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Another Day, Another Park

“I don’t want to go to the park! We went to the park yesterday. We went to the park the day before yesterday. I’m tired of the park. I’m sick, sick, sick of the park.”

Thus we began our morning. Breakfast, a bit of My Little Pony on Netflix, some freshly picked raspberries and blackberries — none of these things, which some might be tempted, incorrectly I might add, to call bribes, worked. On the way to the car, it was the same.

“I’m taking my Pokemon handbook,” she huffed. “I don’t want to play.”

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Of course by the time we got to the park, she’d reconsidered and thought she’d just give the playground a try.

“If not, I’ll go get my book.”

Naturally, she never went to get her book. How could she when the Boy was on such a roll: afraid of nothing, he even went down the big slide — and I mean big slide — all by himself. He panicked a bit on the way down, which is why he burned his forearm on the smooth plastic and probably explained that wide-eyed look he had, but it wasn’t enough to keep him from trying again.

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Morning at the Park

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Around the Table

Everything these days seems to revolve around the table. The Boy seems to be eating constantly, so we’re either at the table, the bar, or his high chair.

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L’s friends are always hungry, so we have snacks around the table.

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Three Adventures

Three adventures today, as varied as imaginable.

With the Boy, breakfast is always an adventure. He wakes up with the same declaration: "Dość!" which is "enough" in English. Enough sleep, enough fasting, enough of the crib. Just enough. And the second exclamation is always the same as well: "Cheerios!" And then it's an endless train of food. Today, eggs, a small sausage, more cereal, and a bit of fruit. He can easily out-eat L these days.

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The second adventure was after dinner, when L and I went out with camera in hand and discovered that we had not one but four cucumbers ready, the firstfruits from our garden. It's our first year growing cucumbers, and we're both shocked at how well they grow, and how much the bear. We'll be making pickles, salads, and eating them straight from the garden until we're utterly sick of them.

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The final adventure: Bobiwa. That's Bob the Builder in E-ese.

"Can we build it?" we ask.

"Es we caaa!" he chirps in return.

A construction crew is putting up a new fast food restaurant near the grocery store we frequent, and so E and I headed over to look at the equipment while K and L picked up a few items.

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With school out and paperwork complete, daily adventures like this await us.

First Day at the Pool

Empathy

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Bida had to go to the vet

Laundry

“G, oh G, why did you do this?”

I was in the kitchen, having just returned from taking out the compost and checking on our garden — removing suckers from the tomatoes, looking in wonder at just how prodigious our cucumber plants will be, winding our bean stalks around the twine they’re supposed to be wrapping themselves around — and so I was confused. “What did I do?”

“You mixed the dirty clothes in with the clean.”

“No, I didn’t. I was in the garden.”

All eyes fell on E, our little helper.

Goodies for the Teachers

The chocolate treats we sent L’s teachers were such a hit we decided to do the same for E’s teachers. And when I say “we” in that sentence, I mean K.

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