This is a crappy camera-phone picture of the view from my 12th floor office window. This storm is incredible.

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The adjustment to the Jewish Community Center’s Child Development Center has been a little rough for Mikaela.  She’s coming from a very small, intimate setting at Mina’s where she was the biggest kid and had been there the longest – she was darn near the teacher’s assistant.  Now, at the JCC, she’s in a room [...]

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Tuesday night is family night at Hy-Vee

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The adjustment to the much larger/busier experience at camp at the JCC Child Development Center is still a bit rough for Mikaela. But never let it be said that she’s not her father’s daughter. Of course if she’d have asked me, I’d have told her she was a month or two early.

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This is my friend Dana. We went to dinner before attending a preview screening of the movie Serenity. Dessert should help us get through the 2 hour wait in line.

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We had a big weekend this past weekend, warming up for Aunt Judy and Uncle Lloyd’s 50th Anniversary Party this weekend.  Friday night, cousins Carol and Craig let us use their Royals tickets.  It was Mikaela’s second trip to Royals stadium, but her first time this year.  Last year, Sluggerrr scared her and she loved [...]

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Last Tuesday was Mikaela’s last day as a regular at Mina’s for day care, so she brought cupcakes to share. It’s been a wonderful place for her, but she’s pretty much outgrown it. She’s the biggest kid there, and she really needs more room to move around and to learn to interact with a larger [...]

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Miriam and Mikaela spent Memorial Day Weekend in Rochester, visiting Sali.  While they are there, Mikaela’s favorite toy is a doll that actually belonged to Sali when she was a little girl.  Mikaela calls the doll Baby Rachel.
Mikaela’s favorite thing to do was to pick up Baby Rachel in one arm (and she’s a BIG [...]

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I just looked back and realized how bad I’ve been about keeping up with the anecdotes about Mikaela’s antics (though I have gotten better about getting pictures posted in a timely fashion!).  So I’m going to start trying to catch up a bit.  This first anecdote is about three months old.  I originally wrote about [...]

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