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3 years

November 27, 2011 – 7:50 pm

Three years, my Madeleine.  The time has passed too quickly. Today we had a wonderful, if cold and windy, birthday celebration at the park.  Several of Maddie’s preschool classmates joined us, as well as my parents, Grandpa John and Grandma Sharon, Maddie’s Aunt Amber, Uncle Nick and cousins Andrew and Matthew, and other close family [...]

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girls play trains, too

November 14, 2011 – 3:44 pm
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Halloween 2011

November 7, 2011 – 8:19 pm

At a pumpkin carving party, Ben and one of his preschool classmates: Maddie Roo in a patch o pumpkins: (Who declined to wear a costume at all this year, sharing that she “might be a little bit scared.”) Ben, post-trick-or-treating on Halloween night:

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Willow

November 7, 2011 – 7:43 pm

On the day before Halloween, we adopted a 6-month old black kitten from Austin Pets Alive.  We named her Willow. Willow didn’t come home with us until Nov 1, since solid black cats aren’t re-homed just before or on Halloween.  Then, after we brought her home, there were several days when we were concerned that [...]

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on the playground

November 4, 2011 – 3:19 pm

At our neighborhood playground late yesterday afternoon I stood under a cedar elm with mistletoe Maddie went down the slide Ben filled a discarded water bottle with pea gravel And then Maddie sang an impassioned song about cats to this triceratops while Ben piled pea gravel on its back. Lovin’ this weather.

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scrubby

October 25, 2011 – 5:42 pm

Ya know those plastic mesh bags that veggies sometimes come in? They make excellent recycled dish scrubbies.  Knotted at one end, stuffed with more balled up plastic mesh veggie bags, knotted at the other end.  Cute and useful.  We can’t remember exactly where we got the idea, but we’re 90% sure it came from Mr. [...]

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at the park

October 24, 2011 – 1:38 pm

playing at Balcones District Park this morning: “I see a airplane!” playing with rocks under the live oaks:

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Hill Country Red

October 24, 2011 – 1:26 pm

Growing in our fall garden, Hill Country Red Okra: Nathan took the pretty photo yesterday morning.

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back to school

September 8, 2011 – 3:34 pm

Ben got to go back to the Co-op today, in the Younger 4s classroom, after more than a month of asking when he could.  He proudly chose a special clothing ensemble for the morning, which included a green John Deere ‘Dirt Rocks’ t-shirt, blue camo shorts and orange crocs.  When I took him to his [...]

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fire

September 7, 2011 – 2:06 pm

It’s surreal here in ATX today.  The air is hazy with smoke.  The smell is strong, strong enough that it’s uncomfortable for many folks to stay outside for long. Bastrop State Park, around 30 miles SE of our home, is burned. One article I read today stated that 130,000 acres have burned across the state. [...]

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