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Reading The Little Prince aloud. (6/6/20)
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Elaine draws a lovely, nearly life-size portrait of Truggster. (6/6/20)
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Quietly coloring. (6/6/20)
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We made it outside! (6/8/20)
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The weather called for umbrellas. Although, they're not quite as effective when held this way. (6/8/20)
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Elaine prepares to bake a cherry chip cake for Wesley's birthday. (6/9/20)
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Grand Janet brings over some round pans to help with the cake. (6/9/20)
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Wesley directs me in decorating the cake. (6/9/20)
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Wesley shows me
where we should add yellow M&Ms, representing a loop of gold rings
that Sonic is about to collect. (6/9/20)
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Cherry chip cake with cherry filling and cherry frosting. (6/9/20)
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Elaine stays up way
past bedtime blowing up balloons for Wesley's birthday in the
morning. Quinn wants no part of it. (6/9/20)
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Wesley came
downstairs on their birthday morning to find a robot, Wooster2020, with
a note explaining that Dr. Robotnik had stolen some of their
presents. Oh no! (6/10/20)
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Before facing Dr.
Robotnik, our hero must be properly outfitted with a Sonic costume, six
golden rings, and a suit of armor. (6/10/20)
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A magic dinosaur wand and a little extra information about robots is also a good idea. (6/10/20)
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Dr. Robotnik came
flying through the house and into our front yard, complete with battle
music playing on Elaine's phone. (6/10/20)
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Wesley slaughtered the badnik, only to find candy and a secret note
inside, explaining the whereabouts of the robots who'd stolen their
presents. (6/10/20)
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Wesley conquers Jeeves2020 and extracts the stolen presents from inside. (6/10/20)
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Final boss time! (6/10/20)
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With the badnik beheaded, Wesley can safely extract the golden egg from inside. (6/10/20)
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A llama-corn hatches from the golden egg, and Wesley loves it. (6/10/20)
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Then the llama-corn grooooows. (6/10/20)
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After successfully defeating Dr. Robotnik, our hero celebrates with cherry chip cake. (6/10/20)
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Stand-off with a tiny dinosaur. (6/12/20)
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The training wheels have come off. (6/14/20)
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From zero to biking in no time flat. (6/14/20)
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Photo-bombing Truggster and Lizzie. (6/15/20)
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Art time at Grand Janet's. (6/16/20)
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Toast Trees. (6/16/20)
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Amy to the left of me; Quinn to the right. Stuck in the middle with dogs. (6/16/20)
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The two speeds of walking. (6/16/20)
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Elaine carefully gathers flowers for their wedding to themself. (6/16/20)
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Padawan Sonic Skywalker trains with their Jedi Master. (6/17/20)
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You see, walks are boring. Jedi training is fun. (6/17/20)
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Wesley is interested in learning how to build a robot. As a first step, they've de-constructed a Roomba. (6/18/20)
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Two Jedis clash. (6/20/20)
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Training in light saber technique while getting our daily walk. (6/20/20)
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Sometimes a walk is just a walk. (6/21/20)
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After many months of laying fallow, our fish tank has been repopulated. (6/22/20)
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Wesley has wanted a
bow and arrows for a long time. Thanks to Oma Suzy and a gift
card, they finally got them. (6/23/20)
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Picking the first
cherries from our volunteer cherry tree. There were enough for us
to each have three, and they were delicious. (6/23/20)
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"Wow, I think this is, like, 15 books you made, up to this book." (6/23/20)
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Reading a little of
The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats. Wesley seemed most
interested in "Shreddy and the Dancing Dragon." (6/23/20)
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Among other clever
bedtime-delaying-tactics, Elaine has started drawing art for me.
This piece is particularly suited to my interests. (6/26/20)
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We sent the kids next door to Grand Janet's to give me time to write... (6/30/20)
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...so Grand Janet taught them how to play Black Jack and gamble. (6/30/20)
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