{"id":4808,"date":"2011-01-18T08:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:12:31","slug":"unexpected-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/unexpected-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though yesterday started off rough- and I do mean can barely hold my eyes open rough&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It got better.  <\/p>\n<p>Once the two middle kids took off for snowboarding, and Austin came home from a sleepover, I got an unexpected gift.<\/p>\n<p>Time hanging out with my firstborn.  Well and his one year old sister.<\/p>\n<p>Austin asked if we could change his room a bit so we worked all day cleaning and moving furniture. Which ended in a trip to Costco to buy a couple huge oversized beanbag chairs.  It was a nice day.  I enjoyed having him all to myself.  Love that kid.<\/p>\n<p>And this one too<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5367084642\/img_9947.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5208\/5367084642_3a6da969ef_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9947\" width=\"824\" height=\"653\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Travel basketball isn&#8217;t easy.  And last weekend two kids were out so Blake didn&#8217;t get much time to sit out and rest in back to back games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5361544934\/img_9817.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5205\/5361544934_10a77575ce_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9817\" width=\"824\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5361548232\/img_9821.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5245\/5361548232_f049448c0f_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9821\" width=\"824\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This kid cracks me up- seriously one of a kind<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5366492775\/img_9761.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5090\/5366492775_a0558d0abb_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9761\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These two love to eat popcorn and watch movies- the dogs&#8230; so bad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5367109408\/img_9787.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5170\/5367109408_1a47d6c9f0_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9787\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This dog- bad.  This makes Andy so mad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5366495255\/img_9771.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9771\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5247\/5366495255_95868361af_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9771\" width=\"824\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This girl- adorable<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5367111610\/img_9790.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9790\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5085\/5367111610_a616d518e4_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9790\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And my fave place to take her pic?  In her high chair because she can&#8217;t move.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5366491755\/img_9975.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5248\/5366491755_b6ca089e7d_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9975\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So you get to see her eat- again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5366494159\/img_9982.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9982\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5007\/5366494159_899381fea1_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9982\" width=\"824\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And her fave thing to do- poke your nose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/5367101942\/img_9972.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"IMG_9972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5241\/5367101942_df26d30918_b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9972\" width=\"583\" height=\"824\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I hear her upstairs now- time to start the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though yesterday started off rough- and I do mean can barely hold my eyes open rough&#8230; It got better. Once the two middle kids took off for snowboarding, and Austin came home from a sleepover, I got an unexpected gift. Time hanging out with my firstborn. Well and his one year old sister. Austin asked if we could change his room a bit so we worked all day cleaning and moving furniture. Which ended in a trip to Costco to buy a couple huge oversized beanbag chairs. It was a nice day. I enjoyed having him all to myself. Love that kid. And this one too Travel basketball isn&#8217;t easy. And last weekend two kids were out so Blake didn&#8217;t get much time to sit out and rest in back to back games. This kid cracks me up- seriously one of a kind These two love to eat popcorn and watch movies- the dogs&#8230; so bad This dog- bad. This makes Andy so mad This girl- adorable And my fave place to take her pic? In her high chair because she can&#8217;t move. So you get to see her eat- again. And her fave thing to do- poke your nose I hear her upstairs now- time to start the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21072,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/21072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}