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Debi hosts the Baby Picture Sundays. Hop on over there to see who’s playing, and join in too!
This week’s theme is Silly Smiles. We had a little bit of a wait before Meghan’s graduation started, so we played with the camera a bit. These pictures are from that session.
Burke
Maggie (and Mommy)
Logan
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Congratulations to Meghan – my baby sister – who graduated from High School last night!!
Meghan
Here’s a quick video of her walking across the stage:
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I know that this post should be all about Meg … cuz it’s her graduation … but it’s my blog, so I’m going to have to write about how good the kids were! We brought all 3 kids with us, and even though the ceremony started right around bed time, they were *SO* good! There was some squirming (my GOD it was hot in that gymnasium), and some passing-of-the-kids among the adults…but it was all good.
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Candid Carrie sponsors this one – head over to her blog and find LOTS of links for bloggers who’ve joined in! (You can join in too!)
Usually when we head to Vermont, we stay in my Dad’s guest room (Logan and me) and the Library (Mike, Burke, and Maggie). However, my sister just moved into her new house and out of the in-law apartment, so we’re in a new space this time.
We put Logan in his own room and the twins in the living room in the toddler sleeping bags with a blow-up mattress built in. There was another blow-up mattress for Mike to sleep by the kids later on (so they don’t freak out when they wake up in the morning).
This is what I found when I went in before I went to bed.
Note the discarded toddler sleeping bags on the left
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Goddess hosts Thursday Theater. Wanna join in? Go add your name to the list!
Who says you have to be tall to play basketball? And…do you really have to use a hoop each time? Not according to Logan 🙂
(55 seconds)
I really need to get a phone with better video quality if I’m going to keep using it for these posts…Or maybe remember to bring my camera out more often…
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Sorry, this giveaway is now CLOSED.
I just received this beautiful story – Dance Me, Daddy by Cindy Morgan – in the mail yesterday. The illustrations are just wonderful and the story is inspired by a song Cindy wrote called King of the World. I seriously had tears in my eyes while reading it (when did I get so sappy??)
I enjoyed the story, but I was surprised that it ended so quickly. I thought it would have a few more pages about the later-on-in-life aspect. This didn’t take anything away from what was already there, just my initial thoughts.
The best part? It comes with a CD! The song, King of the World, is performed by Point of Grace (see below, I found it on YouTube). This, too, brought tears to my eyes (seriously – do kids make you go sappy?? I used to be a hard-a$$, just ask my best friend…I never cried!) Anyway, I can totally see this song as a father/daughter dance at weddings.
And then Cindy herself reads the story with an instrumental version of the song in the background. As I said, I enjoyed the story when I read it (with my New England accent), but when hearing Cindy read it in her slight southern drawl, words rhymed! Words like “girl” and “world” – do those rhyme when you say them? I was quite impressed and it brought on a whole new level to the book.
To round it all out, there’s an interview with Cindy. I loved hearing about her inspiration for the song and how she presented it to her husband. She also talks about her children and the differences between writing and singing.
I get to give two of these gorgeous, hard-cover books (with CD!) away!!
Now for the Giveaway part
There are multiple ways to enter – you do not have to do all of them to be entered!
One entry each for the following comments left. Pick and choose the ones you want to do, but please leave a separate comment for each option – makes for easier random.org picking. 🙂
You can also get more entries (1 each) if you:
You have until Midnight on Tuesday, June 16th to enter. Random.org will choose the winner and I’ll post it on Wednesday the 17th.
BUT WAIT! There’s more!!
Zonderkidz™ is currently hosting a “King Of Your World” contest on dancemedaddy.com, where children and parents alike can enter to win a Sony BRAVIA for Dad on Father’s Day. Simply tell a story about your own father, or a special father figure in your life or your children’s lives.
