tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4992071965332008962024-03-13T15:06:11.892-05:00PointsiesThe life, stories, and artistic endeavors of Liz PointsPRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-25094922900719572252017-03-25T16:10:00.000-05:002017-03-25T16:10:32.510-05:00Sprinter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It's that time of year - wavering between end of winter / beginning of spring for weeks and weeks. Paisley wonders every day what season it is, and so do I! Here are a few recent pictures from...sprinter. </div>
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Paisley and Brian's daddy-daughter ball. I think Brian was even more excited to relay all of the details to me at the end of the night than Paisley was!</div>
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Neva the pink blob goes swinging</div>
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Family date at Dunkin Donuts. So delish! Neva's too concentrated on her bite of strawberry donut to show any emotion.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I love seeing what Paisley picks out to wear each day. Well, usually I love it. Sometimes I cringe. On this day she borrowed one of Neva's vests to be the finishing touch for her outfit.</span></div>
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Matching hat day for my pal BP and I</div>
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Hockey game / lollipop date with Pais</div>
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Neva's first ponytail. In this picture she's saying "baaayyyy" which she says for a lot of things but in this instance meant belly button.</div>
<br />PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-29503134953270147362016-10-26T10:05:00.000-05:002016-10-26T10:05:22.794-05:00Fall DaysFall is my favorite. Here's a few favorite fall pictures from the past couple months:<br />
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<br />PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-40928829106852984932016-04-22T08:11:00.000-05:002016-04-22T08:11:50.430-05:007/52 - take twoNeva is five months old! I can scarcely believe it. She likes to roll over onto her stomach and then cry about it, watch her sister play, suck on her toes, jump jump jump in her exersaucer, snuggle with mommy and daddy, and recently has been found to LOVE swinging. And seeing as she has an older sister who has made it her life's purpose to push her on the swing, this little one pretty much has it made. I have been thinking lately about how very soon we will need to start her on some solid foods and I just can't even with that right now. TOO FAST. Can't she just stay in this sweet, cuddly, animated (but for the most part stationary), non-stinky pooper, rolly-polly-snuggle-butt stage forever??<br />
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Paisley has grown into her big sister role so terrifically. She LOVES to help take care of Neva. And the cats. And Brian and I. And all of her many, many (MANY) stuffed animal friends. I foresee her growing into an encourager and caretaker role in our family. She is constantly complimenting people (the other day she told a complete stranger, "I really love your shirt!") and comforting ("don't worry Mommy, everything will be fine!!") I know I said it before but I am SO enjoying this age with her. Two was a rough year for me and I wondered at times if I was cut out for this mother business and I also wondered at times if my child would always be this...how can I say this nicely...busy? Exhausting? (I was also pregnant for much of that year so maaaayyyybe that had something to do with it.) But three, or more so three and a half, is becoming more and more delightful by the day.<br />
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Neva is turning into quite the little charmer. She loves to smile at people, especially people who have black rimmed glasses like her daddy! She can roll over from both her back and her front, loves being naked and hates putting on pajamas. She gives out quick, fat, scrunchy giggles when you blow raspberries on her tummy. I can't wait for when she starts giving us real life belly laughs!<br />
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In other news, I've started wearing a new perfume. Called Chanel Number Spit Up. It smells so great! Everyone around me enjoys it. Light, airy, earthy.<br />
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I know I keep saying this about Paisley - I cannot believe how fast she is growing up before my eyes! But also? I am really enjoying this age. 3 1/2, thats where it's at. I'm almost positive. She's learning about how to write and how to be a friend. She loves to color and to recite books that she has memorized. She's learning concepts of things like time and counting backwards. She says things like, "Is this tomorrow?" She uses her words to comfort and encourage others, and to talk about her feelings. Today she told me that my bathrobe looks cute on me. Clearly she was confused. Oh be still my heart!</div>
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Neva's life's work is to fill her diaper. She does this bravely, passionately, and frequently. I find that much of MY life's work is to wait, patiently, sometimes in amazement and disbelief, for her to finish filling her diaper.<br />
