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Just Doing the Crosswords

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Just Doing the Crosswords
Photo-A-Day #1330

Today we took Eva to visit with Allison’s grandparents, both sets. We had a nice morning in and slept late. We needed a little extra sleep. Then we headed up to Fitchburgh, MA. We went to John and Eva’s house where Bob and Jackie met us and the 7 of us enjoyed an afternoon of visiting, pizza and brownies. The Great-Grandparents were thrilled to spent the time with Eva. She was so cute. Eva is walking and talking a bit now and she has a very nice sense of comedic timing. She really has a good understanding of what we ask of her and it just amazes people.

After a wonderful afternoon we headed home and stopped at the Solomon Pond Mall. I am pretty anti-Black Friday because of the huge displays of greed but we were stopping to return something and I can get behind getting money back. The trip turned into a little more than a return though. I had been sitting in the car with Eva because she passed out 2 minutes into the ride home. The kid had been going non stop since 8:30am. Allison texted me that Stride Rite was having a sale of buy one pair get the second at 50% off. Eva is walking now and she needs some actual shoes so I brought her into the mall and we picked out two very cute pairs of shoes. I have two photos of Eva getting shoes, man I am in trouble now. We picked out two very cute pairs that my mom said she would buy for her for Eva’s birthday. When mom comes home with the Christmas Tree tomorrow she’ll see Eva in some very cute footwear.

I’m off to Watch the Psych Christmas Episode. I think they did one last year too. I love that show.

I hope that you remember that I have two contests happening right now. One is to choose the 12 photos from this past year that should be part of the 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar and the other is for a Digital Photo Frame from Edge Tech Corp. Easy to enter and you have 2 more days.

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Scoop, Scoop, Scoop

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Scoop, Scoop, Scoop
Photo-A-Day #1318

This is the rally cry of Eva’s swimming lessons. Eva can really reach out and scoop, scoop, scoop her hands and kick, kick, kick her feet. I was able to see this today at the Y when we went to a birthday party for Eva’s friends Nate and Audrey and Allison’s friend Michelle. I have to say the involvement of Allison in the local area mom’s group has been really great for both Allison and Eva. They have both made some really nice friends in our area that otherwise we probably would not have met.

We had a nice Sunday, lazy morning and then to Church, Eva was pretty good but she gets tired right at that time for Church so it makes it a bit tough to keep her entertained and also quiet for the people around us. After that I went and did the week’s shopping and somehow lost an hour of my life. I thought I was doing well but I guess I was not because I didn’t get home till 1:30 and as consequence had to pick up Happy Meals for a quick lunch before we ran off to the party. Eva did enjoy the couple of french fries and some of the McNuggets. This is certainly not a regular occurrence as Eva generally eats what we eat and we generally eat pretty well each week. In fact we now sit down and try and plan out what will be made each week and how many days it can stretch and the like. I still leave Stop and Shop wondering how 4 reusable bags can cost so much. But I did pretty well with coupons this time. I think that as we do this we will also dust off some of our cook books and take a look at what is on sale and then look in the cookbook to see what can be made with that particular item, meat, fish or chicken, etc. This should help cut down the impulse spending and the multiple trips.

We’re also going to start getting delivery from our local dairy, Munroe Dairy. We’re gonna try this for 6 months and see if planning ahead helps us keep costs down.

By The Way, I took this shot with my waterproof digital video camera the Sanyo EC1, it makes a great Christmas gift for your watersports enthusiast.