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week 46 in pictures

sunday:015 when dave went in to wake up layla, this is how he found her. face, essentially, smooshed between the bunk bed rail and the mattress, and the covers pulled up over her head.

monday:022 roscoe, chilling on the pooh couch. dakota figured out how to get it to open up to make a nice little doggy bed. roscoe just took advantage when it was vacated.

tuesday:068 my 2 pages of allergy test results. the red ones have to go!

wednesday:050micah fell asleep during quiet time, snuggling a domino. he had been pretending it was a phone or a video game and insisted on taking it in with him for quiet time.

thursday:003 the missing lug nut.

friday:066 crazy busy day. kids had half days at school because of conferences. I has my workout in the morning, then came home and tidied up because tina was coming over at 11:30 to cut my hair, shane’s hair, and my mom’s hair. I even went to the bus stop w/ part of my hair clipped up because she wasn’t done drying it! then I had to run off to do back-to-back parent-teacher conferences at the school. I was supposed to be taking layla to PT after that, but her therapist has since sent us off to a new therapist in seattle who has more experience with toe-walkers, so her appointment was cancelled. my parents stayed for the afternoon, since it was friday and our turn to host pizza night… which brings me to the picture. since wheat, dairy, and green beans are all on the ‘red list’, pizza and beans were out for me. so I made one of my big fat salads. (I love these SO much!) this is no ordinary salad. mixed greens, spinach, radishes, tomatoes, snap peas, red cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, cucumbers, carrots, BACON, and sliced turkey. for dressing, fresh squeezed lemon juice and EVOO, with a sprinkling of paprika, garlic powder, and fresh ground pepper and sea salt. serious yum factor.

saturday:

no pic, no idea.  guess layla will have to draw something.

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