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Our brand new locomotive
that Grandpa Silva built for Melissa and Jacob using his big workshop. Grandpa built
the engine in his basement, then dis-assembled it all, brought it to our backyard and
re-assembled! Quite a job and the kids love it already. Thanks grandpa!
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Amy has taken up crochet as a hobby in
a big way. Here's the sweater she crocheted for Melissa.
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Modeling is hard work! Here's
Melissa asleep on the couch after modeling Mommy's great handiwork.
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Here's Grandma and Grandpa Mescher
with Melissa and Jacob at Blackberry Farm in Aurora. Of course, they're riding in a
train.
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Variety of pics of Melissa and Jacob.
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Couple random pics of Jacob having
fun.
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Here we are at the waterpark in
Rockford. A few families brought their kids up there for a day of water park fun.
The kids loved it!
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Grandma and Grandpa Silva
took the kids out to Santa's Village for a day of fun.
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Jacob was finished with
his crib so we decided to get him a new Thomas the Tank Engine bed. He was in a bad
mood this night, but he does really enjoy it.
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The kids love to play in the sheets of
mommy and daddy's bed. Here's Jacob playing peek-a-boo and having a blast.
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What
is this? Pictures of Jacob crying?!? Here's proof that our kids aren't always
happy... but they usually aren't sad long as you can tell by the pics on the right.
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Jacob and Melissa
enjoying the end of Jacob's crib days.
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The
other thing the kids love is to tuck themselves into Mommy and Daddy's bed and watch
Blue's Klues in bed. Neither of them have a TV in their room so this is the only way
to watch TV in bed.
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Jacob making an attempt at going
potty. We're still working on it and hope to have success soon!
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Here's
Melissa enjoying a late night movie in Mommy and Daddy's bed.
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Melissa trying to convince us she's gonna sleep on
the floor. Nice try Melissa... you're cute, but you're sleeping in bed.
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Our faithful dog
Murray sleeping on our new (at the time) hardwood floors in the living room.
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Life can be tiring so here's some pics
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The kids' only living
Great-Grandpa lives down in Indianapolis so Amy likes to take them down to see him every
so often. Here's Jacob with Great-Grandpa. Amy's sister and her husband live
down by Indy as well so sometimes Amy stays with them. The other 3 pics are the kids
with Nate and Charity.
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Christmas at Grandma
and Grandpa Silva's. Grandpa builds interactive art to decorate Children's waiting
rooms in hospitals and other areas so the kids enjoy his basement.
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The Kline family stopped by our house
for Christmas 2004. Somehow dad escaped the picture but we had a great time and we
hope you can make it back!
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Melissa
building a snowman and playing in the snow.
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