It’s funny to watch our girls move to the rhythm of music. If it’s fast, they get wildly crazy, moving and gyrating and quite spastic. If...
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Recital Time!
The girls were a part of their very first recital today! They were the tiniest of all the dancers and drew an audible “awe” from the...
Continue reading...We’re out of spoons
Sure enough, the girls and their “spoon of peanut butter habit” have had quite the dramatic effect on the quantity of spoons in our house. At...
Continue reading...Birthday Party extraordinaire!
The girls celebrated their party today, though their actual birthday is next Thursday. After repeating, many times over, the fact that it was just their party,...
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I did it again. Abby dropped food at dinner, onto her lap. Out of her mouth, with the appropriate pause were the words: “Oops … I...
Continue reading...Emily thought strategically
One banana, two girls. Emily opened and “split” it as I watched. Abby had stepped out of the room while Emi did it. She deliberated for...
Continue reading...Kindergarten check up
We took the girls in or their kindergarten check up. Em is 2 lbs less and 1″ shorter than Abs — as per the usual with...
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The girls have a best friend; that isn’t themselves. There is a little girl behind our house; in the house behind us, just down the hill....
Continue reading...Abby is the queen of the silent treatment
Boy oh boy is she good. Emily can yell “Abby” for HOURS and Abby can avoid responding — AT ALL. We can ask her question after...
Continue reading...Koolaide : A summer staple when you’re a kid
Cherry yesterday — passed out to all the “young” kids. Lemonade koolaide today — first to the girls and surely later too. It’s such a treat...
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