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| Family photo #1: LJ not so happy |
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| Family photo #2: includes Leighton's other child, The 'stro |
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| Family photo #3: all smiles! |
August started with my four birthday celebrations (go big or go home!). The first was with my girls, Charity and Yolanda who took me out for happy hour where they surprised me with cupcakes and then dinner. It was crazy feeling my boobs get more and more full. When I got home (after I was partially sprayed by the skunk family that is living in our backyard) I pumped 9 ounces! Definitely a new record.
Birthday celebration number 2 was with the family. Grandma Susie made a Thai feast--Tom Yum Gai soup with chicken, chicken satay with peanut sauce and Thai beef salad. Delicious. For dessert we had a fruit tart.
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| Making a wish |
Birthday celebration number 3 was a romantic dinner with just Leighton. Karl and Yuki treated us to dinner and babysitting for the evening. Besides the 2 hour wait, dinner was delicious and LJ was perfectly behaved for his aunt and uncle.
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| All dressed up for our first night out alone |
Birthday celebration number 4 was our traditional camping trip up to Sly Park. This year featured the sailboat that Big Lance made and then the awesome cover for it that Susie made. We all got sailing lessons. It also has oars so Leighton took people out for rowing adventures. Little Lance loved camping. He slept well, enjoyed being held by everyone and didn't even cry when Mama dropped s'mores on his head (even though Mama cried a lot!) We ate like kings, especially when Yuki cooked: yakisoba with pork, beef and veggie shish kabobs, and garlic shrimp. It was delicious except for the piece of beef that got stuck in grandpa Lance's esophagus sending him and Susie to the ER. Other notable events: DJ caught a fish, Jonna led us in a game of Mafia, through Apples to Apples we learned about each other's personalities, Oliver brought an old fashioned ice cream maker which only took about an hour of cranking to make our frozen treat. It was nice and hot, the water was perfect, the relaxation station was in full affect, it actually felt like summer.
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| Unpacking, the trailer made it! |
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| DJ and LJ, he's getting the hang of it! |
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| Jonna's an old pro! |
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| Sisters waking up |
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| Brothers Bob and Lance jammin' |
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| The happy newly engaged couples: Karl and Yuki, Bindu and Yen |
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| Uncle Karl |
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| Cousins Leighton and Bindu posing |
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| The beautiful sailboat |
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| Trying not to hit rocks on the landing |
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| Lunch |
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| Matching smiles |
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| Loving his vest |
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| co-napping |
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| Grandma and Grandpa sing Lance to sleep |
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| Cranking the ice cream |
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| ahhhhh, sunshine |
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| Leighton rows Oliver and DJ |
The week we got back LJ had to go in for his 2 month check up. He is still very tall (24.5 inches), they think he's too skinny (12 pds 7 oz) and his head is only in the 21st percentile for circumference! We started his immunizations. I had decided to opt out of Rotavirus and Hepatitis B (I don't think LJ is having sex or sharing needles yet) until it turned out that if we skipped HepB he would have to get 4 shots instead of 3. Irisa told me to nurse while getting the shots, which the nurse thought was odd but allowed it. She was great though telling both grandma and I took look away while she did it. She shot him three times in the thighs and he screamed, but recovered quickly. I cried a lot.
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| Yolanda with LJ, Charity with Naima |
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| Our volleyball team--Maria, Tessa, Emma, Yo, Tracie (due in November!) and Charity. This season will feature a pack n play full of all of our Take 2 team babies! |
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| Rexland is off to Hampton to study math. |
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| Another former Mandela HS teacher, Barbara, finally meets Lance |
