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| Learning about animal tracks |
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| Checking if the sap is running |
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| Boiling it down the way they used to |
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| The last step in the process |
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| Fuel for making the syrup |
Showing posts with label theo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theo. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
maple syrup fest
I plan to make the maple syrup fest at Blandford an annual tradition. Here's the fun from this year!
Sunday, February 17, 2013
ewok or owl
This post is total nonsense, but quick survey: when I look at Theo, I'm reminded first that he is a beautiful boy, and second that he resembles two creatures:
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| baby ewok |
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| owl |
What do you think? Am I way off?
Either way, he's delicious.
Monday, February 4, 2013
ho hum...
Another day with the two small ones. These two photos make me laugh.
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| Lunch |
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| Dinner |
Theo has face-stuffing down to a science.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
redonk
Everything about Theo is ridiculous. (In a good way. Hello.)
When his eyebrows came in they looked like they'd been painted on and plucked.
When his eyelashes came in, they were twice as long as mine.
When he got past the squinty newborn phase, his eyes opened up and stayed the size of silver dollars.
When his hair came in, it was ridiculously high and fluffy, courtesy of the double crown on the back of his head - two hair whorls that mirror each other exactly and are about an inch apart.
When his teeth came in, there was a howdy-doody gap between the two front ones.
He has the same cleft chin as the rest of us, but when you add it to the other stuff it kind of fits the bill.
His cheeks are so fat now that someone we didn't know said, "What's the name of the one with the fat cheeks?"
He is ridiculously loud, to the point where Jono said to him one evening, "Theo, you don't belong in my family." (He was joking, of course. A little.)
He fell halfway down our long-ish staircase, giving himself a black eye. He cried for about 30 seconds. (This is the opposite of the behavior we typically see in another small person who lives here.)
He's all about cheap thrills, wherever they may be found.
Theo seems to be wired for the extreme, both in his personality and his physicality. We've enjoyed watching one ridiculous thing after another occur in and around him, and I'm sure we'll be entertained by this for years to come.
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| His hair. I kid you not. |
When his eyebrows came in they looked like they'd been painted on and plucked.
When his eyelashes came in, they were twice as long as mine.
When he got past the squinty newborn phase, his eyes opened up and stayed the size of silver dollars.
When his hair came in, it was ridiculously high and fluffy, courtesy of the double crown on the back of his head - two hair whorls that mirror each other exactly and are about an inch apart.
When his teeth came in, there was a howdy-doody gap between the two front ones.
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| Wild Man is taking requests. His hair tuft is not. |
He has the same cleft chin as the rest of us, but when you add it to the other stuff it kind of fits the bill.
His cheeks are so fat now that someone we didn't know said, "What's the name of the one with the fat cheeks?"
He is ridiculously loud, to the point where Jono said to him one evening, "Theo, you don't belong in my family." (He was joking, of course. A little.)
He fell halfway down our long-ish staircase, giving himself a black eye. He cried for about 30 seconds. (This is the opposite of the behavior we typically see in another small person who lives here.)
He's all about cheap thrills, wherever they may be found.
Theo seems to be wired for the extreme, both in his personality and his physicality. We've enjoyed watching one ridiculous thing after another occur in and around him, and I'm sure we'll be entertained by this for years to come.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
the dragon mask
This is not a Halloween post, unfortunately ;)
Both boys are on a daily inhalant medication, a mist they breathe into their lungs through a nebulizer machine and mask. Jude has grown out of his more extreme symptoms but still needs seasonal treatment (fall and winter), and Theo is now on it as well because of his recent asthma episodes. In spring, once the cold/flu/respiratory virus season is over, I'll take them both off of it through the summer.
We had another ER visit with Theo about a month after the last one, and this time he was admitted into the children's hospital where we had what they called an "aware" sort of situation (eight or nine docs lined up at the door to check him out), and he was close to being moved to the ICU before he turned around.
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| Election night jitters |
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| Trying to remove his IV |
The nebulizer mask is a dragon, in an attempt to make it friendlier for children. I don't know though. "Smoke" coming out of the holes in its beak-ish nose? It would be horrifying except the dragon has orange raised eyebrows that give him a more benign look. But either way. "Now, young child, put this rubber serpent thing over your face and breathe deeply."
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The Twelve Months of Theo
You'd all seen the first six months, and the second six months only got better with the chub and fluff... so there you are.
Here's an example of the difficulty I had in capturing him lying *still* at 12 months. I had to anchor him with my boots, which he thought was hilarious. What a little squirrel.
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Amateur photographer's note: the natural light coming in from my windows varied quite a bit in these, so I brightened them up, producing the Andy Warhol-esque effect on the colors. And yet his eyes stayed dark because of the angle of the light. You can still mostly tell what he looked like, and I'm just being anal about it ;)
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