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This picture kills me. Dead. Dead as a doornail! Or a doorknob. Which one is it?? I cannot believe how old my oldest baby looks in this picture. Last week we went to her preschool screening, which she will be starting in the fall. Preschool three days a week! I feel like having a kid in an actual school reaches some scary level of adulting that I cannot possibly be ready for.<br />
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Here we have Neva, sweetly oblivious to the fact that she was almost stabbed in the eyeball by the pink parasol being wielded by her sister, who happened to be dressed in a dog suit. Made for a pretty nice picture.<br />
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We were having a dress up day. Or maybe I should say, PAISLEY was having a dress up HAY DAY and was incredibly pleased with herself. As one is when wearing six princess dresses at once. Plus a panda hat, flower necklaces, and Pinkerton.<br />
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Hi. I'm Paisley. Could I BE wearing any more clothes?<br />
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"Crazy" and "bag lady" are some words that come to mind while gazing at this photo.<br />
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Here's Neva at 12 weeks old. She is growing into the roundest, softest, gentlest little face you have ever seen. Just a perfect little circle of a head and a little round nose and little round lips!! How can there ever be enough of Neva? I am perfectly smitten with all the roundness.<br />
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And here's my other cutie. Her head shape is also extremely nice and receives many kisses from me, and I can't seem to stop playing with her hair which of course is so annoying to her. Is that some type of milestone? Becoming annoying to your kid? Maybe I should write it in her baby book.<br />
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This Daniel Tiger coloring book is certainly being used to it's very greatest potential. Not a page is left untouched! And not a cap is returned to it's marker. Seeing markers left around without their caps on is the type of thing that gives me the eye twitches and makes me want to run and panic and drop everything because wait!! the markers!! they are drying out, horror!!!! My instinct is to pack them safely away in a cupboard where they will be snuggly capped and rarely used so that they never run out of precious ink. But then my question is, what's the point of having a kid if they can't even use their markers? Even if their memory is not yet adapted to returning caps to their proper mates. There is something in my personality that always wants to save "the good stuff" for "something special." (Big hand quotations in the air.) The good outfits, the good desserts, the good markers, the good coffee, the good smelling body wash. But you know what happens - they of course never get used! And we end up with six bottles of unused and forgotten "special" body wash from three years ago stuffed in the back of a cupboard.<br />
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And so on Monday we are buying new markers from the good old Walmart because all of ours are pitifully shriveled and parched and very, very well used.<br />
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Good story Liz.<br />
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Neva is growing by the day, quickly gaining pudgy rolls up and down her arms and legs. She delights all of us with her sweet smiles and coos, and even Paisley can't seem to resist stopping mid-shenanigan to kiss her head before speeding on by.<br />
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Paisley is my spirited, very spirited child. This girl doesn't walk anywhere. In fact, I'm not entirely sure she knows what walking is. She knows all about running, jumping, leaping, hopping, galloping, dancing, make-believe ice skating, but there is no evidence that shows she knows anything about...walking.<br />
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Which brings me to bedtime. By the time bedtime rolls around I'm quite exhausted by the constant, bouncy, and quick non-walking movements of my three year old. I haven't entirely nailed down bedtime routines now that we have two, and the hubs is often working in the evening so I'm left to put the kiddos to bed myself. One night this week I was trying to convince Paisley that she should put on her pajamas instead of jump in and out (and in and out and in and out) of her bed. My temper was running short, Daddy wasn't home, and Neva was fussing in the next room. Paisley pulled her pink panda bear pj shirt half way over her head and started stomping around like an ape, waving her arms around saying "booka baka booka baka."<br />
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I was about thiiiiiiiiiis close to losing it and declaring "OK TIME OUT NO BOOKS BEFORE BED LIGHTS OUT GOOD NIGHT."<br />
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Untiiiiil I realized how hilarious she was actually being. Like, she was being super funny. Sometimes this girl's comedic timing is spot on. And this was one of those moments.<br />
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So then I started laughing. And the night got better. And we were friends again. And it still took forever to get the pjs the rest of the way on and the teeth brushed and the books read but we laughed for some of it and so...perspective right?<br />
