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Everyday Life, Project 365

Goodbye, February

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I’m rather glad to check another month off on the countdown to Spring. Just a few more hours left until… March! March, when everything starts to get better. Sort of. We’re supposed to get 3-8 inches of snow this weekend.

Reed and Lena are still munching on their Valentine’s Day candy. She was playing with her candy hearts, organizing them, then messing up her groups.
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Gus has been handling Reed and Lena eating candy around him everyday pretty well. He reacts to Red Dye 40, so even if they wanted to share with him, I wouldn’t let them. He doesn’t entirely get that candy is superior to other food yet, so he hasn’t been bothered by it. But, today, he came over to her while she was eating and said “I hungry, Vya. I hungry.”

February Photo a Day. I never got out to do more star photography, unfortunately. There are also a few instagram pictures, but that’s what it comes down to sometimes.
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Everyday Life, Project 365

What a Week

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“It’s been a long week,” I thought. . . and then I realized it was Tuesday.

That about sums it up.

I found this new app “The Bible App for Kids”. I don’t usually download a lot of kids stuff and let my kids play with my phone often, but this is a cool app.
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It has simple Bible stories broken down with a bit of text and a short game/animation.
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It’s free, so I downloaded it out of curiosity, but my kids really like it. The animations are cute and for young kids who don’t play a lot of digital games, they’re perfect.

I told Gus that he could come and sit next to me while I worked and play with my phone. And this quickly happened.
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These two. Sometimes, they act like friends/siblings and other times, she mothers him.
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He asks about her as soon as we drop her off at school in the morning. “Vya school?”

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And, here she is, just being cute.

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Late Night

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Gus is an awful sleeper. He wakes up often and for long periods of time.

I haven’t figured it out yet. I’ve tried a weighted blanket, melatonin, cutting out food dyes, cutting out naptime… I’m down to two possibilities: food intolerance (to something major that is in everything– wheat, corn, dairy, eggs?) or pushing back bedtime.

Both of those are difficult for different reasons and I’ve been avoiding testing either one of them. So, if anyone has any wonderful ideas for getting a 3 year old to sleep at night, let me know.

Tonight, I took a video of a piece of our conversation. I think it’s cute, but I might be biased. However, Gus also says “I so funny”, so if the kid who stars in it thinks it’s funny, it must be, right?

I think he might finally be asleep again, so yay for that.

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Homemade Fruit Snacks

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I made fruit snacks. Yeah, I’m awesome.

Fine, I’ll confess… 4 ingredients. You do have to measure stuff and squeeze lemons, but otherwise super easy.

Why did I make them? The 4 ingredients are: fruit(in my case, strawberries), lemons, [raw] honey, and gelatin. All of those things are awesome for you (although I won’t deny my mixed feelings on gelatin’s source).

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Results: Aaron and I both like them. I’ve found myself grabbing a handful here and there throughout the day. Reed and Lena say they like them, although I packed them in their lunches, so I can’t verify. Gus also says he likes them, but won’t actually eat them. I think it’s more the squishy texture than the taste. They are bit lighter, squishier and less dense than regular fruit snacks, but they’re good!

And here’s the recipe.