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Ok.... realized I started this and never actually posted it (it was written 2 months ago... but its still fun.) :)

Ok, so we missed the ‘once a month’ deadline this time… but it is still only the 1^st week of October so we’re not doing too badly.

The summer weather is still with us (YEA!!!!!!!!!) and the girls are loving it. The jungle gym is definitely a favorite hangout – and why not – swings, sandbox, big yellow slide and that cool deck on the top – I mean really, what’s not to love, right? J

Their coordination is amazing to me sometimes:

Taylor comes down the slide, plants her feet shoulder width apart, stands up and runs back to whichever adult has “lift-child-onto-the-deck-because-their-little-legs-aren’t-long-enough-to-climb-the-ladder-yet” duty. Its nothing that we taught her, but after a couple of initial trips down the slide she apparently felt that landing on her buns was not the way to go and that she needed to find a better solution.

Leah has officially entered the climbing phase of toddlerhood. One afternoon David was sitting on the loveseat with his feet on the ottoman (yes, we do, on rare occasion, get to sit down these days) when he heard “Hi Dad” from behind whatever he was reading. And there, on her knees on the ottoman was Leah, jumping into his lap. (Thank goodness she announced herself first or it may have been a very different scene.) LOL