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off she goes

First day of in person learning for Emma since March. She was so excited to get on the bus, go to school, see her friends and get to know her new teacher. I can't wait to hear how her first day back went.

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first day of school - round 2

Today was Olivia's turn! It is her last year of preschool. I have no idea why she still insists on doing the pirate smile. I had to trick her just to get one photo with both eyes open (above). Also... she was very determined to wear this outfit

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last of the pool days

We don't have too many pool days left... seriously, I think tomorrow may be the last one. After tomorrow its chilly weather in the forecast.

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first day of 2nd grade

Here we go! Today is Emma's first day of second grade. Her school is doing hybrid learning, so Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays she is doing distance learning at home. Tuesday and Friday she'll be doing in person learning at school. Emma's desk at home.

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cross country meet #2

Emma had her second (of 4) cross country meets this morning. It was chilly and wet, but the race must go on.

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last day of summer

That's it for summer... fall weather is officially here, both girls had their meet and greets with their new teachers and school starts on Monday for Emma and Tuesday for Olivia! Emma asked if we could go to some parks we've never been to on their

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throwback thursday (september 10, 2019)

Olivia's first day of 3s preschool!

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final flight

Our last monarch hatched today. This one we got by accident from an egg on the milkweed plant we picked to feed our other caterpillars. Monarchs usually fly away pretty fast, so the girls don't always get to hold them. This one took its sweet time.

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throwback thursday (september 3, 2019)

Emma's first day of 1st grade... also the day there was a sewage leak at school and they called all the parents to pick up the kids by noon.

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first cross country meet

If someone would have told me Emma would love cross country I would have never believed it. I had to basically twist her arm to even sign up and try it this year... but she LOVES it. For the last month she's been running 1.2 miles twice

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one more park?

I found out yesterday that apparently our city has a new park that isn't listed on the city website. Since we've been to every park in our city 2 years in a row that meant we had one more park to go to this summer. The

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park weather

We're almost past the pool weather days of summer and into the park weather days of summer. Today was a perfect park weather day.