We celebrated Miss Norah’s 2nd birthday today at…you guessed it…Bugaboo Creek. Happy Birthday Noo-Noo!!!!!!!!!!!

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Even though it’s Ramadan and Ben likes to conserve his energy on weekends, I dragged him to Aliya and Adlani’s soccer games yesterday so he could see what he needs to work on with them. He spent his youth playing soccer daily and it’s a crime if he doesn’t pass those skills on to the kids. It was Adlani’s first game with the new U6 (Under 6) Fireballs. He has Aliya’s coach from last year and is on the same team with Griffin and Noah. I’m hoping that he eventually catches on, but I think there’s a good chance he will end up in the marching band. Aliya played goalie and due to the skills of the Absolutes she had plenty of time for hair-twirling and wedgie-picking, and they remain undefeated after 2 games. Hopefully Ben will be taking full advantage of the official soccer net in our next-door neighbors’ yard to get some extra practice in over the next few weeks.

Aliya has discovered the fun and excitement of fishing off the dock at camp. She hasn’t caught anything edible yet but we’re keeping the faith.

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Word Girl and Arthur made an appearance at OSV over Labor Day weekend so we stopped by for the last visit of the summer. We had a great time as usual. The exposure therapy seems to be working because Norah wouldn’t leave poor Word Girl alone until she got at least 15 high-5’s. She wasn’t too sure about Arthur though.

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Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and proceeded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asked the older boy, “Son, how old are you?”
“Eight,” the boy replied.
The man continued, “Do you know what these are used for?”
The boy replied, “Not exactly, but they aren’t for me. They’re for him. He’s my brother. He’s four. We saw on TV that if you use these you would be able to swim and ride a bike. Right now, he can’t do either one.”

That reminds me of a conversation I had with Adlani’s friend’s mom, a 5th grade health teacher. She was telling me about the questions her students have asked her (which, by the way, reaffirmed my opinion that we should never see the health teacher on the list of budget cuts again). During the segment on menstruation, one of the boys asked, “Are you sure it’s blood that comes out?” When the teacher assured him that it is indeed blood, he asked, “Are you sure it’s not blue juice?” Think about it…every commercial for sanitary napkins and tampons shows blue juice. Why is that? Something to think about.
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