by Courtney Sirotin on December 11, 2013
Like I mentioned in my last post, we celebrated a fake Christmas at our house this weekend. We celebrate the real Christmas at my parents’ house on the 25th, but since that involves air travel, we wanted to give Dylan the toys “Santa” got him before we left. We leave next Tuesday so our thinking was that if we gave them to him this past weekend he would have a week to play with them before he had to leave them behind for our trip. I don’t think he really needed our complicated explanations about why Santa was visiting his house so early, he was just focused on getting presents.
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by Courtney Sirotin on December 5, 2013
Its been awhile since I’ve given a pregnancy update, so let me fill you in on some things. It turns out I have my strengths and weaknesses when it comes to preparing for this baby.
For example, it turns out I am really good at things like eating ice cream (such an accomplishment!), worrying and making lists of things I need to buy or get done. What I’m not so good at is accomplishing things on my lists!
Some of the things I really need to get done before time’s up include: creating a room for the baby, organizing all of Dylan’s clothes so as to then prepare them for the baby (a huge benefit of having same gendered kids is that I don’t have to buy any clothes!), sorting through all of Dylan’s toys and putting away the old ones….then taking out the baby toys. Dylan’s toys have accumulated into unreasonable piles in every crevice of our house and I get paralyzed every time I imagine what its going to take to get them under control). I also need to unearth any baby gear hiding in our storage room and purchase all the stuff we still need to get, ranging from pumps to car seats and a bunch of stuff in between.
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 30, 2013
Tuesday
I hope you all had great Thanksgivings! I am thankful for those of you who follow along with my blog and allow me to share special moments of my life with you!
We spent the holiday with my in-laws, Roxanne and Russ! We left on Tuesday to drive to Nashville for a night before finishing the 8 hour journey to Indianapolis.
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 28, 2013
I was recently sent Tiggly Shapes, an innovating new iPad and iPad mini educational toy, to explore with Dylan. Tiggly Shapes is an “appcessory”, meaning it’s a physical product used with an iPad. Such a product is ideal for kids because it brings the educational benefits of classic, physical play to the technology modern kids love!
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 25, 2013
Before getting into the weekend, I thought I’d share this picture and video of Dylan at Chuck E. Cheese earlier in the week. I got 40 tokens to start and he used every single one of them on this Bob the Builder ride. Its funny to me because he has seen and dismissed this ride countless times during previous visits to Chuck E. Cheese, but now that he is heavily into construction vehicles and Bob the Builder, this ride is like crack for him. He seriously couldn’t let himself use his tokens elsewhere or get off the ride until he was depleted of tokens. He begged for more when he ran out and I gave him 4 more on the condition he try another ride but he played me and ran straight back to this one!
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 18, 2013
We had a fun and relaxing weekend thanks to our friends Savvy and Bridget who invited us to stay at a mountain house with them! Savvy’s friends own the house and he uses it often. We’ve talked about all going together for awhile now and we finally made it happen! We went from Friday to Sunday and would have stayed through Monday except Dylan is Skittle of the Week at his preschool this week and we didn’t want him to miss it! (His classroom is called “The Skittles”.). Monday he has to bring in an “All About Me” poster so he and I put this one together:
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 12, 2013
I wrote a blog post yesterday but I didn’t tell you guys anything in it. I didn’t tell you how Jay had to write 6 scripts this weekends and that due to computer issues he lost two of them and had to start over. I didn’t tell you how I had a major craving for mint chocolate chip ice cream and ate way too much of it before bed. I didn’t tell you that I was going to find out the sex of the baby today. I didn’t tell you guys anything because I was too anxious to write, but I wanted to post something anyway.
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 11, 2013
Saturday
Our neighborhood had an Autumn party of sorts this weekend with big inflatables, cotton candy and popcorn. It was a fun way to start the day and we only had to walk out our front door!
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 5, 2013
I try to time my trips to New Hampshire with family members’ birthdays and this visit was no exception. This weekend we got to celebrate Julia and Kelly’s birthdays.
Saturday
Saturday afternoon was Julia’s third birthday party but we had some preparations to tackle in the morning. Dylan and I tagged along with my mom as she picked up cupcakes and balloons for the party. Since the cupcakes were in Portsmouth we made a morning of it and got breakfast out, took Dylan to a park and then walked around the shops for awhile picking out some things for Kelly’s birthday party on Sunday.
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by Courtney Sirotin on November 4, 2013
I spent the last week hanging out with my family and getting pre-nostalgic about these last few months where it will just be Dylan and I as a team everyday.
I am obviously beyond excited to bring his sibling into the fold (!!!!) and I know our days will be on a whole new level of awesome once the baby is here (minus the stressful parts of having a newborn, obviously), but things will change and I am aware that Dylan and I will be leaving a special moment in time behind soon. I am squeezing him even tighter than usual these days. I’m basically smothering him, which he doesn’t seem to mind yet, so its all good.
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