Grandma Mouse has been helping out here since Miriam’s hand surgery. But she has an appointment in Rochester that prevented her from staying for Mikaela’s birthday. So we had an UNbirthday dinner for Mikaela on Friday night. It was great – Miriam got to practice making a Belle birthday cake, Sali got to celebrate Mikaela’s [...]

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Miriam took Jonathan to get his nine-month portraits taken last week (just a tad late, oh well). The good news is that, once again, it looks like we got great proofs to choose from courtesy of JCPenney’s Portrait Studio. You can see all of them in our Photo Gallery. The not-so-good news is that they’ve [...]

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I desperately wanted to wait until after Jonathan’s first birthday for his first haircut. But his moptop was getting in his eyes and starting to bother him.
The atmosphere and staff at Shear Madness were terrific – I didn’t think there’s was any chance that his first haircut could be a pleasant experience. I’m glad [...]

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We celebrated Grandma Marcia’s birthday a couple of days late, after she returned home from a wedding in California. Mikaela helped Miriam make the birthday cake, and then did the decorating herself. Matt, Sarah and Samantha joined us for Grandma’s birthday dinner. “The girls” all blew out Grandma’s birthday candles together.

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Labor Day started off nice and relaxing. We chilled out at home, watching movies, until it was time to head over to our friends’ the Rooks’ for an afternoon/evening of swimming and BBQing. Mikaela had a blast in the pool, showing off the swimming skills that she developed by spending virtually every day in the [...]

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Much to Mikaela’s joy, the end of August also marked the beginning of Mikaela’s Pre-K year at the Jewish Community Center’s Child Development Center. She’s been excited about Pre-K since camp, constantly reminding us that she’s going to start Pre-K in the fall.
Her class is boy-heavy again this year, which seems to just be [...]

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At the end of August, Miriam, Mikaela and Jonathan got a chance to meet up with Grandma Mouse and Paca Steve for a few days in Rochester, Minnesota. The kids also got to spend some quality time with Uncle Gabe.
They played at the “SuperPark” (there’s a great picture in the gallery of Mikaela on [...]

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Sorry for the lack of updates for a while. Things have been a little bit crazy. I have been adding photos, and I’m going to add a series of posts in the next day or so that should get us all caught up.

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