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6/28 - Noah's fourth birthday! New nephew born! Faith says, "yoo" (balloon) Some more Faith words:...
joyful, 6 July 2010 |
Last Day of Kindergarten
I decided to (mostly arbitrarily) call today the last day of Kindergarten. Tomorrow will be the first day of First Grade....
Pocket Notes, Poison Ivy
6/11 - We planted more seeds in our garden. Faith helped me plant beans and she very carefully placed the seed in the hole and...
High Fructose Corn Syrup
We generally try to avoid corn syrup of all kinds (but we only "try", meaning it isn't banned or anything like that). But,...
Pocket Notes
6/1 - Noah's use of /f/ in everyday speech has increased immensely and he now uses it in a substitution. 3 = "free"...
New Bike Report
So, after thinking about it for a while, we decided to go ahead and purchase a new bike. The reason it took some thinking is that...
Faster Internet!
I noticed recently that Armstrong upgraded our connection to the internet from home. We now get 10Mbps download and 1.5Mbps...
Pocket Notes
Noah has discovered convertibles and really wants one. In a parking lot one day, we watched a man put up his roof and that was...
Triplet Biking - Here We Come!!!
We just put a deposit down for a used triplet bike, with two child conversion kits. Which means it will look something like the...
The Best Job In The World
Here's my take on the biking/camping trip. With last year's notes, it was actually pretty fun planning camping meals for 14...
Clean Your Dishwasher With Lemonade?
As we've mentioned, our water is pretty hard, and dishwashers in particular don't like hard water, and the manual with our dishwasher...
Biking Trip to Ohiopyle Summary
I bought a Trail-gator for attaching Jonathan's bike to mine, and we went on a couple 10 mile rides last week to test it out, and to...
Biking Prelude #7
From me: Greetings, I beseech you in the name of the fair gravel god Macadam . The town crier has informed us, the royal...
Biking Prelude #6
From Ryan: Greetings from the Great Healing Twig Forrest, I have come down from the mountains of...
Biking Prelude #5
From Alex: Please forgive me, my fellow peddlers, for the confusion as the right of the 140+ crest. As the journey from...
Biking Prelude #4
From Josh: Ye bungling fool! How is it that ye durst insult the most sacred trinity of hydrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (albeit...
Biking Prelude #3
From me: Oh Great Stout Hearted One and Less Admired Comrades: At this...
Biking Prelude #2
From Billy: Hail thou brave and mighty Alex...and other revered members of the Assembly: You have returned...
Biking Prelude #1
As some of you know, Jonathan and I and some guys from church biked to Ohiopyle last weekend. What less of you know is what goes on...
CHAP conference
I have a double request from Grandma to post on the homeschool conference and to make the miscarriage post no longer the first thing...
Miscarriage
I didn't really feel like writing this, but then I thought it weird not to post it. So I'll mostly just copy the emails I wrote...
Pocket Notes
5/1 - Noah continues to update his pronunciation of words. That day it was, for battery, "baddewy" instead of...
I am not allergic to poison ivy
But I will not attempt again to pull it out without another adult present. I saw that two small vines were creeping up trees in...
New Words and Other Notes
Faith now says: sock - "ot", peekaboo - "deet-a-doo", let me do it - "Do!", "dough", that -...
Ahh, Spring. The Season of Bandaids
Combine shorts/shortsleeves with pricker bushes and concrete and childhood exploration. Jonathan takes care of himself now, and...