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Amelie turned 8 this month, and Desmond
turned 3. Naomi and Desmond share the same birthday as well, so
March is a big birthday month for us. |
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For Amelie's birthday we got out the
spin-art machines, I had just finished building three of them, and
we had them going for an hour straight. Then, the cheap Home-Depot
fan motors I had used burned out on all three of them. So, back to
the drawing board! We did get some great spin-art out of them before
they died. |
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Naomi signed up for time-share milking of
a cow, where you go once a month to milk a cow. It's at
Amy's Farm, which the girls
had already toured before. |
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Milking the cow takes two or three hours
(twice a day!), so there's plenty of time to play with the cats... |
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...and to sit and watch the milking... |
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...and play with the bunnies. Who knew
milking a cow could take so long? |
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We went and watched a rehearsal for
Sleeping Beauty and afterwards the girls playing the fairy
godmothers handed out streamers for the girl's hair. |
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We had taken them just before the
rehearsal to a hair place and their hair looked great. Right after
the rehearsal, though, they wanted to take out the braids. |
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Amelie and Mia are climbing higher and
higher these days. Amelie has no trouble climbing our loquat tree to
get onto our roof. |
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Mia lost two teeth within a few days of
each other. Her adult teeth have already come in enough to see them
clearly. |
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When the weather turned nice we headed
down to dog beach. The water was really cold, though. I can't
believe they both went in, it was pretty cold. |
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Amelie was riding the boogie board no
problem. The waves weren't that big, though, so it wasn't too much
for her. |
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Naomi's expression says it all. Desmond is
still a real pain to take anywhere. We've almost stopped going
places because he just runs off to do his own thing. In this case,
it's climbing the rocks behind him. |
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When I asked Desmond if I could take his
picture, he turned around and shoved his butt out at me. It's his
idea of posing, I suppose. |
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Desmond found a phone near the rocks he
was climbing on, but it didn't work. It had a keyboard built into
it, so he played with that. |
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Miles is pretty easy going. He just hung
out on the blanket and stayed warm. |
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We started giving Miles solid food, and
this is his first banana. |
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And his first broccoli. The amazing thing
is when he eats, he has a complete death grip on the food. If I'm
feeding him something, he's just pressing as hard as can to get the
food into his mouth, it's crazy. |
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And his first strawberry. Finally we found
something he liked. While he was eating the strawberry, Naomi was
cracking him up playing peek-a-boo. |
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We signed Amelie up with
this guy, Chris to teach the kids about nature. He was up against some
stiff resistance for a bit. He asked the kids, all home-schoolers, to sit in a circle, and
immediately was bombarded with responses like, "why do we have to
sit in a circle", "can't I climb this tree while you talk", etc. It
was really funny and typical of home-schoolers, you have to adjust
your teaching style. He finally gave up and just got on with it. |
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They built a nice little fort, and
everybody pitched in, even Desmond was gathering sticks for them. |
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To finish it off they covered it in
leaves. Mia is holding a lizard, that's why her hands are like that. |
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Speaking of lizards, Kodiak, the nature guy Chris' son,
found two lizards, and gave one to Amelie and one to Mia. |
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Miles was happy, as always, on his
blanket. |
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Mia shared some cantaloupe with Miles, he
was very excited about that. So until next week, hang onto that
fruit and don't let go! |
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