tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20198846706463796982024-02-07T23:44:33.774-06:00The Berry FlockUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019884670646379698.post-76043788002156226412015-05-26T22:32:00.001-05:002015-05-26T22:32:57.213-05:00...and Signs of Spring!As our snow and ice melted away in late February and early March, we began to emerge from inside and shed our heavy coats and hats and mittens and sweaters:<br />
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We donned rain gear and stomped in puddles during the first warm spring rain...</div>
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...this girl got all dressed up and went on a date with Grammie and Grandaddy to the symphony...</div>
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...we began to eat outside on our deck again...</div>
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...we played in the woods...</div>
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...we reacquainted ourselves with our favorite playgrounds around town...</div>
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...we collected sticks...</div>
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...and Ev started her spring nature collection!</div>
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In other fun spring news, we are expecting Baby Berry #3! Due to join us in mid-September or so:) </div>
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Enjoy the rest of this week, friends. Easter pictures and late spring updates are on the way....</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019884670646379698.post-60159297872864438182015-04-29T22:49:00.000-05:002015-04-29T22:49:36.658-05:00Memories of Snow...As it is nearing May already, I figured I should do a little catching-up on the ol' blog. So here we go! Since my last post, we finished out a chilly winter, complete with a couple big (for Nashvegas) snows. We loved trekking to Percy Warner Park and sledding, hiking, and building snowmen:<br />
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So thankful that we got to enjoy a little snow this winter! And even more thankful for the spring days that have followed:)</div>
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1. James started walking in early December. He went from showing almost no interest or inclination to full-on, ready-to-run walking. And since then, he has shown little interest in stopping:)<br />
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2. We went caroling with a group of dear friends from our church. Ev had never been caroling before, and Dave and I hadn't been in years, and it was absolutely wonderful. The group of kids singing Christmas carols was about the sweetest thing ever, and they delighted the hearts of all of the folks they encountered, including this group of twenty-something guys pictured at the door below. Hilarious.</div>
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3. Santa visited our house on Christmas and left behind a sleeping bag, a globe, and a large dump truck. Also, Ashley, a sweet friend of mine since sixth grade (!), gifted Evelyn with a pair of her old pointe shoes from her pre-professional ballerina days and made our girl's day.</div>
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5. As I have been slowly taking down some lingering Christmas decorations (all of our Christmas cards were on display until the end of January, for example), I have reminisced about reading through Ann Voskamp's devotional for kids, <i>Unwrapping the Greatest Gift.</i> Evelyn loved reading the stories and coloring decorations for her own Jesse tree (see picture below). It was such a sweet way for us to mark Advent together this year, and we can't wait to pull it out again next year!</div>
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6. We celebrated two January birthdays with fun gifts (a tent big enough for our little family to go camping!) and cake:)</div>
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And then there's the spaces-in-between, as my sweet husband likes to say. Lots of fun things. A new-to-us children's museum in Murfreesboro, some art at Cheekwood, hikes in the sun and the (sprinkle of) snow, dressing up, and reading by the fire. Not pictured are the less-than-fun moments, mainly because I don't always have the wits or wherewithal to capture such moments on camera;) </div>
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...for breakfast with Grammie and Grandaddy...</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019884670646379698.post-15787754852347077342014-12-04T23:02:00.000-06:002014-12-04T23:03:18.602-06:00Fall in Retrospect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Now constantly there is the sound,<br />
quieter than rain,<br />
of the leaves falling.<br />
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Under their loosening bright<br />
gold, the sycamore limbs<br />
bleach whiter.<br />
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Now the only flowers are beeweed and aster, spray<br />
of their white and lavender<br />
over the brown leaves.<br />
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The calling of the crow sounds<br />
loud--a landmark--now<br />
that the life of summer falls<br />
silent, and the nights grow."<br />
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<i>October 10</i>, a poem by Wendell Berry<br />
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I love the final image of the life and liveliness of the summer slowly fading and falling silent as the days grow shorter and the nights grow longer; it is such an apt description for what has been happening both inside and outside our house! We spent the end of the summer and the beginning of the fall on-the-go, doing all sorts of fun things: playing in dirt parks and splash parks, visiting the zoo and picnicking at Cheekwood, attending library concerts and football games and carnivals, and soaking up time with friends and family alike:<br />
