Wow. I managed to let myself get a whole month behind in blog postings. Yikes! OK, time to start catching up. We recognized quickly when we got back from vacation that it was time to move Jonathan from his crib into a big boy bed. He’s just too big – he kept waking himself up [...]

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Mikaela started back at school the day after we got back from vacation. She was excited to start first grade, and has adjusted well to full day school. She brings her lunch most days (in her beloved Harry Potter lunchbox), buys her lunch at school once/week, and is generally enjoying that she can choose what [...]

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Sorry for being slow at posting the wrap-up of the Minnesota Trip – getting back just in time for Mikaela to start first grade had me a bit distracted. HIghlights of the last few days of vacation included a return trip to the House of Bounce (this time, Jonathan got to come too – last [...]

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We set out for Rochester, MN on Sunday, beginning the more relaxed leg of our vacation trip. Not that it hasn’t been fun – it’s been great. But the pace has been much more relaxed. We’ve spent much of our time hanging out at the “Mouse House” with Steve and Sali and Gabe and Eli. [...]

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Mikaela and I spotted Miriam and Jon getting on the Carousel, and the timing was almost perfect – we were just getting off the Ferris Wheel and they weren’t yet off the Carousel. We caught up with them and explained the phone situation. It was a good time to break for lunch anyway, so Miriam [...]

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Day three of our vacation started with breakfast at Keys Cafe Bakery at the Foshay, a spot-on referral from the Concierge here at The Ivy. As an aside, I really can’t say enough good things about this hotel and its staff. Our room is beautiful, with a great view of downtown Minneapolis from the 19th [...]

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Day Two in Minneapolis started with a 7:30 a.m. wake-up call (which, at The Ivy, is accompanied by a complimentary carafe of coffee, delivered to the room within minutes of the wake-up call). We got everyone dressed and headed to breakfast at our favorite downtown Minneapolis breakfast spot – Hell’s Kitchen. We figured if the [...]

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We promised Mikaela on Thursday night that we wouldn’t wake her up at 5 a.m. to leave for Minnesota (she was TIRED Thursday night, after the flurry of packing activities). But we didn’t promise her that we wouldn’t wake her up BEFORE 5 a.m.
In an effort to avoid the local KC traffic on [...]

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We decided that the best chance for getting the kids to cooperate with doing chores was to start them early. Luckily Jonathan LOVES doing his laundry. And he’s darned cute doing it too. My favorite is when he disappears into the washer to make sure that he’s gotten all of his clothes out and moved [...]

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