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| Atticus as a blue seal...with Isabel the white seal... |
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| Brad video-ing with the other dads... |
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| Isaac as a polar bear. He delivered his lines the loudest and clearest of all the kids -- totally nailed it! |
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| Atticus graduating |
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| Isaac graduating |
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| The Millers |
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| Sexy? Dangerous? Strange? Leah |
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| With Aunt Bekah! |
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| With his teacher Miss Amanda! |
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| With his teacher Miss Ericka! |
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| Spring has been so long in coming...so another cold, rainy Friday we went to the indoor gardens at Como Zoo. The kids were great. I never know about outing-decisions -- this one was good. And after an hour or so walking the tropics, the rain lulled and we saw the outside animals too. The strangest part of the outside visit was finding a temporarily lost Lincoln standing on the Polar Bear cage railing -- ferociously and intently, head sideways, with a small group of concerned (and confused) on-lookers gnawing on the iron fencing. I don't know what compelled him to do this, but it required me to call for him multiple times and then shout, "Lincoln! Stop chewing on the fence!" (not weirder than Brad warning Atticus and Dietrich playing "He-Man" in the other room "Hey! Be careful riding Battle Cat! Don't hit Skeletor too hard!" -- Ha!) |
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| A Bonsai forest. These trees were amazing -- none younger than 50 years old! |
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| The boys were suppose to be there for size comparison. They had to do something weird. |
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| Look at this "recycling/dogfood center". This is part-way into the first week of our 2-week recycling span for the city garbage pick-up. By the time we hit 2 weeks, this area is overflowing with paper grocery bags causing me pain and mild despair every time I pass by to change laundry in the basement. We don't have a pantry or an attached garage so I am restrained to work with this area. For Mother's Day Brad set me loose tp get this area fixed. |
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| To fix it, I didn't fold laundry for an entire day...this is part of it (a family of 6 makes an astonishing amount of laundry). |
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| And I neglected the children who made interesting configurations of the house.... |
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| The Ikea Fix...still needs some tweaking and some artwork...but so much better! |