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Here's <a href="http://pointsies.blogspot.com/2013/01/152.html" target="_blank">week one</a> of my 52 weeks project from 2013!PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-48412387851295048372015-07-09T16:00:00.000-05:002015-07-09T16:00:43.088-05:00Hello again.Hey there! Once again, I took a bit of a blogging break. I was pretty surprised when I picked up this old thing and dusted it off to see that the last time I had written was in MARCH. When there were still mounds of SNOW on the ground.<br />
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Thankfully we're not in March anymore because obviously, March is the worst. Or one of the worst. July on the other hand is awesome. Warm, sunny, a baby kicking in my belly. Right at 19 weeks! The morning sickness is gone but the back pain is already here and rearing it's ugly head, settling in until December when the little sprout is out.<br />
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Here are a few of my favorite photos from the last few months!<br />
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Ok I was the only one who cried those tears. Brian just looked at me, a startled look on his face.<br />
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And then Paisley only lasted about 3 more minutes into the movie before she went on to play with her opposites puzzle but ALL THAT ASIDE.<br />
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As the day went on and I looked at the piles of snow climbing outside our windows I thought to myself, <i>"If I was a REALLY good mom I would take my daughter outside to play in what will likely be the last large snow fall of the year."</i><br />
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PLEASE GOD LET IT BE THE LAST BIG SNOW FALL OF THE YEAR.<br />
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So we ventured out into the snowy mounds even though I couldn't find my snow pants and Paisley had the time of her life while I watched and took pictures and the hubs shoveled the driveway, despite feeling sick. Brave, strong fellow that he is.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MY NAME IS PAISLEY AND I LOVE SNOW</span><br />
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In case you were unsure.PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-49354587093652343912015-03-03T00:13:00.000-06:002015-03-05T14:49:39.892-06:00My cats don't actually like being dressed in baby clothesWell I'd like to say that I update my blog more than once a month but...looking at the dates of my last few posts...that's not looking like a true statement.<br />
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On that note, here are some more statements that may not be true:<br />
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I'm good at sports<br />
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My cats love when I dress them in baby clothes<br />
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Paisley and I didn't force the hubs to dance to Disney songs with us in the living room last night<br />
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In fact we never convince him to have living room dance parties, ever<br />
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I was on time this morning<br />
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I'm usually on time to things in general<br />
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<i>Air Bud</i> is a good movie<br />
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I know how to fold a fitted sheet<br />
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Ok lets see if I can make it back here again before another month goes by. Ready go!PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-2619222604557108622015-01-26T16:24:00.000-06:002015-01-26T16:24:15.945-06:00Instagram Dump - Take 6I'm posting a bunch of Instagram pics today, some dating all the way to last spring! Ah, spring, when will you grace us with your warmer days and soggy grass? Oh, it's silly of me to wish for spring when it's barely the end of January. Although we HAVE been having some spring-like weather around these parts as of late, as far as Minnesota goes in the least. After several weeks of negative temperatures, our recent days in the twenties and the thirties have been giving people a spring in their step! The other day I saw someone in a winter jacket and shorts which, well, is just about the most Minnesota-ey a person can get in my opinion.<br />
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In other news, Brian has been practicing his Scottish accent while reading <i>Frog and Toad</i> to Paisley, which she thinks it the funniest thing ever to happen in her short life, which pleases him immensely and boosts his comedic confidence to the greatest of heights, as you might imagine.<br />
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Also, when Paisley walked by me today in the living room she said. "Imma be back."<br />
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Hashtag thuglyfe.<br />
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And so. Here are a few snippets of our life from the past several, several, several months. Spring to winter, old house to new house, Columbia Heights kitchen tile to Cloquet kitchen tile, and so forth!<br />
