tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53629989648000922492024-03-13T05:02:16.296-07:00.Tickled Pink Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10876401448919384176noreply@blogger.comBlogger689125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362998964800092249.post-50209970934722539602014-03-02T16:44:00.001-07:002014-03-02T16:44:58.714-07:00Twin Updates<div style="text-align: center;">
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<u><b>15 Months</b></u></div>
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On December 27th the twins turned 15 months.</div>
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They went to the doctor and had their well check.<br />
Both weighed 19 pounds and were 30 inches long.</div>
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I'm going to try my best to remember their info... </div>
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I really should have done this post while it was fresh in my mind!</div>
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But here goes...</div>
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The twins wore size 3 diapers and size 9-12 month clothing. They also wore size 3 in shoes.</div>
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They took two naps a day and still slept with their lovies and sleep sacks. Both babies were addicted to their binkies and were immediately soothed by them. Harper and Hudson both only said "Maa" and "Dadda" at this point as well. The Dr. said we needed to try and get them to improve their language before the next appointment. I feel like he said they should be saying 3-6 words at this point.<br />
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<b><u>16 Months</u></b></div>
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On January 27th the twins turned 16 months. </div>
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The babies have really changed so much. They are definitely little toddlers now! They are wearing all ranges of clothing , depending on the item! They </div>
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Harper</div>
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My little drama diva. You are a riot. </div>
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1. You are obsessed with your big brother Reagan. You follow him everywhere and love to climb into his lap. You also love to "help him" get dressed, give him a bath, and put lotion on him.</div>
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2. You are deathly afraid of our 8 lb. dog Lily.</div>
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3. You always prefer Mommy's arms to everyone's. Even Daddy.</div>
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4. You like to dance.</div>
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5. You love to cuddle your dolls and you especially love your stuffed "Boo" and baby doll in bed. </div>
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5. You love to get dressed and put bows on.</div>
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6. You always nod your head. Yes. No. You are very expressive.</div>
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7. You say "Mama", "Dada", "No", "Ya", "Night", "All Done".</div>
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8. You bite. When you are frustrated and mad, you bite. It hurts! </div>
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9. You hate getting scolded or in trouble. If we yell or say no to you, you immediately bow your head and stick out your lip. You even walk to the corner where Rea Rea sits in time out and put yourself there. It is hysterical. Drama I tell you.</div>
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10. You sing and talk in your crib before you fall asleep. Cracks me up. Thank goodness your brother sleeps through it all. </div>
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11. You give kisses with an open mouth and love to cuddle.</div>
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12. Your favorite things are your baby dolls, the ball pit, and books.</div>
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My little Huddy Buddy</div>
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1. You have more personality than I can bear. I could eat you up.</div>
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2. You are a wild animal and run everywhere.</div>
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The amount of wipe outs you've had, you should be covered in bruises!</div>
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But you literally get up with no tears and keep running with no sign of injury.</div>
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3. You have really started to "talk". At 15 months you rarely said Mama, and Dad only sometimes.</div>
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You are now saying "goal", "look", "ball", "dog", "duck", "night night" and "uh oh".</div>
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4. You are 100 percent , completely bffs with your Papa. Your face lights up and you prefer his arms to anyone else's --- even mine!</div>
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5. Your favorite things are books, balls, and anything you can throw and crash. </div>
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6. You love to throw yourself on anyone who is sitting on the floor and "tackle" them. Whether they want it or not, you are going to dog pile them!</div>
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7. You still grin ear to ear whenever you see Yo Gabba Gabba.</div>
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8. You love to hold your sister's hand and console her when she's upset.</div>
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9. You LOVE bathtime and throw yourself in whether I'm ready or not. Clothes and all.</div>
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10. You can climb onto the couch. You first taught yourself with a chair and now can do it without. Trouble.</div>
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11. You don't sit still for long.... the only person you sit down with is your Papa.</div>
