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Tooth
Darren Matthew just cut his first tooth yesterday... Gosh this is happening WAY too quickly!!!!!! Sigh! He is such a happy man through it all. Thumb in his mouth and a little more drooling, but other...
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Ice Skating
A couple of weeks ago the ENTIRE Reitz/Klein side of the family went ice skating! Oh my goodness, SOOOOOOOO much fun! We all had a blast!!!!! We figured that the kids would get sick of it within the...
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Thoughts By Mallory
Mallory said the cutest thing last night... something that I'm sure someday we will have to say to her (or her boyfriend...Eeeeek!).I was holding Darren on my lap last night, he was facing me and we...
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Bless His Heart
Wesley was born with a heart murmur. Just a teeny, tiny little 1 out of 6 murmur. We had it worked up locally and it was fine. A 'normal innocent systolic murmur.' And by last year it had gone away...
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Let's Move
Yesterday Darren hit two milestones! First he pushed himself up into a sitting position from laying down, then he started crawling!!!!!! Not the fast/covering lots of ground type of crawling. But...
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Dedication Day
Yesterday was Darren Matthew Klein's Dedication Day! Yesterday morning Mallory and I walked around the house saying "It's dedication day! It's dedication day!" (said to the voice/tone of Anna in Frozen...
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Perfect
O.k. let's all breath in a deep cleansing breath and praise God that Wesley's heart is just fine! Today Matthew and I took him to a cardiologist in s.f. They did an ekg and an echo and they informed us...
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I can't believe it... just 11 days after learning to crawl Darren is working on his newest accomplishment STANDING! What a strong little stinker! This little man need to stop growing up so quickly and...
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Fractured
Last night while trying to do way to much all at the same time (kids into bath, teeth brushed, Wes into the potty, keep Darren from falling down the stairs...) you know, normal mom things. I baked my...
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A Dream Vacation
We just got back from a wonderful almost dream-like family vacation! It was amazing! Friday night after I got off work we loaded up the kids and headed down to Poway, which is a 9 hour drive, so we...
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That's So Silly
This morning I dressed Darren in a shirt that says 'Champ' so I naturally was walking around the house singing the Queen song, We Are The Champions. Mallory asked what that song was and where I learned...
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34
Yesterday I tinned 34! I am now officially in my mid30s! It was a great day, I didn't have to work, the kids were darn near perfect (evident from this picture... which was the first and only picture I...
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December Update
I know it has been a while since I have updated the blog, needless to say we have been busy ('tis the season). So here is a little December update...It had been raining...no, more like torrential down...
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Christmas 2014
Christmas was wonderful this year. Hectic. Overwhelming. Crazy. But very very fun! We awoke on Christmas morning at our house (I was up at 6 am too excited to sleep in)! The kids got up about 7ish and...
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With a BANG!
Runners, on your mark.... Get set.... BANG!Julie and I started the new years with a little 5K race. It went great. Aside from the cold. It was 36 degrees... which for us sissy California folk that is...
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Beautiful Day
Happy Winter!? Fall? Heck, California's weather is just a little confused. And I'm ok with that. Look at how beautiful it is outside!!!!
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Mothers
I got an email from my mother-in-law tonight regarding 'Why God Made Moms...'. It was answered by 2nd graders with cute little non-logical but endearing answers. I thought that I would ask Mallory (to...
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Wesley's Three!
Holy cow! Wesley is THREE! I can't believe how time has flown by! Moments ago it felt like I was rocking him to sleep, now he's running around the house reeking havoc on everyone and everything in his...
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Gag!
Wesley has a wart on his finger. A little one that the doctor said we should just apply a little 'wart remover' to every night. So we do. Every night. It's the slow way to remove a wart...apparently...
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I'm not sure if ANYTHING is as strong as mom guilt. You know the guilt trip that we lay on ourselves. When everyone else has long forgotten, we beat ourselves up over it....again....and again...and...
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Well, despite the removal of the moldy pillows, Mallory has continued you cough...Sad. And though I was annoyed by it, the guilt that I felt for letting her pillows grow mold kept me calm and...
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One!
How is it possible that my baby, my littlest man, my last (probably) is one today?!?!?! Where did the time go?Oh sweet little D-Man, you are a treasure! A sweet and kind soul that loves to laugh,...
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Tooth Fairy and Doctors Visit
I know that I've said it before.... but these kids are growing up way too quickly. The nigh before last Mallory lost her first tooth... at age 4 1/2! It's crazy to me! Now with a little window in her...
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Home Ownership
Oh the joys of owning a home! When we bought this house we knew that the roof was bad... and we still brought it. Knowing that in a few years we would have to replace it. Turns out that we needed to...
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D-Man's 1st Party
Darren's first birthday party was wonderful. Though it was planed to be outside at the park we awoke to rain. Boo. So we texted people and let them all know that the party would be at our house. Turns...
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