Happy New Year from Asher! Okay, so I celebrate it at noon because I’m way too young to stay up till midnight. Anyway, hope everyone has a great night!
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08
5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
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Dec
08
home again, for a moment
We just got back from Christmas #1 with James’ parents in Fort Worth. We had a great time!! But, there is really nothing like coming back to your home-especially when your husband forgot to turn the heater on before you left for 5 days so your house is at a very comfortable 62 degrees. After I thawed out, I downloaded a couple of cute pics from our trip before I have to start wrapping Christmas presents for Christmas #2 (our family)and #3(my family)…Merry Christmas!!
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| From December 2008 |
You must look stylish while driving around in Dallas/Fort Worth.
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Asher agrees.
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| From December 2008 |
According to Paquette family tradition, it is customary to make your son try the lemon in your water several times while laughing as he makes pitiful faces.
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Here is Rilyn showing us a good time at the bowling alley. Woohoo!
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Wrapping paper-it’s whats for dinner.
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Dec
08
sudsy santa
Asher is almost 8 months old now! He is such a good boy and a very good sleeper. He is working on his 6th tooth, (he just got his 5th tooth this week). He is still not crawling, but that is okay with mommy! He is rocking on all fours like a crazy man though! He absolutely hates his bath(both the girls loved their baths), this is a rare moment in the bath where he is not crying.
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13
Dec
08
he’s not so scary after all
Apparently he is actually quite boring to some, but to babies he is quite interesting…(what is that white curly thing?)
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Some just think he is sweet.
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| From December 2008 |
Today’s Santa meet and greet was really quite uneventful. Asher was a pro and Ella acted like she sits on big men who wear red suits and have long, white, curly beard’s laps all the time. Yawn. Rilyn told Santa she wanted a pink dress and Ella looked at him blankly when he asked her what she wanted for Christmas as if she was thinking, “You don’t buy me presents, grandma does, so why are you asking?” Here are some more pics to document the magical 5 minutes.
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| apparently it was bright in the room From December 2008 |
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| What do you want from Santa this year? From December 2008 |
30
Nov
08
a love letter
Oh how I love thee biter biscuits! Thank you for letting my family have a peaceful Thanksgiving meal today. Thank you for providing teething relief for my boy (4 teeth and counting!). Thank you for letting him enjoy delicious graham flavor. I could do without your clean-up but I will sacrifice 30 wipes for 30 minutes of a somewhat, (don’t forget we still have 2 other kiddos!) peaceful meal.
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Nov
08
our little man
Asher turned seven months yesterday. He is such a good baby! He just got his 3rd tooth so maybe my laundry will go down for awhile from all the bibs he soaks with drool. He is about to crawl too. The little guy gets up on all fours and rocks-he just can’t figure out how to propel forward yet without doing a face plant. I would prefer he hold off until after the Christmas tree goes down but he has other ideas. It looks like we won’t be decorating the bottom half of our tree this year. Here he is showing off of his new skillz.
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| From November 2008 |
And here he is with one of his best buds-Malachi. I think this friendship may be one-sided right now but I’m very confident they will grow to one day be bros. 😉
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30
Oct
08
cleaning it out
Ella has a thing about cleaning the inside of a pumpkin. She really hates it, but we make her do it because it makes for good pictures. (Yes, that is really the only reason-don’t you know me?) So here is the outcome of tonight’s “pumpkin clean” in pictures.
We asked Ella to draw a face to carve. She challenged daddy with this.
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| From October 2008 |
I accidentally got wrapped up in taking pictures of daddy carving Rilyn’s pumpkin and that meant Ella had the marker unsupervised for too long and well, she really challenged daddy with this face to carve. 😉
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| From October 2008 |
Ella begins to pray as daddy cuts open her pumpkin that maybe, just maybe, this year she won’t have to scoop out the pumpkin guts.
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| From October 2008 |
No such luck this year.
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| From October 2008 |
“Oh gosh, this is so gross!”
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| From October 2008 |
Daddy can’t stand to see his beautiful daughter in such agony and so he rescues her. Ella’s pumpkin knight and hero!
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| From October 2008 |
stay tuned for more pumpkin pics tomorrow!
25
Oct
08
farm fun in Elgin
Off we went Friday afternoon to catch a few more pics of the kids in the pumpkins…
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| I title this pic, “Are you sure she won’t drop me mommy?” From October 2008 |
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| this swing tastes yummy! From October 2008 |
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| Ella called herself the “talking flower” From October 2008 |
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| hayride From October 2008 |
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21
Oct
08
patch pics (round 1)
So, I realized that it is much harder to get all 3 kids together for pumpkin patch pics now that Rilyn is in preschool every day and Ella is in preschool twice a week. Today, we had round 1 of pictures with just Asher and Rilyn. Hopefully we can make it again this week so Ella will be included. 😉
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| From October 2008 |
Who could resist the Mrs. Potato Head pumpkins? I saw them at Target and knew the girls would love them. So, we ‘dressed up’ our pumpkins last week and put them on the front porch. Rilyn proudly claimed that she was the princess pumpkin and Ella proudly claimed she was the “helicopter.” (I can’t blame her because I don’t think we’ve gotten to the part in the Bible yet where we teach her angels have halos.) 😉 As for Asher, he doesn’t care that he doesn’t have a Mr. Potato Head pumpkin so he won’t get one until next year. He is just our little pumpkin for now. 🙂
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| Rilyn’s princess pumpkin From October 2008 |
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| Ella’s “helicopter” pumpkin From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
the paquettes 