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It took me a while to remember when this picture was from.  It’s from the graduation party of my cousin’s son.  Lots of good desserts and Maren mowed down on a couple cupcakes and wandered over and grabbed a number of cookies as well.

She was green for the rest of the day, if not into the next.  Frosting is a pain in the a$$ to get off!

Seeing this picture reminds me that I was supposed to design a program for the grad.  He wants to get beefier – but what 18 year old guy doesn’t?

Maren has decided she likes to wear sunglasses, carry multiple purses and wear heels.  Granted the heels are only 1/2 inch tall, she still wears them well.

She’s only 2 and I’m already worried about going broke in her teen years.  I seriously doubt my abilities to say “No” when the time comes.  Maybe I should start practicing now so that maybe by then I’ll have a little backbone.

Doubtful.

Andrea took this picture with my iPhone last week and I absolutely love it.

The quality of the picture sucks because it’s a phone, she took it herself and it’s damn near impossible to get Maren to stand in one place for longer than 1/50th of a second and the shutter speed of a camera phone isn’t too snappy.

But I love it because it’s my two favorite ladies and it’s just so frickin’ cute it’s not even funny.

I don’t know how Andrea got Maren to rest her hand on her shoulder and lean in like some cheesy wedding photographer, but she did.

This pic was taken last week while Andrea and I were working out at my training studio.

Maren loves coming to the studio and running around while we workout.  Sometimes it’s fun to watch her, other times it makes me cringe because she tears the place apart.  My studio is full of resistance tubing, foam rollers, medicine balls, small medicine balls, etc. and she throws everything all over the place.

But, she gets to watch us exercise and tries to mimic some of our movements like push-ups, squats and lunges, so that’s kinda cool.

We call her our little Helper Monkey, and this picture shows she’s turning into one.  Oddly enough, I got the name Helper Monkey from an episode of The Simpsons where Homer lied to some an organization that provided helper monkeys to handicapped people just so he could get one to do his bidding.  The monkey got fat and lazy…

Last week we went to our very first Sesame Street Live.

Maren loved it.  Andrea and I kinda liked it mostly because Maren liked it so much.

However, with about 20 minutes left, you’re about ready to run out of the auditorium yelling and screaming because it gets so annoying and maddening.  Elmo screeching and speaking about himself in the third person, all the singing and dancing…enoug!

But she loved it, so it’s OK.

Anyway, before we went to the show we went out to dinner.  Sometimes that goes OK, other times it’s horrible.  This time wasn’t so bad, plus she likes to eat our salads so that’s good.  We’re getting her started off on the right foot, even though she does take after her daddy and asks for cheeseburgers all the time.

You’ll notice that the majority of the salad is iceberg lettuce.  Iceberg lettuce sucks.  It’s worthless and is mostly water.  There aren’t that many nutrients in it and it’s pretty much void of fiber and all the other good stuff that’s found in romaine or spinach.

Stay away from salads loaded with iceberg lettuce because they’re usually wolves in sheep’s clothing.