Aiden turns three years old this Summer and Gavin just turned one, so we had their photos taken with a birthday theme. Chrissy set up a session with our regular photographer, Miss Mandy. Mandy always manages to make Aiden and Gavin smile and she’s very good about taking as many photos as Chrissy wants (she shows up with a...
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Aiden got a tether ball as a prize at the St. James Festival last weekend. It’s literally a ball with a string poked through it; a loop on the other end goes around your wrist. You can throw the ball and it has no choice but to come back to you. Aiden played with it for a bit, but Gavin got more use out of it as a...
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Grandma and Grandpa got Aiden his very first bike as a birthday present. They gave it to him a bit early so that he could enjoy it for the rest of the Summer (by the time his birthday rolls around, Summer will be over). He has plenty of riding toys, but this is his first bicycle. It has a Spiderman motif, and Aiden loves...
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Aiden will be three years old next month, but he has now mastered the hallmark of the “terrible twos”: the WHY question. It has become his new favorite word, coming in immediate response to anything that we say to him. Tell him to do something and you get, “Why?” I very quickly resorted to “Because I...
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Our family (including Auntie Felice) went to the St. James Festival this weekend. This is the first year that the church has brought in carnival rides for a while. There was a lawsuit in 2007 between the town and the father of a boy who died falling from a ride, so St. James decided to avoid that altogether. That lasted a...
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Chrissy and I took Aiden and Gavin to the Taste of Chicago for our annual slice of Eli’s cheesecake on a stick, cheesy garlic bread and anything from Sweet Baby Ray’s. This was Gavin’s first trip to the Taste so far. We packed the boys into the double stroller and made our way through the lunchtime crowd on opening...
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Chrissy and her Mom took the boys and Taylor to Johnson’s Farms in Hobart to pick some strawberries. The weather was nice (despite the recent rainstorms), so they had a good time in the fields. Aiden loves strawberries, and he was eating them right off the plants. Chrissy and Mom took turns carrying Gavin in the Baby Bjorn...
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Once a month, Chrissy takes a day off for scrapbooking. She drives to Schneider with some friends and they spend the entire day (10 AM to 10 PM) working on their scrapbook pages. It’s a sanity day for her, but effectively strands me at home with the kids. Most times, the boys and I have a good day and nothing goes wrong,...
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