tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59268185702671398012024-03-13T08:51:20.085-07:00Darn HappyDarning is a sewing term - when you darn, you draw the edges of something together to change what was once a hole into a new, whole piece of fabric. In adopting Clara and Elena, we see the hole in our life being covered by the joy of becoming a family. We're also lucky enough to see the edges of our life coming together with the lives of so many people, most of all an amazing birth family. We are just so darn happy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-14830372359278008592014-09-13T19:03:00.000-07:002014-09-13T19:03:03.418-07:00Well, Hello!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It's been a long time. And, I'm sorry to say, it's likely to be a long time more before anything else gets posted here. As much as I value documenting Clara and Elena's childhood and keeping them present in the lives of family and friends far away right now posting on a regular basis just isn't something I can keep up.</div>
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It's possible, though, that I might be able to do this occasionally - give a bit of the flavor of a special day here and there. Today I took the girls to the National Bison Range and then to two farms in Moiese where some of our CSA vegetable share came from. We had a pretty fun time - here are some pictures from the day.</div>
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The antlers that have been found on the range through the years-</div>
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Why is he shaved?? We have no idea.<br />
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Picking a tomato for her dad:<br />
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Riding the rubber tire horse swing:<br />
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Pressing apples for cider:<br />
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The eight year old tractor driver who drove the kids all around the farms.<br />
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Can you spy them in the distance?<br />
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Farm dinner - with all veggies, grains, seeds, and cheeses from the immediate area.<br />
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Feeding the goats:<br />
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Getting baby Padma to eat a cucumber.<br />
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The girls are growing beautifully. They have loose and missing teeth all over, and teeth growing in at odd angles. They are in separate classrooms for the first time in their lives and they are just both loving their second grade experience. Elena's still playing guitar, and Clara is deciding between continuing with the fiddle or moving to singing or guitar lessons. Both girls are progressing in irish dance, and have been moved up again to the next level. Elena is trying again to grow out her bangs, and Clara is reading like a champ. They are the smartest, funniest, most adaptive, beautiful children I've ever known, and I'll try to share them with you a bit more often!<br />
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-ChristinaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-41189941926471308682013-12-08T21:00:00.003-08:002013-12-08T21:00:40.799-08:00Irish Dancing RecordingWe still haven't gotten the whole video-uploading-directly-to-the-blog thing figured out, and we haven't updated here in a while, but if you'd like to see the girls' part of their Irish Dance recital you can see a montage of them here:<br />
<span class="watch-page-link"><a href="http://youtu.be/oXkAHrXeno8" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/oXkAHrXeno8</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-41709751124191627612013-10-31T20:05:00.001-07:002013-10-31T20:05:14.337-07:00Halloween 2013This year Elena and Clara started thinking of costumes for Halloween way back on their birthday. They wanted a costume party. Clara begged for a werewolf costume, which we bought with the understanding that she'd also wear it for Halloween. Elena wanted to dress up as a pop star. You might recall that when their birthday rolled around they both dressed as Irish dancers instead.
Fast forward to tonight - a not-too-dark, not-too-stormy night.<br />
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But, because it's autumn, it was still just the right amount of spooky. <br />
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And it was made spookier by the fact that Elena decided to ditch the pop star outfit and use dress-up materials we had to be a vampire. Clara did wear her werewolf outfit, but decided against the mask. And so we had fun with facepaint and spookified the night even more.<br />
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Ferocious, double-set-of-teeth werewolf.<br />
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A very-terrifyingly posed Elena (really, she was freaking us out with how she kept doing this!).<br />
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And a growly, scowly witch. It seemed to round out the old-school Halloween characters we had going on. <br />
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<br />We walked down the street to a friend's house for a fantastic Halloween party.<br />
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With TONS of kids. It was hard to keep track of how many there were.<br />
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After trying to round them all up for pictures we headed to the streets. We made quite pack! It was so joyous to see them running with their friends in the dusk, feeling confident in their neighborhood and secure in their lives. The candy part of Halloween can get crazy, but going to say hi to people door to door pretty much rocks.<br />
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Now we're all ready for bed. Happy Halloween!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-34907085263005918002013-10-21T11:26:00.002-07:002013-10-21T11:26:48.251-07:00PumpkinsThis weekend we went to our favorite local farm to get pumpkins.