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12. You love to play soccer with Reagan. You actually kick the ball down the field and aim for the goal. You crack us up. Future athlete over here! </div>
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Tickled Pink Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10876401448919384176noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362998964800092249.post-1696888776518384472014-02-25T20:07:00.000-07:002014-02-25T20:07:59.890-07:00Day at the Zoo<div style="text-align: center;">
On MLK day, we spent the day at the zoo.</div>
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It was a perfect day for walking around, visiting with family, and seeing some animals!</div>
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Here are some pictures from the day!</div>
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Nick's Aunt and Uncle flew in from Montana to visit Nick's Mom and Grandma. </div>
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We were happy to visit them at the zoo as well! </div>
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Rea Rea and Grammy.</div>
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Lunchtime with Huddy!</div>
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Tickled Pink Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10876401448919384176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362998964800092249.post-60695009031283954412014-02-23T21:39:00.001-07:002014-02-23T21:39:19.338-07:00Mother's Therapy Organics Review and Giveaway! <div style="text-align: center;">
I was contacted by Amy at <a href="http://motherstherapyorganics.com/">Mother's Therapy Organics</a> to review their hand sanitizer and hand lotion. </div>
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As a mom and teacher, I use hand sanitizer all the time! There are germs everywhere and I am constantly squirting my hands with whatever sanitizer I can. So yes. I was thrilled to try out this natural product that would actually moisturize my hands instead of drying them out. </div>
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First of all, here is a little info on the product. Mother's Therapy Organics is a woman owned company that strives to provide parents with healthy options. They use safe, natural, and organic ingredients in all of their cleaning products. </div>
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I brought both products to school and have been keeping them on my desk. I am constantly using the sanitizer and am thrilled to report that it has not dried out my hands! You can actually feel it moisturizing your hands unlike many of the other sanitizers I have used that immediately dry out my skin. Another perk- it smells amazing! A very refreshing scent! You can read more about the specific ingredients in the hand sanitizer <a href="http://motherstherapyorganics.com/organic-hand-sanitizer/">here</a>. Pretty cool, right? The second product I tried was the germ fighting hand lotion. I love the smell and the way it makes my hands feel. I thought about leaving it in the teacher's bathroom for my fellow teachers to use throughout the day. And then got selfish and decided against it. I didn't want to share! :) I like it that much! Want to read more about the ingredients in it- click<a href="http://motherstherapyorganics.com/germ-fightn-hand-lotion/"> here</a>.</div>
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Tickled Pink Mandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10876401448919384176noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5362998964800092249.post-61172400499653342342014-02-10T21:20:00.001-07:002014-02-10T21:20:17.254-07:00Phone Photo Dump<div style="text-align: center;">
First of all: thank you, thank you, thank you for all of the sweet comments.</div>
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I've tried to respond to each of you and I hope I haven't left anyone out! </div>
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Because they each meant so much to me.</div>
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Anyways. Thanks for being patient with me and the 'ol blog!</div>
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Here is a big dump of photos!</div>
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Enjoy my cuties!! </div>
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A typical walk to the park.</div>
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The twin bond.</div>
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Reagan and my mom court side and on TV. NBD.</div>
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Popcorn break.</div>
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Beautiful Sarah!</div>
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Happy Soccer Season!</div>
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The kids' new playset from Mimi and Papa</div>
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My 32nd birthday</div>
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Happy Birthday Charlie! </div>
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It's a Girl!! :)</div>
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My babies!</div>
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Holy crap.<br />
This is so my life right now.<br />
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I just spent the last 30 minutes of nap-time writing a post on doing it all and boom. It disappeared.<br />
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I haven't blogged in over a month.<br />
I've been super overwhelmed with life.<br />
And honestly, I didn't know if anyone cared or even missed it.<br />
I've been on the fence about stopping blogging all together.<br />
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Let's back up.<br />
I've always been someone feels the need to do it all and do it well.<br />
I've always been involved in leadership positions, clubs, service groups, etc. <br />
Student council, service club president, prom queen, sorority president, one of the first of my friends to get married, one of the first to have a baby, have pictures and ideas "pinned" by other teachers, have people ask to recreate my parties for their kids, etc. My kids have always been good, well behaved, cute, and well dressed. I've always thought this makes up who I am. If I didn't do certain things, I was afraid people would think I couldn't do. Not that I didn't want to.<br />
