On Friday, the little girls and I were able to go to Charlotte’s Kindergarten class for their annual “Apple Party.”  (I suspect this is their way to have a party without celebrating Halloween, Isaac’s class is having a no costume Fall party)
They had been talking about apples and doing art projects featuring apples the entire [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2011 by Kathleen
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Here are some videos that I took of Ila today:

Posted on October 25th, 2011 by Kathleen
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Ila’s current favorite book is “A Sick Day for Amos McGee.”  She calls it “Elephant.”  She likes the page of the story where Amos is having breakfast and wearing socks and she likes thet page where he’s walking down the street.  She likes to find the bus and the Elephant and the balloon on many [...]

Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Kathleen
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Nicole loves to make lines of people, animals and vehicles and then move them along the floor or carpet.  It can be a slow process when the line is long and has lots of individual figures to move:Also, she often changes into her PJs in the middle of the day, sometimes she wears multiple pairs [...]

Posted on October 20th, 2011 by Kathleen
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I feel like I never update my blog these days.  At the end of the day I just want to go to bed and pre-bedtime blogging seems impossible right now.  The last several nights I’ve told myself that I’d sit down and write something–obviously that hasn’t been happening.  So for the next several months, I [...]

Posted on October 12th, 2011 by Kathleen
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I did my rounds checking on the kids and thought I’d just snap a fairly typical scene about an hour after formal bedtime.
Isaac read a LOT, and had come out to tell Kathleen all about the book:

Charlotte was asleep. Often she’s awake with her cat or just thinking, but sometimes she falls asleep quickly. Usually [...]

Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Zach
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We had our ultrasound for baby #5 today.  I have to say that I don’t understand the draw to waiting to find out, I eagerly anticipated the day of our ultrasound mostly because of the gender identification.  It always makes the baby seem so much more real when I can imagine a little him [...]

Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Kathleen
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