Halloween 2010!

Posted by Amanda
So this year Madison is going to be a bumble bee, Camila will be a flower (get it?), and Emilee will be Spider Witch, lol.

Alysa will join us for tick-or-treating this year and she is going to be a pink batgirl. We are going to be trick-or-treating in Mukilteo. I give the kids 23 minutes before they get too cold and want to go home...
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Family Roots and Gummy Smiles

Posted by Amanda
Camila reached her first big milestone last night at about 7pm. I was changing her diaper in her crib and she was considerably unhappy about the situation. I bent down to grab a clean diaper and came back up and said "Clean diaper to the rescue!" and she stopped crying and then started smiling at me. Jesse was standing next to me and I tapped him on the shoulder and told him that Camila was smiling. Then she started laughing! It was pretty great. And apparently she has a cheesy sense of humor because my antics weren't that awesome.

I have also been in touch with a woman who has pictures of my Italian side of my family. I noticed in a picture that she sent me that this "all girls" dilemma we have is probably my gene's fault:
I also found out that my great-great grandfather had a sweet 'stache in his time:

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Weirdest Mom On The Street?

Posted by Amanda
Sometimes I look at my parenting tactics and values i try to instill on my children and I wonder... am I a weirdo?

This occurred to me when I suggested that Madison start writing letters to family members she
has never met. Ones she has heard of, of course, and has talked to on the phone. Why? No one
ever writes letters anymore, that's why!

I requested that she write them in cursive, in pen, and sign them properly with "Sincerely". I told her I wanted her to write about one a week and we would address the envelopes and send them via the obsolete SNAIL MAIL.

Then I thought about it. Does she really need to know how to do this? Probably not. Maybe. Who knows! But I don't want to surrender the little things in life like getting a hand written letter from a relative to electronic communication.

P.S. I also made her her own snazzy stationary! If you want to get a letter email me your mailing address at prettyinpretend@aol.com
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