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There was a lot of enthusiasm over which one to pick.<br />
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This is Clara's face when...<br />
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Steve suggests she choose this pumpkin!<br />
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And here is her comeback to him:<br />
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In reality, she ended up choosing the largest pumpkin there!<br />
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It wouldn't even fit in this spot under the cart. Elena graciously moved her pumpkin from up top to make room for her sister's, and we rolled merrily out of there, scoring some squash and pumpkins on our way out.<br />
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Annual family picture: <br />
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Elena requested a picture of her cuddling her pumpkin (and yes, there is always a lock of hair in her eyes, and no, we have no idea why! It always comes from a new place!).<br />
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Of course Clara wanted the same picture once she saw Elena doing it.<br />
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After we got home we had some dinner and decided on the spur of the moment that it was perfect weather to build a fire and roast marshmallows. So we all had s'mores for dessert.<br />
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Fall is certainly here!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-79937509677605637882013-10-20T14:13:00.001-07:002013-10-20T20:39:13.443-07:00Biking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This spring Elena and Clara made huge strides in their bike riding. While they've loved their bikes with training wheels they were really limited by the inherent clumsiness and slowness of a four-wheeled bike! Early this spring Elena made that leap into understanding balance, and biked on two wheels for the very first time.</div>
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Clara was SO close, and we'll show the video here - she got the idea, she ALMOST got the balance. But she was afraid to just go for it. It took another month after this before she was able to bike on her own without training wheels. And at that point we didn't record it (second-child syndrome for a twin - a first for us!).<br />
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Anyway, once she got it she really got it, and we had to move her up a size in her bike so that she could go fast the way that she wanted to. From July on we were able to bike together. Most times this was around the neighborhood - like over to our local brewery, Kettlehouse.<br />
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One evening in late summer we decided to try biking the mile and a half to downtown to get ice cream. We had to go on big roads, using the bike lanes - nothing like our neighborhood biking. But with Steve in the lead and Christina as caboose it went without a hitch.<br />
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A rainbow even greeted us at our destination! So great to be able to go out all together and get exercise and fun at the same time.<br />
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That's not the only biking we do, though. Another local brewery we like, Draughtworks, has an event each year where you can ride this bike that is attached to a mill. It grinds the hops that will be used in a seasonal brew, Chain Reaction. This year all four of us biked for it - Clara and Elena are behind the little boy in the background looking to see how many hops Steve can grind.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-90749508629786469612013-10-19T21:17:00.002-07:002013-10-19T21:17:20.361-07:00The RingsLast year the big deal for Clara and Elena on their school playground was a contraption called "The Spider." It is one of those metal structures that is a six foot high open dome, where you can climb up little ladders in one section and slide down poles in another section. They felt so cool on that.<br />
<br />Well, that spider is old news. The thing they are WILD about these days are the monkey bars and rings. They beg to go to school all the time to play on them. After school, before school, and weekends, too. Clara, especially is adamant that she wants to go practice multiple times a day. This is especially unfortunate, because while Elena can reach the first ring on her own Clara cannot. And the rule at school is that no one can lift you. So, even though Clara is only a half inch too short, and even though she can swing back and forth (six times without stopping, one day!) like nobody's business, she cannot do it unless we go with her.<br />
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So we go. A LOT. And they are thrilled. Clara can skip two rings at a time, and Elena can skip three. Elena can go back and forth several times without stopping, and Elena has a truly amazing dismount. She is clearly part simian. <br />
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These last two pictures have nothing to do with the rings, but lots to do with the sweet sisterhood that sometimes compels Elena to "sneakily" help Clara up to the rings. These two really do love each other.<br />
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Sisters snuggling (Grandma, this is the blanket you sent that I made when I was 14! Elena calls it the puffy blanket, and sleeps with it every night. Thanks for saving it, finding it, and sending it!).<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-47346170883863799252013-10-19T21:04:00.002-07:002013-10-19T21:04:38.137-07:00Losing Teeth(Don't read this one, Grandma! We know how you are squeamish about the teeth!).<br />
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We knew it was coming - it was inevitable. These teeth we so suffered through these girls growing were going to come out. Elena and Clara were desperately eager for it to happen. They had been waiting through kindergarten as others lost teeth, repeatedly checking theirs for wiggliness.<br />
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Then, this summer, while we were out in a park for dinner, Elena's very loose tooth bent back while she ate some noodles. She was in a bit of shock. Christina, fearing she'd swallow it, plucked the tooth out of her mouth. After a few ashen minutes Elena was exuberant. She has since lost another tooth, and was similarly squeamish about it right after it came out, and then transitioned into her excitement.<br />
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Clara took another month or so to wiggle furiously every potentially loose tooth. And then, one evening, after having had Christina try to pull it out several times, it was finally loose enough. She showed no worry at all about the tooth - in fact, at one point before it was quite out she said: "This is the best night ever! I have blood between my teeth!!!" <br />
