Christmas presents are great but running in the forest and sunshine is priceless.

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Christmas morning walk in Redwood Park.

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Playing with the front loader Lornie played with as a child.

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Cooking up some holiday cheer.

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Cooking rocks requires frequent stirring or they will burn.

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Christmas morning reading with Meme.

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Late afternoon visit to Fairyland with Piza to see the christmas lights.

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After Thanksgiving visit to the aquarium with Grammy Pat.

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checking out the big bears at the Linsey Wildlife Museum.

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In America you are never too young or too old to drive.

Meeting Great-Grandma Viera and Chuck in Baltimore

I think it looks like Amari is in the middle of a Broadway musical number about the trials of dealing with the women of the family.

A brief visit to NYC was just enough time to sing a song with Calliope; draw pictures with August; and relax in the rock garden and big tub with Greta

happy together.

Fall leaves are great fun.

Asher was great about giving Amari a ride.

Asher's Birthday wagon ride was fun for all.

Helping to load firewood on the wagon is just the type of job Amari loves these days.

Enjoying the walk with Heatherjean.

the three little pigs are not so little any more.

On our first morning during our NH visit we went for a walk to check on mama hen and her babies.

Holding hands in the car is not so easy but Amari does not want to miss the opportunity to hold Piza's hand.

Finger painting in the shower makes clean up so much easier.

Amari discovered the fun of birthday candles on Alef's birthday. He helped blow out the candle at least 7 times.

Music time with Daddy

Going for a walk around the lake.

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Actually Amari rode in the stroller but he did walk around this tree for 15 minutes and made me feel dizzy just watching him.

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We visited the aquarium again and Amari was enchanted. He has us read books abut fish every day now and he can identify most of the fish in the books now.

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Judith and Piza check out the jellyfish.

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Seeing the bat rays up close was exciting but the children were not so sure abut actually touching them when they went swimming by.

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The starfish don't move so much and Amari was more comfortable touching them.

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Amari was ready to join the starfish

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