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Birthday

This week we celebrate Chris joining me in the 30s and becoming 30 flirty and thriving just like me, haha. He said he doesn't feel any different than yesterday but I said the same thing and still have grey hairs growing. Joint pain and hair problems are just the beginning of our issues and we will only continue to grow old together. I am constantly grateful for him in my life and feel happy for how he has made me a better person through our years together. I'm working on ways to spoil him but he is really focused to studying for his big test coming up in 11 days so he mostly gets yummy food that I know he likes and alone time to do practice questions. 

Claire

As we have been practicing her writing skills she has developed a funny habit of not wanting me to watch her while she is tracing the letters. I can look when the page is done and be excited at how good she did but if she messes up she wants to fix it before I can see it. She also continues to create fun new ways to play with play dough instead of using the letter cut outs I bought for her. I don't mind because my house has turned into a mural of tape with letters, numbers, and shapes on the walls and floors like some children's museum. They enjoy finding the letters, playing number hopscotch, and learning new shapes like trapezoid and hexagon! We pretend not to remember the shapes and Claire will tell us "no that's a hexagon" like she's the math teacher.

Shay

For being a year and a half younger than Claire, she is already recognizing all the things that Claire knows and they play with the letters without us sometimes. She usually sings the easiest part of the Alphabet song then Claire will finish it for her because she doesn't know it all. Mostly, I'm excited that they like learning in these ways and keep trying to find more things for them to learn, like spelling words and trying to sound them out. She can do most of the shapes, and she is very fast with the things she does know so she usually finds the things we are asking for before Claire because she remembers where they are. She knows how to count but doesn't recognize what they all look like at random yet but she has confidence when she is finding the wrong one.

Nana

We get to have a visitor this week and her name is NANA! The girls and I went to the airport yesterday to pick her up and had a great first half day with her showing her all their fun things. We did puzzles, read books, made a yummy dinner, and went to bed early because she had been up so long. There are many plans to go places this next week that we are excited for like doing a children's museum and hopefully if the weather is nice and the air quality gets better we can go to a place called Fairytale Town and going to a beach. I'm excited to have her around we get to talk and cook together, we want to do a little sewing project and play games.