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Clara and Elena got a call a few months ago from the Tooth Fairy Office (neither Christina nor Steve had known that existed). They asked Clara and Elena to pick names for their toothfairies (Clara's is Tinkerbell and Elena's is Jasmine) and got instructions on how to put their teeth out when they lost them. Their toothfairies brought a few small gifts for the first tooth, with a note explaining that it was only for that first celebration, and afterwards it would be four quarters per tooth. The toothfairies had also constructed pretty bracelets. Each girl got one when she lost her first tooth, with a special diamond bead. For every tooth they will also get a new sparkly bead to add to the bracelet. <br />
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It has been a time of changes, that's for sure. This is a pretty exciting one.<br />
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These girls have been talking about horseback riding lessons almost as long as they've been able to talk. They've had plenty of pony-riding lessons, but we decided when they turned six it was time for the real deal. For the past month or so they've been taking lessons at a stable just outside of town, Flying H.</div>
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Every week we follow the same routine. Their trainer, Christina, helps them 'catch' a horse for the lesson. They lead the horse back to the posts.<br />
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Then they brush the horses down to get them ready for all of their gear.<br />
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Christina quizzes them on all the parts of the horse gear - from the throat latch to the cinch to the lead rope to the halter. These girls are getting quite the equestrian vocabulary!<br />
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Then they take the horses out to the arena (when it gets too much colder we'll have to move to the inside arena, but so far all of the lessons have been outdoors).<br />
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They saddle up, and then they're off!<br />
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Clara and Elena share a private lesson together. The lesson is divided between activities the two of them do together (games like who can get their horse to stop the fastest, or simon says with horse moves worked in) and then individual instruction. <br />
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They've worked at navigating the horses between cones, barrels, and poles. They've moved from walking to trotting, and are working on posting now. They are usually really confident, though it is amazing given the ratio of their tiny bodies to those 1600 pound horses!<br />
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So far Elena feels a little bit more at ease than Clara, but Clara got one of the older horses trotting when the instructor noted that she had never seen a child do that before. Clara's frustration comes from wanting to do so much and knowing that getting the horse to listen to the commands of someone so tiny is hard. Elena's confidence comes from her true belief that she can talk with the horses. <br />
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Recently the save jar got sufficiently full to warrant a trip to the bank to open savings accounts!<br />
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Things were going beautifully until we realized we needed social security cards. Drat. Back home, and then to a second branch of the bank so Steve could join the expedition, and we were back on track!<br />
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They are pretty proud to have their own accounts. And the accounts for minors at this bank have great incentives for depositing (they earn things like tokens to the carousel every time they deposit!).<br />
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The number balloon, as always, was a given - and for the third year in a row it didn't fly away!<br />
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We had lovely friends who joined us for a party this last weekend before the start of school. And a surprise guest - Rachel, the girls' first babysitter! They were so thrilled to see her.<br />
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And she was a hit with the rest of the guests, too.<br />
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For the second year in a row the girls requested the "punching game" - this time Christina got smart and kept the board after the party, in case they want it again. That thing takes hours and hours to make!!<br />
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It sure is a crowd-pleaser, though.<br />
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An Irish dancer and a butterfly who had ditched her wings.<br />
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Another VIP at the party was Clara and Elena's kindergarten teacher, Kelsey! She came with her husband, and all the kids who had been in Kelsey's class just flocked around her.<br />
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Getting into the costume spirit:<br />
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There was also a game the girls picked out where you throw sticky food at a big mouth. It was about as gross as it sounds.<br />
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And, the <span class="st"><i>pièce</i> <em>de résistance</em></span> - the cake! Christina took the girls to four different stores to scour their cake offerings - they were very, very clear they wanted a store-bought cake this year. We hit upon one store that catered to their every whim - the desire for candies, rings, butterflies, dirt, worms, bugs, flowers, sprinkles - it was amazing.<br />
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Sadly (and just to be honest) last minute this didn't go over as well as you might think. Both girls were upset about the yellowjackets that came uninvited to the party and weren't keen on sitting to blow out candles. In fact, neither of them did - they sat there while we sang, and then after a few minutes we just took the cake away to cut it. Maybe we will have better luck next year.<br />
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Opening gifts went way better. Everyone was so thoughtful, and know these sweet girls so well.<br />
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We ended out the party having fun at the spray part of the park.<br />
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Clara was very proud that she finally got brave enough to have the buckets of water dump right on her head.<br />
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The silliness continued throughout the party...<br />
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...and we wouldn't have had it any other way!<br />
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Happy Six Years, Clara and Elena!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-23564476971521341432013-08-30T19:30:00.001-07:002013-08-30T19:30:57.788-07:00Beach once moreBecause who can get too much of the beach?<br />
