wednesday:

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C’mon Rhode Island, maybe try repaving ONE SIDE at a time?

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Checking out Inara the Anteater.

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Petting a Moon Bear. Maybe if he was named for a Firefly character I’d know his name too.

Thursday:

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One of the benefits of going to the gym is finally catching up on magazines

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Beach babies

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That “sand” is really more like dirt, but it works.

Friday:

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Ducky friends! Baby duckie friends! So many duckies!

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11:00 am. BLERG.

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LOOK WATER I LIKE IT! – says the child who didn’t like the water 24 hours before.

Saturday:

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Indoor, air-conditioned playground birthday party. Best idea ever.

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PEEK A BOO

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She accidentally ate the bubbles almost every time

The next week is going to be a busy one for me – TWO trips into NYC for fun blogging stuff. The weather is supposed to be a little more reasonable too (70’s instead of 90’s) so we can go back to doing other fun stuff besides hiding at the lake. Not that I really MIND hiding at the lake, I just don’t think I can afford to go through that much sunscreen every single week.