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For instance. The cookie party.<br />
Every year I host a Christmas cookie party for friends and family. This would have been the 8th year. I had such anxiety over this damn party. We had only 1 free weekend day in the month of December. I knew that people were expecting me to do it. I had friends texting me about dates and times well in advance because they knew I would be doing it. But damn. I didn't want to. I could care less about baking, eating, and voting on cookies. But I felt guilty. People expected me to do it. I liked how everyone said, "I don't know how you do it all". Again. It felt like this made up who I was. But I really, really, didn't want to do. So after talking with my mom and Nick. I didn't do it. (You may be thinking- wow- she is a crackhead.) And you may be right. My friends didn't care about the cookie party. They were totally fine. Everyone survived and we still managed to have a wonderful Christmas. In the grand scheme of life- this was no big deal. But I had made it into a huge deal in my head. <br />
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I took last year off to transition into having 3 kids. But I knew financially I couldn't do it again. We couldn't possibly live in the zip code we live in with just Nick's job. Yes, we could sell and move south where houses are less expensive. Yes, we could cut cable and other luxuries but I don't want to. So I work. And if I had to work, I knew I wanted to be Super Teacher/ Super Mom. I had friends who taught and then quit when it became to much with the kids. I knew I could give both jobs 100 percent. Even though they couldn't do it all, I would. But damn. It's hard. I am FAR from perfect at either job. Even though I bring my school bag home with work each night, I still feel like there are things I could be doing better. Even though I know my kids are loved, fed, bathed, and safe - I still feel discouraged that we have dishes in the sink and who knows the last time I vacuumed. <br />
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If you follow me on Instagram you know Reagan has been having a hard time at school. He's been disrespectful and defiant and has even bitten another student. I freaked. After talking with Nick I realized the reason I was most upset was because he wasn't been "the perfect son" for our "perfect family". I suddenly realized that maybe his teacher didn't think I had it all together. If we had it all together, he wouldn't be acting this way. How on Earth did I get this twisted to be about me?<br />
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I came home from a board meeting for our Mothers of Multiples group last night thinking, why don't I run for president next year? This would be the natural thing. I know I'm overwhelmed with everything right now. I know I already feel like I'm spread thin. But if anyone can do it... I should be able to do it. I told Nick this and he replied - "hell no".<br />
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I need to refocus.<br />
I need to be the best mom, wife, teacher, daughter, friend, etc. I can be for me.<br />
Not for other people.<br />
Not for what others think of me. <br />
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I'm learning it's okay not to do it all. I'm learning it's okay to fail. Well, maybe not fail. But maybe not be perfect all the time. No one is perfect. Yes. My twins still use pacifiers. Yes. My 4 year old is naughty at school. Yes. I'd rather go to bed and watch real housewives alone than spend time talking with my husband most nights. You'll get over it and we'll all survive. </div>
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Yes, I know... it's February 1st! (Happy February!) But I realized I never posted a picture of the kids with Santa this year. The kids were sick with colds and not feeling too hot, plus we were running low on money- so I knew the free pictures from Bass Pro Shop was the way to go this year! </div>
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The twins screamed bloody murder the entire time and Reagan just kind of stood there. When Santa asked Reagan what he wanted this year, he responded in the quietest whisper -"a shellraiser". It was pretty anti-climatic. I was definitely happy we didn't pay for this year's picture! But I'm also glad we got it captured for posterity! </div>
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Our Christmas vacation was an interesting one!</div>
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We were all hit by the tummy bug for a good solid week of our 2 week break. One person would get it, then the next, and so on like dominoes! What a bummer. But the good news was the actual Christmas celebration was nice. Here is a little photo recap of our holiday!</div>
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After opening presents at our house, we headed over to my parents' house to open more gifts!</div>
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Then my older sister and her family came over. We all had a delicious lunch, the kids played outside, and we opened more gifts!</div>
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Later that afternoon we headed back to our house. Nick's mom and grandma came over with dinner and more gifts! We had another fun celebration!</div>
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This Christmas season I knew I wanted to spread some holiday cheer and help teach Reagan that Christmas means more than just presents. I looked online and found a fantastic website.</div>
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<a href="http://courtneydefeo.com/light-em-up-2013/"><span style="font-size: large;">Light Em Up</span></a></div>
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Lil Light O Mine has compiled a TON of wonderful ideas for families to perform random acts of Christmas kindness- basically- Light Up Others with Kindness. I.Loved.It. She posts free gift tags, notes, coloring pages, etc. Man. There was so much. I really feel inspired to start it earlier next year so we can do even more! I seriously get lost in this woman's <a href="http://courtneydefeo.com/light-em-up-2012/">blog </a>and mission! </div>
