nana left early wednesday morning. the kids miss her. it’s pretty obvious. davey can say things like "nana. airplane" (because she would take him outside to look at every airplane that they heard – which were a lot)! and "nana. spider" (b/c they would check the daily "progress" of the spider in shane & michelle’s [...]
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i’m seriously melting here. it’s 10 p.m. and it’s still 88 degrees in my living room. i don’t even care to know the temperature of my bedroom. ICK! a few days (a week?) ago i shared a to do list…. stuff to accomplish while nana was here. the results: if you can’t read that, [...]
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tuesday evening: july 28th today is dave’s birthday (the big 3-0). yesterday was our anniversary (the big 0-7). with my mom (nana) in town, we were able to go away for TWO NIGHTS child-free. so on sunday night and monday night we stayed at the Chrysalis Inn & Spa in Bellingham. we enjoyed [...]
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today my sweet baby girl is 9 months old. she is a joy and a delight. she is always smiling. her only cries/fussy times are heard when she’s hungry (which is far more often than davey is hungry!), tired or has a messy diaper. she can crawl like a champion. she’s crawling up and [...]
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these two: are having so much fun together. it’s been great having my mom here. she’s wonderful with the kids. and they both adore her. and i can get stuff done. like cleaning the garage. and reviewing, deleting, editing and uploading photos (over 500 were uploaded to costco tonight). and little things get done, [...]
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no pictures today, sorry. i thought i took some today at play group but it turns out i didn’t have a memory card in the camera. oops. recent life highlights: friday evening dinner here with dave’s parents and my mom. relaxing saturday afternoon and a true SURPRISE (almost) 30th birthday party for dave that [...]
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so you haven’t seen enough photos lately, you say? okay. i can accommodate that. here are a few more photos from the past week…. great grandpa with the kids: great grandma with the kids (she and sam were GOOD BUDDIES): samantha learning a new trick… STANDING! and then she decided [...]
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it’s so hard to say good-bye to the people you love…. this beautiful couple (minus the wee ones) have begun their red-eye journey home to ohio. they are currently on their way to the airport in seattle. from there, they fly (at 11 p.m.) to somewhere. to connect to somewhere. to end up [...]
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(7/15/07) two short years ago there were some big changes for the dunkin clan. tom graduated from high school. rachel got married. sterling (rachel’s husband) graduated from college. jeff started dating taryn (AND introduced her to the family). and at 36 weeks, david charles dunkin was born. 4 weeks early. a complete surprise to us [...]
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my children are so fortunate to get to spend a little bit of time (all-too-little, if you ask me) with their great grandparents. you may remember some sweet photos of gigi (my mother-in-law’s mom) with sam just a few months ago. for the past almost two weeks. we’ve spent as much time with [...]
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