Amari and I got to go swimming in a really nice salt water pool. It was the perfect temperature and Amari loved it!

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The look on Amari's face only begins to show how nice this pool is.

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Looking all pumped up while doing some splashing.

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Already breaking the rules and running by the pool.

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Amari was ready to stake his claim and call the pool his.

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Amari is interested in building with blocks ( in addition to knocking them down). I have not taken any photos of his more impressive towers but I will keep trying.

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In addition to his building skills Amari is learning more words each week. He has added the words: Yes, thank you, door, keys, fish, flower, butterfly, beetle (beble), water, cheese, truck, trash, rock, giraffe, mouth, belly button, nose, eyes, and high five to his everyday vocabulary.

We visited The Children's Discovery Museum with Zachary and Phil on Friday. Amari and Zachary both liked the maze house made of living branches.

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The wave machine and fish tank were a big hit with Amari . Fish was Amari's new word for the weekend.

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Sweeping with the big "boom".

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Zachary and Amari spent a long time filling and empting the dump truck.

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During a visit to Fiona's house Amari was perhaps daunted by the number of plants to water in the garden.

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Fiona leading Amari to the sandbox.

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A proud moment during his rock lifting game.

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yeah for rocks and all the other fun stuff in nature!

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One of Amari's new games is picking things up and saying "trash" and throwing them in the nearest trash can (this game is at least better than putting everything in his mouth)

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Reading with Hillary

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