Tag Archives: Orion

The 4th grade "Van Gogh Cafe" poetry reading

  OrionPoetryHeadshotToday Orion's 4th grade class held an event called "The Van Gogh Cafe" where they each memorized a Shel Silverstein poem, created an art poster to display on an easel, and recited their poems.  Orion was very nervous about remember his "lines" but he did an awesome...
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Sadness at the loss of our family dog

[caption id="attachment_2215" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Baxter after an escape attempt - April 2010"][/caption] Our 10 1/2 yr old dog, Baxter, passed away suddenly last night after getting quite sick.   John rushed him to the emergency pet hospital where he passed away about 30 minutes later. In the past...
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Getting into the holiday spirit!

Every Christmas season we like to take a family trip to downtown Seattle to get into the holiday spirit.  This year we took that trip kind of late in the season. We started out by visiting with Aunt Kathy and Uncle Seong Yoon briefly at their...
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Orion's graduation celebration from Speech Therapy

We've reached a major milestone in our family.  Orion has finally graduated from attending Speech Therapy.  He's been going weekly since he was about 2 years old.  Dana, his therapist, seems basically like a member of our family with all the time she's invested in...
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Beating the heat

According to the thermostat in my car, it was 99 degrees today in Olympia.  That is hot for anywhere, but particularly for an area where most people do not have AC in their homes. John had a three day weekend and worked tirelessly on putting in...
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Fun times at Long Lake

I decided to take the boys to Long Lake today because it was 86 degrees outside.  This was the first time I had ever taken them swimming by myself (without another helper).  But since there...
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Kingergarten Graduation 2010

Today was the last day of school and the day that Orion graduated from Kindergarten.  We are so proud of our little guy. Oliver and I headed to the school to join in on the celebration armed with chocolate covered strawberries.  When we arrived they were...
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