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| Claire sucking her thumb is an all-day thing. Got that from Mom. |
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| Yea I'm talking 'bout you! |
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| Luke "hides" every time somebody comes in the house. This is his usual hiding place - cramming himself between the couch cushions. |
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| He's very proud of himself every time he hides. |
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| Copy cat Claire does everything he does - "my turn hide" |
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| Isolene snapped this picture one day - she fell asleep during her lunch! Guess it was somebody's nap time! |
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| New Year's Eve fun - Lennon, River, Orrin and Lila coming over made for a great kid's playdate. |
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| Uncle Mike helping Claire with her coloring |
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| Football watchin' in the other room. |
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| Spaghetti dinner |
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| Kid's table |
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| Rebecca & Peter were game for popping over at 10pm to help us celebrate the New Year- they're so fun! |
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| New Year's Day the Richardson's came into town:) Yippee!! I hadn't seen Isabelle since August, and the kids hadn't seen her since last January! |
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| What a cutie pie!! |
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| Went to the Holiday Winter Wonderland lights display - where you drive through tons and tons of holiday lights. The kids loved pointing out all the characters and holiday sights. |
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| Storytime in the reading nook. |
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| Isabelle was very curious about our book Madeline. |
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| She had many questions, she cracks me up! |
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| Spumoni keeping Isabelle company before bed |
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| Visited the Botanic Gardens holiday train display |
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| It "snows" in there multiple times an hour. Luke caught a few flakes on his tongue. |
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| Watching the "making of" video in the auditorium |
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| Claire being a wild thing |
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| Luke actually sat and watched most of the video - last year he was still the one being wild up on the stage like Claire. |
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| I love this picture because it is my life. Luke, where are you going? |
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| Mid afternoon snacks while waiting to bowl at nearby Fatman Bowl |
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| They were pretty cute bowlers |
 Isabelle was a great bowler |
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| Claire wasn't interested in staying near the alley - she kept running back to the arcade |
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| Waiting for your ball to go down the lane is hard work, better take a rest here. |
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| We had to wait a reeaaaalllly long time to bowl |
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| With the lack of attention span with my kids, we ended up only bowling less than 1 game for a total of 40 minutes. So that was 4 adults and 2 toddlers for just over 30 minutes after we had waited for over an hour. We had a bit of a situation with the place when they charged us $167 and let Joe walk out of there!!! It was a partial mistake/total humongous rip off - Katie fought it for us and we ended up paying just $54, which we still thought was way too much!! What happened to bowling being cheap? |
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| A fun bath before the Richardson's headed out the next morning. Brushing their teeth while taking a bath with their special colored bath drops. |
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| Finally got some snow! |
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| Claire did a snow angel right next to Luke, but I wasn't quite quick enough with the camera. |
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| Pink powder puff princess - she just stands there mostly and eats snow. Don't eat the yellow snow Claire! |
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| Snowblowin' |
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| Claire trying to shovel snow too with her special shovel from G&G |
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| Spumoni loved the snow, that's for sure |
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| Sunday Mom and I headed over to Schaumburg for Kevin & Julie's baby shower |
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| So fun to see all my Kurz cousins and aunts |
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| We're always a zany bunch! |
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| Kevin & Julie are going to be the best parents! They are so cute! |
