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ents house for the whole day ben got a lot of books board games and a kit to design his own board games he was super pumped about the game through the ages a super long complex strategy game that is technically for ages 14 as far as i can tell ben understands it better than dh due to watching you tube videos about it felicity got a real working vacuum peppa pig toys puzzles and board games she was super excited about a triple bunk bed for her doll house and wants one in real life so that amelia can share it with her and ben we enjoyed coloring peppa pig together on christmas amelia got some duplos a mini golf set and lots of little things she was amazed by the christmas lights this year and if the tree was turned off she would point at it until you turned it on and then crack a big grin she also loved unwrapping gifts and if you were not fast enough in telling her which presents were hers she would start unwrapping any she could get her hands on uncle josh made her a super fancy rocking chair she loved it she also figured out how to climb up on grandma s dining room chairs and was very proud of this fact on christmas day we exchanged adult stockings and spent all day eating we went on an adventure out walking in the woods where i was reminded i am raising city kids when we got back from that all three kids passed out and i had a chance to do some christmas puzzling it was a fun day and fun christmas but oh so tiring posted by manday at 10 58 am no comments felicity on her 4th birthday felicity turned 4 on 9 22 we had a big party which is exactly what she wanted her exact requests for her birthday party this year were 1 a long party at home 2 chocolate donut cake 3 attendance of two family friends r r we were able to accommodate all of the above and ended up with about about 13 kids and just as many adults eating donuts the adults having good conversation the kids running all over playing felicity s gift was a fancy dollhouse i fretted so long trying to decide what kind to get worried about the compatibility with her current toys and whether the house would be worth the money and have the accessories she wanted it turned out my worries were in vain while the calico critters are not technically compatible with disney little people she has mixed them seamlessly and installed the calico critters staircase on the balcony of her beauty and the beast castle felicity at four years old on her fourth birthday she thought she would suddenly be able to read she couldn t and that little pout of sadness when she discovered this was too adorable she is fiercely independent and fiercely snugly at the same time she wants to do so many things herself pour milk clean serve food other moments she acts like a total baby goo goo gah gah and everything and insists she cannot dress herself or stand up she always wants more hugs from mom regardless of how many i already gave her her and dad have a whole routine of all the different types of hugs they must do before he can drop her off at school upside down backwards frog leg etc felicity is a little monkey i think if you let her grab your pinky she would find a way to use it to hang off of you she is always lifting her feet off the ground her vocab is constantly growing but she still puts fs infront of most 3 syllables and also many 2 syllable words like adult is fuh dalt disaster is fi saster it does not matter whether she can say the correct starting sound she just adds an f pajamas are fa jamas she also has a bad habit that is more related to inability to make the starting s sound to say sucker with an f 1 that is where i stopped typing and i never went back want to publish this so it stays part of my records posted by manday at 10 50 am no comments saturday july 21 2018 bedtime conversations this was all one conversation with felicity but i broke it up into little sections on topic felicity what do tigers eat me little animals that live in the forest like deer and wild pigs and rabbits felicity do they eat humans me yes if they have the chance felicity what do lions eat me animals that live on the savanna like antelope and other things that live there felicity do they eat humans me yes if they have the chance felicity what do bears eat me berries and fish and whatever they find laying about they don t really hunt like the other things felicity do they eat humans me not really they don t really hunt felicity if a bear was eating my sandwich something that i do not understand at all here me if a bear wanted your sandwich you would let the beer have it and you would get out of there quickly they won t eat you but they re not exactly safe either felicity if there was a bear in our house trying to eat my sandwich i would run past all the other houses and and get you until i found one that was safe me there won t be a bear in our house bears do not like houses the closest a bear would get to our house is to eat our trash because as i said earlier they like to find things and eat them so if we throw away food they will smell it and tip the trash over and eat it but then they will be afraid of us and run away wild animals don t like houses felicity remember that time at bedtime when there was a bear eating our trash me yes and remember when i said something it heard my voice and got scared and ran away you don t need to worry about any wild animals coming into our house felicity remember the time that a dog tried to eat me i think we were at a dog park me no i do not remember that at all where were we you have never been to a dog park felicity it was a mean dog and it growls and it was going to eat me i was so scared let s not go to that dog park again me i do not know what that dog park was but if we ever go somewhere that you are afraid because of that dog tell me and we can do something else felicity ok sounds good seems genuinely relieved here s a conversation with ben the same night me why are you out of bed ben i m getting the next captain underpants book book 10 me don t stay up too late reading ben don t worry i am just going to read this comic book part and then one more chapter after that you don t have to worry i will only read about two chapters and each chapter only takes a couple of minutes and then i will go to bed posted by manday at 7 00 pm no comments tuesday july 3 2018 snapshot 7 1 2018 felicity her favorite color is all the colors her favorite book per her own report is three little pigs disney but when she is actually choosing a book she chooses you choose or the gruffalo or an older african folk tale about why the panther walks on four legs and dislikes men her favorite show is peppa pig because it has no tigers or monsters and the toys are just toys they don t talk her favorite movie is beauty and the beast because the beast seems bad but then he changes and ends up to be good she keeps changing her favorite character she wants to swim but we have not had much opportunity this year a hot may followed by a