Jonathan went to his first baseball game last night, courtesy of cousins Carol & Craig Wilson (and the occasion of the birth of new cousin Gillian Wilson). And special thanks to Marcia and Larry for all of the help with the physical transfer of the tickets. We made it a family night at the baseball [...]

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While Deb and Toine were in town, we had hoped that Toine would get a chance to take some portrait photos of the kids. Unfortunately, weather didn’t cooperate with our outdoor picture plans, and by the time we’d chosen an alternative, the kids were getting cranky. Portraits of Jonathan were hopeless – he refused to [...]

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My friends Deb and Toine are in town visiting over Memorial Day weekend. We’ve had a really fun visit so far. They made dinner for us when they arrived on Thursday – the fajitas were terrific. Mikaela was excited to help cook Shabbat dinner for our friends, and was especially helpful making the challah. Saturday [...]

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Tonight, Mikaela graduated from Preschool. We started our celebration with dinner at Mikaela’s choice of restaurant – after wavering back and forth a bit, she settled on iHop over Sweet Tomatoes. The fun of the evening was almost derailed at dinner when, in the span of less than five minutes, Jonathan poked his thumb through [...]

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Remember this? That’s the picture I posted when, at 18 months, Mikaela started climbing out of her crib. Tomorrow, we’ll be digging it out and installing it on the crib again. Because tonight, at all of 17 months, Jonathan announced (with a crash) that he was a month ahead of his big sister in the [...]

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I’ve posted about the magic balloon before, most recently back on March 13th. It occurred to me to go ahead and snap another picture of it last night, so here you go – amazingly, it looks almost identical to the way it looked at the time of the initial magic balloon post all the way [...]

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