Press Release
In her new children’s book Dance Me, Daddy (Zonderkidz™, May 2009, 978-0-310-71762-1, $16.99, Hardcover) singer/songwriter and 2009 Dove Award Winner Cindy Morgan celebrates the bond between fathers and daughters everywhere. With lively illustrations by Philomena O’Neill, Dance Me, Daddy recalls the days when Daddy was the “King of the World.” The final copy of the book will include a CD with the song “King of the World” (written by Morgan and inspiration for the book) performed by Point of Grace, as well as a reading of the book by Morgan.
Cindy Morgan is a wife, mother, and singer-songwriter. She has recorded eight records, enjoyed 18 number one hits, and has won ten Dove Awards over her career. Dance Me, Daddy was inspired by a song she wrote for Christian/country stars Point of Grace – “King of the World” – which dropped to stations nationwide on June 1. A CD recording of the song, along with an interview and book reading by Cindy Morgan, are included in each copy of the book.
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Step 3 in our kitchen renovations! (Step 1 was new curtains. Step 2 was painting.) Step 4 – the biggie – is supposed to be happening next week. I’m.so.freakin.excited!!!!!
I’m going to use the “After” picture from the new curtain post as the “Before” one here.
Before
After
Mike worked SO hard on this. (I helped a little bit, but he really did the lion’s share.) We used a product called Stripeeze to get all the white paint off…which really worked well – except in all the nooks and crannies of the window sill itself. That took a lot of elbow grease in addition to the Stripeeze.
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Blog Farts – noun. Def: Crappy ideas that are too short to make a real blog post, but when combined, join forces to make one unified, albeit half a$$ed, post. see also: memes, surveys.
I’m just “borrowing” the term 🙂
(If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen a bunch of these before. I figure if I get ’em here, they’ll eventually end up in my Blog Book.)
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My jaw dropped when I heard this from Maggie this morning: “Nancy, can you help me please?” Uhm…ya. That’d be Mommy, thank you.
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Burke plays this cute game where he “glues” parts of your body (usually hands) and then sticks them somewhere … like together or to your arms or whatever. You have to play along and not be able to get unstuck until he squirts “water” onto said part. Many times, as soon as he “glues” my hands, I’ll be quicker than him and get stuck to his arms. A few days ago when we played, he did his usual “water” squirt but I told him that it wouldn’t work because I was stuck with Superglue. He just smiled and said, “But this is super water!”
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Stellar mommy moment: stapled the back of Burke’s bathing suit together so it wouldn’t fall down. (In case you’re wondering…it didn’t work very well.)
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Is it wrong to put the TV on to distract the kids so I could try to finish my book? It was Sesame Street…
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Something I never thought I’d hear myself say: “Burke! It’s not very smart to scare the cat when you have no clothes on!”
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Debi hosts the Baby Picture Sundays. Hop on over there to see who’s playing, and join in too!
The theme this week is supposed to be jeans, but since I just posted them all in their jeans for Fx4, I’ll just put up pictures of the kids with our guest from last week – my Cousin Dave (oh, and Aunt Cathy too!).
Logan and Dave
Maggie, Burke, Logan, and Dave
Burke, Aunt Cathy, and Maggie
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MyBlogSpark wants my help! They must know that I’m really good at giving my opinion 😉
I got to choose my favorite cover for the next cover of the upcoming Betty Crocker Cookies & Bars magazine (on sale in stores August 11th).
This is the one I chose:
Mmmm Cookies. I can’t wait until the magazine comes out. 🙂 I’ll let you know if they listened to me 😉
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The Zimmer Zoo 
A Year of Blogging!
Can you believe it? It’s been a whole year since I started blogging. I’m not sure if I’m surprised that an entire year has gone by, or if I’m amazed that it’s only been a year. Crazy 🙂
Happy Blogiversary to me!
One thing to note – I’ve never missed a day. Not one. I have at least one post for every single day of the past year. Oh sure – a few were pre-posted, but not many. And back in November when I joined up with NaBloPoMo, I felt guilty that I’d already been posting one per day that for many of those days I put two up! Yep. I’m crazy.
Wonder if I can keep that up for another year…
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