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I just have to refer you here<\/a> — Maryann captured some million-dollar smiles of my boys on Sunday. It was horribly hot all weekend, so she and I were looking for indoor activities for our boys.<\/p>\n

We turned them loose with some crafts, and the painting went from “let’s paint with sponges” to “let’s paint with hands, arms, lips and BELLIES!”<\/p>\n

I’ll need to upload a picture of Timmy’s art work — a belly print, complete with belly-button hole!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just have to refer you here — Maryann captured some million-dollar smiles of my boys on Sunday. It was horribly hot all weekend, so she and I were looking for indoor activities for our boys. We turned them loose with some crafts, and the painting went from “let’s paint with sponges” to “let’s paint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[26,14],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-2A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":605,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/florida-discoveries-14-blackwater-river-canoeing.html","url_meta":{"origin":160,"position":0},"title":"Florida Discoveries 14: Blackwater River Canoeing","date":"07 July 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Maryann's and my latest adventure: Canoeing on Florida's Blackwater River. \u00a0Geologically, Florida's Blackwater River is a \"blackwater river\": tannins are leached out of the local vegetation giving the water a diluted-tea color.Yesterday we took the kids up to Blackwater River State Park (about 25 miles north of our house) and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"florida\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-INjCOdAyB40\/ThUeQi0X5vI\/AAAAAAABXu0\/zB5oqp3_hVU\/s640\/100_0148.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":111,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/you-wont-see-this-on-animal-planet.html","url_meta":{"origin":160,"position":1},"title":"You won’t see THIS on Animal Planet!","date":"30 March 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Here, play this song to set the mood.From 2008 03 29 NC...Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing here. 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