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In July we went to Grace-Ellen's birthday
party, which was a lot of fun. The drawing station was a hit. |
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As you might imagine, Miles was obsessed
with the balloons. |
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Eventually we had to tie the balloon to
him because he really enjoyed letting them go. |
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The limbo was exciting, Amelie and Mia did
great. |
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The piņata was youngest to oldest, so
Miles got to go first. He did not make much of an impact. Monica's
house borders parking spaces for a complex next door, and somebody
threw something over the wall into her yard, and somebody at the
party called the cops to complain. It was the first seven year-olds
birthday party I've ever been to that had the cops show up. |
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We attended the
Elements Gathering
in Brea and on the way to the campground was a Boy Scout's physical
fitness test. It was a lot of fun. |
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Teamwork is the key to getting through the
obstacle course. |
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Mia spotted this tarantula walking along
the ground. She has very little fear of nature, it's nice to see.
She picks up all kinds of things, but not this tarantula. |
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This is a class on tracking that was the highlight.
We had planned on camping, but the location in Brea was not an
actual campground, just a bunch of wilderness open space. It was hot
with no shade and no camping facilities (like showers, toilers,
etc), and when we pulled over to pitch our tent, we accidentally
stepped on a wasp's nest in the ground and Naomi and I got stung.
After that, we drove in each day. |
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Amelie found a dead tarantula at Elements
so she took it home and decided to disect it. It was totally gross,
and I won't offend anyone with any further pictures. It was pretty
gross. |
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The
HSC (Homeschoolers
of California) conference was in August so we headed up to
Sacramento for another three-day adventure in homeschooling. The
kids can buy a bunch of different badges to stick underneath their
pass, these are the ones Mia chose. |
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The water play area is a favorite every
year, Miles was loving it. |
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Miles got into one of those little kiddie
cars and the plastic was all charged with static electricity making
his hair stand on end. |
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Mia waited in line (twice!) for an hour to
get her hair braided by a volunteer. The lady doing the braiding was
amazing, she was braiding all day non-stop, it was incredible. She
was really fast at it, too. |
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Desmond and I spent a lot of time in the
building rooms they had set up. It inspired us to take out our
marble construction kit when we got home. |
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The teen-agers set up a real-life Angry Birds catapult, and it was awesome.
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When we sang Happy Birthday to Miles, for some reason he just took off to the bedroom. He seemed overwhelmed by it all,
but just for a moment.
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For Miles' second birthday, we went to
Downtown Disney and walked around. They had a Lego store with the
Incredible Hulk in it. The stuff they had in and around the store
was amazing. |
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The Rainforest Cafe had a Macaw that you
could pose next to. |
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Desmond took a time out for some
ice-cream. |
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After Downtown Disney, we headed over to
Zoomar's for some mining for
rocks. It's always fun going there, even though we've been there
before. |
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Miles is so cute in this picture next to
the guinea pigs, you just want to pick him up and squeeze him. |
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Amelie was bummed the rabbits weren't out
in the petting area, but according to the assistant there, they get
bitey when the weather heats up. |
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Desmond is so funny, he was collecting
only black guinea pigs. |
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The corn sand-box is a lot of fun to bury people in.
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Amelie really loves being around horses,
we're signing her up for lessons again. |
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I was happy we owned goats for a little
while so that the kids were used to being around them. |
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Until next time, try to stay cool this
month, it's getting hot! |
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