tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14999010555781197232009-10-28T18:00:32.315-07:00ssmehyl@gmail.com "Every good and perfect gift is from above,.." James 1:17Bauer Smehylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250133637466602500ssmehyl@gmail.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499901055578119723.post-4986080815330030272009-07-01T18:03:00.000-07:002009-07-15T20:02:08.146-07:00

Adam and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary this week!! Woo Woo!! We decided to splurge a little bit and actually LEAVE town. Gaylord Palms in Orlando has an anniversary special if you stay 2 nights. It was a unanimous YES!! Once we got there they even upgraded us to a suite for free. The second night my brother and grandma brought Bauer up and stayed the second in another room. We had a blast.

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A typical day with Bauer and Ellie playing usually involves her being pushed, slung, or otherwise manhandled by Bauer. It's all in good fun. He tries to be gentle and she tries to be big, but it doesn't always happen. There are always a few shoves, bites, and stealing of toys, but in the end they always cry when they have to leave.

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Bauer loves animals. His animal books get more use than any others. While watchin' him read with daddy is one of my favorite things, what he eats for a snack is a little unsettling. I love how he looks at me right in the middle of it like, "If she sees me she's not gonna like it." I'm trying to train him to at least wipe it on his shirt. But Lord knows, right as he starts doing that I'll

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Bauer loves to make these faces. And no, "Sap" is not a type-o. That's exactly how he says it. It's my favorite one. He makes me laugh so much.

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He could play in the living room, kitchen, dining room, bedroom, or even the bathroom. But today he chooses a laundry basket. Yep, no reason to even have the rest of the house. Think of the money we could have saved. Maybe we should all get baskets!! ha!!!

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Found these little tent popups at a garage sale for $2. They have caused more joy and arguing within a 5 minute span than any other toy in our house. The kids love playing with them. But usually there comes a certain point of a "Mine! Meltdown Moment" The act of sharing becomes minimal and it is "every man for themselves"!! Just watch and see.

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So we get a talk the other day at school about giving our kids the appropriate portions of food in every meal. Something makes me think we would have failed today's evaluation.What can I say? They LOVE spaghetti!!

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It's official...........we survived our first egg hunt!! We're happy to report after a very intense expedition all eggs were found. And yes, Adam and I slowly but surely threw all of Bauer's eggs away within a week. Our living room was becoming a mine field of egg remnants.The kids had a blast. Can't wait for next year!!

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I just couldn't figure out what was funniest....1. The pants not coming close to matching the shirt2. The stomach peeking out from under the 2T pjs3. Walking with mommy's shoes.........on the wrong feet or4. The fact that I'm not certain whether the object to the right is a cracker or a puzzle piece. :)

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This weekend we spent time with some of our dearest friends. Doug & Katie were down from Atlanta during our Spring Break and we jumped at the chance to meet up with them. We had a blast and Bauer & Ellie were finally able to spend some time together with their buddy Pierce. It was funny watching the difference between daycare and homecare toddlers. Bauer and Ellie's vocabulary was full of "mine,

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Well since we haven't posted since January I'll do my best to update you on the past 2 months.It's one of my mid-year resolutions to keep this thing a little more fresh!!Bauer is doing great. He has gone from 110% boy to 115%. It's hilarious. Run run go go run run go go......... throw something.........run run run ..........yell a little bit.............go go go go go go .......................

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This post is for Sabra's Journey blog. You posted a comment about where to find button-ups but there isn't a "comment or a contact" area on your blog. This is the only way I knew to repond. We found them at JcPenney. I believe Target has them now too. I hope this helps. Sorry I couldn't get to you another way. You are totally welcome to e-mail us if you would like. Let us know if we can

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For all of our northern friends freezing their little toes off lately we feel now that we can finally empathize with you. :)Our town holds an annual "Snow Fest" for the kids in the community. It mainly consists of bouncehouses, rockwalls, ropewalls, and yes 3 large piles of man-made snow!!! It's great.Bauer wasn't quite sure what to do with all of the cold white stuff, but he seemed to enjoy it.I

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Today we went out to Henscratch Farms. It's a cute little family owned farm that grows blueberries and strawberries throughout the year.Bauer loved it. His favorite part was the chickens running around all over the place. We were reminded quickly that with a chicken coop comes chicken POOP!! I'm not sure how, but by the end we had to toss the shoes in the truck and sanitize his entire left leg.