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But as September turned into October and brought along some cooler days, we slowed a bit and spent time planting fall containers on our back deck, hiking in the woods, and curating the nature collection on our front bench:</div>
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And though mid-October brought a flurry of birthday-related activities (more on that to come), we have otherwise indeed seen our summer life overtaken by the quieter rhythms of the fall, and are loving it. Happy weekend to you, friends; we are so thankful for you today:)</div>
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We spent two weeks in June sharing a lovely beach house with Honey and D, Mac and Eddie, and El and George and Joseph and Estelle. The house was beautiful and spacious enough for everyone to have some breathing room for themselves, and most importantly, had its own pool, much to Ev's delight. Our little family fell into a rhythm of early beach strolls, morning pool swims, and long afternoons on the beach, punctuated by lots of snacking, sand-digging, and beach-dancing:) Now obviously, four little ones (age 3 and under) bring some unpredictability into the mix, and we were no strangers to occasional disagreements, tantrums, time-outs, and such. However, for the most part, the cousins got along and the rest of us got to enjoy our time together. Now, on to a brief tour of our beach vacation in pictures....<br />
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We kicked off our journey to Florida with a stop at Peach Park for ice cream and fried pies...</div>
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We had a marathon drive home, but did manage to make another Peach Park stop on the way:)</div>
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We are so thankful for Honey and D and the amazing beach time they plan for all of us each year; what a gift! See ya next summer, St. George; we'll be dreaming of your sand and your waves until then:)</div>
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Our sweet baby James turned nine months old last week! And what an absolute gift and delight our little man is--he blesses each and every one of the three of us in his house, as well as those in his wider circle of family, friends, and acquaintances. </div>
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Although James has begun resisting settling down at naptime and bedtime lately, he is otherwise almost always delightfully happy and content, and his daddy frequently refers to him as "a jolly fellow." He has also loved to snuggle from the beginning, and we continue to take as many snuggles as we can get around here!</div>
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Since our little man was a couple weeks old, his home-away-from-home has been our trusty Ergo (usually) or hand-me-down Moby (sometimes); he has ridden along for miles of hikes in Percy Warner Park, errands to the grocery store, weekly outings to church and the library and the playground and friends' houses, and beyond. As he continues to grow (and grow and grow), he provides his mama (or whoever is wearing him) with an ever-increasing workout, too! </div>
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Since he hit about five months, though, James has been itching to hop out of his pouch and bust a move, at first scooting around like an inch-worm and then motoring with a more traditional crawl. In the last month, he has begun to pull up and cruise along on anything and everything in sight (yikes!). We marvel at how differently Ev and James have developed; at the same age, Little Miss Priss was much less interested in moving and much more interested in socializing and working on her fine motor skills while eating or reading or playing. Mr. James, on the other hand, is less interested in chatting and dainty finger-work; rather, he loves to explore his physical environment, put anything and everything in his mouth, and move as much as possible. He has finally come around to solid food in the last month or so; he showed no interest in pureed baby food at all, but once he could chew/gum chunks of softer food himself, he decided he was all in! Like his sister before him, he is an especially big fan of avocado, although he is also enthusiastic about chicken, eggs, beans, rice, oatmeal, all sorts of roasted veggies, and summer-time fruit:</div>
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Speaking of his sister, we are loving watching the relationship grow between Evelyn and James. Though she continues to beat up on him a fair amount, they also share many sweet, sweet moments of giggles and chats and romps, which never fail to delight our hearts:</div>
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We just love our guy to pieces and are so thankful to have him! And note the last picture above? A preview of our two (mostly) heavenly weeks spent at the beach last month with the Cummings clan. Happy Monday, friends! May you, too, find something to celebrate this week:)</div>
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We were particularly excited when we learned that James' baptism would happen at the very same farm in the very same river where his big sister Evelyn was baptized a mere three years ago; since the event does not happen at the same place every year, that made it extra special for all of us. So on the morning of Sunday, May 18, 2014, we loaded up our car with quilts, baptismal garments, potluck contributions, and bugspray, and drove out Old Hillsboro Road to Pontotoc Farm....<br />
