Yesterday, while Cael was minding his own business on the living room couch, Declan bounced, fell, and donkey kicked him in the face.  The result was a lot of blood and a seriously wiggly tooth that moments before had only been a gently budging one. This was very traumatic for poor Cael, who is already missing two on the top - one from an accident on the playground that removed it prematurely - and has only just recently...

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Cael reads to Finn while Dec gets a fancy manicure.  Four limbs, four color...

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Baby's first day of school!  He was a champ.  No clinging, no crying, no "don't go!" or anything.  He was a little wary, but ultimately had so much fun with the rubber duckies that he didn't mind when we went back through the gate :( Update:  I arrived to pick him up and found him exactly where I suspected I would: in the sandbox.  What I hadn't expected was to find him wearing an entirely different...

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The very tricky talented teacher lured the tots in with a bucket of stuffed animals, which they got to dig through and select a friend.  Then they went to find the carpet circle that matched the color of their new pal (Declan's was an orange turtle).  After that it was a parade of props: sea shells for sorting, a Tigger to bounce like, popcorn to jump like, scarves to twirl with, and brightly colored feather dusters...

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Tonight we started the much-awaited sequel to the chapter book we'd been reading for a few weeks. Book 2 begins with a prologue - a flashback to when the protagonists (four young sisters) were four years younger.  In it, the then-eight-year-old girl describes when the three oldest girls go to the gift shop of the hospital that their mother is in, having delivered their baby sister a week earlier....

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