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  • trip #25: boston, ma

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  • found: recess

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  • check-up

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    after four years, we’ve moved on from washington pediatrics. we loved our pediatrician (dr. amy sage) but the rest of the practice was just more of a pain that it was worth — and dr. sage just left for a practice closer to her home.

    case and point: when we decided to change practices, it took us 8-10 phone calls and 12+ weeks to get our records transferred — and after confirming that they’d be ready on morning of our appointment with the new pediatrician, it turns out that the records hadn’t been signed, and so they couldn’t be turned over to our new doctor.

    good riddance.

    in other news, the mighty quinn is still in the 97th+ percentile — 36 lbs and 36 inches, which i think officially makes him round. sparklet is 40″+ now, which puts her well on the way to the 2028 women’s olympic volleyball team.

  • firsts: parent teacher conference

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    sparkler’s first parent-teacher conference was today, and it was more than we had even hoped for. reviews were great across the board, her comprehension of spanish (she’s in a spanish-immersion pre-school) is off the charts, and her spanish-language vocabulary is starting to catch up, too.

    the best bits were her reviews in the class room. lots of words like “loving” and “maternal” and they said she has a really good heart. which makes us happy. you can teach classroom skills and classroom manners, but harder to teach kids to be good human beings.

  • Guest Photographer: Houston, Texas

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    Guest Photographer: Houston, Texas

  • houston, pt. 2

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    houston, pt. 2

  • out: bear branch playground

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    bear branch playground

  • pumpkin patch

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    pumpkin patch

  • travel: houston, tx

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    travel: houston, tx

  • tree

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    looks like the ginormous tree in our neighbors front yard is going to be coming down — hopefully in a planned sort of way, but we’re not really sure. this week, two tree experts came by and both said that it had less than two years to live, give or take, and it’d be better to pull it down than to let gravity and old age do the work for us.

    it’d be a shame if it weren’t so obviously dying. when it comes down, it’ll be the 5th tree we (or our direct neighbors) have lost in the last three years…