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Here are some pictures of things Reagan and I did this season to Light Up Others with Kindness!</div>
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Donating toys to the Fireman for the Salvation Army!</div>
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And Rea Rea got to take a ride in the firetruck!</div>
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Reagan had a BLAST doing this and although he was pretty shy at first, he really liked to find people "who needed a smile" when delivering his candy canes. </div>
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I even took this into our classroom.</div>
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My kids had a BLAST doing a 2 weeks full of random acts of kindness!</div>
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I did a quick set-up and put each task in a bag on the board.</div>
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Find someone who looks like they need a friend and invite them to play with you!</div>
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Drop off Christmas candy and thank you notes to our principal. </div>
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Thank her for all of her hard work and tell her why you like our school.</div>
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Deliver Christmas candy to our cafeteria workers and thank them for all of their hard work!</div>
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There were so many fun holiday things going on at our school before break!</div>
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Here is a quick glimpse into the fun:</div>
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This year I decided to doing something a little easier for parent ornament/gifts.</div>
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We made reindeer photo ornaments and they were almost stress free!</div>
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For parent cards, the kids illustrated gingerbread house cards and wrote sweet little notes.</div>
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Our school's annual "turkey trot" got cancelled this year due to the rain, so the PE coaches created the "reindeer run". Our firsties worse reindeer hats and ran laps around the field as Christmas music played in the background. It was too cute!</div>
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Such fun!</div>
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The first grade at my school has been making candy trains each December for over 15 years. This was my first candy train experience (my past first grade team always did gingerbread houses). The candy trains were very fun and the directions were on the smartboard in a step by step process. We had a lot of parents to help the kids and they turned out super cute!</div>
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I was so excited for the holiday sing along! The entire school (k-6) gathers in the cafeteria in their pajamas and sings Christmas songs together. Each grade had a specific song to solo and then there were about 6 that we sang all together. It was precious and totally got me in the Christmas spirit! :)</div>
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It was so cute to see my little firsties in their jammies!</div>
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We started by reading the story The Polar Express and doing some work to go with it. Then the day of the PJ day, we all got our tickets to ride the Polar Express. We watched it on our smart board and had a lot of fun together.<br />
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Earlier that morning I had put a package full of bells in the freezer. I asked our fabulous secretary to call down into our classroom after lunch and say that there was a special package delivered for our class. She did an awesome job and put in lots of fluff to get the kids excited. I sent down two of my kiddos (one whom I was so happy to have sent down) to get the package. Boy. This little darling came back with the most elaborate story about how she saw Santa Claus, pet the reindeer, etc. The kids were all staring at her in awe .... She sold it for me. Thank the Lord I sent her down! I think she might actually think she saw them? Who knows... I just had to laugh. </div>
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The kids were in heaven and couldn't get over how cold the bells were (obviously- they were from the North Pole!) and how they smelled just like Santa (not sure where they got that from... but I went with it!) Anyways, it was a great way to end the day! </div>
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We were so touched this year when our church asked us to be one of the families to do the advent reading during December. It was a great way to start of the holiday season! Reagan read the last line and did a great job! He is such a sweet boy!</div>
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Another fun thing we were asked to be a part of this year was our church's annual "Follow The Star". It's a walk through story of Jesus' birth. Nick, Harper and I were the the Holy Family at the end of the journey. It was so special. Each tour ended in front of us. Bible versus were read, the children's choir sang, and all of the viewers joined in to sing Silent Night. Harper did awesome. She LOVED all of the people staring at her and danced and sang along (in her baby coos) as they all sang. It was so funny! There were a few tours where I actually had to wipe away the tears from laughing so hard. (Pretty sure Mary wasn't laughing hysterically after Jesus' birth!) People were taking pictures and video-taping us... It was sort of awkward but we felt great being able to serve the church and community in this way! I loved when Harper would wave to the kids watching and you could hear them turn to their parents and say "Baby Jesus just waved at me!". Such a wonderful memory.</div>
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One day during that last week of school before break, our class had "Grinch Day". It was so much fun! The kids tried to remember to wear green that day (it was a Monday- so after the weekend, many forgot!) and I wore my Grinch tee. I found a TON of great Grinch ideas off Pinterest from you lovely bloggers- and I really appreciate all of your hard work! There was simply not enough time for it all! </div>