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<br />PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-75432687905317014012014-12-27T18:12:00.000-06:002014-12-27T18:12:06.083-06:00Season's Greetings!It's that best time of the year again, isn't it? The season of appetizers, stockings, twinkling lights, vast arrays of cookies, listening to Tran Siberian orchestra on repeat for an entire month, laying around on the couch for days at a time with your family members the weekend after Christmas. The tree at our house fell down a total of three times, two of the times were on top of our own dear Paisley. Luckily she was never hurt, and would only shout in surprise from underneath the tree, "OH NO! Christmas tree fall down AGAIN!!!"<br />
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Our Christmas has been lovely. We've been spending time with family, playing new games, eating too much food, watching <i>It's a Wonderful Life</i>, and fighting over who gets to snuggle with my mom's new kitten.<br />
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And so here we are, Merry Christmas from us! Here's a few pictures of our festivities. If you were wondering where Paisley got her extremely adorable Christmas outfit, my own dear mother made it. Including the little black velvet jacket!<br />
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And <a href="http://pointsies.blogspot.com/2013/12/obligatory-christmas-recap.html" target="_blank">here's</a> the Christmas post from last year! Fuzzy memories, and the like.PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-32448870891328110672014-12-17T22:45:00.000-06:002014-12-17T22:45:04.735-06:00Thanksgiving with the PointsesIn my true, regular, Liz Points fashion I am just now posting our Thanksgiving pictures. Since Christmas is a week away. Being timely is my extremely large talent! It was a very special Thanksgiving this year, as Brian's brother and his wife and family were on leave from Japan. We hadn't seen them in two years!!! And Paisley got to meet her one year old cousin, Cally, which was amazing and adorable. She calls her CAH-EEE, and still asks about her every day.<br />
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We of course had to get some snow pictures, since those are the best types. The brothers took turns tossing their children in the air, and Grandpa made multiple trips up and down the driveway with the sled.<br />
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If you are getting a little bit of a deja vu feeling, it's because there were Thanksgiving with the Pointses snow pictures <a href="http://pointsies.blogspot.com/2013/12/thanksgiving-and-christmas-and-also.html" target="_blank">last year</a> too! Which I also posted several weeks after the fact in true, regular, Liz Points fashion.<br />
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And here's all of us! It's a framer.PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-13754538790048560902014-11-25T22:53:00.000-06:002014-11-25T22:53:21.911-06:00A first time for everything!So I participated in my first craft show last weekend! It was held at a local church here in Cloquet, and I had a great time. The hubs helped me create this awesome display to showcase my note cards and prints. And my mom stayed home with my noisy, albeit lovable toddler! Thanks guys.<br />
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I haven't shared a ton about my art or projects lately, but I wanted to give a little update of the new items in my <a href="http://pointsart.etsy.com/" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a>! We've got a few Christmas cards, and a new hummingbird and robin that weren't in there before.<br />
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Oh, and happy turkey week, folks.PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-14317586201952091672014-11-12T20:45:00.001-06:002014-11-12T20:45:12.355-06:00my christmas candles are still locked up tightAnd so winter has arrived, with much to do. Six inches of it! Paisley was absolutely thrilled, a little more thrilled than myself, but that's usually what being a toddler is all about. Being thrilled about things that create work for your parents. And while the plus side of our new place is that there is about 60% less snow for us to shovel than our last place (or should I say, for the hubs to shovel), the downside is that we only have a small, old, one car garage with no garage door opener and a tiny driveway on a horrible slope that makes it hard to dig our two cars out of and get them out of the driveway without a good push.<br />
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And despite it all, despite the slippery roads and the necessity to give yourself twice as much travel time to your snowy destination, despite the mitten-less fingers that freeze as you scrape windows and buckle seat buckles, I'm not feeling quite as put out about it as I usually am. Instead I'm feeling a little bit...cozy? Dare I say...even a little bit Christmas-y? I am typically one to give an absolute strong "NO" to any type of Christmas ANYTHING before Thanksgiving is over, but this year I'm having a hard time not turning on the Christmas music. I'm trying to find the strength to turn on my chai tea Scentsy instead of pulling out my Christmas tree candles. After playing out in the snow yesterday we came in and started our fireplace and made hot chocolate and cuddled in blankets on the couch, and I was wishing that we had our stockings hung from the mantel with care. Christmas cookies, I want to eat all of you. What's happening to me? What is this place?<br />
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Here's Paisley's expression when the snow first started falling on Monday. Maybe it's the pure joy and glee of my child that makes me a little less of a snow grinch this year?<br />
