Emery's Gymnastics Moves

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For the last month or so, Emery has been practicing doing cartwheels. She has been doing them on cement. She has been doing them on the trampoline. And she has been doing them inside, regardless of her surroundings. Several weeks ago she started taking gymnastic classes and has come up with a dance/trick routine. I don't actually think that she is actually learning any of these things in her class.

Tate's First Day Of School

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I have never been one to get overly sentimental about things that everybody does. While I think that it is a big event in a kid's life when they start school, it is something that everybody goes through. I personally think that while you can encourage your child to be enthusiastic and excited, I never went through that "oh...they're growing up so fast" or "he's getting so big" moments.
When I picked Tate up at daycare after his first day of kindergarten, I was approached with the statement, "I don't know if you've already heard about Tate's day...". I knew that it was going to be something different that the normal kid's first day of school.

Go To The Zoo

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While on vacation in Colorado Springs, we visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. This particular zoo is known for having the largest giraffe herd of any zoo in the world. According to this sign, the giraffes were getting too big. Starting that week, they had made the transition to feeding them lettuce. Watch a video of the kids feeding the giraffes after the break.

Father's Day Gift

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For Father's Day, the kids each brought home a jar of peanut M & M's (which I promptly gave back to them) and an envelope. Inside the envelope was a form that each of the kids filled out about me.

Tate's Drawing

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Last night, the kids (along with two neighborhood kids) were playing with sidewalk chalk on the driveway. First, they were taking turns drawing foods and then the others would guess what it was. Then, they started drawing animals. This is what Tate drew: