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Life Right Now

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Nov 16

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Happy first birthday to my little Vivienne. There was no themed birthday party considering the times we're in, but that's alright. Probably, if we're being honest, for a baby, that's preferable. No weird things messing up her routine, just a nice day at home with the family, fun crawling around outside in the leaves, and then pumpkin cake after dinner. At one, Vivi is such an incredible delight. She laughs so much more than any of the other girls did as babies - she'll even start laughing if she just hears the word "funny." She keeps us all smiling all day long. She's pulling herself up on things, but isn't doing too much stepping yet, so I expect we're going to have another late walker. She knows a handful of words, loves to quack at ducks and neigh at horses, crawls all around the house finding things to get into, dances when she hears music, and loves pretty much all food (making up for her early days). I think she looks like Zara. It's been a whirlwind year, but I most certainly could not have asked for a better tiny human to share 2020 with or to be part of our family. ♥️

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Nov 10

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Adelaide is 3.5! I wish I could say she had an incredible day, but unfortunately she has a cold of some sort passed to her from one of her sisters. (Definitely a cold and not anything else; said sister had a negative COVID test last week.) So I don't think she was feeling great most of the day. ☹ We did have a fun hour in the backyard before dinner playing in leaves and tossing around a football, and then she helped me make peanut butter frosting for PB&J cupcakes before putting herself to bed at 5:30. I thought that was it...that she was down for the count, but at 8 she woke up and we were able to have our half birthday celebration after all, right before put Vivi to sleep. This year I broke with tradition and one of the books I got her is actually a coloring book. She is currently obsessed with coloring and does a really good job of staying in the lines, so I went "broad" on the definition of book. Judging by her reaction it was definitely worth it. The actual book she got was My Words by my cousin @grantdraws, which is super cute and just got released. All the girls were excited to read it. ♥️ 📖 She wasn't super into being sung to and didn't want to blowout her candle, but I'm chalking that up to not feeling well. Now she's coloring for a bit before back to bed and hopefully feeling better tomorrow. Happy half birthday sweet girl.

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Nov 8

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Addie and I walked through rows and rows of flags set up to honor our veterans at a park near our house Friday and I tried my best to explain military service and democracy in a way a three year old would understand. She did seem to recognize the somber nature of a field filled with hundreds of flags. This year has been a crazy rollercoaster of what mostly feels like "downs." #hope is hard when the world feels like its falling apart and the events of just 9 months have radically changed the world my children are growing up in. But today feels like movement in the right direction. We didn't exactly get our blue wave, but we got @joebiden and @kamalaharris. Hopefully it's a turning point. Certainly it's a moment when I can look at our flag and feel pride. Now we're counting down the days to January and looking forward to a future with leaders striving for unity instead of division.

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Nov 3

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Just dropping by to share this photo of me and my 😍😏 hubby from when we voted early last week. The big girls were at school, the little two were with their nanny, and so we used our #civicduty as the perfect excuse to go on a date for the first time in 13+ months. Voting then wood fired pizza and beer @600degreespizza for the win. Now, maybe in the next 24-48 hours we'll see how our voices mattered and get a feel for what the future might bring. It's 4pm in Texas and you still have three hours to cast your ballot. If you haven't, go vote!

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Nov 1

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Halloween this year is not like any other, but we figured out how to make it work. Earlier today we did a socially distant drive-by trick or treating with @sangabrieluuf (where everything was preprepared by people we know from church and the goodies were out in the front yard waiting for the kids - no doorbell ringing necessary) and then we came home for a goofy themed food dinner (swipe to see the brains!!). We recycled costumes this year which worked out perfectly. Also, since the older girls got to dress up every day for dance they wore different costumes almost every day. I stuck a picture of Zara dressed in exercise clothes like the 80s or early 90s in if you swipe a couple of times - that was my favorite. I love the creativity that can come when you have more restrictions and are forced to come up with something with what you have.
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