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We started the morning off by reading the book. I was surprised with how many of them had never heard it before! We then worked in our "Grinch packets" - which were just copies of things I had found and printed off! We read the Grinch poem together and highlighted contractions and circled rhyming words (in green of course!) </div>
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The picture ended up looking like a Grinch! </div>
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We wrote about how we would make the Grinch grin and did a little craft to go with it.</div>
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Grinch Writing Paper from <a href="http://acupcakefortheteacher.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-grinchy-freebie.html">Here</a>! </div>
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I was really pleased that the kids understood the message and could write about what Christmas really means. They did a great job. Some of their answers included "friends and family, loving each other, taking care of others, celebrating Baby Jesus". Sweet kids.</div>
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I found tons of great Grinch stuff <a href="http://firstgradewow.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-pinch-of-grinch-free-unit.html">here</a>! </div>
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We also made a list of synonyms to describe the Grinch at the beginning and the end of the story. </div>
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We had a wonderful time integrating gingerbread into our academic areas the first week of December.</div>
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I have built quite a collection of gingerbread picture books and the kids loved to compare and contrast them as well as list the story elements. I also found a lot of supplemental printables from you all in blog-land- so thank you! Here is a peak into our week.</div>
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A gingerbread verb book from <a href="http://first-grade-fever.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-gingerbread-man-can-verb-freebie.html">First Grade Fever!</a> </div>
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We found all of the verbs from our gingerbread man read-alouds and added them to our giant gingerbread man. The kids had so much fun acting out these verbs! </div>
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Gingerbread Syllable Sort from<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gingerbread-Man-Math-and-Literacy-Fun-105809"> Deana Jump's Pack</a>.</div>
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The kids decorated their own gingerbread man / girl and identified that the word gingerbread was a compound word (they are kind of obsessed with these!) So they thought of other compound words! </div>
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Nick whipped up these Christmas pancakes- so cute!</div>
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Welcome back Buddy!</div>
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So as you may remember, I was at home last year this time with the newborns. </div>
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Not that newborn twins and a three year old weren't hard work. </div>
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But nothing in comparison to how busy, crazy things are this year now that I am working!</div>
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Looking back.. I feel like - dang Mama. You rocked that Elf on the Shelf business last year! I feel like a total slacker this year. Last year I had a craft or activity that tied into each of his hiding spots. This year- poor Buddy just kind of gets placed! Oh well. Reagan still seems to be excited each morning! </div>
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For those of you still needing ideas for your Elf , maybe you can get some inspiration here! </div>
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Here are some links back to last year's posts!</div>
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One of our favorite holiday family traditions is Zoo Lights!</div>
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Our December weekends are really booked so we decided to go the Friday night following Thanksgiving. And it was perfect. Not too cold and not insanely busy! We carried the babies in the Bjorns again this year and it worked great. They stayed awake this year and loved the lights and music. So fun!</div>
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Here are some pictures from our night! </div>
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Reagan and his cousin Charlotte!<br />
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My little sister and her sweet family!<br />
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Our amazing parents!<br />
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We had a great time in the short week leading up to Thanksgiving!</div>
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We found some fun activities to incorporate Thanksgiving into reading, writing, and math.</div>
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We made turkey hats! </div>
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And on the day before Thanksgiving, we had our classroom feast.</div>
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We each made our own butter and sang to the "Butter Boogie".</div>
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The kids loved it! </div>
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We ate our butter on rolls as an appetizer to lunch!</div>
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We all ate lunch in the classroom and really enjoyed feasting with our friends.</div>
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For dessert we made turkey treats using the cupcakes, cookies, candy, and frosting. </div>
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They turned out so cute! </div>
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We'd been working on synonyms and the kids made synonym turkeys.</div>
