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Curie September 2018

September was some time ago, and there is a temptation to write about October instead. In September we went to Meadowlark with Susie, Isabella, and Olivia,  with the entire family dressed in purple. Both kids loved the fact that we were dressed in a themed color, which is not something they will do for much longer, so we took advantage and had a great time.

This month Curie and Elia really got into two cooking shows on Amazon Prime; they watched Kids Try, which has kids trying different foods over the past 100 years, and a show called Little Kitchen which has kids watching recipes online Continue reading “Curie September 2018”

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Curie August 2018

August was a big month for us. New house, start of the second grade, and lots and lots of work. House, work, camp, and the start of school. Renovations got mostly completed on August 13th, we moved on August 15, Curie started second grad on August 28th. The whole summer we did not take our vacation or do many of the summer things we would normally do. We DID to out to Butler Orchards and pick vegetables and dig up potatoes, which was amazing, but now we have fruit flies in our house because of it. Continue reading “Curie August 2018”

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Elia August 2018

Watching Elia discover the world around her has been amazing with times of revelation and times where she is becoming more self aware. She tries so hard to do what Curie does even though she knows she is smaller. At Curie’s Congressional Camp luau, she was so proud to make it up on stage with Curie do practice the hula. When it came time to take bows, she was beaming as she waved to us on the stage, she was with the camp kids and was one of them. Her joy was boundless and unabashed.  Continue reading “Elia August 2018”

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New House Before and After Pictures

Yes, we moved! PM me for new address.
 
Our new house was a rental so needed a lot of work. In the past we did some minimum stuff and moved in. Here we were forced to make a lot of decisions. Remember, this is townhouse living, and we are definitely not showroom house people, so this is not a great representation, it makes it seem like we are “hoity-toity” decorator people, it couldn’t be further from the truth.
 
We have other areas that we renovated, but we haven’t finished decorating yet – we’ll add to the album when we do.

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Pretty in Purple

The new house has gotten a little in the way of family time. Thank goodness for a chance to do something together Labor Day weekend. We tried Yang Kang Street Food in Pentagon City with Susie, Isabella, and Olivia. We had a great time, food was okay, pottery painting was fun, but ice cream and Doodlehoppers took the cake (see Olivia’s dinosaur tail). Photo credit to Isabella stabilized by Susie.