May 28, 2010 – Mikaela’s last day of First Grade. She just happened to be wearing the same outfit that she wore on the first day of First Grade, which allowed me to post this comparison:

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It was time to renew our Science City membership AND there’s an exhibition of huge, animatronic dinosaurs

- so a trip downtown was a perfect Sunday outing. At least that’s what we expected. It all started out well enough. Jonathan was excited to see the big dinosaur in the Union Station lobby. We headed downstairs, and [...]

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For months now, when Jonathan has gotten a bonk on the noggin’ of some sort, he referred to his head oddly. For example, if he fell and you asked if he hit his forehead, he’d often say, “No. I hit my fivehead.”

Tonight, I decided to see whether he was just having fun with forehead/fourhead or [...]

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Mikaela had her Jewish Community Center dance recital last week. She did a great job, tapping to “We Are Family” and doing ballet to a Star Wars medley. We were really proud of the great job she did dancing, especially since she’d been sick most of the week before the recital. We were sure that [...]

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Just thought I’d share a couple of Jonathan stories from the last week. The first one comes from last Wednesday morning. I had an early meeting, so I left for work before anyone else in the house was even awake. And just as my meeting was about to start, I got a text message from [...]

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