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<br />PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-36108869901312757482014-11-09T17:21:00.001-06:002014-11-09T20:08:17.998-06:00160 kids later, and I still had like ten pieces leftA week late, yes, but I couldn't resist sharing these photos of Paisley on Halloween. She calls this her "fwa fwa fee costume." Fwa fwa fee is Paisley-talk for butterfly, and I sincerely hope that she never learns the correct way of saying that word.<br />
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Also. Speaking of toddlers. And learning...we started the dreaded potty training. I'm not going to get into any nitty gritty details here...but I will say this:<br />
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For the love of everything, please send help.<br />
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Seriously, are there people out there who potty train toddlers professionally?? As their job?!? Because I will hire them. You wouldn't even believe how fast I would hire them.<br />
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Anyways. Here's Paisley running around trick or treating with her dad, and handing out candy with her mom! We handed out that candy like a couple of bosses. Our neighbors counted the amount of trick or treaters that we got on our street and it was 160. WHOAA! I went back and forth frequently between handing out candy by the fistfulls (<i>we don't need all this candy in our house!!</i>) and handing out only one piece per kid (<i>oh no I'm running out, only one piece! <b>Only one piece for everybody!!!</b></i>)<br />
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By the way I'm not serious about hiring a potty trainer, however much I would love to be serious about it. Ain't nobody got money for that.<br />
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Just for kicks, here's my <a href="http://pointsies.blogspot.com/2013/11/sheepdogs-and-sheep-on-halloween-night.html" target="_blank">Halloween post from last year</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://pointsies.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-shop-section-plus-my-excellent.html" target="_blank">And one from 2011</a>! I guess this blog is getting a little old?<br />
<br />PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-31120054574469025902014-10-29T17:17:00.000-05:002014-10-29T22:13:13.281-05:00From the mouths of babes + fallSo Paisley has started singing! Little bits. Here and there. This is something that I've been looking forward to ever since she was born over two shortish-longish years ago. Her first song was...wait for it...<i>Baby</i> by Justin Beiber. Ya girl! Such is the life when you are on the Young Life music team and you play the Beibs fifteen times a day in your house so that you can sing his song well enough to lead it in front of a bunch of teenagers who have probably known it by heart since they were 9 years old.<br />
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It was just such a special moment for us, my little girl laying on her changing table crooning to me "baby baby nooooo!" My heart.<br />
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Anyway. I've been obsessed with taking fall pictures lately. I love it. Every single leaf! Every tree, every giggle of delight from my toddler. I LOVE our new neighborhood in the fall. I LOVE walking through the piles of leaves at the cemetery and reading all the grave stones, some of which are almost one hundred years old. I LOVE that our yard got completely covered with two inches of beautiful, crisp yellow leaves that were raked into the most perfect and hugest of leaf piles. And I also LOVE that our yard is small enough that it only took one lovely Sunday afternoon to get them all raked up and into bags. </div>
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And so I have been taking all. of. the. pictures. Hundreds, probably! Much to your great relief, I have edited the amount down to a fairly reasonable twelve to be shared in this post. All of these were taken around our yard, local park and neighborhood, excepting the very last one which was taken at my mom's house - my sibs' and my fall stomping grounds of years past.</div>
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PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-3059925038995043102014-10-25T10:25:00.000-05:002014-10-25T10:25:09.257-05:00Friends are niceSo I logged onto Blogger today to write a blog post about fall and put up all of my crunchy leaves photos, when I noticed that I had started this hiking post and had never finished and so, here we are! We have to keep things in order around here folks, and so fall pictures will be coming next week.<br />
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Way back forever ago, all the way back in September! We had my best pal, her husband, and their two little sweetie girls over for an extended weekend. Let me tell you, going from having one toddler in the house to three was quite the entertaining change! The days were filled with hikes and adventures, coffee shops, day trips to Duluth, working out little girl conflicts with great patience, eating snacks, kissing ouchies, and taking pictures of our cute kids. The nights were filled with trying new sleeping arrangements each night, good music, delicious drinks, excellent conversation, and a few games of Settlers of Catan thrown in there for good measure.<br />