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We sent home turkeys to hide as homework, and the kids did a great job!</div>
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Below were some of my favorites!</div>
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For more of the activities we did - check out what I found on my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/tickledpink13/school-november/">November School Pinterest board!</a> </div>
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I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!</div>
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We had a relaxing day with family over at my parents' house.</div>
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It was perfect.</div>
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We headed over in the morning, watched the parade, visited with relatives, ate a delicious lunch, and played with the kids. Simply perfect.</div>
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My beautiful sister and niece </div>
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Harper is looking at me like I'm crazy!</div>
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Reagan was so serious about drinking his water out of a wine glass!</div>
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Nick loves the movie "A Christmas Story"... so my parents got him a leg lamp. He was thrilled! </div>
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For Thanksgiving gifts for the kids' teachers we put together a few turkey bags. </div>
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Reagan has such fun making them!</div>
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I wrote each teacher a note thanking them for taking such great care of my babies.</div>
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And gave each teacher packs of thank you notes! </div>
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Just a little something to let them know we count them as some of our blessings! </div>
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We had a great week learning about Veterans Day and integrating it into our curriculum.</div>
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Below you can find some of the things we did as well as some links as to where I found some great stuff! </div>
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Veterans Day Syllable Sort</div>
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During the week of Halloween our class did a study on bats.</div>
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There was so much wonderful bat material out there already created by you fabulous teachers that I was able to integrate bats into all of our areas of learning. The kids were so engaged and were thrilled to learn and share about bats.</div>
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Here is some of what we did.</div>
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Bat adjectives and Bat informative writing</div>
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We had a nice little Halloween night with our crew.</div>
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We had a pizza dinner at my parents' house and went trick or treating with the kids! </div>
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Everyone was pretty tired, so we were home and changed by 7:45 which was great! </div>
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The babies were troopers and were pretty content just being pushed around in the stroller. </div>
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As far as our costumes this year... we let Reagan take control again and decide what we should be. He wanted to be Captain Hook (forever loving the bad guys, I tell ya!) He proceeded to decide what everyone else should be as well. I think it all worked out pretty well! :)</div>
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Our Minion and Monster Mike manned the front door while we went out trick-or-treating!</div>
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Here was our crew from Neverland!</div>
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Nick was Mr. Smee, Harper was Tinkerbell, Rea was Captain Hook, Huddy was Peter Pan and I was Wendy. Reagan was pretty pleased that we all were what I decided ! :) </div>
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At my parents' house before trick-or-treating!</div>
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Reagan trick-or-treating with Charlie!</div>
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My handsome Peter!</div>
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I tried really hard to pinch pennies where I could this Halloween! I originally had all 3 kids costumes in my cart from Disney and it was ridiculously $$! So I decided to try my best and cut corners. I decided that babies' costumes didn't need to be high end since they really weren't going to wear them again or play dress up. Obviously Nick and I didn't need the real deals- so I shopped around and found similar things. The most expensive thing of all of the costumes was Reagan's hat. But it was worth it. I swear- he got so many comments on it and I know it will be a great addition to our dress-up collection! :)</div>
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Hook and Sword (Party City)</div>
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Going to Reagan's school Halloween parties has been one of my favorite traditions to do. Each year the school does a sweet little parade and each classroom has a party. It's been fun going since he was 1 year old! I took a half day this year so I could go and help in his classroom. It's always fun to see him interacting with his friends and such. </div>
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This year I made the pudding graveyard I saw on Pinterest. I thought they turned out so cute but I had a major mom fail and they fell over in the car driving to school. Oops. Note to whoever wanted to try this next year- bring them in a container with sides! Duh. Geesh! Oh well.</div>
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Anyways, the teachers and other moms thought they were adorable. But the kids could have cared less. All they wanted were the Cheetos. Kids! </div>
