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2017–week 4

Monday: we were participating in national lutheran schools week at preschool, and monday was pajama day! tuesday: toby, being toby. also tuesday: layla spent all of her birthday and christmas money buying herself a tumbling mat to practice gymnastics at home. it arrived today and she was so excited! saturday: i found it amusing how toby was sitting with shane… kind of a consoling, pat-on-the-shoulder pose. like, “it’s okay, man. you’re a good guy.” saturday: very exciting! some of layla’s gymnastics team went to see the UW vs. Utah meet, and got to participate in a workshop with the gymnasts and coaches afterward. go huskies! q&a with UW gymnasts afterward. the workshop itself wound up being a little bit lame and disorganized, without a lot of actual gymnastics or coaching, but meeting the gymnasts, the coaches, and using their equipment was pretty cool.

2017–week 3

sunday: better late than never. we FINALLY got out to celebrate dave’s birthday after two weeks of postponing it because one or more people were sick. dinner at varlamos. teaching grandpa to dab…   monday: no school for MLK day, so the kids and i did a costco run. layla was determined to heave the huge bag of dog food into the cart without assistance. it was quite amusing. and time consuming. thursday: not entirely sure what sparked this situation. there was some styrofoam that micah got ahold and of and decided to do some sort of science experiment. it apparently involved a small container of water, two buttons, a toy helicopter, and an orange… it seems the plan was to attempt to cause the buttons to rise out of the water by using the blades of the helicopter as a fan… and the orange, it turns out, was just for a snack. i’ll go ahead and ease the suspense. it didn’t work. friday: another meet for layla, this time in vancouver. we got to play hooky for this one (everyone but sh...