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We started the week out with an early birthday party - that Clara and Elena are turning 6 within a month of G-Daddy turning 60 was very worthy of celebration!<br />
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One night on the beach we had a campfire. Steve and G-Daddy went out fishing in the ocean that morning and got us black cod (rockfish) and crabs.<br />
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Steve boiled them all up for us over the campfire.<br />
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There was a trip to the Newport Aquarium:<br />
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Flying kites with G-Daddy - nearly strong enough to pull Clara and Elena straight into the air!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-42362563884539387032013-08-19T21:22:00.002-07:002013-08-19T21:22:19.452-07:00Grandma Comes to TownWe've had quite a summer - lots has gone on, and not much of it has been blog posting. We're going to start with the two notable family visits to get back in the groove. The first is the time Christina's mom, Grandma, came to visit us from New York. We were sandwiched between her visit to California and Japan, and we were so glad she came to see us. (All pictures with a time stamp on them are credited to Grandma).<br />
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We spent a fair bit of time at the new donut shop in town - the girls liked showing Grandma how to order, and they liked it a LOT when she bought them donuts!<br />
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We even re-created a donut in cake form for our dinner one night! </div>
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Grandma also brought a big book full of fun things to do. This was supposed to be a fun bath paint, but Christina balked a bit when the color the girls chose and the sheer VIBRANCY of it seemed like a bit much for the white bath tub. We decided to paint the street instead.<br />
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Grandma also took us all to the local splash park. We had a great time where the girls showed off their new swimming/underwater/log-walking abilities.<br />
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But that was not our only water experience. We decided to show Grandma a thing or two, and took her camping for the first time in her recent memory. We chose this wonderful lake spot that we were lucky to snag for a night.<br />
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Clara and Elena took the opportunity to R-E-L-A-X.<br />
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Elena begged to be able to share a tent with her Grandma by herself - and Grandma obliged.<br />
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Elena and Clara scouted butterflies by the lake - there were so many there.<br />
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Elena was careful to make sure her dad got all the sunscreen he needed before heading in to the lake.<br />
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Grandma bought Elena an early birthday present of fashion stickers. She had fun putting them on her ears instead of the ears of the pad that came with the stickers.<br />
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It cracked Clara right up!<br />
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But not nearly so much as when Steve put them on - then everyone got the giggles.<br />
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Relaxing lakeside.<br />
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As evening wore on the girls made frequent trips down to the lake with innertubes that our friend Linda let us use.<br />
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Christina did frequent checks to make sure the girls were warming up after their lake time - tickling seemed like a good way to go about it.<br />
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She also made sure they were warm inside with S'mores.<br />
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Messy, delicious, wonderous things, those s'mores.<br />
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Credit to Linda for taking this one - three generations, even if one was slightly an afterthought in the background!<br />
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Elena slept the whole night with Grandma, and Clara stayed in the big tent with Christina and Steve. The morning dawned a bit chilly, and the girls took advantage of a little of the comforts of home by snuggling in to their blanket and requesting their tea to be brought to them.<br />
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Steve went out of town for part of Grandma's trip, and as usual when Steve goes out of town, Christina and the girls went to Jaker's. It was fun to bring Grandma along on this adventure.</div>
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It was also very fun to have popsicle dates with her! </div>
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We have participated in the Kids Bowl Free program this summer for the second year running, and highly recommend it. We took Grandma with us one day to our local bowling alley. Clara and Elena made up a dance that they did every time their score was the same. </div>
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Grandma had a very interesting bowling strategy. She would either bowl slightly down the side with a bit of a hook at the end (granting her many a spare or strike!) or she would bowl slightly down the side and end in the gutter. In the end, one of the girls may or may not have beaten the pants off of her. </div>
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It is a wonderful thing to have an indulgent Grandma - she said yes to SO many exciting things! One of which was being a personal driver to two girls reclining on their scooters.<br />
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Another is having a Grandma who will help you make egg bombs (and a big mess!).<br />
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<br />For our part, we took Grandma to the salon where we all get our hair cut. Clara and Elena made themselves right at home.<br />
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And Grandma got a very hip haircut!<br />
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So much snuggling...<br />
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So much sharing...<br />
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Such a wonderful visit. We are so very lucky that she came to be with us for the week. Hooray for Grandma!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-68496259100364330472013-06-30T21:56:00.003-07:002013-06-30T21:56:37.913-07:00CampingWe took off camping for one night this weekend, and it was the easiest camping trip we've ever had as a family. Finally, some of this camping-since-they-were-infants work seems to be paying off, and Clara and Elena are feeling more autonomous and entertained on these trips. Whew!
