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Under the Sprinkler

Kai, Amélie and I were elated to hear that the Yellow Springs public pool, which was supposed to close for the season yesterday, will remain open through its normal closure date on Labor Day. Today, even though it is gymnastics day and we normally rest on gymnastics afternoons, we piled into my mom’s car laden with sunscreen, towels and snacks for a short dip. We were then enormously...

Aug 26th

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Aug 24th

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Let's Pretend We're All Grown-Up

Kai and Amélie play make believe a lot less than I remember doing as a kid. Then again, there was a lot of imagination involved in making our toys seems half as interesting as most of theirs, and we could only dream about a computer or a game system. In one make believe game that they do play sometimes, Kai plays the father to Baby Amélie. The game seems to consist of Kai providing for his...

Aug 19th