June 18, 2009In a lot of ways, we have three hams as kids. There’s Obi-Wan Alana: There’s Carson as The Hulk: Racing down the Whites’ driveway on a John Deere (still photos really don’t do justice to the speed involved here): And…Benton doing the same thing on a tiny tricycle (this photo just seconds before he had […]
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June 17, 2009Julie commented 75% of the way through our trip to Austin that, despite the long days (all three kids were collapsing into bed at the end of each day), there were shockingly few full-blown meltdowns. More surprisingly, the kids all had extended bouts of cooperatively playing with each other. One example is this picture of […]
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June 16, 2009The kids had lots of kids to play with during our trip to Austin last week. Some were friends they remembered and explicitly looked forward to seeing, some were friends they remembered after they’d gotten to see them, and some…Alana might not necessarily have remembered, but whom she quickly settled in with happily. Angela gave […]
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June 15, 2009I realize now that I left out a key detail in the story of Alana’s Build-A-Bear: the bear, although definitely a girl, is named “Charlie.” Alana has been on something of a Charlie kick, actually. Last month, when the Columbus Zoo conducted a contest to name their new baby elephant, Alana had Julie submit the […]
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June 10, 2009Our plan for the vacation was pretty straightforward: Julie would drive to Dallas with Carson and Alana, arriving on Saturday morning; Benton and I would stay in Dublin for his three baseball games and then fly down to Dallas on Saturday night; we’d spend Sunday and Monday morning visiting friends and family, and then drive […]
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June 8, 2009Alana’s birthday is not for another week-and-a-half, but she has started celebrating early. First, she got to have a fancy luncheon with Julie and Grandma Marilyn. Then, during our visit with the Bones in Dallas, she got a Build-A-Bear as an early birthday present from Bruce and Cheryl. Alana, Julie, and Aunt Cheryl headed out […]
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June 7, 2009We started off our weeklong return to Texas with a visit to Bruce and Cheryl Bone’s house in Mckinney. High on Julie’s list was taking the kids back to a water exhibit in Richardson right outside the Renaissance Hotel there. Jets of water shoot out from a bunch of holes in the ground in a […]
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