Growing up with a little of both and the lessons learned along the way
From the category archives:
Lauren gives kisses now. But you need to work for it.
Both girls crack me up in this video. Lauren imitating our kissing sounds and playing hard to get. Maile begging for the kisses. Just love.
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We’re in full on Frozen mode here in the Bay Area. Maile Girl sings the songs non-stop to herself or anyone else that will listen. She sings inside and outside and is starting to also mimic some of the movements to emote the passion of the tunes…
And judging by the birthday party we attended earlier today, we’re not alone!
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As we do every year (2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010), this morning I sat down with Maile to fill out her March Madness bracket. This year, Lauren joined in the fun too! (We gave her a pass last year as she was only 10 weeks old!)
Last year, Christine and I had Maile sufficiently brainwashed that she took Duke to win it all. Alas, as we’ve learned this year our influence is wanning already and Maile had her own ideas. Her Final 4 of Eastern KY (15 seed), Villanova (2 seed), San Diego St (4 seed) and Wofford (15 seed) is definitely unique. Let’s just say if she nails that, she’s in a good spot to win Warren Buffet’s billions!
As for Lauren, Daddy had to interpret things a bit more, but she ended up with a Final 4 of VCU (5 seed), Michigan St (4 seed), San Diego St (4 seed) and Louisville (4 seed). She has Louisville over VCU in the final game. Here’s some video of Lauren filling out her very first bracket:
Let's do this Daddy - can you grab some stats on this San Diego State team for me?
Me and the girls hard at work...
Helping Lauren with her picks...
Maile's completed 2014 bracket...
Lauren's completed 2014 bracket...
Our proud (and cute) bracket picker!
Good luck to our girls and everyone else!
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This one is for Papa Mike – we thought he would enjoy waking up to this one on his birthday. Papa always had music playing in the house growing up and I have fond memories of dancing around with him and Auntie Elyssa and Grandma after dinner. We’ve definitely continued that tradition – one of our favorite things to do in the evening after work 🙂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!
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Daddy came home for dinner just like normal.
Daddy gave me a bath just like normal.
Daddy left the house before bedtime … NOT NORMAL!
This. Is. Not. Part. Of. My. Routine.
I thought maybe he might just be taking out the trash. I thought maybe he’d come back soon before I went to bed. I kept checking the door. Nope. Just left. A kiss, some words I didn’t understand and then gone.
Not cool, Daddy, not cool.
(Dad note: I had a meeting – in fairness, I usually don’t come home first if I have a meeting at night. Threw poor Lauren off her game a bit. I’ll make it up to her with kisses in the morning.)
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It’s been awhile since we updated on Maile’s swimming progress. She’s been going once a weekend for lessons and its really starting to pay off – she ditched the floaties a couple weeks ago and hasn’t looked back. I think we can officially declare that Maile “knows how to swim” now!
We’ve come a LONG way from this…
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Most of the time, it’s Maile that gets to tease me. She’s taller so she can hold things over my head. She’s stronger, so she rips things out of my hands. There are a hundred toys lying around, but for whatever reason, she always to play with the one that I managed to get my hands on.
But every once in awhile, I get my revenge. She thought she was going to teach me how to feed her – I had other ideas…
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Christine and I are very, very excited for the “chores” era to begin. In fairness though, the girls kicked this one off on their own. Daddy typically empties the dishwasher in the morning – but Mommy and the girls are up first and they decided to dig in and help out! Love how they work together as a team too – cracked me up when Christine shared this video with me.
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The text came in at 5:38 PM on Friday afternoon:
Guess who took 4 steps on her own?!?
And sure enough, when I arrived home a short while later, Lauren was ready to rock and show off her new fancy footwork for her daddy…
I went to the archive and Maile took her first steps on August 25, 2010. Incredibly they both started walking at exactly the same time (Maile was 46 days after her 1st birthday, Lauren was 48 days). Pretty crazy!
Here's to the many, many steps to come!
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Found out today that the girls both have conjunctivitis. Yay. While looking through the photos and videos from the week to find something to post tonight, I discovered this one and inadvertently think I found our Patient Zero 😉
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