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from Aunt Skip. But apparently she doesn’t like wearing her glasses… rather like someone else we know 🙂

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Sam takes a throw-in in the Red v. Orange game.

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Sam and Benjamin were companionably swinging on the hammock until I whipped my phone out to snap a photo.

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We did Beowulf in our monthly history club meeting today. Thanks to Nathalie for sharing this photo with me!

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We rode the bus to the Paramount Theater downtown to catch Visible Fiction’s excellent “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” I was too engaged by the show and the beautiful day to take any other pictures.

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Sam’s birthday party included a banana decoding activity and a mission that pitted the kids against the Evil Orangutan (AC) who barred their access to the treasure hidden deep in the jungle (a piñata). The kids were eventually successful, and the orangutan shared both his treasure and his feast of cupcakes. Good …

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And Sam’s having a jungle-themed birthday party tomorrow, so I thought, “Why not?” And then we devised a way to make the bananas into a game. Because I can’t just leave well enough alone…

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