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Latest blog posts from The Babies' Blog

Rock Climbing Pre-K Kids
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Published a month ago

Summer Fun
Our home is immediately adjacent to the community swimming pool. This year, I have made an effort to utilize this great resource. It has paid off, as Autumn is swimming (!!!) and Jakob took his first tentative strokes without holding on yesterday. I make them both wear life jackets, however,... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

OCF Time!
Sarah came up to celebrate a weekend of fair frivolity at the Oregon Country Fair. A good time was had by all, and lots of Kodak moments were captured. Enjoy! Read more...
Published 3 months ago

A Frog is Born
So, yesterday I was amazed at the sudden appearance of forearms. Today, the tadpole wasn't to be found. Uh-oh. Then I looked under some "foliage" in the terrarium, and by gum, there was our tadpole. On land. Sitting on his haunches. *With* a very long tail..but on land and very frog-like.... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Birthing Butterflies and Transforming Tadpoles
Late this spring, we housed a few caterpillars and advertised on Craigslist for tadpoles. Our efforts paid off, and 8 days ago the caterpillars turned chrysalises became painted lady butterflies. We threw our container into the back of our bike trailer, hitched it up, and pedaled over to the... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Guess who went to the Olympic Trials today...
Truthfully, I'm not sure who these cardboard cutout people are, but the twins had fun collecting freebies and getting their pictures taken at the "Olympic Village" outside of the trials. We walked away with more chapstick and stress balls than ANYBODY should have in this lifetime - LOL! Read more...
Published 4 months ago

RideAble
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Published 4 months ago

What's Big and Green and Silly?
Well, you know what they say...if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a ... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Memorial Day Weekend Fieldtrip
To help satiate Autumn's volcano hunger, we took a trip to Mount Mazama, known more popularly as Crater Lake. The journey there and back was arduous...both twins were ...um...let's say not in the best of moods or exhibiting the best behavior. However, while there, we all enjoyed the sights in... Read more...
Published 5 months ago

One of those days - with many not-so-happy returns
I am hoping that today was a fluke, and that spring break will go far better than Saturday did.FRIDAY! I turned in the last project as well as my last documentation. I was done. Done. DONE! End of winter quarter. Woo Hoo!I had been so excited - the special order twin tandem tagalong also... Read more...
Published 7 months ago

The Five Year Anniversary
Glad to have you on board, Autumn and Jakob :) . Read more...
Published 7 months ago

Riding boots, feather scultpures, roller rinks and more
Today is the last day of our 6 week winter break. That's a L-O-N-G time to disrupt the typical schedule of any child, much less an autistic one and his spectrumy sister. Yet, we kept on going and made it through!Winter break was initiated with a series of horseback riding therapies/lessons... Read more...
Published 9 months ago