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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Amelia turns one!
Amelia is one year old today. So hard to believe! Happy birthday, sweet baby!
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Really Mobile Amelia
Her new favorite activity: climbing the stairs
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The gauntlet of candy
Where there are young children (and holiday celebrations), there is candy. I swear, it has been one steady stream of candy entering our house since last fall. Here is the approximate progression of the candy-bearing holidays:
Halloween -> Thanksgiving -> Christmas -> Valentine's Day -> Easter
The thing is, since most of these holidays have a "season" that surrounds them, they all kind of blend together after a while. For example, we had not finished our stash of Halloween candy before the Thanksgiving and Christmas season came upon us. And when you have a lot of candy in your house, you kind of feel like you need to eat it. This is all fine and good for us adults who (usually) can practice self control when it comes to desiring to eat sweets. Not so much for the preschooler population though. Up until about 6 months ago, Ally really never asked us for sweets because we rarely had them in the house, and also because she generally didn't care about them too much. These days, it's a question that she asks pretty much every day after dinner. So now we are trying to figure out ways to disassociate the sweets eating from desert and dinner time, and that sometimes we have sweets and sometimes we don't. Maybe now that Easter itself is over, our candy supply will decrease, and then it will become an out-of-sight, out-of-mind sort of thing.
In the meantime, please don't anyone send us candy. Coffee is always welcome though!
Halloween -> Thanksgiving -> Christmas -> Valentine's Day -> Easter
The thing is, since most of these holidays have a "season" that surrounds them, they all kind of blend together after a while. For example, we had not finished our stash of Halloween candy before the Thanksgiving and Christmas season came upon us. And when you have a lot of candy in your house, you kind of feel like you need to eat it. This is all fine and good for us adults who (usually) can practice self control when it comes to desiring to eat sweets. Not so much for the preschooler population though. Up until about 6 months ago, Ally really never asked us for sweets because we rarely had them in the house, and also because she generally didn't care about them too much. These days, it's a question that she asks pretty much every day after dinner. So now we are trying to figure out ways to disassociate the sweets eating from desert and dinner time, and that sometimes we have sweets and sometimes we don't. Maybe now that Easter itself is over, our candy supply will decrease, and then it will become an out-of-sight, out-of-mind sort of thing.
In the meantime, please don't anyone send us candy. Coffee is always welcome though!
Saturday, April 6, 2013
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