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This is a giraffe. Just testing out a new blog thing.

That's not how I remember it. Besides, if we wanted to see Japanese people we could have gone to the zoo.

The weather was nice and it was a long holiday weekend so we decided to take Grace to the zoo along with 10 gazillion other people today. We only managed to get two pictures of her...

... One of them was in a toilet.

The other was of her riding the "pengy" on the merry-go-round.

Here's a giraffe.

Homer, don't start stalking people again. It's so illegal. Remember when you were stalking Charles Karault because you thought he dug up your garden?

We had a big gardening project this weekend and Grace helped out.

That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer.

Mommy's ballet recital was last weekend so she was very busy.

Grace and daddy went to the park to play.

She really liked this horse.

Giving mommy her flowers after the recital.

Grace got a special treat from the dancers.

Misc.

Putting necklaces on an unwilling Jake

One of those rare moments when they both look at the camera at the same time

Swimming by herself (and the help of a floatation belt)

Luca had his birthday party at the Kohl Children's Museum of Bullying and Bad Manners. Here's Grace working at the grocery store.

And here she is testing out her car on the race track.

Olivia's Birthday Party

Olivia celebrated her 2nd birthday this weekend.

Playing umbrellas with Olivia and Uncle Tony

Everyone playing

Watching Olivia open her presents

She Thinks Someone is Chasing Her

Dancing Fools

This is Grace, Kaitlyn, Olivia, and later Liam, dancing to The Wheels on the Bus. The song kept stopping and they would stop dancing until Grace pushed the button again. This is only a minute or so. It went on and on and on and on and.....