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rk on his w homework he drew a picture of a whale and then t i know three words in the ale family whale snail and nail me there are a lot of other ones like tail male fail and zale t zale is a nonsense word but it s still in the ale family posted by robmba at 12 49 pm 0 comments monday january 6 2014 grandpa presents t said he was learning about vowels at school today i asked him what vowels were in his name which he answered correctly then i asked if he knew which vowels were in his middle name he didn t know how to spell his middle name apparently oops we went through that and then i asked him if he knew the middle names of anyone else in our family me do you know lando s middle name t yes it s robert me right do you know my middle name t no me it s the same as grandpa s name do you know grandpa s name t no ellie ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh waving her hand around me ellie do you know grandpa s name ellie presents posted by robmba at 9 55 pm 0 comments wednesday november 20 2013 brugge belgium when we were deciding which countries to visit on our trip i knew i wanted to go to belgium and had planned on going to brussels mary anne said she always wanted to go to brugge since it was a smaller more quaint little town compared to the loud bigger bustling cities like brussels we had a free night stay at the marriott and the closest one was in brussels so from the netherlands we headed to brussels to stay the night we got a shot of brussels from our hotel room again amazing race moment we got to see the atomium that silver atom looking thing from a distance that about satisfied what i wanted to see in brussels in the morning we drove above an hour to brugge in dutch or bruges in french mary anne was right quaint quiet and beautiful we parked in a parking garage near the train station and then took a bus to market square lucky for us rick steves has a self guided walking tour in his book first up is the clock tower our first order of business frites fries yes at 9 30 in the morning this is where i love the rick steves book he describes two belgian style french fry stands facing the clock tower he says the one of the left is much more user friendly the menu lists every possible option prices and describes the sauces etc the one on the right well let s just say rick steves was totally correct while there was almost always a short line in front of the one on the left we did not see one person go to the one on the right you would think he would wonder what was wrong with his stand huh mmmmm i could go for some of those right now the sauces were a mazing this is a cool sculpture of the clock tower with descriptions of it in braille pretty awesome buildings around market square to the right of this building is where the post office is still part of the building just couldn t get it all in the picture such massive buildings with incredible detail we made our way down toward burg square which is brugge s civic center historically the birthplace of brugge and the site of the ninth century castle of the first count of flanders i loved the canals throughout the town since we had walked off our fries we were ready for belgian waffles sad but i was kinda dissapointed i love belgian waffles but evidently not real belgian waffles i probably should have had mine without the chocolate but hey if someone offers me something smothered in chocolate i ll take it the waffle just wasn t what i was expecting it wasn t the thick fluffy waffles you think of it had this sugary center and the taste just wasn t all that for me we wandered some more through town it was so nice to just wander and take everything in i thought i was doing a good job of following the map and i thought we were heading toward the church of our lady according to the book it s where michaelangelo s madonna and child statue is housed it s said to be the his only statue to leave italy during his lifetime the organ pipes in these churches are amazing tons of beautiful stained glass windows the next set of windows depicted the life of the savior first his birth the visit from the wise men as a child teaching in the temple his ministry by this time i realized we were not in the church i thought we were because there was no madonna and child so we headed back outside and found the real church of our lady unfortunately it was under some pretty heavy renovation and this was all we could see you couldn t even see the madonna and child which according to rick steves was free to see but with the construction the only access was through the paid section what can i say we re cheap so we didn t see it more wandering and we found this cute cafe sign made us miss our little ellie we found gelato and chocolates sad there is no pictures of the chocolate shop rick steves recommended a few chocolatiers we went to one and they were closed the day we were there so we wandered around to find the others and happened upon one with the same name dumon as the one that was closed if i remember correctly now 7 months later i think his name was stephen dumon so we figured it was a son that had opened his own shop we stepped inside and the lady was helping another customer she would go down the row point and say the name of the chocolate and the customer responded yes or no if they wanted it the lady working there just sounded annoyed at times when they asked what was in it there was a guy who we later found out was stephen dumon in the back where the chocolates are made he was on the phone at one point and then came out and asked if we needed any help talking to him was probably the highlight of the day i would go back to brugge just to talk to him again seriously the most passionate kind personable person ever in fact rick steves says the dumons don t provide english labels because they believe it s best to describe their chocolates in person and they do it with evangelical fervor oh so true he described the chocolates and centers like it was his life s passion okay so it is his accent was just icing on the cake he saw that i was holding the rick steves book and he said he gets a christmas card from rick steves every year he didn t know that his family s chocolate store was featured in the book he said so that s probably why i get a christmas card from him it was so funny like this lightbulb moment for him he let us look around some more and he went back to jamming out and whistling to the music in the back while making chocolates we wanted to catch