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Pretend Books
Cooper’s imagination has really grown in recent weeks. We now have two invisible books we read after his 3 standard bedtime books. The first one is about a boy who goes to the potty. The second one he takes with him to the potty and we read when he returns. It is about a boy who…
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Dentist
Today Grandpa and I tackled the boys’ first dual dentist visit. It was Nicholas’ first time and he did great letting them brush and even paint the fluoride on his teeth. Cooper showed off his brushing and spitting skills at their kid sized sink. He was a bit nervous, rightfully so after having his tooth…
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Broken – 1 Week Update
Cooper checks Nicholas’ collarbone to make sure that he hasn’t broken his too. It has been one week and you would never guess Cooper has a broken collarbone except for the fact that he is still wearing his sling. He had one fall, at toddler group, where his cry made me think he may have…
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Why?
We had heard of the “why” stage and naively thought we might skip it because we were so good at explaining things to Cooper. Joke was on us. As Rob put it, “Cooper has adapted “5 whys” for his own use. I call it “500 whys”.” This has been an incredibly eye opening stage of development making us…
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Gardening
We love that Cooper and Nicholas appear to enjoy the outdoors as much as their parents do. Today Cooper helped me tackle planting the garden. He wanted to dig one of the rows for the seeds. When the line was more curvy than straight, I took it as an opportunity for the perfectionist in me to let go…
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General Aviation Day
Our own airplane is down for the annual inspection so we opted for visiting the airport to check out General Aviation Day at Paine Field. We were able to see many of the old airplanes fly, including this Hellcat, which is the type of plane Rob’s Grandpa Chuck flew. In this picture Great Grandpa Chuck is…
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Magic Grass
Today, when unloading the car from our Costco trip, the boys sat in this small grassy square for more than 15 minutes. It was a miracle that Nicholas didn’t take off crawling across the pavement in any direction. It is probably due to them missing the feeling of grass since we have been reseeding ours…
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Broken
A day we were really hoping would never happen in our house. Cooper’s first broken bone. As he tells the story “I was trying to tackle Mama.” We were sitting on the floor of his bedroom doing our normal getting dressed routine which includes some falling over hugs/tackles. This morning that hug/tackle resulted in Cooper landing perfectly…
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Alki with the Mashruwalas
Sunshine and two very brave/partly crazy mama’s resulted in a very fun adventure. We really wanted to meet the newest member of the Mashruwala family and decided to give the boys a play to dig in the sand at the same time. We met up at Alki beach where the boys loved digging holes and…
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Kite Flying
Nicholas’ first time flying a kite. He had this skill mastered in just a few minutes. Cooper was really afraid to hold the kite and really didn’t want Nicholas to hold it either. When inquiring more it came out he was worried the kite would take them away like it did to Curious George in…