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Here's a few pictures of a morning trip that we took to Jay Cooke State Park! It was a beautiful weekend weather-wise, so we got lots of that good-for-the-soul outdoor time in.<br />
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And now we miss our friends. Come back!<br />
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I just love that my best friend has little girls because now our kids will automatically without any choice of their own be best friends and isn't it just great how life works out sometimes?</div>
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There's one that runs through our town that we can hear from our house, there's an old one set up in the park in our neighborhood that you can climb and clamor around on, and there's several toy trains available to chug around in our playroom.<br />
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Paisley seems to be having a bit of a love-hate relationship with trains. She loves talking about them and seeing and listening to them and climbing on them during the day, but sometimes feels scared when reflecting upon their loud noises and hoots and mysterious comings and goings when bedtime rolls around.<br />
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I totally get it - sometimes I look up scary movies on Wikipedia to read the plot lines during the day (I'm far too wimpy to ever actually watch them) and then regret it later that night while laying awake in the dark.<br />
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So then of course I put all the pressure on dear Brian to stay up and keep me company (he of course LOVES it), which is exactly what Paisley does to me when she is worried about trains at night.<br />
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Also airplanes. She's also worried about airplanes at night.<br />
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You could say that my sleep has been suffering lately. And you could say that Paisley's has been suffering as well, and on that note, have you ever met a sleep deprived toddler?<br />
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They are a loud people.<br />
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PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-33004034851040069012014-09-18T14:42:00.000-05:002014-10-08T15:32:13.734-05:00Weekend happy times!I have some photos to share from our Labor Day family getaway a couple of weekends ago. And is it crazy to anyone else how long ago Labor Day weekend already was?<br />
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My family on my mom's side escapes up to a lovely resort on a lake at the end of each summer, with the activities generally including relaxing, playing games, eating far more than our share of delicious food, watching old nineties music videos, pontooning, talking about things that matter, talking about things that probably don't matter, licking ice cream cones, you get the general idea.<br />
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Our family has rallied around and supported each other in new and important ways within the past few years. I couldn't be more in love with them all.<br />
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Look at me, so lovey dovey!<br />
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Other Labor Day weekends previously documented <a href="http://pointsies.blogspot.com/2013/09/labor-day-vacay.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://pointsies.blogspot.com/2011/09/lots-of-people-smiling-for-this-one.html" target="_blank">here</a>!</div>
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PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-66792802010447960232014-09-10T22:38:00.000-05:002014-09-10T22:38:48.832-05:00Birthday birthday birthday birthdayHere I am, reporting faithfully from Cloquet! Where it's cold. The high was like, low forties today. Expardon me? Our house is frozen, we're covered with blankets, stubbornly refusing to turn on the heat this early in the season. Plus, we're not quite ready to start poking around and trying our luck with all these radiators yet.<br />
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It's nights like this that call for a rich hot pan of brownies. You know? So I would have made them tonight, except for we're doing this new thing where we don't really eat any snacks and when we DO eat snacks, it's stuff like pistachios and low fat pretzels. It's just that time of life. You know? The time where you realize that the best thing to do is make good eating choices, however sad and drab that might be.<br />
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But sometimes life is just more manageable with a big chunk of brownie in your mouth. You know?!?<br />
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Birthday pictures! I have birthday pictures. There's a lot of August birthdays in our family. Sometimes we like to combine most of them together for a large conglomerate of birthday party. In this case the conglomeration celebrated the births of myself, my brother, my cousin, and my daughter. And this is how it went - my brother, cousin and I opened a few cards and then we all watched as Paisley opened what was probably an unruly amount of gifts. Unruly! But it was delightful, it really was. She opened them all ever so carefully, and sweetly enjoyed and said thank you for each one. Even when she pulled clothes out of the gift bags (clothes, typically the boring gift until you get to about....say the 13 or 14 year mark), she was thrilled and immediately started pulling them on at her feet.<br />
