This pretty much sums up my life.....

The big girls are preparing for the ACT, while Betsy is preparing for The Itsy Bitsy Spider.....





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Baby proofing a bookshelf?

Anyone have any ideas on how to baby proof these shelves that doesn't involve an old beach towel and some duct tape that keeps falling off?





This photo was from Andrew's birthday.



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Look at what she can do!

So, now I know why she has been eating and sleeping non-stop!

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Who needs the gym???

So, I used to struggle doing twenty reps with a five pound weight. Well, now I can do at least a hundred reps with a seventeen pound weight! She wants up. She wants down. She wants up. She wants down. You get the picture! And who needs squats? Certainly not me anymore....

But how could you resist this cute little face? Not me that's for sure!



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We had our appointment at Children's

And she seems to be doing very well health-wise. She actually gained about two pounds since she was weighed at the clinic in Guangzhou a little over a week ago! Yeah! We are waiting for test results now. We should know this week.


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This is what we all feel like

That's Emmie asleep on the floor. We are so exhausted from this darn jet-lag that it's almost impossible to stay awake sometimes.


Sorry, I thought at this posted last week! I don't know what happened.....
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Let's revisit car seats...

Let me tell you a little something about car seats. They've changed. A. Lot. For one thing, they are not even called car seats. They are now called child safety seats... And it takes at least a degree in engineering to install one. Thank goodness my husband is so technically minded. It only took him 1 1/2 hours to figure out how to install it. I was a great help to him - I held the flash light..... This thing is latched to my car in places I didn't even know existed. And let me tell you, this seat ain't going nowhere! In the good old' days, you threw the seat into the car, put the kid in, put the seatbelt over the both of them, and you were good to go!
All of this leads us to our next huge purchase - another child safety seat for Ray's car. Here we go again!




You know, these seats are going to have to go with the cars when we trade them in. You couldn't pay me enough to try to figure out how to uninstall them. They are now latched, hooked, and strapped to just about everything in the car. Aside from cutting all the straps, which would render them useless, they are there to stay.



O.K. Off my soapbox. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming!
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