{"id":1469,"date":"2009-08-14T21:36:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2009-08-14T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:36:04","slug":"grandma-sandys-coming-for-a-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Grandma Sandy&#8217;s coming for a visit!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cardwells-kids-elk-lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1470\" title=\"cardwells-kids-elk-lake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cardwells-kids-elk-lake-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"cardwells-kids-elk-lake\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cardwells-kids-elk-lake-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cardwells-kids-elk-lake.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Analise pulled out her lacing cards this afternoon, which she hasn&#8217;t played with in months&#8230; or maybe even since Grandma Sandy was here last year!\u00a0 She said, &#8220;It&#8217;s been like a week since I played with these!&#8221;\u00a0 She&#8217;s just finally caught on to the go up from the bottom\/go down from the top to &#8220;sew&#8221;.\u00a0 I was impressed.<\/p>\n<p>She was really excited about the lacing cards, though, and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to sew with Grandma Sandy! And you&#8217;re going to&#8230; do chores!&#8221;\u00a0 Haha.\u00a0 Sounds like fun.\u00a0 Maybe Grandma Sandy and I can at least work in a trip to Kohl&#8217;s around all my chores&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(This post is going to be filled with randomness, as that&#8217;s the status of my mind today, this week, this month&#8230; come to think of it, this year!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1471\" title=\"swing-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"swing-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Analise has also reached another wonderful developmental milestone.\u00a0 She hopped on a swing, got herself going, and started pumping her legs, swinging completely independently.\u00a0 Honestly, this is an exciting achievement!\u00a0 It means that my work on the playground just got much easier&#8230; or at least divided in half.\u00a0 Between potty-training and swinging, it&#8217;s serious freedom for a mom \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1472\" title=\"swing-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-2-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"swing-2\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-2-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/swing-2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do have pictures from our Out West Adventure in the works.\u00a0 At the moment, it&#8217;s an open folder on my desktop with my favorites.\u00a0 But currently, there are more than 80 of them, not counting <a href=\"http:\/\/happyhafflys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corrie&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/motherofpearls.net\/\">Michelle&#8217;s<\/a> from our visits with them.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to pare it down to less than 50 for your enjoyment \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Actually, I&#8217;ve got coupons for photobooks that expire soon, and so that may happen before they get uploaded here&#8230;\u00a0 Or not.<\/p>\n<p>But Grandma Sandy&#8217;s coming tomorrow, and we&#8217;re going to have a great visit with her this next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analise pulled out her lacing cards this afternoon, which she hasn&#8217;t played with in months&#8230; 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