Conversations with Leah

Just picked up Leah and Lars and I was headed home. I popped in a CD with their music and the following conversation ensued:

Leah: Is this Imagination Movers?
Me: Yes it is.
Leah: I like Imaganation Movers, can we listen to it loud?
*turns up radio*
Me: ARE YOU ROCKING OUT?"
Leah: WHAT YOU SAY? WHAT?
*turns down radio*
Me: When you want to ask someone what they said you should say "Can you please tell me what you said?"
Leah: I SAID WHAT!
Me: No, when you ask someone that you should say "Can you tell me what you said, please?"
Leah: I SAID WHAT!
Me: YOU need to say "Can you tell me what you said, please?"
Leah: I SAID WHAT!
*turns up radio*

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(1) comments Posted by Kelly @ 1/29/2010 03:31:00 PM

 

Getting our snow on...the ground

We got quite the snow storm here. I am not sure what the official snowfall is, but we had spots in our yard that were 2' deep. We spent about 45 minutes getting ready (and they were very sad minutes, near constant crying), but once we got them out in the snow it was much happier.

Made a snow house with snow chairs, including a daddy sized one that mommy squished into a snow shea's lounge. I also discovered that Leah loves to get people to make snowballs for her, but as soon as you do you get hit by said snowball.


much happier.


What are you doing to me, dad?


Not something *I* want to clear off.
(0) comments Posted by csexton @ 12/19/2009 08:05:00 PM

 

Quotable Leah

Kelly wearing sleeping pants and a nice silk shirt, checking on Leah after date night:

Leah: Mommy, why aren't you wearing a sleeping shirt?
Mommy: I didn't have time to put one on yet.
Leah: *touches shirt*
Mommy: Do you like it?
Leah: No. I don't like it very much. But it looks nice!

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(0) comments Posted by csexton @ 12/13/2009 08:34:00 PM

 

Halloween Pt. 1

Today was the Halloween Parade at Leah's preschool. As per her request, she was a bird. She was also the ONLY child there (that I noticed, but I was looking) who was wearing a homemade costume. I know parents in DC tend to be busy professional types, but I figured they'd put in a little effort.

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(2) comments Posted by csexton @ 10/29/2009 09:09:00 PM

 

Long overdue week week blog

I think letting this much time pass after beach week before writing the blog was a bad thing. Now that it has been a while it feels like it was a good vacation. It wasn't. Everyone got sick, it was fairly cold, and I never ate an actual burger form dune burger.

Well, about halfway through the week I started taking score. This pretty much sums up the week.

Beach week score

1 - 102° fever
1 - Vomit covered couch
1 - Diaper rash so bad it bled
1 - Not quite severed finger
5 - Peoples less than healthy
2 - Trips to the doctor
1 - Rescued frog from the pool
2 - Not quite so rescued crabs from pool
0 - Nights of solid sleep
5 - Trips to dune burger
3 - Trips to Kitty Hawk
1 - Never ending smoke alarm
1 - Foot splinter the size of a tooth pick
0 - Drownings
3 - Lbs of bacon
3 - Sub par offers on our house
1 - Termite damaged bath room (@ Belgrave)
25 - Muchkins
1 - Gate injury
1 - Fence Injury
1 - Poo stain on the carpet
1 - Case of vertigo
1 - Fly up the nose
1 - Cube of beef in the ear
N - High centered senors on baby gates
1 - Cat unresponsive to antibiotics
0 - Exploding oil pans on I-295

Clearly there is plenty to be grateful on that list, but plenty that made for a less than ideal vacation.

Still, it is nice to have a photogenic set o' kids:


Lars going eagle style on that shell.



Lars and his pops on Life is Good shirt day


Convincing grandpa that Hawaiian shirts are cool


Leah found some shells and they are pretty


Taking her brother out to the lighthouse


Nene with them kids on Life is Good shirt day


Busted!

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(0) comments Posted by csexton @ 10/19/2009 11:17:00 AM

 

All About Leah

This is Leah's first real school project.

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(0) comments Posted by csexton @ 10/15/2009 09:37:00 PM

 

The Mayflower Voyage

It has been stressful, exhausting and all around crazy, but it seems like the hard parts are over (knock-knock). We have the inspection and appraisal on Ft. Truxion have worked out in our favor, and our offer on Mayflower was just accepted.



And the kitchen that my wife has told me she "will live, die and sleep in":



Apparently the cover letter Kelly composed was instrumental in swaying the owners in to accepting our offer over the competition, pasted here for posterity:

Dear Mr. and Mrs. ****,
I wanted to take a moment to tell you first what a lovely home you have created and second how much my family is looking forward to the possibility of it being our new home.

When my husband and I first walked into your house I could immediately see myself living there – the main floor, and kitchen in particular just felt like the perfect home for us. We have two toddlers – Leah who is 3 years old and Laurence who is 14 months – and I love to cook and entertain. Therefore, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen between keeping up with the kids’ growing appetites and cooking for friends and family when they stop by. In our current house that removes me from everyone and the way you have opened up that whole floor is exactly what I am looking for to be able to take care of my family and still be able to spend time with them.

As at home as I felt in the kitchen, the kids were equally enchanted with the back yard. They were smiling and giggling as they ran all around “the park”. We are moving because we currently spend far too much time with the kids strapped into car seats during our commute up to McLean each day, and being able to get them home quickly and to such a wonderful place to play will make for much more enriching experiences and pleasurable memories.

Again, I must say what a lovely home you have created – we feel as if we can move in and wouldn’t need to change a thing for it to be our home too, not just our new house. Interestingly, we bought our current house from The **** – we’d be thrilled to keep up that trend.

I wish you the best of luck in your move to ****.

Sincerely,

Kelly M Sexton

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(0) comments Posted by csexton @ 10/14/2009 07:49:00 PM