New friends

Freddy and Blue Toad joined the family... Henry the engine just likes hanging out with them and wanted his picture taken :). ...

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Robotnik the Big Blue Engine

All Aboard the Robotnik Train ...

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Larry the GWR Engine

Here is Larry the Koopaling as a Train from TTTE It's the Koopalings Hype Train ...

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Talking clock train

Talking clock train with Thomas. ...

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A Mad Crush

We were at the store buying school supplies when Bitty found a little blue ball. Dh and I were busy looking for the items on the list so we didn't notice the ball at first, until I heard Bitty tell one of the store employees who was walking by, "This soccer ball has a mad crush on me and keeps following me around!!!" He carried that little ball around the whole store and kept...

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Special Needs Ryan Gosling - Week 1

Coming out of blog-hiatus at least for now to join in on Special Needs Ryan Gosling with Sunday at Adventures in Extreme Parenting. I found this meme last summer, right about the time she stopped doing it for a while (of course! lol) so I never had a chance to participate and thought it looked like fun. And now she's brought it back, yay! :D There was a time that we couldn't...

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On hiatus...

I guess it's pretty obvious since I've posted all of one time in the last six months, but I'm making it official (if anyone's still reading at this point). It's not that nothing is happening, actually we've been busy as usual. Part of it is that after YEARS of sleep-deprivation-turned-insomnia, I am finally able to sleep. Maybe my body is trying to make up for all those years,...

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So aware, we're UNaware

Have you ever seen the movie, "The Three Amigos"? It's a *really* cheesy movie from back in the 80's, and there's a scene where the amigos say something along the lines of "he's SO famous, he's IN-famous!" (if my mom is reading this, and she may be the only one still checking my much-neglected blog, she's cracking up right now because she totally remembers that quote) That's...

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Special Olympics ~ Basketball

Little Bitty's class gets to participate in various Special Olympics events during the year... a couple of weeks ago was the first one of the school year - basketball :). ...

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1 in 8 babies is born to soon...

Today is Prematurity Awareness Day. To learn more, visit the March of Dimes. Click here to read our NICU story (Cuddlebug and Bearhug were born 6 1/2 weeks early due to severe pre-eclampsia). Here's a repost of my earlier prematurity awareness post (slightly edited): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you know that 1 in 8 babies is born prematurely in the U.S.? In approximately 40% of cases,...

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