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          | We started out the month of April with Tia
			and Zack's birthday party. Tia's birthday is the same day as Naomi's
			and Desmond's.   |    
        
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          | Desmond looking over my shoulder at Tia's
			party. We all had a great time, it was at a local park with lots of
			stuff to do. Plus, we brought the spin-art, which everybody enjoyed.   |    
        
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          | For Easter, we went to Mariner's church in
			Newport Beach. They had some huge amount of eggs, like 70,000 or
			something. It was crazy.   |    
        
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          | They let the younger kids go first, and
			they had different areas roped off for different ages. Here's Amelie
			and Mia in the heat of the moment.   |    
        
        
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          | Amelie ended up with a full basket. The
			treats inside the eggs kinda sucked, but that was okay, because you
			get to keep the plastic eggs to take home and do your own egg hunt
			later.   |    
        
        
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          | Looks like Mia did okay, but not as much
			as Amelie. Maybe next year.   |    
        
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          | Amelie took her time going through all the
			eggs, but no chocolate treats, so that's a bummer.   |    
        
        
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          | Desmond had to rely on his sharp
			scavenging skills.   |    
        
        
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          | Later, Mia got ready for Easter with her
			own flower headband.   |    
        
        
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          | All dressed up in their Easter finest.   |    
        
        
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          | We've been making chia lemonade with chia
			seeds. They're a super-food, and the girls just love it.   |    
        
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          | Mia at the park blowing bubbles.   |    
        
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          | Waldorf School had their May Fair
			celebration on Saturday, May, 1, so we stopped by and they had a
			nice petting zoo set up.   |    
        
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          | Naomi and the girls at Waldorf's May Fair.   |    
        
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          | The next day, a group of home-schoolers
			got together for their own May Fair celebration in Costa Mesa. It
			was a perfect day for it, too.   |      
        
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          | At the May Fair festival, Mia had fun
			being a rickshaw driver.   |    
        
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          | Susie came up from San Diego to pass on a
			bunch of boy clothes, since she's having a girl soon. That's Janine
			and Kimberly on the right. Janine's oldest girl Renee is in the blue
			dress.   |    
        
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          | Earlier in the month we took a home-school
			field-trip to a wolf preserve, and got to see the wolves from just a
			few feet away. It was awesome. This is an Alaskan wolf, and the
			picture was taken by Stephanie
			Hager, who organized the trip. She's a fantastic
			photographer, and has her own photography business. You wouldn't believe how bad my pictures came out, so
			I had to email her to get some decent ones.   |    
        
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          | This is a Mexican wolf, and the picture 
			was also taken by
			Stephanie. There's a chain-link fence that I think she photoshopped
			away, or something, because my pictures didn't look anywhere near
			this nice.   |    
        
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          | Until next month, stay happy!   |    |