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Emma loved her first day of kindergarten! By far her favorite thing of the day was music. She wouldn’t stop talking about it last night, and had to tell daddy all about it tonight on the phone. Other close favorites were riding the bus and gym. This morning she
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Despite several pleas from neighbors to keep the pool open one more week, the neighborhood decided today would be the last day. It was chilly and rainy, but there were lots of kids getting one last swim in.
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I'm planning to ask Emma all her favorite things we did this summer. I didn't realize until I started putting together this list how busy we've been the last couple months... and this doesn't even include every single thing we did! CAMPING
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throwback thursday ( august 30, 2017 )
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It’s been a hot summer, so we’ve avoided all parks. It’s starting to cool off this week, which meant today was the perfect day to cross off some parks. I don’t think we’ll make it to all the parks this year since school starts on
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I signed the girls up to bowl free all summer. With all the nice weather the last couple months I couldn’t bring myself to take them bowling... indoors. Today it was chilly and rainy. Emma bowled a couple frames without the ramp. Then she realized she could knock down
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It was time for hair cuts. Both girls decided they wanted it much shorter this time around. There was a lot of hair on the floor by the time they were done. I wasn’t too crazy about the short hair... but they look really adorable. Emma especially. After hair
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Emma has been asking all summer to do a lemonade stand. Luckily we already had a stand that my mom and I painted for Emma’s birthday party last year. She also decided that she wanted to sell brownies at her lemonade stand. Emma was too busy playing with her
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School doesn’t start until after Labor Day, but this week kindergarteners could participate in Bridge to School. They ride the school bus to school, meet other kindergarteners or see old friends, learn about the school routine and find out where everything is at the school. Parents had to go
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throwback thursday ( august 9, 2017)
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After we dropped Emma at My Little Pony camp we came home to take down Emma’s unicorn party decorations. Funny how all those decorations took two adults a week to put up... and me three minutes to take down. Olivia cried when I started taking it all down... until
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Emma is at My Little Pony musical theater camp this week. She went home with her friend after camp, which gave me and Olivia most of the day together. We spent the morning at the zoo. We had lunch at Chick-fil-a. We spent the rainy afternoon snuggling on the couch