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January 2013

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Happy 2013!  
January has been a month of getting back into our groove after the holidays.  We've had lots of fun outings, good books to read, swim lessons at the YMCA, and some home-preschool spontaneity.

Buddy is reading more and more.  He's now grabbing books off the shelf and trying to read them on his own.  Button has actually starting bringing Buddy books to read to him.  I'm feeling that my position is beginning to get usurped!  It's exciting though to see Buddy enthralled with reading.  (He's not actually reading the Boxcar Children yet; he just discovered where we are keeping the chapter books since I've started reading Magic Tree House books to him).

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Button has started swim lessons at the YMCA.  We had been going to the pool about once a week in the fall, but this is the first time he's had regular lessons.  He's starting to get more comfortable with it although he wasn't so sure about the class to begin with.

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We've also done quite a few family outings.  We haven't had a ton of snow in Seattle, so we drove about an hour away to get some snow-time in.  We found a snow fort that someone had made which the boys thought was great.
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We also took a hike between Cowen and Ravenna Parks.


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We also stayed close to home and fed the ducks after watching them slide across the frozen pond.  It was pretty funny!


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And a trip on the Burke-Gilman trail for a walk from Theo Chocolate to the Fremont Bridge.

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The kids took over my camera one afternoon when we went to the train park.  I didn't even know this picture was taken of me until I got home!  Buddy also took the following nice picture of the park
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One rainy afternoon we decided to go on a rain walk and get as wet as possible.  I think we got pretty close!

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We do stay home a lot though too - including playing a lot with their new toys from Christmas.  Here's Button showing off his inflatable gun he got from his uncle.  Got to love boys!

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