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We drove just about an hour away from home and stumbled upon a perfect site for about a dozen of us to hang out at together. In the end we set up at least seven tents on this one spot, but it worked out great.<br />
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Steve got straight to work with the hatchet, not even pausing to smile in his quest to get Christina enough firewood to begin the evening meal (which was going to take a good two hours to cook, so it's a good thing he didn't waste any time!).<br />
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Clara headed right off to her favorite camping activity - remember what elicits this kind of smile?<br />
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Butterfly catching! We don't know what kind of butterflies these were, but there were also caterpillars everywhere that were also pretty fun to play with. At one point the girls had made a "kingdom" for the four caterpillars that they found, complete with a corral, a bathtub, a sandbox, and plenty of snack options.<br />
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Christina's campfire experiment - the foil packets are new potatoes in olive oil, with garlic and chives, and they just hung out in the coals for about an hour and a half. The peppers and Walla Walla sweet onions went right in coals that had been burning for an hour - they got turned every ten minutes, and then you slip them right out of the charred skins and have a deliciously cooked vegetable in the end (it worked!). We also grilled eggplant and zucchini on the grate above some more active flames.<br />
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Somehow, we forgot plates and cups. Luckily, our children are good at scavenging and our friends are good at sharing.<br />
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Steve, getting ready to head out to fish - and Elena and Sylvie carbo loading on pretzels.<br />
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Some of the finished food - other people brought lots of great additions as well, and we were very well-fed campers.<br />
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And as the sun set, we all knew what it was time for...<br />
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...s'mores! We decided to try some variations. This one Christina made with thin almond crackers, and a Ghiradelli caramel-filled chocolate, and the marshmallow. <br />
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We brought variations with dark chocolate, and the hershey's and graham crackers were the usual hit, too.<br />
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There was some thunder and lightening and just a bit of rain in the night, but we awoke to that famous big sky, blue and beautiful. We hung out at the creek and played before heading home to catch our first baseball game of the season. This is truly the season to be a Montanan.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-72105676271151016272013-06-30T21:41:00.003-07:002013-06-30T21:41:43.359-07:00Happy Adoption DayJune 17 is the anniversary of Clara and Elena's adoption at the courthouse, and we like to commemorate the day every year. It has been the tradition to do this through talking about the day we met them, the day we adopted them nearly one year later, and all the people who have helped us become a family. <br />
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It has been our tradition each year to celebrate with cupcakes - the girls pick fun ones out of a book we have and then Christina helps them make them. There are usually LOTS of sweets involved. But this year our kitchen was out of order due to new floors being put in. So Christina took the girls to a local bakery instead, and they had their pick of those cupcakes. <br />
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They do not appear disappointed, right? Then we took the opportunity to take them overnight to a local hotel that has a big waterpark inside. We were going for wow factor, and it worked - they spent hours and hours in the pool, going down the three-story water slides, and making up a game in this mushroom thing called "Crocodiles and Mermaids." (We still don't really know how to play).<br />
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It was a fun day, with so much to be thankful for. And the next day, we came home to this! New tile floor. Now Clara and Elena play jumping from tile to tile - much more fun than linoleum. Christina and Steve are pretty fond of it, too.<br />
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Then we took him out for coffee and pastries, and sent him on his way for an afternoon of fishing with his friend.<br />
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When he came back we went out for dinner, complete with pizza roll-ups, burgers, and silliness.<br />
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Happy Father's Day, Steve!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-13735719713279408202013-06-15T21:17:00.000-07:002013-06-15T21:17:11.930-07:00SaturdayWe started this Saturday as we usually do,at the Farmer's Market.<br />
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It's getting good - we are moving on from the early spring crops into the early summer crops. We are also part of a CSA so we have more greens than we can handle at the moment, but we went to the market anyway just to pick up a few things and to enjoy the scene.<br />
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A great part of the scene, in the girls' minds, is the grassy open area next to where the farmers set up. There are fish sculptures, and rocks that are great for climbing (or defying gravity, as Clara appears to be doing).<br />
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And away she goes!<br />
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Elena was happy to bask in the sun from the top of the sculpture for a long time (she was probably worried about losing her place there).<br />
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But eventually she got in on the fun jumping, too.<br />
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And then we ran into our friends with twins just about to turn two! You may remember them from earlier posts on the blog. They are getting so brave - check out Lucie on the rock with the big girls (and how is it possible that OUR girls are the big girls??).<br />
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Clara and Elena really enjoyed being in a mentorship role (though we had to redirect when Clara's modeling of how to stand up on the rocks was compelling enough that she tried it, too, and she has a bit too little balance yet for that maneuver!).</div>
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Lucie and Amelia, offering some carrots and water to Clara and Elena. <br />