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I got the idea from my sister Meg. Hershey Kisses and plastic, blinged-out spiders with a note that says "Bugs and Kisses". Super easy and hopefully were enjoyed throughout the day.</div>
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My beautiful niece also goes to the same school, so it was fun to see her in the parade as well.</div>
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Here she is with my sister!</div>
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The adorable Minnie Mouse and her parents during the parade!</div>
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Reagan's class all ready for the parade!</div>
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My Captain Hook parading through the school!</div>
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Reagan and his buddies enjoying their snacks!</div>
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More friends celebrating!</div>
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Reagan's teacher reading them a Halloween book.</div>
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Reagan and his class!</div>
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Reagan and Miss Danielle! </div>
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Reagan and his friend Gabriella - Tink and Captain Hook! </div>
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Prior to Halloween we did a week on pumpkins. </div>
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We talked about the pumpkin life-cycle, described pumpkins using adjectives, and did pumpkin math. Our four first grade classes rotated one day and did various pumpkin activities. The kids loved it! </div>
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Here are a few pictures I did snap.</div>
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Our pumpkin patch of /ch/ words (our sound of the week).</div>
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Halloween day was a big day at our school.</div>
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I just LOVED the excitement and sense of community.</div>
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I feel so lucky to be at a school where kids are encouraged to be kids and celebrating holidays is so special!</div>
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We decided to dress up as cowgirls/boys! :)</div>
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The kids are all encouraged to wear their costumes to school that day.</div>
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Here is our class before the parade and party.</div>
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K-2 kids paraded twice around the building while all of the parents, neighbors, and older grades watched, clapped, and cheered. There was Halloween music playing over the loud speakers and the kids were precious. It was so sweet and I was amazed with the turnout. </div>
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After the parade we came back to our classroom for party fun.</div>
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The kids played Halloween BINGO with those Halloween erasers from the dollar spot!<br />
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The kids also played "Don't Eat Frank" with candy corn.</div>
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The kids also did pumpkin art by decorating their foam pumpkins with those foam stickers and markers.</div>
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One of my teammates had a fun idea to make "apple natchos" and the kids just loved it. They each had an apple with whatever toppings they wanted including caramel, chocolate, sprinkles, candy corn, m&ms, marshmallows, and more.</div>
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The kids also did a game in the hallway where I set up buckets with numbers on them. I bought large plastic spiders and the kids took turns tossing spiders into the buckets. The kids in their group waiting for a turn had to create an addition sentence using those numbers. It was such fun!</div>
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The kids also played "Pin the Spider on the Web". </div>
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They sure love their buddies! </div>
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The first day of October and the kids were sporting their new skeleton jammies!</div>
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Cheering on our ASU Sun Devils!</div>
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Visiting the ducks at the park!</div>
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Watching the fountain.</div>
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We started the month off by "boo-ing" a couple of our neighbors! I've always done this at school, but never at home so we thought we'd give it a try. I saw it spread, but not hugely. Hopefully next year will be better! </div>
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Reagan was so excited when he got "boo-ed"! (My mom left him a surprise, rang the doorbell, and hid around the house until he discovered it." He was so stinking cute- screaming and fussing! "Someone knows everything that I love!!" Ha </div>
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Nick celebrated his 32nd birthday! We had a little birthday lunch out without the kids and celebrated with cake that Reagan made at home. Reagan really wanted to get Nick a new watch and was so adorable going to pick it out. He felt like such a big kid.</div>
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One Saturday was my mothers of multiples group picnic. Hudson woke up sick, so Nick stayed home with him while I took Reagan and Harper to the picnic. It was fun to catch up with my friends and Reagan had a blast playing and trick or treating around the park.</div>
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Reagan really wanted an Arizona Cardinals pumpkin and obviously Nick obliged!</div>
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These boys sure love to play together and their mom and I always love to catch up! Friends since we were in elementary school! </div>
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