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Not-So Endless Summer
3607 While the start of school and the current page on the calendar seem to indicate that fall is upon us, it is technically still summer, so I decided that I had better pen my summer blog post before it was in fact too late. It was a super busy summer for us, which I…
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Wild Things
3459 The twins have now reached an age where they are absolutely, 100% crazy. It’s hard to know exactly when it happened, but at some point in the last couple of years our well behaved, downright docile wee ones gradually transformed into wild and crazy monsters. Yes, that is us that you hear causing a…
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Dress Up
3408 I wanted to get this post done in November but alas, scheduling and general tiredness and apathy conspired against me, and here we are in December and I am finally getting around to writing about Halloween! What forced me to finally sit down and do this was the realization that our Christmas letter is…
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Sporting
A little over a year ago, the twins finally neared that age that all fathers look forward to with great anticipation: the start of their athletic careers. In actuality it caught me totally off guard, because here they were, a tender four years of age, heads full of Thomas and Dora and make believe, and…
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Magic, Redux
3288 Somehow or other, 2013 has been a crazily busy year for us so far. That of course is a large part of the reason that this is my first post of the year, but I also have an ironclad excuse. This web site actually went down for an extended period of time as I…
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Children’s Garden
3140 We get the word kindergarten from German, and the literal meaning is “children’s garden.” The term was appropriated for early education first in Germany, with the idea being that young children should be cultivated and nourished much like plants in a garden. At least, according to that mostly reliable source known as Wikipedia. In…
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Progress
One thing I have noticed about raising small children is that when it comes to progress, it often goes in bunches. There are periods of relative calm, when things move along slowly, and then there are bursts of rapid learning, where they suddenly put it all together and surprise you with what they can do.…
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Cha Cha Slide
Sorry it has been so long since I put anything up here. I have some things planned for the hopefully near future, but for now I thought I’d start with a video that I meant to put up a long time ago. We were out at a bounce house event in town a couple of…
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Intellect
3009 One of the fun and interesting things about having twins is watching them grow and develop together. Because they are exactly the same age and for the most part do the same things all the time, it can be fascinating to see the different approaches they take to the world, the different interests they…
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Go Bananas!
I’ll let this one speak for itself. As before, if you are reading this on Facebook, click on the “View Original Post” link to see this on the web site, as the video does not come through to Facebook.