It’s starting sooner than I expected, but as a Girl Scout “Daisy” Mikaela is selling Girl Scout cookies this year. If you’d like a personal sales visit, let us know and we’ll see what we can set up. Otherwise, we’ll bring the order form with us to Thanksgiving dinner. She’s taking orders through the end [...]

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Thursday afternoon, Mikaela decided that she was tired of that wiggling front tooth. She grabbed it with a paper towel at AKK, and yanked it out herself. So far, the extra-wide gap in her smile doesn’t seem to be slowing down her Halloween candy consumption. And she’s looking forward to slurping Chinese noodles through the [...]

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Dear Sarah Palin,
Please stop helping John McCain be President – he just does stuff for rich people.
by Mikaela

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We had a crazy day yesterday. Miriam had an early morning court appearance, so I was in charge of getting both kids to school (usually, Miriam takes Jonathan and I take Mikaela). Unfortunately, my brain wasn’t fully functioning yet by the time we left, and I managed to forget to pack Mikaela’s dance bag and [...]

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Yesterday was the final phase of Mikaela’s birthday extravaganza celebration. Seventeen of her current kindergarten classmates, plus three of her old preschool buddies and Jonathan took over Elite Gymnastics for a couple of hours. As the oldest kid in her class – and therefore with the first birthday of the year – we didn’t want [...]

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I was surfing through the archives, testing out this new theme, and noticed that I’d done a development update post for Mikaela at 22 months, so I figured a similar update for Jonathan would be interesting. Following the format from that post:
1. Vocabulary – I don’t really have anything concrete to back this up, other [...]

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Mikaela celebrated being six years old by yanking out one of her own teeth.
The tooth has been loose for months. She’s been wiggling it like crazy, especially for the last week, and I think she just got tired of waiting for it to come out on its own. Her other front tooth is also loose, [...]

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Mikaela turned six years old yesterday, with Phases 2, 3, 4 of Operation Mikaela’s Birthday. The celebrations actually began back on Sunday. Mikaela and her Sunday School classmates Peyton and Shelby (who share Mikaela’s birthday week) brought cupcakes for the class (Phase 1). Then, Monday at Cottonwood Point, Mikaela got to bang on the [...]

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For the most part, I’ve kept politics out of this blog. This just didn’t seem the place to bring it up. But Sarah Palin’s latest attempt to tar Barack Obama with a bizarre guilt-by-association charge, attempting to connect Obama to Vietnam-era activism that took place when he was about eight years old, has pushed me [...]

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Tonight, when we got home from Rosh Hashana services, I sat down with the kids and read books for a bit before heading up to bed. After reading a couple of books, Mikaela excused herself to go potty. A couple of books later, Jonathan announced, “I go potty.”
Hmmmm. OK. It was his idea – gotta [...]

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