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Lane picked up a bunch of supplies at the craft store... step one? Alphabetizing the beads. (10/1/23)
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The
idea is to string Taylor Swift lyrics onto bracelets and take the
bracelets to the film screening of the Eras Tour concert.
(10/1/23)
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There are a lot of lyrics to choose from, but eventually some of the letter beads did start to run out... (10/1/23)
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Even so, Lane spent hours carefully stringing beads and ended up with a lot of bracelets to trade. (10/1/23)
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Lane is prepared to make a lot of friends. (10/1/23)
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It's good to have a dog large enough to serve as a mattress. (10/2/23)
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Lee plays with much fierceness. (10/5/23)
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And joy. (10/5/23)
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Hannah wants love. (10/6/23)
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But Lee is busy with video games. (10/6/23)
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Another Saturday, another soccer game. (10/7/23)
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Lane after cheering for the wrong team getting a goal, "I'm yelling at field children. I'm doing my job." (10/7/23)
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It's still early in October, but we decided to go to a corn maze, and the kids wanted to dress up for it. (10/7/23)
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Commander Keen facing off with a vorticon. (10/7/23)
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Lobster and jellyfish floating through the deep blue sea. (10/7/23)
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Lane's jellyfish parasol received many, many compliments. (10/7/23)
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Lee's technological accessories provided useful for navigating in the dark. (10/7/23)
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Come rain, come cold, come soggy grass, the soccer practice somehow goes on. (10/9/23)
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Some days, this is what school looks like. (10/10/23)
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Trying to catch an early morning glimpse of the annular eclipse through Oregon's thick cloud cover. (10/14/23)
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Let the soccer begin! (10/14/23)
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Soccering! (10/14/23)
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All prepared for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour concert film. (10/15/23)
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There
were showings every fifteen minutes, so our theater was mostly empty.
Lane still had a great time, dancing and singing along.
(10/15/23)
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Filling out a worksheet about sharks before getting a goodnight hug. (10/16/23)
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One small child in the middle of a giant field of corn. (10/18/23)
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Running, retreading, charging ahead! (10/18/23)
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Checking out the options pumpkin-wise. (10/18/23)
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Lee picked out a pumpkin pretty quickly. (10/18/23)
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Lee thinks these are funny-looking pumpkins. They thought the acorn squash looked like pumpkin grenades. (10/18/23)
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Lane says they look like what you'd get if you asked Midjourney to draw a pumpkin. Very artistic. (10/18/23)
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Lane took longer to pick a pumpkin, but then I asked which pumpkin Lemon liked best... (10/18/23)
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So, with some help from Lemon, Lane settled on a pumpkin. (10/18/23)
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Avery gets unwillingly enlisted to help with schoolwork. (10/25/23)
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Getting ready to go downtown for this year's first round of trick-or-treating... (10/28/23)
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It's
a little strange to start trick-or-treating three full days before
Halloween, but hey, it stretches the best holiday out. (10/28/23)
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One of the businesses, Books With Pictures, that handing out candy, also let kids pick out a free comic book... (10/28/23)
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Since Lee loves graphic novels, we stepped inside to check the place out. (10/28/23)
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We
all got ready to go trick-or-treating at 5th Street Market, but then
one of Lee's friends came online, and we waited while they played a
match of Fortnite. (10/30/23)
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Trick-or-treating at the Haunted Market. (10/30/23)
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This must be a level of Keen Dreams. (10/30/23)
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Just a jellyfish glowing in the sunset. (10/30/23)
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Each kid draws a random candy, then if they both say "trade," they trade. (10/30/23)
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We put off carving pumpkins until the very last minute this year... (10/31/23)
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Working on cleaning the pumpkin out themself. (10/31/23)
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Ghost Face pumpkin! (10/31/23)
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Lee share's their plans for this Minecraft pumpkin. (10/31/23)
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"Let me carve you easily, pumpkin!" (10/31/23)
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Commander Keen with their pogo stick. (10/31/23)
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Since we plan to spend the whole evening trick-or-treating, we set the pumpkins up two doors down... (10/31/23)
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...decorating Grand Janet's house. (10/31/23)
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First trick-or-treating stop of the evening... (10/31/23)
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...and then we trick-or-treated until the kids were so tired that we had to get driven home. (10/31/23)
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