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Then we went home to work on various home improvement tasks that we have before us. The one the girls have been most excited for is redoing this cedar kid's picnic table a friend gave us. Clara really did use the electric sander to help get it ready, though this is just a re-enactment for reasons of both safety and shyness. </div>
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There was a great debate on some paint colors, but in the end we decided to put tape down the middle and let them each choose a color - we got kind of lucky that they went together as well as they did.</div>
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Laboring away. This is about as long as Elena labored - she got this part done, and a little of her bench, and then told Christina that she could "help" finish.<br />
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Clara, on the other hand, was in it almost the entire time, working really carefully. She would even say that: "I like to take my time. I want to do a careful job." She had some real pride in working well.<br />
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Elena, for her part, supported her sister by popping little cookies into her mouth when she was too busy painting to stop for her own snack.<br />
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It was actually a pretty quick project, and by the evening meal the paint had dried enough on the table for them to sit at it to eat. And oh, they were so excited to do that. They were very into making the rules at their own table. For instance, "At our table, the rule is you can bring toys to the table!" <br />
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"At our table, we play with our food!" (hence, the corncob holder placement on Elena's corn).<br />
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There were some other rules (one involving them getting eat before Steve and I instead of waiting for everyone to come to the table). You might guess that each of these rules runs in opposition to our typical table rules. Steve and Christina ate out on the patio and were not so terribly disappointed to be missing out on the kid-table-dining. Those girls were doing just fine by themselves.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-76353814384803549882013-06-08T17:52:00.005-07:002013-06-08T17:52:41.021-07:00Last Day of SchoolAh, the last day of school. It feels like just yesterday that we were posting about the first day of school! Oh, er...hmm. Well, time flew, that's for sure. Here is the gang at the busstop (there are two boys and an older girl who also wait with us, but they weren't feeling the whole photo-documentation thing we had going on).<br />
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We went to see Clara and Elena read their books to the class on "Kindergarten is the best because..."<br />
Especially charming in Clara's book was that "we get to read with Mom" was in there (so she noticed that volunteer time!) and "I get to be with my sister" (confirming some of our decision to keep them in the same classroom together next year).<br />
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Elena's book featured Gus the Plus and Linus the Minus. Very notable for her was her reading enthusiasm - some kids chose not to read, and Elena has sometimes been self conscious about her reading skills. But she seems to not be concerned now, and was so proud to read her book! <br />
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Clara got her certificate of achievement for finishing kindergarten.<br />
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And here the bus rumbles down the block at the end of the day, bringing them home for the very last day as kindergarteners.<br />
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We decided to have a celebration to mark the last day of school - can you guess what we thought might be a fun way to work off some of the excess energy of the last-day excitement?<br />
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Not a hard guess, huh? Pinata time! <br />
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The role of hitting and the role of raising/lowering the pinata were equally coveted. Joining us were Moana (the best friend of both girls, met just on the first day of school, who was in the same class with them all year and who happily lives just down the block) and her mom, Casey.<br />
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All the girls stuck with this for much longer than we would have thought - this pinata was pretty impenetrable!<br />
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But success was finally ours (after Casey swung the bat for a few well-aimed bashes):<br />
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Then there was reveling in the parent-approved snacks from the pinata (fruit snacks and oreo crackers) and Zimorino's pizza. Yum!<br />
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And we topped off the party playing with these foam pellets - they are essentially vibrantly dyed packing peanuts. You dab a side of them with a wet paper towel, and when you put another pellet against it they stick! And when you're done you dump water on them and they dissolve. <br />
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Clara's creation - a bird. Can you see it?<br />
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And no "last of" post is complete without a little retrospective. So first day is on the left, last day is on the right - that's a year of kindergarten right there. It's not the physical growing that is really notable, but it is incredible how their minds have developed this year. Kindergarten rocks!</div>
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And, my, was there a lot of dunking!! That was an easily-triggered system, and the faculty in our department all gave the girls lots of money, so there was ample opportunity for Christina to experience the dunking part of the tank. It was cold, but not nearly as bad as she thought it might be.<br />
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In the end, a fun life experience. And Clara and Elena will always remember that they are the ones who got to dunk mom in front of all of her students.<br />
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Here are two illustrators of what went down this year in kindergarten, though. These first shots are from a group work day to double the size of the community garden at the school. Each week the kids have a "special" period outside where they plant, or weed, or eat from this garden. On this day we helped lay down the weed fabric for the new section of the garden (a GREAT job for a group of kids, as it turns out) and to thin strawberries.