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After parking and unloading, we dressed James in his baptismal garments, watched Evelyn do some quick gymnastic exercises with D and Mac, and then headed up to the barn to spread out our quilts and join the crowd:</div>
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Four grandparents, a great-aunt, two godparents, an uncle, and two dear friends joined us and our church community for the celebration--what a blessing!</div>
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After prayers, Scripture, hymns, and liturgy (during which the parents and godparents of the couple dozen (!) babies being baptized crowded together in front and read aloud prayers that we wrote for our little ones), the entire congregation broke bread together and then headed down a short path to the banks of the Harpeth River, following behind a band of musicians singing gospel tunes. Our priests headed down a steep flight of steps and waded out into the river, each family followed suit, one by one, and then it was our turn to take the plunge:</div>
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Our precious James did great! He and his daddy fully submerged in that chilly water, so he is <u>really</u> baptized now:) And after all the babies were sufficiently dunked and dried off and warmed up and changed into dry clothes, we trooped back to the barn, where a huge potluck lunch spread was waiting for us. We feasted, lounged on quilts and chairs, snuggled, chatted, laughed, opened baptism gifts, and even found a tractor to sit on:</div>
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Exploring the new "Big Bugs" exhibit at Cheekwood.</div>
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Welcoming summer with our inaugural visit to the "Crab Pool" (aka Maryland Farms YMCA).</div>
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And most wonderfully, celebrating the baptism of our sweet baby James! More pictures and details of that glorious event to come. In the meantime, happy summer, friends!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time"</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (Martin Luther). </span></div>
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Luther's sentiment especially rings true for our little family this year, in the midst of such a glorious spring. We Berrys loved celebrating the promise of the resurrection over Easter weekend with our families, our church community, and our sweet friends; hallelujah that the risen Lord continues to make all things new!<br />
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As we watched and waited for Easter this year, we decorated the house...</div>
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...and made "birds' nests" and hot cross buns in a Maundy Thursday cooking extravaganza; obviously, the best part was the spoon and bowl lickin'.</div>
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Our ballerina also had a little recital over Easter weekend, and performed a lovely dance as a beautiful butterfly in front of family and friends...</div>
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...and then spent time playing and snacking with her brother and cousins after her stage debut:)</div>
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Easter itself dawned bright and beautiful...</div>
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We headed to Honey and D's house for a delicious Easter luncheon and read some new Easter books...</div>
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...and got some good snuggles...</div>
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...and then headed to Grammie and Grandaddy's house for another delicious meal and a visit with Rosemary...</div>
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...and more of this, prompting Ev to frequently squeal, "Signs of spring, Mama!"</div>
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Seeing those daffodils popping out all over the city towards the end of the month was such a hopeful portent of warm and beautiful things to come:</div>
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And then it was suddenly March, which did indeed seem to come "in like a lion, and (after snowing towards the end of the month) out like a lamb." We took a lovely jaunt down to Atlanta over spring break, and spent a few days hanging out with Aunt Mac and Uncle Eddie, exploring Decatur with Great-Aunt Rosemary, and stopping for excellent meals and leg-stretching in Chattanooga on our way there and back:<br />
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We spent a fun afternoon playing at Piedmont Park...</div>
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...and then met Rosemary for a snack at a nearby yogurt spot.</div>
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We strolled and played along the Belt Line with Mac and Eddie, a fun walking/biking trail that loops around and through the city...</div>
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...and also checked out the flora and fauna in their neighborhood.</div>
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We cooked some delicious suppers together...</div>
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...found a fun bookstore in downtown Decatur...</div>
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...ate lunch at Victory, one of our Atlanta favorites...</div>
