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  This is a note from E1 from 3 or 4 years ago. I keep it on my refrigerator to help when it’s one of those (all too frequent) days.  It says: Mom, Roses are red, violets are blue, I love you and you do too! You are the best mom in the whole world. Help dad with the secrets […]

  A new Pokemon league just started locally, so we tried it out. The kids seemed to really have a great time.

  E2 just vegging out.

  I keep expecting any minute for E4 to just take off on hands and knees across the floor, but as of yet she’s still using the low crawl.

  For some reason, I want to give explanations when the picture doesn’t turn out like I want.  I’m going to try to not do that very much, so that I can focus (ha, no pun intended) on the year of pictures being a learning exercise of taking better photos in general.

  I had the camera out to try to finally get a picture of E4’s smile with teeth (there’s six in there now!), when K got home.  She gets so excited when he walks in the door she practically jumps out of my arms.  She also likes to pull off any hats anyone happens to be […]

  (I’ve got to get the module for my external flash, it makes the pictures so much better.)  In an ideal world, my kids would have all natural toys, made from wood and organic cotton and wool.  However, that doesn’t seem to be realistic, and they definitely have their share of plastic and synthetic fibers.  One […]

  E3 loves to dress up in many different ways.

  I went into the kitchen to clean up after the kids were all in bed, and just had to laugh.  I thought this was a perfect representation of never knowing what I’ll find after a day with four kids.

 It was a trip-to-OMSI day.  When we got there we discovered all of the upstairs exhibit halls were closed to get ready for the BodyWorlds 3 exhibit.  Fortunately, the kids’ absolute favorite exhibit is downstairs in the Turbine Hall- it’s the one where they fill a 2-liter bottle with mixtures of air and water to create enough pressure […]