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Over our Christmas break we actually took a few mini-vacations versus staying home and hibernating for a week. As teachers we get in free to Sea World so it didn't take long to figure out where we would go.I'm pretty sure that someone somewhere was giving out free somethings in Orlando because I've never seen so many people on the road or at the park in my life!!We were able to see almost

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We usually have Christmas in town and spend some time with my family and Adam's. Well this year we were invited to Alabama with the rest of Adam's family spanning from Virginia all the way down to Florida. They get together every 5 or 6 years and we were on the 6th year so our time had come!!We had a massive decision to make that wouldn't involve what food to bring, what jackets to wear, or even

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Finally Christmas time has come and one of our favorite things to do is watch the parades. Avon Park's was first on the list and it was up in the air as to how the babies would do. We prepared as any toddler mom would with snacks that would last an entire day and sippy's full to the brim. I had recently found a wagon a a garage sale and the kids loved it. So we brought it with us to the parade.

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Okay, so there wasn't much cuddling going on, but there were plenty of laughs.We had a mini-Thanksgiving meal with some great friends this week. The kids chased each other and fought over toys all night. It was great.After we were finished eating we decided it was a perfect night to take everyone outside and get a little bon-fire action going. Unfortunately, toddlers don't come programmed with a

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We loaded up today and headed towards the Florida Aquarium in Tampa. It's free admission for teachers and children under 2. So we paid $0.00!!!! Definitley the best deal I've ever made!!Bauer loved it. He has taken a liking to animals so it was cool for him to actually see some in real life. His favorite is the alligator. Every time he sees the Florida Gator emblem he says, "Alli". Pretty cute!

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We decided to take advantage of a perfect picture opportunity today. A friend of ours decorates his yard every year for the fall season. We couldn't resist pulling out the overalls and checkered shirts!! I was very worried that Bauer's wouldn't fit. They were size 18 months and he is in nothing but 24 months and above. I'm pretty sure the Lord did some serious adjusting to the seams because

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"What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a while and then vanishes." James 4:14It is amazing how quickly time has gone by. Just a year ago we were introducing foods, starting to roll, and perfecting the language of babble. Now we're climbing into cabinets, running away from mommy, hiding toys in small crevices, eating more than daddy, perfecting the word "no", and playing as hard as

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Halloween was awesome this year. We decided to have Bauer go as Bam Bam and his friend, Ellie, as Pebbles. OH MY GOSH!! They were adorable. Ellie was struttin' her stuff with her little Pebbles bag and Bauer was giving everyone a little smack with his caveman club. Thank God that thing was filled with cotton!!!We went to a fall festival with the kids and picked up a few pieces of candy for mom

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Saturday morning we were at the airport by 7:30 a.m. Flight leaves in 2 HOURS!!! Once again, it was time for baby track-and-field through the airport. Praise the Lord we got home safe with excellent news from the docs. Couldn't ask for better! :) Here are some pics.This is what we did for about an hour!!

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Our appt. was only about 45 minutes long (expected to be 2 1/2 hours) but it was going to cost $1000 for us get an early flight out. We can usually get ahold of someone that will make us an awesome deal to switch tickets, but not today. So we decided to take a tour of Fenway Park.I'm so glad God didn't let us find a way home that night because we would have missed some much needed down-time and a

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We made it to Boston, found our luggage and headed to the doctor's office. I was really excited because we were going to meet a few of the amazing moms that have been such a huge help in our journey with Bauer. Their kids were having their check-ups the same day. We met with the dental team, speech, and Dr. Mulliken, Bauer's surgeon. All had good things say and shared suggestions to help with

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