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<span id="goog_921884526"></span><span id="goog_921884527"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019884670646379698.post-74855525502617016142014-04-18T01:11:00.000-05:002014-04-18T01:11:28.195-05:00Half a Year of James!It is hard to believe, but we marked the sixth-month birthday of our littlest love earlier this week! James continues to delight all of our hearts with his sweet smiles, his belly laughs, and his chubby thighs:) For the past couple weeks, he has been on the move (!), scooting on his belly and trying his best to figure out how to get around as quickly as possible while grabbing as many different things as possible, all the while keeping his mama and his sister on their toes. Although we have tried to sell James on the merits of solid food, he has yet to be convinced, but he generally goes along with most of the other things we suggest: snuggling on the couch with some books, knocking over towers of cups, chewing on utensils, swinging at the playground, or riding in the Ergo for long walks in the woods. His favorite activity almost always, though, is watching Ev do her thing. We are so thankful for the gift of this little man, and can't wait to see where he'll scoot and what he'll learn next!<br />
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This was James' first trip to the downtown library, a near-weekly expedition beloved by Ev. Though James was not so interested this time, he has lately managed to keep his eyes open during storytime:)</div>
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I caught these two in the act of napping simultaneously soon after James moved in with Ev; this scene is rare, but wonderful whenever it occurs:)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019884670646379698.post-49414405401584765112014-04-15T22:01:00.001-05:002014-04-15T22:01:55.013-05:00Walking from Advent to Easter (Part I)<span id="goog_1915884209"></span>One of my most favorite things about both the Advent and the Lenten seasons is pulling out our wooden "wreath" and visually marking the days of Mary's journey to Bethlehem and Jesus' journey to the cross, respectively. And though Evelyn does not have a full understanding of Advent and Lent, she, too, certainly knows about watching a journey unfold daily and waiting and counting the days until the joy of Christmas and Easter arrive. In that spirit, here are some moments of the days of our own journey this year from the beginning of Advent through this Holy Week and the end of Lent:<br />
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See the wooden wreath above? In Evelyn's words, "Mary is a'walkin'." Also, this picture was taken before Ev's first ever trip to see the Mini-Nutcracker with Honey, a performance near and dear to the hearts of the Cummings family:)</div>
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Our littlest love did lots of supervising of the decorating of the tree from his basket:)</div>
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These two angels got their game faces on before the St. A's Christmas pageant.</div>
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Good morning, sweet James, and merry 1st Christmas to you:)</div>
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OK, so he wasn't necessarily laidback and content immediately upon arrival...</div>
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James has a delightfully attentive big sister, too, and is frequently the object of her attention, whether she is lavishing him with smothering hugs and kisses, showing off her block-building skills, reading to him, or dressing him up to play a part in her ballets:</div>
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Here, James is supposed to be the Mouse King in the Nutcracker:)</div>
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Besides watching his sister, James loves to do all sorts of things:</div>
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Visit with the same bluebird friend Ev once loved...</div>
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...wiggle around on the Boppy... </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019884670646379698.post-54863041688308528592014-01-11T15:14:00.000-06:002014-01-11T15:32:28.151-06:00All I Wanna Do is Dance!Happy weekend, friends! In the midst of all the Auld-Lang-Syne-ing and making-of-resolutions and such, our sweet Doodle-bug started ballet class! She has been begging her mama and daddy for a ballet class for over a year now, so we finally decided to jump in. Doodle found some brand new ballet shoes and a cute pink leotard waiting for her under the Christmas tree in December, and I found a spot for her in a little class at a school not too far from home, run by a woman who taught Doodle's mama some ballet classes once upon a time:) I cannot begin to describe how excited our girl was on Thursday morning; she was ready to don her leotard and tights right after breakfast, and asked if we could just wait in the car outside until it was time for class. This was all before 8 AM, mind you:) But after an excruciatingly long morning, we ate lunch and got ready to go! And it. was. awesome.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2019884670646379698.post-42574345352367651422013-12-06T15:08:00.000-06:002013-12-06T15:08:38.986-06:00Happy Advent! Happy Advent, friends! We have been slowly getting into the rhythm of the season this week, pulling out the Christmas china, working on Advent crafts, making some treats in the kitchen, and rocking our Christmas pajamas:) We've yet to do any major decorating (read: tree), but it's kind of nice to take things slow; both of the little munchkins seem to appreciate a relaxed pace in general, as does their mama! <div>
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Ev and Honey made some reindeer cookies yesterday...cute and delicious:)</div>
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Three days worth of Advent crafts from Luke's account of the Christmas story. Can you guess who these three folks are? Zechariah on the far left, Gabriel in the middle, and Mary on the right. Yep, we're crafty around here:) (If any of you are looking for a fun daily Advent devotional and craft with little ones, I highly recommend Truth in the Tinsel, an ebook we're using.)</div>