cold and wet june she likes to tell stories when ben is there they are about ants that do not get eaten when ben is gone they are about ant s getting eaten her story telling is pretty cool she uses all the little phrases and mannerisms that you would expect in a good story teller she is so well behaved at daycare and plays very well with others but at home is very emotional and constantly harassing her little sister so in other words she is a three year old middle child she has cut her hair very short so that she does not have to brush it and she loves that she struggles at bedtime wants lots of attention and always has one more question eventually you can get her to cuddle her crocodile and pink baby and role over near the wall to go to sleep amelia she is walking very well now and might start to run soon but still hardly says a word she always has a pacifier in her mouth unless you forcibly remove it and i think these things are correlated the only words she seems to have at all are more and yeah she says the first if its something she really really really likes like chocolate or clearing the table she says the second while nodding her head vigorously to a yes no question she does not seem to see the point in trying to say any other words she likes to blow raspberries though she likes to do whatever her siblings are doing she likes to color and to play with baby dolls she loves to clear the table she tries to build duplos she flies toys through the air she loves both of her parents she likes to play outside she will get filthy outside if you leave her to her own advice he is sleeping ok but not consistently sttn but bedtime is pretty easy and she hardly cries unless felicity is harassing her benjamin is reading up a storm he is into the captain underpants books and will devour one in a couple of hours if given the opportunity he struggles with large groups strict rules and losing he is getting better at losing though and has taken up a game at grandma s called herd your horses where he often loses he is learning to bike and he loves to swim at grandma s house he still is interested in ants but not as obsessed as previous months posted by manday at 10 58 am no comments thursday may 31 2018 birthday review me 34 not a big milestone just firmly chugging along in the mid thirties categories i admit i preferred 33 because it is a fun number work is going well i am incredibly busy and try to do my best some days my best is amazing some days my best still includes a lot of mistakes i guess that is just life my most recent self observation is that having taken on a couple of new teams i am becoming one of those people who always mentions how busy i am i do not want to be that person and i need to figure out how to manage the larger than possible work load without projecting that image outside of work i am enjoying life i enjoy being a mother most days of course there are difficulties i enjoy the beauty of the city i drink too much star bucks don t clean enough and life goes on i also am on a jane austen kick i am feeling particularly driven at the moment to simplify and downsize and hoping to bring the kids along for the ride dh is on board i have everything in life that i had dreamed about loving husband adorable kids home ownership and i do no not take that for granted i am extremely grateful i don t feel like i need anything else particularly to be happy and that is a good place to be ben 6 yrs old just wrapping up kindergarten the past week he has been very cooperative and fun it has been so nice to see i love playing board games with him doing math with him watching him learn and grow he can read quite well now and i think would be able to read any book within or only slightly above his vocabulary level he still is very interested in ants and has an ant farm that we all enjoy watching from time to time if i had to guess i think he will grow up to go into a science perhaps he will follow his own professed dream of being an author and write popular science or maybe he will research ridiculously specific questions only he cares about like the social habits of the grey siberian dust mite felicity 3 yrs old and pure spunk she is definitely a three year old she wants to accomplish great things climb mountains run the household and have other people cater to her every need of course i would predict her to have an adventurous life travel hiking outdoors maybe she will posted by manday at 11 00 am no comments sunday january 7 2018 ben 6 years ben has turned 6 crazy talk firmly school age no more possibility of preschool age there s a lot of things with ben i haven t shared much online i feel like i don t want a search engine turning up his kindergarten struggles in 20 years that said i also don t want to pretend our lives are picture perfect where does that leave me generalities haha ben is not a model student if you want to chat about it you can pm me so with that out of the way all the great things ben is crazy smart perhaps too smart for his own good he loves to learn but hates being told he has anything to learn he is quite intuitively good at math he has a huge vocabulary he loves board games he plays many that involve complex strategies his most recent obsession is various iterations of risk he finally has gotten over his dread of losing enough to start playing chess with other kids at keyzone and more readily play head to head at home he is obsessed with military history custom strategies he recently met a real veteran we don t know many is infatuated he also loves flags army symbols maps etc he loves nature shows whether they be space or animals he is a home body he would much rather stay home and play board games than go anywhere his favorite part of school is show and tell the only problem is he always wants to take board games which are way too large and easy to ruin in december he solved this by making a paper copy of chinese chess to take at school he talks about lots of friends they play a game called savage at recess which is too imaginary for me to follow despite ben spending plenty of time explaining it to me he still loves starwars though we have not allowed him to see epi 7 8 and have cut way back on this viewing it in general but he still loves the ships and characters he is a pack rat anything is precious to him and he hates things being thrown out whether it is a broken toy or his sister s stained t shirt he loves his sisters although f is constantly wrecking his games he still loves wrestling with her he loves giving amelia hugs he loves being read to he loves audio books the magic treehouse series is our go to he was scared of harry potter for a bit but is interested in it again and many of his other recent fears of going upstairs alone for example seem to be dissipating for ben s birthday we celebrated with a brinner party at willowick farm he had a ball we will follow up with a flag themed party for his friends in a couple of weeks we love 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