This week in October we ended up celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary by taking the kids to a friend's wedding in Indianapolis. Not the most romantic of anniversaries, but not too bad either. We also made a ton of applesauce and an apple pie with all those apples we picked from the Baranko's tree.
We have been having a hard time with Claire's whining lately. She is at an all time high for whining, it is almost 100% of the time. After much discussion between Matt, myself and Isolene - the three people who spend the most time with her - we think that Claire is taking Luke's start of full day Kindergarten pretty hard. She is left behind by him, and misses him. When he gets home all she wants to do is play with him, but he is tired from a full day of stimulation and just wants to be left alone. That makes her whine more, which Luke doesn't want to be around (can you blame him?). Luke is also getting a lot of attention between school starting, his birthday and losing his teeth. We talked about giving her some special attention and making her feel just as important. She also has been napping quite a bit less because Luke's pick up time from school is right in the middle of her former nap time. Phasing out of the naps doesn't seem to be going well, so we are going to get those back to being a priority to get her some more sleep. On her school days she's going to have to come right home from preschool, eat a quick lunch, and then go right to sleep to get her nap in before Luke's school is over- but we think it is for the best. Stay tuned! We can only pray for some improvement from this whining epidemic!
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| Walking in Open Lands with Spumoni, he's getting so weak that he can't go on long walks any longer. We have to keep them really short. |
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| Driving down to Indy, we stopped at Fair Oaks Farm off of I-65 and there was a pumpkin festival happening. Luke climbed up a gigantic milk jug that had been made into a climbing wall. |
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| She loved the pony ride |
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| All spiffed up for the wedding. |
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| Backyard wedding ceremony and reception |
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| Ken and Jen |
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| The kids were not well-behaved so I ended up leaving early with them and we went back to the hotel. |
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| Went hiking at the same place we did last year when we were at Purdue for Homecoming. Love this place. |
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| Anniversary card from Lukers |
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