Julia and Tim are both writing this year, nice surprise. I have no idea when this happened exactly, but it did. Anyway, today Julia wrote extensive lists (invented spelling included) of how to take care of p.j. properly: She did have to help translate some of this. Mrot is is Julia’s backward way of saying […]
This hill was way more fun leaving the zoo. What a great day. love, Val
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There was road construction on the way and a detour and gosh it took a long time to get there. First thing we did was go find FOOD. The waffle fries are truly amazing, and eating them outside in the breeze, perfect. When I was a kid the animals used to sit in little cement
Okay, after the kids took their baths, this is what I found in the bathroom. It is the bath mat. Stuck to the wall. Why? We don’t know. I took a picture as more evidence kids are crazy. We worked on collages. That’s Julia posing with ours. Hers is the top one. Mine is below
We haven’t done this in a while. They caught a lot of weeds. My mother in law calls it salad. Back in the day we used to do a lot of trolling at their place up north. My brother in law could only stand it for so long and then he’d have us reel in
So far things are going well. They’ve been putting in time on some work, and have both surged ahead in math over the summer–no idea why. And reading was much improved and there’s some actual writing going on–not just him painstakingly putting down each letter as I tell him. And the weather was beautiful, so
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Dannell had a birthday this weekend. I can’t remember how old she is–doesn’t matter. Look how little t.c. used to be, back in the day. Dannell Sweethheart, you’ve been one of us so long it’s hard to remember life before you. Here you two are with Julia, and below with Tim. And Julia again. You’ve
Oh my goodness, Buddy. We could not love you more. We’re so lucky to have you for ours. Happy Birthday! love forever, Grandma, Grandpa, and everybody
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We had school on the patio. It was over 90 degrees, hot and dry. Lunch was McDonald’s, eaten at the park. Then this: These are the first day of school pictures, kids chose the locations for the photo shoot. She’s not in grade 4. Tim is. But she reads well and can keep up, so
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We went back to the field to watch Dan shoot off his rockets. We gave him these for his birthday, thought rockets might be more fun than a shirt or some boring 30 year old guy gift. He and John loved shooting rockets back in the day. So now he has his own new launch
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