He's my Ham and Cheese

Everett seems to know that he's my baby. He can turn on the water works in no time and as he throws himself over my lap with "wo is me" dramatics I think, wow, this kid is just the cutest. Isn't that awful? I don't find his real naughtiness adorable at all, but let me tell you--these fake alligator tears he's been shedding lately are about to throw me over the I-want-to-eat-your-cuteness limit. And I'm trying not to encourage the bad behavior...

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Can you see it?

It's 5:20 pm, and the natural dusky light is still peeking through our windows, just barely about to welcome night into our home. The lights are still turned off. And we can still see. And it's 5:20 pm, well...now it's 5:23.It's been a long winter already, and it's by no means over. But after months of darkness blanketing our home a little after four, I am looking out of my window while cooking dinner and I can see trees, and smokestacks and grey skies glimmering with sunshine's hot pink wave goodbye, and hope,...

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We took the subway to see the subway

The NY Transit Museum is in Brooklyn. It's all things trains and buses and very hands-on. If you were to take your kids to Grand Central Station around Christmastime and help them do a scavenger hunt through the terminals, they could get free tickets to this museum. I know because this is what we did, so I only had to pay for myself to get in--which seems kind of ironic since the museum was kind of a little person thing....

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Dad, This is SO Worth It!

I got home from my Relief Society meeting on Saturday morning to find three brown-eyed boys excited to show me a brand new, hot orange sled. This giant sled was now ours, I learned. Turns out those boys of mine can make serious trouble when I'm in a meeting and they happen to find themselves is a sporting goods store! But trouble in the very best way, of course. I can tell that our new sled-friend is going to get us through the...

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Because I mostly wasn't acting

 It all started when I told a girl at church that I would help her with a project. By "help" I mean I would let her use my stroller for a video shoot and by "girl" I mean the beautiful hair model that is also a budding and talented producer. Last week she came to church with rich red hair perfectly pinned in spirals and curls on top of her head. Turns out, that was just the remains from her morning shoot where that bun was sandwiched...

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Santa Lucia

We took a time machine back to December so that we could celebrate Santa Lucia Day with Melissa and her girls. We were supposed to have a big party together on December 13th, but then her kids got sick, and my kids followed suit, and the holidays happened and so this week was the soonest we could make it happen, hence us in a time machine on rewind. In true Melissa fashion, everything was planned and executed with perfection. She made us a traditional...

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Holding a Dinosaur

We went to a party in Morningside Heights and they had everything my boys love--face painters, jump houses, a balloon show and candy! Talmage is not on team face paint, but that Ever Knight got himself right into her chair and when he was steady, he closed his eyes as tight as could be and said, "I wan be a dinosauw." And she understood him, because frankly my baby is growing up, and she started painting his sweet face to match...

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New York Hall of Science

We trekked to Queens on a freezing rain kind of day to visit the New York Hall of Science. The museum is free every Friday afternoon and you know how I feel about free events, I'm kind of all about them. And my boys are just about getting out of the house these days--winter woes. It takes a little under an hour to get to the museum on the subway, but the last half of the trip the train is above ground and my boys think...

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Monday musings on a Tuesday

My Monday proved to be quite busier than most, in such a positive way. There are good people in my life these days, and I spent much of the day enjoying them (and making the most out of some alone time with a daytime sitter-swap as well). So alas, my musings from yesterday are coming atcha today.   *I signed my baby up for Kindergarten, and then I looked at myself long and hard in the mirror and said, "Self, are you...

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Cleaning the Commode

 The rule in our house is simple: all those who sit on the throne, shall clean the throne. And all of a sudden, my little Everett has found himself doing the dirty work. He's a peeing pro these days and when his little underwear bum wielded the toilet sword {read: wand} for the first time this week I just couldn't believe my eyes. It's official, my house is void of babies. I didn't think I'd be in this...

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The Three Wigs Meet The Three Kings

Our radiator has sounded like a construction site for months, what with the hammering and puffing and banging when the darn thing turns on. Today was the blessed day for it to be fixed and I was supposed to have my children out of the house for the ordeal, mostly because said radiator just happened to be in their bedroom (waking them up bright and early every morning might I add). But people, it was pouring. Not snow, rain. Weird since yesterday...

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Hercules! Hercules!

We woke up on Friday morning to a winter wonderland of sorts. It's amazing how snow can make my California boys instantly LOVE the cold weather. I think I even heard Talmage say that he loved winter, which kind of is the opposite of everything true in the world! But it was pretty fun to see nothing but white in this big ole city of ours, plus James got an early morning phone call from the court saying that the federal government was taking a snow...

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Why hello there, new year.

2013 and I didn't get along super well. I learned a thing or twelve from Sayville, so I would feel ungrateful if I didn't acknowledge all the amazing things that have rocked our Wiggy world...but in the deepest parts of my soul I just want to leave this year in the dust with a big fat, "good riddance."  2011 shot us into the heart world and 2012 found us in open heart surgery and such, so my hopes were high that 2013 would be the dreamiest,...

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