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| Kadin and Baiba in Rehobeth on the kiddy rides - August 2018 |
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| Kadin visits his cousin Maddox - August 2018 |
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| We took the flag-stop train to a pretty camping spot along a river. Nice fall camping trip (September). |
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| Kadin's first school picture - Preschool |
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| Yes, he is repetitively stabbing his pumpkin with knives. No, I am not overly worried about this. :-) |
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| Kadin all dressed up for Suzy and Kassie's wedding in November. This is one of the few photos when he wasn't wearing a mask due to all of the smoke from the Paradise Fires. |
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| Feliz Navidad mi amor |
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| I found a leech on Kadin's nether regions and after letting him play with it a bit, Kadin asked me, "Can we keep him? I want to name him poopie-poopie." OK… time to Google "how to care for your pet leech." Wow, gotta love Google. I am NOT the first Mom to ask that question! |
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| We went to the Forest Fair in Girdwood this weekend and the kids just took over the place, running across the stage and having a blast. |
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| After the playground, Kadin wanted to check out the skatepark next door and was fascinated by all the tricks the skaters were doing on the ramps. I think we spent 2 hours here. The skaters loved him and even lent him a board to play around with. |
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| Mostly Kadito has way too much energy to sit and do art, but this was a rare after-lunch quiet moment and we spent about an hour at the kid's table, making an octopus and decorating butterflies. |
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| Shut yer mouth, kid! (just kidding, he did it to himself, for fun!) |
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| Munching on some curly fries and at Live at 5. |
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| The dogs LOVE his dump truck! |
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| Mama, me do this? When me hombre? |
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| Spending quality time with Kadin, catching mosquitos as they feed on me, putting them into the spiderweb, and watching the spider wrap up the tasty morsel. Kadin now loves spiders and doesn't kill them. Yay! |
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| Hey Mama, is that plant thirsty? It want agua? (We had a sudden downpour of rain and he rain out onto the patio at Twister and was essentially showering in the drips from the rain gutter as he filled up the bucket to give to the plants.) |
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| How did he get so big? Relaxing and reading a book while I go inside and order us some food. |
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| Happy Birthday to me! "Jota para ti Mama!" ("J is for you Mom" |
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| Kadin loves hanging out with Mr. Ernie and his grandkids at the library. |
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| Birch's favorite time with Kadin is when the little rambunctious boy is sleeping! |
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| Buenos Días Kadito! He's always a bit grumpy in the morning and especially in front of the camera. |
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| We finally hung the birdhouse Kadin made at the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival. We're a bit late in the season, but hopefully a chickadee will decide to make it a home. |
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| Out on a hike in the forest around town and the river and Kadito climbed up on the hump at the base of this spruce and posed for a perfect portrait. ¡Te quiro tanto Kadito, mi monito! |
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| To break up the drive, we stopped for a few hours at the Soldotna playground… where we discovered that Bucky enjoyed going down the slide as much as Kadin! |
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| A nature walk along the docks, exploring all of the sea creatures there. Kadin loved it! This one is an ochre sea star. |
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| An "Otters and Eiders" boat tour where Kadito and a kid he met on board get to sit in the captain's seat. (The Captain is pictured to the left). Lots of otters, lots of running laps around the deck. No eiders (a cool sea duck). |
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| Kadin slept through it, but I awoke to the crunch of underbrush and chomping of leaves right outside of the tent. |
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| Awww! Love this shot of Kadito and Bucky… best of friends whenever Kadin has either food or a ball in his hand! |
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| The Elementary School had an art show… this is the group project of The Scream! |
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| The next day, it was Earth Day, and Kadin spent most of it up in this alder, trying to climb as high as the older boys and girls. In this pic, Sawyer is the boy to the right. |
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| We are trying to grow some sunflower starts this year since last year they never flowered when we planted them directly into the soil outside. Whatever they do, it's a fun activity with Kadin. We poured the soil in, made a little bed for each seed and then covered them up with a dirt blanket. When we were done, he said, "We plant seeds, go to bed, and tomorrow we eat plants!" |
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| I have one or two of these shots from when Kadin was an infant. It still feels just as amazing now, 3 years later. |
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| Biking, biking, and more biking. He LOVES his new pedal bike and is out riding in rain or shine. See videos below… |
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| Of course, jumping off the bike to dive into the snow bank is just as much fun! Even in the rain… He tried to get me to join him but I declined. |
