I'm sorry. I've been a slug lately. I have recently lost all motivation to do anything but the bare minimum, and this blog wasn't that.
Oddly enough, on the day I feel the worst (have a cold) I've decided I can't stand it anymore and I'm going to recap, tornado version. Because if I don't do something now, I'll just feel even more overwhelmed and never do it.
Here goes:
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The Frog with our sole snowman of the year |
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Pink (beet) pancakes for Valentine's |
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sadly didn't stay pink once cooked... |
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Peach does this cuddly thing. A LOT. It's adorable. |
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This time, though, she did it on the counter? |
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I went all out this year, and made a Valentine's card for Jay. |
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3D style. |
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I don't think I'll ever be able to top this. |
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Homemade Okonomiyaki. Hopefully I'll give a step-by-step one of these days. |
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The cuteness magootness |
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she loves those shoes. and all shoes. |
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daddy and Iris went to Disneyland and brought back the hugest lolly-pops ever. |
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I wish I had the after pic with their black mouths. |
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The Frog pulls down all his clothes in his closet when he gets mad at me. |
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This time, I guess it tired him all out. |
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They are actually occasionally nice to each other now. Hooray! |
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Pistachio cake for St. Patty's Day, since I was too lazy for corned beef and cabbage. |
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She wanted me to take her pic for some reason. She immediately says "cheeeeeese" whenever she sees the camera and it's hard to get her to not look like this. |
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Riding the train together. |
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don't you just want to SQUEEZE her? |
Update: I just uploaded photos from my camera, thinking it would be Easter on, turns out I had photos from March 22 on, so this is really more like "5 weeks in a jiffy". I changed the date on this so I could try to make it reflect chronology better, 'cause I'm just anal like that...