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Thank you Magic Tree House; waiting has never been so easy

Do you know the state cookie of Massachusetts? It’s the chocolate chip! (Thank you Laura!!!!)

Badges for his accomplishments, conceived of and made by Hazel

Fussing happens

Pretty excited about making fruit smoothies

Pretty excited about consuming fruit smoothies

Nothing to do with smoothies

Before

During

First lap

After (Ouch! He’s ok)

Hazel wore an orange bandana in her color-themed 1st grade music performance

Here she’s performing “Parade of Colors” — top row on the right, under the purple rainbow stripe [video]

Here was Landry’s reaction to seeing his sister on stage!

Proud climber

A couple of zonkos kids, zoning out

All lined up on the couch 🙂

Someone is very excited!

School drop off, daily ritual

Yesterday the kids helped me make a spear to retrieve a piece of food that had fallen between a cabinet and the refrigerator (It worked)

Landry was full of energy after dropping Hazel at school. He ran timed laps around the yard

One with the blocks

The kids received a signed postcard from Chris and Martin Kratt today! Hazel immediately wrote back

We have soccer cleats to thank for motivating Hazel to learn to tie her shoes. She has become a pro at the bunny ears method!

He’s ready! Sign him up!

The kids were really excited

For the kiddie pool on this beautiful day!

What goes up must come down

Assembling…

A dry pool fort with two rooms

Then time for a rest. This is how I found her

We spent the evening at Cheney Stadium watching pro soccer with many other families from Hazel’s school! The first graders were out in force!!! Woot woot!

Soccer snack assembly line

Job’s done, eating an extra