Exploring

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Reading with Grandma Robin

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Afternoon in Petaluma

Ash loves the fountain, Zack loves the bridge.












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Sorting

This was mine when I was a baby.



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Animals!!

Aunt Sarah brought out all her old stuffed animals. The boys liked rolling around in them.






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Walking in the grass

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Puddle

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Brothers

In Tomales.


















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Alex calls this game Godzilla

I love how Ash does the replay afterwards of how he knocked that tower right over. He hardly ever crawls anymore---he is really a toddler, if a kind of unsteady one still.

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Hi!

Ash doesn't say Hi, but he gets very excited and waves a lot when you say it to him.

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"Nuh, nuh, nuh!"

Now that Ash has some words, we get to hear what he's thinking about a little more, and it seems that he does a lot of thinking about what he's not supposed to do. He spends a lot of time saying, "nuh, nuh" about toilets and phones and plugs and Legos and such things. Here he is playing with head phones.





Here it is my phone he is not supposed to touch. He says, "nuh."

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Snow

Ash was interested in the snow, so I made him a snowball and put him in the bathtub with it in a bucket. He played with it till it melted, and then he cried. So I filled up his bucket with more snow, which he mostly ate. He says, "suh, suh!"



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Ash has been paying attention

Two things Ash did surprised me yesterday---he took toilet paper and threw it in the toilet, and he grabbed a pen and started scribbling on paper. Almost all my note-taking happens electronically, so I don't know how he knew what a pen even was!






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Zack making up stories with his trucks

We have been working with and around the idea of "bad guys" recently. Very little of the fiction that he has had exposure to has bad guys, and I'm not quite sure where he got it from, but it troubles him. They said he was worried about it at school too---they are studying Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, which has a bad fairy.



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