Category Archives: Family

Calen’s First Soccer Season

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Well, it got off to a slow start. Calen loved soccer practice, but not so much on the game itself. So it was a struggle to get him to stay out on the court more than 10 minutes… Sometimes we tried bribing… sometimes threats… sometimes we ignored him… but all but once, we made him go anyway. The funny thing was that he seemed to pick up more interest as the season went along, and by the last game, he was all over it.

Here are a few pictures from our last couple games… I’ll add some more from the other games when I get them off the card.

Some funny’s from the kids

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I often forget to capture some of the funny things our kids say as they grow up, and since we’ve had a couple just in the last few days, I thought I’d capture them here.

The whole family has had a stomach bug the past few weeks and while the kids took it like champs, Angie and I were ready to be put out of our misery. Mallory also just had her ear surgery to repair the whole from her tube in the right ear. As a result, she was on an antibiotic to help ensure it doesn’t get infected. The antibiotic tears up her stomach, so we weren’t sure if she was sick because of the bug, or the medicine.

I picked up some Imodium to see if it would help, and it was green and mint flavored. She tried a quick taste, and her first reply was:

“It’s not playing out how I thought when I first saw it…. I thought it would taste like green eggs and ham.” :)

Not too long after that her stomach got better and so she was ready to go back to school. While Angie was getting ready one morning, Mallory was listening to Bible stories on her phone and the story said “Pharaoh made Joseph ruler over all of Egypt”… to which Mallory replied… “That’s a big opportunity!” HA! Yes it is…

And then last night we went to dinner with our friends the Kidds and on the way home Calen was playing a motorcycle game on Angie’s phone. He has been playing this game every chance he get’s, and has gotten pretty good at it. As we were talking about it, Angie referred to it as a “Dirt Bike” and Calen didn’t miss a beat and came back with “It’s not a Dirt Bike… it’s a CLEAN Bike!”

I love our kids!

On the Phone with Mallory

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Mallory has a new interest – calling my cell phone from the house phone and pretending to be other people. Today, she was Katnanny first. You’ll need to know for the purposes of this conversation, that Kat is currently on a plane on her way here.

Me: “Hello?”
Mal: “This is Katnanny. I’m not coming.”
Me: “Why not?!”
Mal: “Well, I got a flat tire, and I’m waiting for a police to come and help.”
Me: “I thought you were flying here.”
Mal: “Actually, I got the flat tire on the way to the airport.”

I think we are in big trouble when she becomes a teenager.

Next was our babysitter, Bailey. A couple of weeks ago, we went to see her at Starbucks and got hot chocolate.

Me: “Hello?”
Mal: “Hi, it’s Bailey. Can you bring the kids to come get some hot chocolate? I don’t have any customers.”
Me: “I’m in the middle of doing some things. Can we come tomorrow?”
Mal: “Well, tomorrow I’ll have hundreds of customers. I need some today.”

In the time I got the first paragraph of this blog written, I received 3 or 4 more from “Katnanny” telling be about her new son “Spiderman” (a.k.a. Calen) that just came out of her belly this morning….he was too shy to talk to me. And apparently, Poppa is in time out because he threw a fit for big eggs this morning before she went to the hospital. Oh, and if I bring Calen (the real Calen, of course) to the hospital, I have to keep him from jumping on the bed because she “can’t have kids doing physical activity on the bed” since she just had surgery this morning.

Where does she get this stuff?

As a side note: Now they are in the living room buying gifts for kids that otherwise wouldn’t get anything for Christmas. Apparently, they were paying attention when we went shopping for our angels…and I thought they were just hiding in the clothes racks.

Calen’s 3rd Birthday

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Calen’s birthday isn’t technically until October, but we celebrated a little early on September 8th at Monkey Joe’s. The kids seemed to have a great time. Here are some pics.

Mallory Waiting For Bus – 1st Full Day of Kindergarten

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This is a raw video of Mallory’s first day riding the bus. She’s not quite found the excitement in capturing her thoughts for later viewing, but hopefully family and friends will enjoy. My card ran out of space, so the end is a little abrupt. Figured I’d get it up and posted for viewing rather than spend a lot of time editing.

Daddy has a huge butt

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I’m playing around with a way to play my own videos without YouTube. I kind of like the idea of being self-sufficient. This JW Player plugin allows me to host my own videos. Didn’t stream with a .mov file off my iphone, but seems to work well with this .m4v. It’s a couple years old, but still makes me laugh.

Preschool 2012 Pictures

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This is a little late, but better late than never. The kids had some pictures taken at Holly Tree (preschool) back in June, and they turned out great. We ordered the CD, so here are the shots.