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Monica’s 6 month appointment was this morning – providentially scheduled for a morning when Michael unexpectedly was home later than usual (so I didn’t have to bring the boys). Her 6 month stats are thus:\par

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Height – 26 inches (61%) Explains why she keeps growing out of her clothes one month ahead of schedule.

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Weight – 15 [...]

Last weekend I went to my first-ever Dutch Blitz weekend with all of my Blitz playing church friends! We went to Lincoln City on Friday, shopped all day at the outlet center on Saturday and drove home on Sunday morning to make it to church in Oregon City. I had a great time! Just Monica [...]

A while ago, my mom gave me a textbook for children called, Draw, Write, Now. In spite of its being, essentially an art/crafts book, I have actually used it! It gives step by step directions to draw farm-oriented pictures, and when I set it up in my plastic cookbook holder, Judah (almost 5)\’c2\~actually follows them!

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Here’s my sweet nearly-six-month-old angel. She’s wearing overalls from Grandma Rachel and a penguin shirt from Great-Grandma Monica and she looked so cute, in a baby-tomboy-ish way that I had to take a picture (several actually):\par
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Yes, I'm biased – I think they're adorable.

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I came in to find the boys "playing" with their sister.

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On Monday this week, during\’c2\~Michael’s trip to Bend,\’c2\~my friend Mystie came to visit us with her three little kids.\’c2\~ We shopped at\’c2\~IKEA,\’c2\~ate one lunch at\’c2\~McDonalds, watched The Devil Wears Prada, imbibed dessert wine, ate chocolates, drank an insane amount of coffee, stayed up too late, had discussions on topics ranging from homeschooling plans to what [...]

Doesn't she look like such a little girl?