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And some pre-bedtime shenanigans in the Christmas pajamas:)</div>
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With a kitchen helper like this one, it's hard not to have fun cooking:)</div>
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Speaking of snuggling, he is my little snuggle buddy most of each day, and I love it! Whether in my arms or in the Moby or the Ergo, he stays cozy while we try to keep up with Ev.</div>
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Like his big sister before him, little man went on his first hike in Percy Warner Park at two weeks or so. We start 'em out young around here, folks.</div>
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In late August, despite the extraordinarily warm temperatures, I decided one morning that what we most needed to do was go apple-picking. Crazy? Maybe. But we had the orchard to ourselves and ended up bagging a vast quantity of delicious Gala apples, which then turned into a series of snacks, applesauces, pies, and other delights. We even discovered an Amish country store on the drive home and stopped briefly for gummy butterflies (Ev's choice) and mini chess pies (Honey's choice). All in all, an excellent outing:<br />
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After strolling to find the perfect row, we settled down to picking. It turns out that there is a technique to this: grab, twist, and yank off gently. Ev demonstrates below:</div>
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Also, not to worry if you need to pick some apples that are out of reach. Just grab your handy-dandy pitchfork-like tool and use the same grab-twist-yank method:</div>
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Yay for apple-picking and apples! It was a good way to look forward to fall in the waning days of summer. And speaking of waning days of summer, Little Miss Priss certainly out-did herself this summer in terms of the number of mornings she ran downstairs to "get beautiful" and emerged wearing some variation of this outfit:<br />
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The shoes were sometimes ballet slippers or tap shoes, and the shirt varied, but the tutu was a constant.</div>
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It sure is funny how girlie this little one seems to be with very little encouragement from her parents! </div>
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And now on to the arranging. Evelyn may well have some sort of organizing/arranging career in her future, as one of her most favorite activities is to organize and arrange whatever sorts of objects are in her path. This seems to be a fairly common toddler behavior, but some days, I think she takes it above and beyond:</div>
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Have you made towers out of as many of your pantry goods as possible lately? This never fails to delight Ev's heart:)</div>
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There was some piano-playing (and all sorts of other fun activities) with Carter...<br />
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We also spent a fun weekend at Rock Island in the company of the family of one of Dave's best friends from Sewanee. Ev got to go kayaking, swim in a (very cold) river, and help celebrate a first birthday:)</div>
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These are from the annual Cummings family beach vacation, in which the Cummings parentals and their three daughters and families load up for a week or two on St. George Island in Florida, a place dear to all of our hearts. Of course, some of the best parts of a roadtrip are the fun stops along the way, so we made the most of those, with a picnic lunch at "the rocket rest area" (near Huntsville), ice cream and playground time at Peach Park (near Montgomery), an overnight stay at the Best Western in Dothan, and lunch on the water, complete with fun coloring pages and rows of docked boats to explore, at the Dockside Cafe in Port St. Joe, not too far from St. George itself:<br />
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Everyone was so glad to get out of the car at our hotel in Dothan that a round of parking-lot hopping ensued. </div>
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And then we made it to St. George Island! We had two weeks of glorious time spent swimming in the pool and the ocean, sunning and reading and playing on the beach, and cooking and eating delicious beach meals together. Not every moment was perfectly blissful, what with two toddlers, an infant, and a crew of extended family in close quarters, but sunshine, sea breezes, and ocean views can brighten up almost any situation:)<br />
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Our girl LOVED her some pool time. We spent most mornings hanging out here, generally with the turtle float (which Ev named E.E.) in tow.</div>
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We also had some fun celebrations, both for D's birthday and for the 4th of July! I love this picture of three cousins in their best July 4th gear:)</div>
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Farewell until next summer, St. George! I'll be dreaming of a scene like this come January:)</div>
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Here's one of a bazillion reasons I dearly love my sister-in-law: we showed up at the pool wearing the same Target suit! Great minds, man.</div>
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What a treat to celebrate B's 90th birthday! And Ev loved sharing a book or two with him, too:)</div>
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