Tag: Family

Greetings From Naples Suckas!

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Adventures in babysitting Day 2

The girls and I have been tearing up Naples!  Yesterday Naples Zoo and then Cambier Park to shred the killer playground.  Today a nice walk in the sun and some shopping at Waterside Shops where we tossed a couple rolls of pennies to the fountains and made some wishes.

One of Snoop Mad’s wishes was to be a BEEEEUUUTIFUL Fairy Princess. The Bean wished for the palm trees to grow big and tall and also for them to stop moving.

Greetings From Naples Suckas!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

We’re Outtie!!

White Hair Sticks Up -title provided by The Bean

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Hey guys what do you think about the Bean’s guest blogging abilities?  She is in charge of the titles.

White Hair Sticks Up -title provided by The Bean, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Snoop Maddie Mad Goes On An Airplane

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Title of this blog post provided by The Bean

Snoop Maddie Mad Goes On An Airplane, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Human Kalidoscope- Family Day At The Children’s Museum Of New Hampshire

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You scoot under this nondescript looking box and once inside there is this human kalidoscope type thing.  A cool photo for sure.

Human Kalidoscope- Family Day At The Children’s Museum Of New Hampshire, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Mindball -Family Day At The Children’s Museum Of New Hampshire

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Playing mindball at The New Hampshire Children’s Museum.   The object is to relax your mind and produce fewer brainwaves.  The sensors which you velcro around your noggin measure how relaxed you are and you can view them on the monitors above.  When you have less brain activity than your opponent the ball on the table moves toward your opponent’s circle.

It’s a game of mind tug of war but instead of stregnth as a barometer for winning- it’s relaxation!  That’s my kind of game, lol.

Family Day At The Children’s Museum Of New Hampshire-Mindball, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

The Bean Concentrates On Relaxing Her Brain

 

Family Day At The Children’s Museum Of New Hampshire

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With February vacation upon us I thought I’d share another place that you might not have discovered.  It was new to us as we’ve brought the girls to The Children’s Museum in Boston  the past two years and were looking for some new things to do.

The New Hampshire Children’s Museum fit the bill.

Family Day At The Children’s Museum Of New Hampshire, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

We ended up spending 4 hours here and literally had to drag the girls out.

 

Gloucester Day With the Bean-Lobster Platter Find At Main Street Art and Antiques

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From The Dress Code we bounced down to David Cox’ Main Street Art and Antiques for my daily dose of David Cox’ hilarity and crazy stories.  We talked about the blog and his assignments while The Bean commented on David’s filing system or lack thereof.

This vintage lobster platter can be had for a mere $28.

Gloucester Day With the Bean-Lobster Platter Find At Main Street Art and Antiques, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Lobster Platter Price Tag at Main Street Art and Antiques
Lobster Butter Warmer at Main Street Art and Antiques- $5

After a bit the Bean was ready to move on-

Gloucester Day With the Bean- Taking Silly Pictures At Barbara Koen’s Dress Code

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After finishing up our coffee and hot chocolate and cleaning up a nasty hot chocolate incident at The Lone Gull we headed up to Barbara Koen’s Dress Code.

I dig popping in there if for nothing else but to catch some of that good karma from Barbara and the girls who work there.  Always a fun experience and you never know if you’ll find a hidden gem. 

Right now there are a bunch of brand new TUMI bags selling for 1/5 or so of their original prices.  If you are a traveller you will recognize TUMI as the top brand in luggage.   These bags were smaller messenger style and laptop bags but all brand new and pretty bad-ass.  I’ve been having an internal debate about buying one for several months now.

Here’s the Bean and I taking a silly picture in the overhead curvy mirror-

Gloucester Day With the Bean- Taking Silly Pictures At Barbara Koen’s Dress Code, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Gloucester Day With the Bean- Cookie And Hot Chocolate At The Lone Gull

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Tuesday was a Gloucester Day with the Bean.  After picking her up at shool we headed down to The Lone Gull for a m&m cookie and hot chocolate. 

Both of the girls love going to the Lone Gull and while it’s obviously a coffee shop they both call it “The Cookie Store”. 

Gloucester Day With the Bean Cookie And Hot Chocolate At The Lone Gull, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Reason Number 237 That Im Turning Into My Father

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I remember in my youth my father having absolute melt-downs every once in a while after going around turning off the lights in rooms that we would leave empty.

I’d look at him like he had three heads when he had finally had enough and freak out. But now I totally understand.

It’s constant. There simply is no turning off a single light in our house. At times there are probably 30 lights on in my house and it doesn’t matter if I turn them all off, the minute someone goes into another room the light gets turned on there is not even the slightest thought of turning it off until the end of the night when it’s time for bed unless I follow everyone around all day long and play light turner offer.

You would think they all got electrocuted when turning off a light one day and have been emotionally conditioned to never try to turn a light off again.

So I can see now Dad why you had those melt-downs every once in a while. You had had it with being the light police.

Vigil Lights at The Basilica of The Immaculate Conception

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Vigil Lights in the Catholic church are lights that are lit in a certain area of the church by people that are usually asking for a favor from god.

Vigil Lights at The Basilica of The Immaculate Conception, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

The Mrs Makes A New Friend At The Markets In The Port Of Castries, St Lucia

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The Mrs Makes A New Friend At The Markets In The Port Of Castries, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Representing At The Fishing Port Of Dennery Bay St Lucia

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Representing At The Fishing Port Of Dennery Bay St Lucia, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

JJ Jinglenuts and The Bean Amuse Themselves With Marbles

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Silly video later

JJ Jinglenuts and The Bean Amuse Themselves With Marbles, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Merry Christmas Family

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Here’s the portrait that I had made for the girls

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Letter To Santa Christmas 09

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In case you’re wondering,  Ziggy is the Elf on the Shelf who reported for duty in our house.
From The Elf on The Shelf Wiki-
Elf on the Shelf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elf on the Shelf is a Christmas tradition begun in the 1970’s by Carol Aebersold. The tradition began when Aebersold’s children became curious about how Santa was able to determine who was naughty and who was nice. Aebersold answered their question by introducing her children to a toy elf and explained to them that the elf was one of Santa’s scouts and that every night he made a trip to the North Pole to report on their behavior. Every morning, after completing his journey, the elf was found in a different location in their house.

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