Pippi’s Family

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Pippi came home with her “family”.
Sorry Navy and Scout…it looks like you are out, and Blush, Penn and Posey are in!

Bottle Nose Dolphin

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When we got down to Doheny today, someone had left a huge bottle nose dolphin sand sculpture with four “view” seats.  It looked like it was made for our family, so we set up camp.
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This dolphin provided at least two hours of pure entertainment.  Pippi was the dolphin’s mother, the dolphin was Scout and Dash’s obstacle, and Navy was the dolphin’s repair person.
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Until Navy became the ultimate bug whisperer.
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And then the cutest surfer!
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We are so lucky to have the ultimate playground in our backyard.
Lucky us!

Readers

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I love, love, love walking into a room seeing my kids reading.  I was particularly impressed with Navy’s pick of Percy Jackson, which is certainly above her reading level.  I was equally shocked that Scout (my reader) has reverted to The Three Ninja Pigs.  But I always tell my kids, “I don’t care what you are reading…I just care that you are reading!”

Lateovers

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Four out of seven bit the dust.
The DenStrand lateovers are not for the weak.
Mostly, because the adults can outlast these kids all day every day!

Date

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I am always with this little sidekick…but most of it entails picking other kids up from school or running errands.  This day, it was a date…where we spent some real deal quality time together.  She loved it, but I think I loved it a bit more.