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>Happy Birthday Laura

>My good friend Laura has a birthday today, and I am blogging in advance because as you read this I am ripping it up at Loveland to celebrate. Laura likes to celebrate at Loveland so much, she even got married there. I didn’t get to see the actual event because it was exactly 2 weeks before Luke was born and I was afraid to ride a snowmobile to the top for the event. Dave was there, and he had a good time. I celebrated in the lodge afterwards. I wore black maternity overalls, which were actually adorable, but I can’t even believe I thought that was fashionable at the time. And I could still zip up my winter coat at the beginning of the day. I think my coat was too small after the wedding cake though.

Speaking of cake… I stopped in Kim and Jake’s Cakes today to get cupcakes for the birthday breakfast. I have been trying to go there forever, but for some reason, it’s never open when I want it to be. Now I know the hours though, and I suspect I will be back. I tried a sample of a cake, and I don’t know what I was anticipating, but it turned out to be a corn, jalepeno jelly, something or other combo. It was amazing. Truly spectacular. I don’t think the flavor is something the kids would object to, but if they don’t like it, that’s fine too! More for me. I was thinking about it as I ran the next 4 errands on my list and I thought about going back to get the name straight. But I am so lazy, and I assumed I would be able to find it on their website. I am pretty happy that I have an excuse to go back, in the name of research.

Happy Birthday Laura – my present to you is a new cupcake field trip destination.

>Happy Birthday Lucy!

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From 2010

This weekend is birthday-tastic! Today is Lucy’s birthday, and she got some indoor dog toys for the special occasion!

Tomorrow, I am going snowboarding with Laura for her birthday, yea!!!

And Sunday I will be using my new mixer (YEA!) to prepare for Jack’s birthday.

>Mini-Dave

>Dave has a little mini-me. And his mini-me wants to play outside after dinner in the dark and cold. “Can I go outside with a flashlight and play football?” His mini-me woke me up this morning to show me the snow, because the first snowfall of the season when you are almost three is sort of like the first snowfall ever. I had only been asleep for 2 hours, but I had to “look at the snow on the van first and then look at the snow on the car.” It was 6:30 this morning and there was about half an inch of snow. Mini-Dave said, “Can we go skiiing?” I said, “Well honey, I think it needs to snow a little more.” Thirty seconds passed as we watched the snow fall. He said, “How about now?”

>I Want Candy

>We are having a slight problem with baby talk at our house, and I am trying to counteract it with giant vocabulary words. Jack knows that “dede”, “geegee”, and “teetee” are not acceptable and that he should be trying harder to say, “fortify”, “magnificent”,”transubstantiation”, and “existentialism” whenever possible.

Meanwhile, Luke is interested in grammar, and he just read the kid’s version of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and he cracks up at the ways a comma can make a difference. At dinner tonight we had already addressed the baby talk (baby talk is a gateway drug to potty talk, if you must know) and I was trying to get Jack to eat his dinner. I said, “Eat your beans.” He said, “No! Candy!” And I said, “That’s right. No candy.” And Luke said, “He means, No, comma, candy.”

Then we started talking about hot-chocolate, the noun that means a chocolaty drink, and hot the adjective, that describes chocolate that is very warm. Dave said in some countries, there isn’t a difference, and I said that the problem with this country is that people say hot chocolate when they mean hot cocoa. And Jack said, “Momma, cocoa is a baby word and that’s not ok.”

* Am I mildly worried that the grammar in this blog post is terrible? Yes, but not worried enough to proofread.

>Sigh

>I should have saved the outtakes for today! Redacted: Long boring thing about my job sucking the life out of me.

Here is a picture from our vacation stop at Black Canyon of the Gunnison, for perspective only. Not because I am imagining tossing my laptop down there at all.

From vacation2010

>Little Pumpkin

>The week before Halloween, Luke recited “5 Little Pumkins” and I was very impressed. He rolled his eyes and said “It’s not like I just heard if for the first time this week.” So, if I was extremely impressed with Luke, imagine how excited I was when Jack started reciting the same poem. Poor Jack, he was running around on the Saturday before Halloween, talking about how he was going to be in a costume parade, and he and his preschool friends were going to recite the poem for the toddlers. He was very excited. So excited that I felt a twinge of guilt over blowing off the Halloween party at the daycare the day before. Oops. And without further ado, the video:

>Planning Ahead

>I’m writing this a day in advance because I want to turn off my computer and be work and internet free for an entire day. Sunday I am very happy to be going to a baby shower for a friend, and maybe I’ll sneak in some shopping on my way home. I’m also thinking I’ll pay off some big fines at the library (Damn you The Inheritance of Loss and your terrible boringness!) I’m also thinking I might do something crafty. And something in the kitchen. Maybe start off the day with pancakes and then take Lucy for a walk? Hmm, it’s starting to sound like my plan for Sunday is to cram everything I have felt like doing for months all into one day. I’ll report back on Monday to let you know how it went.