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This is a bonus picture that has nothing to do with school, but somehow got lumped in the file and we're just leaving it here. This was a performance for Irish dance that happened as part of the wildlife film festival in April. We didn't bring the girls a coat, so here they are sharing Christina's.<br />
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And, here is a snapshot of each girl from their recent field trip, where they explored the University of Montana. For some of the kids this was a huge experience - for our girls, not so much. They are there with us all the time. But do they get to lift meteorites with us? No, no they do not.<br />
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There was also an inflatable planetarium brought out for this visit - so funny! We didn't know those existed, and they chose to inflate it and have the show in the classroom Christina has spent three hours every week in for one of her counseling classes. It was certainly a different experience to have 20 giggly kids in an inflatable planetarium in that room instead of grad students talking about group counseling!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-20808837861369502342013-06-07T21:18:00.001-07:002013-06-07T21:18:11.173-07:00Spring BreakFor the sake of efficiency we are compressing several spring-related events into this spring break post. There was a lot of joy to be had, in a lot of different ways.
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There was Easter - it was a good one, but also a hard one. Grammie Ellen had come out to celebrate with us, and almost as soon as she got here she broke her foot hiking up a mountain with Elena and Steve. She was so brave, and so involved in everything even though she was in pain and couldn't move much. But we were all sorry we missed the kind of together time we usually get. Steve and Grammie Ellen held down the fort while Christina took the girls with her to Mass for Easter Sunday.<br />
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Elena continued her fascination with the pop star (Keira) from the movie The Princess and the Popstar. She has spent the entire winter and spring figuring out how to earn money or influence us so that she can have different parts of the costume. (Since this isn't a particularly popular character right now we do a lot of this ourselves. Christina sewed this Keira dress, and found these purple suede boots only after two months of searching!)<br />
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It's worth it, though - she gets right in a groove as Keira and is so, so happy.<br />
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Clara shows no interest at all in being the Princess (the other half to the popstar) and we love that she knows what she likes and what she doesn't.<br />
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That girl does like to dance, though!<br />
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"Here I am, doing what I want, giving what I've got, never a doubt now..." <br />
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All of us in this house can sing the popstar songs by heart, but no one belts them out as well as Elena.<br />
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In one of Christina's counseling classes there was an exercise where the school counseling students demonstrated how to boost student self-esteem by making these flowers. The petals are positive descriptors of the self. When Clara and Elena saw Christina's she brought home they wanted to make their own. Elena's says: "Dancer, silly, writer, sister, I am Keira" and a few other things that are your guess.<br />
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Clara says she is silly, happy, funny, a joker, and again - a few things that are your guess.<br />
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Inspired by the popstar (who wears a purple wig) the girls wanted to dye their hair. We got colored hair spray and had at it. They were thrilled, and Christina was thrilled at how easily it washed out, too. This turned out to be a pretty painless way to bring about some joy!<br />
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And, wonder of wonders, a doughnut shop opened in Missoula!! We spent a LOT of time here this spring - from waiting over an hour on opening day to buying up to three doughnuts each when we stop by - we are big fans.<br />
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Christina and her sweethearts - this was when Steve had gone with Grammie Ellen to help her get back to California, and Christina and Clara and Elena were pretending they were on vacation in Missoula.<br />
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And what is a vacation without a trip to the local brewery?<br />
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You know, the local brewery you go to with your priest? You don't do that? You should try it. It was fun, and we are all pretty disappointed that Fr. Carver is moving to Washington - they are lucky to be getting him.<br />
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Finally, Christina's alma mater, Syracuse University was doing very well in the NCAA tournament this year. The girls got a few more chances to learn the "Let's go Orange!" chant and to practice saying Otto's name (they confuse him with Waldo of Where's Waldo? fame).<br />
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And all spring long there has been silliness abounding. These girls just keep expanding their sense of humor - sometimes it makes sense to us, sometimes it doesn't - but come on - this is hilarious, isn't it?<br />
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It was a happy spring, but we are ALL ready for SUMMER!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-12463670077091949432013-06-07T20:54:00.001-07:002013-06-07T20:54:28.605-07:00Racing SpringWe had quite a spring of racing in this family. At the elementary school there was a program encouraging children to run. Clara and Elena told us they needed to go running to cross items off of their checklist. So we took them to the track, thinking that they would go around one time (.25 mile). We were so surprised when they told us they wanted to do it four times so that they would get in a mile! They followed through - this is them crossing the "finish line" Steve made at the end of their fourth time around - such runners!<br />
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But our girls are more than good runners - they are excellent spectators and supporters. We went out to cheer on Steve as he completed his fifth triathlon, this time the Grizzly Tri right in town.<br />
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<br />See Steve transition:<br />
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See Steve bike:<br />
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And see Steve run:<br />
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...and run...<br />
