Mondays are busy. BUSY. BIZZAY.
Graham has school on alternating Mondays. After school he and Nathan have back-to-back swim lessons. When those are complete, Honey brings all three kidlets home to a meal that I have prepared in advance (he just has to cook it), and I do 1.25 hours of step boot camp. I arrive home at the bathtime/meltdown hour which is all sorts of awesome.
Throw in some work deadlines I have, and the fact that Old Man Winter is HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE, and my camera has been feeling neglected. She is pouting in the corner.
Tuesdays are always a school day for G. I am leaving the other two with Daddy for a couple of hours so that I can see a hairdresser to clean up and colour the frizzy mop that I have on my head. So again, no photo opportunities. I could take a photo of my hair brushed out and huge, but I’ll spare you the fright of your life.
I am also feeling a little achy and oh-no-I’m-getting-sick like. I hope it’s a false alarm. Because if not? My camera is going to leave me for someone who shows her more attention. Hussy.
But the kids! They made me take a few photos!
Graham and Emily have a relationship that warms my heart. He takes such great care of her, and she waddles behind him like a little duckling. Nathan and Emily have a relationship that follows a variation of the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time they show love and affection to each other. The other twenty percent of the time?
NOT SO MUCH.
Yesterday morning they crawled up onto a chair and were cuddling. Nathan yelled at called out to me, “Mommy! Take a picture of us!”
That cloth is the one I had just used to wash her hands after breakfast. She LOVES to suck the water out of it. Totally sick, in my opinion, but if I take it away, she screams.
I pick my battles carefully.
The both spontaneously started saying, “cheese”.
Emily decided to take her “cheese” up a notch.
Now with the sideways glance.
Then it was time for a cuddle and a rest. And more cloth-sucking. EW.
After that little rest, Miss Emily decided to throw out the Super Cheese.
I’d lock my jaw if I tried that manoeuvre.
I walked away to put my camera down. If I remember correctly, he swiped her cloth and she pinched him.
That’s how they roll.
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That is just too adorable! 
I also remember sucking on cloths when I was a kid. I don’t think they had ever been used to wipe my hands or anything else before I was sucking on them, though. I was quite the Miss Priss as a little girl, and hated anything dirt related.
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Comment by Sharon on April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:55 amI hadn’t been around here in a while! Good to see that you’re still posting those beautiful pictures.
You had me laughing with the “threw out the supercheese” line. That one was just too good. I will have to steal it!
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Comment by Gabriel on April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:58 amDoes the alternating school day thing bug you at all? I know it would drive me crazy. I would constantly be forgetting which day it was. I’m a routine girl
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Comment by LVGurl on April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:28 amfaithful here. love reading about your kiddos- (i believe miss emily and my rachael are near the same age) but, i MuST see a pic of the new ‘do.
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Comment by Mom Next Door on April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:31 amI don’t even know what to say.
There are NO WORDS.
I’m crying, I’m laughing so hard.
Dang…that was a good abdominal workout.
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Comment by songsinblue on April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:39 amI love it! Absolutely love it!
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Comment by Anna on April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:16 amSounds like fun… that’s almost my scenario with H and S, however S just grabs his stuff and tries to eat it…
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Comment by Elizabeth on April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:47 amIt’s good they recognize a good photo op.
And are willing to pose.
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Comment by witchypoo on April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:53 amSupercheese is awesome! Big smiles are the way to go!
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Comment by Meg on April 22nd, 2008 @ 10:54 amthey are so cute. josh and his little sister have a very different relationship. they are both all about telling the other that he/she is wrong…it’s GREAT….let me tell you…;)
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Comment by ali on April 22nd, 2008 @ 10:59 amhahahaha
That sounds like my and Nick’s (my brother who is 18 months younger than I) relationship. Except opposite. 80 percent of the time we faught, and 20 percent of the time we got along!
I’m loving the cheese.
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Comment by Mrs. Wilson on April 22nd, 2008 @ 11:09 amAh, the start of the real cheesy smiles!! She’s good at them!! Now she has mastered it, you might have a problem capturing “real” smiles … try getting your kids to say “monkeys” instead of “cheese”, that’s what we do and you get a more natural smile out of them. But of course it’s good to snap some of those real cheesy smiles every so often because they are SO cute!!
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Comment by Hannah on April 22nd, 2008 @ 11:33 amOh, and I’m looking forward to seeing a photo of your new hairdo … you will post one, right?! Enjoy your “me time” at the hairdresser, too!
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Comment by Hannah on April 22nd, 2008 @ 11:35 amWhat an amazing grin!! I remember sucking on cloths too, but I did it with the one in the bathtub… eww. My mom definitely picked that as one of her battles, but I’m glad you’re letting your kid enjoy herself.
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Comment by Tricia on April 22nd, 2008 @ 12:21 pmAwww. CUTE kids you have there, not that you didn’t already know that!
Guess what?
I figured out how to change the ISO setting to get clear pictures! Score one for me and your foto friday tutorial about 8 months ago. A fast learner I am not;-)
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Comment by Kami on April 22nd, 2008 @ 12:28 pmAWESOME pictures, I love photo shoots like those, they are just to cute and funny!
Really hoping you don’t get sick!
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Comment by Kristin on April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:11 pmI love when kids will have fun in front of the camera!
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Comment by TheAngelForever on April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:41 pmAdorable…truly! What an honest interaction. Maybe Emily can teach Chloe how to do the cheese smile, I just can’t get her to smile for the camera…a million faces, but no legit smile. That would be a great series to frame!
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Comment by Filtering Life on April 22nd, 2008 @ 4:55 pmWhat a goofball!! Those faces are hilarious! Nathan is playing his cheese face all cavalier. He’s so smooth.
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Comment by Alexandria on April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:14 pmOh dear … those pictures are way way way too cute.
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Comment by Red Lotus Mama on April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:50 pmEmily has me laughing out loud!!! She is too much! Such sweet things, those kids of yours!
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Comment by Michele on April 22nd, 2008 @ 11:37 pmI think I remember sucking on washcloths too.
Big brothers can be awesome and so annoying in mere seconds!
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Comment by Kristabella on April 23rd, 2008 @ 1:22 pmoh.my.gawd.how.cute.are.they? I can’t stand that SuperCheese! I just wanna eat her up!
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Oh I love them
And I, too, remember sucking on a cloth when I was younger. Boy, that is pretty gross, isn’t it? My mom picked her battles, too
You should post pictures of the new hair! I’ll bet you look sexaaay. And I hope you’re not coming down with anything. Just think: Summer, Summer, Hot Tub, Summer
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