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I'm sure my girl will always be this polite and wonderful and gracious. Always. Forever and ever amen.<br />
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I also am including some pics of a little celebration we had just for Paisley a week later with Brian's parents. The way you can tell the difference between the two events is by the varying length of Paisley's bangs. Also by the cake pictures expressions. She certainly knew what to do with the birthday cake the second time around! Her new favorite song is the "happy birthday" one, I sing it to her when I'm trying to get her to behave or be quiet in the grocery store.<br />
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Or in Target. Or Old Navy. Or a restaurant. Or our house. Our somebody else's house.<br />
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I'm glad we had this talk.<br />
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Yes I am wearing the same shirt for both birthday parties. I'll address it. I guess it might be turning out to be my birthday party shirt, or something else to that effect. </div>
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Until next time, sweet dreams! Many, many thanks to all you folks out there who shower lots of love on us and our girl.<br /><br />
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And yes I did run outside across the street in my bare feet dodging the bees living in our front steps to take some of these. YOLO, bees!<br />
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Featured in these pics are the dining room, the living room, the sun room, and the pool across the street. Ya pool!!! We love the pool. We also love built-ins, which this house has a lot of. Ya built-ins!!!!!<br />
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But, we're project people. You know? At least I think we are. And we're excited that there's opportunities to make this place our own.</div>
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Plus, we love the neighborhood. It reminds me of that old movie, <i>Now and Then</i>. Remember that one? Mostly just because there's a graveyard down the street. Dear Johnny! </div>
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Man I love that movie. </div>
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And I love our new home, I do, despite the stinky basement and that one weird cupboard in our kitchen that for some reason smells like sour milk.</div>
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What do I do about that, by the way? Bleach it? A cupboard bleach bath?</div>
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Anyway. I hate sour milk. So let me know if you have smelly cupboard advice.</div>
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See you next time!</div>
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<br />PRPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908508730332837255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499207196533200896.post-33299155106746487222014-08-15T22:38:00.000-05:002014-08-15T22:38:09.938-05:00Trip number two.So! I'm working on preparing a post with photos of the new place but don't have all my ducks quite in a row yet. They just keep wandering all around and I just can't get them to stand still. C'MON, ducks. So in the meantime, here are some pictures from our recent 1 1/2 week trip out to North Dakota!<br />
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The first few days we were out visiting Brian's sister Beth in Hettinger, ND. She had a garage to build and lots of delicious vegetables to be eaten from her garden. Paisley loved picking all the veggies and eating them fresh out of the dirt, but had to be coerced and bribed into eating the same veggies as soon as they were cleaned and cut up on her plate at the kitchen table. Typical, child.<br />
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Brian's parents were out there with us, and we had a grand ol' time exploring Hettinger and the nearby towns and the nearby playgrounds and the blow up pool in Beth's yard. We ate lots of tasty fresh veggies and salads and Paisley supervised all the garage building with a heavy hand.<br />
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Other destinations on our adventure were Cavalier, ND where the hubs was standing in a dear friend's wedding and Detroit Lakes, MN to stop at Castaway Club, a camp that we will be frequently involved with through Brian's work. It was all a blast and so fun and simply marvelous, except for the very darkly looming fact that I developed some horrible case of the stomach flu amidst it all.<br />
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And that's why there are tons of pictures in Hettinger, two pictures from the wedding, and only one picture from Castaway which features Paisley rolling in the grass. Something about having to spend most of your time in the bathroom makes trying to take lots of beautiful and lasting pictures seem super unimportant.<br />
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So now we're back! My stomach no longer hates my guts (pun INtended, heh heh heh), our bags are unpacked, and the cats did indeed survive our longer than usual absence. Hallelujah, praise be.<br />
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Thanks for reading folks! Tune in next time, and all that.<br />
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