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...and run across the finish line!<br />
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And those girls deserved a swing break after all of the supporting and spectating!<br />
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<br />Our whole family participated in the YMCA Riverbank Run, which is routed along the Clark Fork river in town. Christina completed her first 10k, running the whole way (no small feat for a girl still pretty new to running).<br />
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Clara did the one mile fun fun - she ran the whole thing, the first of our family to cross the finish line.<br />
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Christina ran one 5k race on her own - the Color Run, which is a trail run across farmlands right outside of town. People get pelted with colored cornstarch power and also sprayed with liquid color. It was a very, very fun mess.<br />
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This Mother's Day Christina was sweetly treated to her annual brunch cooked by Steve, and presents picked by the girls. Elena picked out a sweet necklace (knowing that Christina does like new jewelry) and Clara got her an iron statue of a bird (remembering that she likes black things and cute things - not remembering that she and birds are not on the best of terms).<br />
<br />And then there was the annual trip to Benson's nursery. It's rewarding to see Elena and Clara remembering these kinds of traditions, and not only acting in them but recognizing how we re-enact things that are important to our family.<br />
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The decision-making was really hard this year - so many beautiful varieties to choose from! </div>
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This was one of Elena's votes:<br />
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And Clara was thrilled to have found so many blooms on the ground (we told her that she could take any she found that had fallen, and she sure found a lot of them!).<br />
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Ah, the Benson's bear. He looks a little rattier every year, and our girls look a little taller every year. One year we will have college students and this bear is going to be dust.<br />
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One last shot of the three girls:<br />
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And then we took off for lunch at a little cafe just adjacent to our neighborhood - the Burns St. Bistro.<br />
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Then we goofed off for a bit at REI - this was some fun with masks and photo filters. </div>
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And Christina got the dress you can barely see here, and these are the plants we ended up getting down at her feet. It was a happy, happy Mother's Day.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926818570267139801.post-1756874283710417452013-06-07T20:13:00.006-07:002013-06-07T20:13:54.317-07:00Irish DancersThis winter Elena and Clara started taking Irish Dance lessons. They have been telling us for at least a year that they wanted to start these lessons, and we are a bit embarrassed to say that we didn't take it seriously. We thought it would be a passing desire. But they have been persistent in their desire, and so they began in January.<br />
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In March the had their first set of performances. They are very in demand for St. Patrick's day, and so it was quite an initiation for us in dance performing. All day the Friday before St. Patrick's day we went from school to school performing for other children. Then Saturday and Sunday was full of performances in parades and nursing homes. These are a few shots that are very representative of the experience.<br />
<br />All of the dancers are required to have "traditional" irish dancing hair, which is ringlets. Since neither of our girls have that hair naturally we tried two methods to get them to that point. The first day we used these updated versions of rag curlers. They worked okay, but not great.<br />
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They also required the girls to sleep like this - with towels over their wrapped up hair. The novelty of that wore off after the first night - so after that we relied on a curling iron and hair spray.<br />
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The first morning was pretty cold - this is very early in the morning before the first elementary school performance.<br />
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They had been working in class on a few numbers. One was this circle dance. They love their teachers, and were so happy getting to dance with them.<br />
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There was a lot of gap time in between performances. Elena and Clara would come over and practice in front of us sometimes - here is Elena working on her moves.<br />
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And here's Clara:<br />
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But a lot of the time looked like this:<br />
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And this:<br />
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They were real troopers - it was a long, long day and at every school they were ready to rally and perform again.<br />
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One of the enjoyable parts of the day was getting to see Clara and Elena's friends at other schools. Here they are with Annie, their friend who lived across the street from us for awhile. They were thrilled to dance for their friend, and to get recognized by a "big" girl in the school.<br />
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The most exciting stop was the last one of the day - they got to go their own elementary school!<br />
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Elena was very excited to show her friend Annie how things worked at their assemblies.<br />
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And the principal made their entire year by singling them out and bringing them in front of the full school to introduce them and thank them for representing the school. It might be hard to see the beams on their faces, but they were just thrilled.<br />
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After that day of performing the adults were completely exhausted. Like good, Irish folk we headed to the pub and had a pint. Just the adults, though. The girls were still raring to go, and kept right on performing. People at the pub were pretty thrilled to have a free (cute) performance, and we were happy to be out of auditoriums for awhile!<br />
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Steve, leaning back after a day escorting dancers.<br />
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And Clara, finally pretty darn ready to go home.<br />
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