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Early Summer Observations
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2024 Sunday Night the Beach: Edition 4
After a busy day of play in the house, in the yard, and then at the Hartley Nature Playscape, we ate a super quick supper of fresh eggs in the style of scramble, and then we scrambled to the beach at the mouth of Lester River (YaYa’s pick, and it…
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2024 Sunday Night at the Beach: Edition 3
This is finals week for school, so The Banana was deep, deep into a stack of test preparation. Mr. TOF was finishing up some things on his To Do list. The Devious Snail was with friends, and YaYa was out of town on a trip. Dr. Peds was off doing…
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Recently Learned
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Deer Watch
They were watching a deer just out of the frame of the image. It was so close, which is not uncommon because the urban deer here have no fear whatsoever! The deer aren’t even afraid of monster toddlers and all their movement!
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2024 Sunday Night at the Beach: Edition 2
Various teenage Kidlets were arriving back with burritos from Qdoba when I was heading out the door with Peanut Maximus to go to the beach. The Banana needed to get back to studying, but the Devious Snail and Company jumped in the van with me. I offered to let them…
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Visiting the Neighborhood Park
To avoid disturbing older siblings who were deep in piles of difficult homework over the long weekend, Peanut Maximus and I took a stroller ride to the neighborhood park. He tried everything he could reach, and then some. Let’s just say when this kid is awake, he is BUSY. He…
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2024 Sunday Night at the Beach: Edition 1
First of all, let me just say that I am so very glad that this summer we are out of the rock eating phase and into the rock throwing phase! I am predicting Sunday Night at the Beach to be much less stressful this summer! For our first Sunday Night…
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Pinecones
Sunday afternoon was warm, and there was a mixing bowl on the deck with a little bit of rainwater in it. Peanut Maximus was enjoying putting a few rocks in the water, and I thought, maybe we should look under the tree and see if we could find some pinecones.…
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Peanut Maximus
This little one just gets busier and busier every week. His favorite thing is being outside. He loves walking around the block, playing with balls in the front yard (especially if Mr. TOF plays with him!), swinging in his little blue swing, and the sandbox. Everything is an adventure outside.…