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children’s museum. November 14, 2009

Filed under: greta., miles. — sherrilee @ 4:21 am

Today we went to the Children’s museum with Greta’s preschool class. I took lots of great photos with her friends, but I won’t post them on here (I’d have to get consent from each parent first). Here are a few shots of the kids playing.

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Of course, Greta found the cakes. This girl loooooves cake. For her birthday last year, she received 2 wooden cake sets from 2 separate people.  She played with them obsessively for about 6 months until she moved on to making her own cakes out of play-dough. Then of course there was the time she put some fresh parsley in an angelfood pan and asked me to put it in the oven. She was genuinely disappointed when I pulled the pan out of the oven and it hadn’t turned into an actual cake.

Then there is Miles and his choo-choo’s. This is his new favorite word and he makes sure to let us know whenever he sees a choo-choo (semi-trucks are also choo-choo’s) which is quite often, especially on the interstate on the way to Mommy’s work.

 

 

Greta’s new role. November 9, 2009

Filed under: greta. — sherrilee @ 3:11 am

This is her version of Mommy. Not sure what she is trying to say about my cheeks :)

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Happy Halloween! November 1, 2009

Filed under: greta., miles. — sherrilee @ 1:59 am

The kids and I (Daddy had a performance) had a wonderful Halloween!

First we went to Aunt Jessica’s for a yummy dinner and LOTS of candy. Then we “borrowed” her neighborhood and went trick-or treating.

Miss Greta was a ballerina.

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Who naturally did this with her arms whenever she yelled “trick or treat”

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Mr. Miles was the oh-so-hip, DJ Lance.

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It was the perfect fall evening for a stroll with my two favorite cuties.

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You’re a good man, Daddy. November 1, 2009

Filed under: family., greta. — sherrilee @ 1:46 am

My husband is playing the role of Charlie Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for a local theatre company.  Greta and I attended the opening night show. We made sure to stop at the ice cream shop below the theatre before the show. I am very proud of my husband. He has worked so hard, and the show was fabulous! When I asked Greta, what her favorite part of the show was, she said, “Daddy!”. Of course :)

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But then she thought about it and said, “And ice cream, too!”

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**sorry, friends- no flash photography allowed at the actual show**

 

fancy day. October 21, 2009

Filed under: greta. — sherrilee @ 1:35 pm

Greta announced to Daddy over the phone the other day that she was “having a fancy day”.

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Does anyone recognize this adorable hat?? :)

 

daniel son. October 14, 2009

Filed under: family., greta. — sherrilee @ 1:21 am

This summer my brother Eric was staining the deck at my parents house.  Greta just had to help Uncle Eric.  She ended up helping him for a really long time. Uncle Eric is so good with kids! Greta would occasionally start whining or crying when she would get frustrated. Eric responded by getting on her level and gently telling her, “remember, if you want to help- there is no crying”.  Not too bad for a bachelor!

I’m not sure what the bandanas are all about, maybe Eric was pretending to be Mr. Miyagi?

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too cute? October 13, 2009

Filed under: greta. — sherrilee @ 4:11 am

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Is it possible to be too cute?

 

10.10.2009 October 10, 2009

Filed under: baking., eat., greta., miles. — sherrilee @ 4:27 pm

Today we woke up to this-

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So, we’ve been doing a lot of this-

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And some of this-

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And we made some of these-

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They are unbelievably good and have chick-peas in the dough!

Visit my cooking blog to see this unique recipe.

 

field trip. October 5, 2009

Filed under: greta., miles. — sherrilee @ 9:39 pm

Greta had her first field trip today. First we had a hayrack ride, then the kids picked out a pumpkin and painted it. Then they had snack time and finished the event with a jump in the bouncy-house.

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On the way home, Greta told me, “that field trip was fabulous!”.

 

my daughter is… September 25, 2009

Filed under: greta. — sherrilee @ 6:34 pm

Not a tomboy!

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It’s funny, because most people who know me assume that I must have been a tomboy as a little girl. I am told by my Mother that little Greta acts exactly like little Sherri did :) There is one difference though.  As prissy as she is, she has no desire to play with baby dolls and I was always carrying around my 8 cabbage patch kids!

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