Sunday and Monday of Memorial Day weekend were busy. The kids and I spent Sunday afternoon meeting cousin Amanda Firestone. We got to hang out with a whole group of cousins that we don’t see nearly often enough. Mikaela had a great time playing with Ed’s twins and Ashley’s daughter (and her usual cousin-buddy Samantha). [...]

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The first day of Memorial Day Weekend started off with Miriam and I (and a sleeping Jonathan) doing Torah blessings in honor of our anniversary. Then we came home and relaxed for a few hours before heading over to Kelsyn and Amy Rooks’ for their annual Memorial Day Weekend BBQ. Despite temperatures that never [...]

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Thursday night, Miriam and I celebrated our Ninth Wedding Anniversary. It seems like just a couple of weeks ago we were living in Cincinnati and Miriam’s grandmother was giggling because she’d figured out that I was the new roommate that Miriam was searching for apartments with. We celebrated with dinner at Cassis. The food was [...]

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After two days in a row in which Jonathan ate more than 12 ounces of formula in a sitting, we decided that maybe Jonathan was ready for solid food a couple of weeks early. So I ran to the grocery store and picked up some baby oatmeal. We tried rice first with Mikaela, and she [...]

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Yesterday was Mikaela’s end-of-the-year dance recital. We were treated to two “Acts.” The first showed us some examples of the kinds of things that they did during an ordinary dance class period. Then, for the second Act, we got to see the development of butterflies from caterpillars in dance. Mikaela was very excited to get [...]

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We’ve reached a couple of milestone developments with Jon this week. The big one is that on Friday evening, he finally got that arm out from under himself and figured out how to turn over from his back to his front. Since then, he’s managed to accomplish front to back as well. So while he [...]

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On Sunday, we switched over to the Westin Cupples Station, my usual hotel for business trips to St. Louis. They instantly upgraded me to a room on the Executive Club floor, without my even asking for it. The extra space was really nice. The room even had a sofa bed, so Mikaela could sleep in [...]

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I was in St. Louis from last Friday through yesterday for work. Mikaela was upset that I was going to be gone for so long, and we found out that travelling with kids on Amtrak is really cheap (children under 15 are half-price, and infants under 2 are free). So we made a last minute [...]

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