his eye to let him know we were ready but miss i must not be a dumon ended up boxing up our chocolates oh well i still don t know why we didn t get any pictures in there since hello chocolates isn t that why you go to belgium souvenirs from there didn t exactly last long so pictures would have been nice by this time we were making our way back to the train station by foot and stopped at begijnhof courtyard those houses behind me are where benedictine nuns live almost makes you want to don a habit and fold your hands as you walk under the wispy trees and whisper past the frugal homes okay so maybe i did of course there was a little church in the courtyard and there was actually a nun playing the organ she looked up just as rob snapped the picture we probably could have spent more time in brugge if we were the drinking type or wanted to try all sorts of chocolates but we got our taste of this quaint european town in about 5 hours and were on our way to france with a little detour to luxemburg we weren t sure if we wanted to see any sites while driving through luxemburg but at the last minute like as we were coming up on the exit we decided to take it after all the gps would get us there right well the problem was we didn t even know what there was i had read on a friend s blog about places they went to but i didn t know an exact name to search for on the gps well to make a long story of our long detour short the gps took us through the middle of a big city in the middle of rush hour read 5 here we eventually found this which i think is what there was supposed to be the grand ducal palace since we drove through the width of one small car streets there wasn t a place to park so i hung out in the car in front of the above picture while rob got out and walked to the other side and took these pictures hmmm the detour was not as grand as i thought it would be an hour or more later we were back en route to france oh how i miss this posted by unknown at 1 44 pm 0 comments sunday october 6 2013 another ellie trick one thing i forgot to add to ellie s list of things she does a couple of months ago i was folding laundry ellie was in the room just playing with toys and every once in a while i would hear her in the background say a name i thought maybe she was looking at the family photos on the wall and just saying her siblings names or mommy daddy then i realized that whoever s item of clothing i would pick up that was the name she was saying after catching on to what she was doing i would pick a shirt or shorts up and show it to her to test her i think she only missed 2 or 3 items out of 3 batches of clothes it became a game and she would get so excited for me to hold the next item up seriously who is this girl i can t wait to see how she uses her keen eye for detail and observant nature as she grows up posted by unknown at 6 35 pm 1 comments saturday october 5 2013 ellie turns two we celebrated this sweet baby girl s 2nd birthday on thursday october 3rd yes she is and will always be my baby girl i ve said this before and it continues to ring true she completed our family just perfectly and makes us all so happy the perfect baby sister the kids love their little sister and she makes me smile every day she has this spark and love of life and laughter that is so contagious and brightens every day at least 10 times a day you can hear someone telling her how funny or silly and cute she is her hair is finally getting long enough that i can do more than a small pony tail on top basically to pull her bangs out of her face she loves to be outside these pictures really capture her personality as i chased her around the yard trying to convince her to sit still and look at the camera she just wanted to prance around the pretty flowers and giggle and squeal time for cake and ice cream and presents getting some help from landon some things about ellie at age 2 still sucks her left index and middle fingers upside down still wants a banana first thing in the morning after getting out of her crib she imitates or repeats every thing you do or say she is such a smart cookie and picks up on things so quickly it s amazing to me how she observes everything around her and then suddenly she is doing things that i ve never seen her do example of above one day she was downstairs with rob i watched her come up the stairs with a cup go to the refrigerator get water out of the door dispenser go back to the stairs and yell down here go daddy and then walked down to give it to him i asked rob later if he asked her to get him some water and he said no she just drank the rest of my water and then left with the cup she amazes me that little one when it was rob s birthday back in july we put the candles on the cake and she started singing happy to you before anyone even started singing happy birthday she is becoming more independent than i would like she helps herself to whatever she wants to eat or drink out of the refrigerator yogurt apples string cheese or pantry closet cereal granola bars pretzels even if it means finding something to climb up on to reach it she loves naptime and bedtime she has always been an awesome sleeper sleeping through the night for 10 12 hours since she was 3 months old when you tell her it s naptime she runs to her crib and says ni night when it s bedtime she goes and finds everyone in the house to give them a hug and kiss and tell them ni night and then runs into her room the only time the above sleeping habits were not true was for a brief period this summer rob was out of town for about two weeks home in the middle of it for a couple days while he was gone i had ellie sleep with me it took her about a month to realize she no longer got to sleep in my bed when it was bedtime or naptime she would say mommy bed and threw some pretty ugly fits luckily she s back to her crib loving self she likes to sing twinkle twinkle little star she loves books and has a few that she can read along with you my favorite little game to play with her is to hear her yell where are you mommy and i answer back and she keeps saying it until she finds me and comes running and laughing maybe i should teach her marco polo she loves babies and dolls she squeals baby when she sees babies in the store and loves when she sees our friends little baby lily at church with two older sisters there are plenty of dolls around but those older sisters don t like to share their babies so she has to sneak into their room to play with them i need 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