Thursday, April 20, 2017

Grandparents, Easter, and the Big O-N-E.

Well, it was time for a facelift for the blog. By which I mean, Chinese trademark and patent law is not all that interesting so I played around with formatting instead of taking notes. Which should go well in two weeks (!!!) on the final exam. 
For reasons related to my still-largely-unwritten thesis, this entry will be short on words. Luckily we had an idyllic, beautiful long spring weekend with Grandma Jayne and Grandpa Tony, so it'll be long on photos. Over the next couple weeks, as I spend beautiful spring days in the depths of the windowless law library, I'll have Seth make the kids do lots of cute things and take pictures so we have something other than outlines and footnotes to offer.

We were so lucky to have Jayne and Tony here for an early birthday celebration for Ford, as they had been with us for Finley's first too. And just like Finley's, we did a low key celebration at home, and it was perfect. Ford loved his cupcakes-and-steak meal and his presents, which Finley kindly shared with him. 
And his new bounce house, which was a huge hit and a killer purchase.
The kids got up at an ungodly hour on Easter and tore through their baskets,
celebrated with the neighbors,
and went to a "fancy" Easter brunch at the West Point Club. At which Ford ate his body weight in french toast and Finley acted like a real heathen and smeared chocolate all over her new Easter dress.
Which produced keepsake Easter photos like this one.
We also went to the Army football spring game, and the kids had a terrific time stuffing their faces and terrorizing the bleachers.
The weather has been stupendous, so Finley and Ford and Grandma and Grandpa got in lots of playground time.
Not to mention cookies/ cleaning sprinkles off the carpet time. And driving.
I even managed a quick date with this handsome guy, thanks to grandparents. (We went to Starbucks and to pick up dry cleaning. It was pretty romantic.)
Now we're buckling down, and counting down until summer vacation. Finley tells me she's going to "a castle" before bed every night. France had better deliver. But first, finals...

Hard to pick favorites, but these are two of mine from the long weekend. Laughing with Grandma & Grandpa.
And the big birthday boy. I'm not scheduling my "Ford's a year old" freakout until Friday, but doesn't he look grown up (and, yes, handsome)??

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