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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

We took an excursion to the coast today to escape the hot weather. It got up almost to 90 degrees. When we got to the beach and put on our sweatshirts and socks to be comfortable it occurred to me that something had changed. Washington has weakened my ability to deal with hot weather. Or maybe I’m just getting old.

We went to the Tillamook Cheese Factory and we also stopped at the Blue Heron Cheese Factory just up the road. They have a petting zoo complete with this emu who had to investigate Dana’s camera pretty closely.

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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Phone picture today. We’re still recovering from our night of fireworks, I guess.

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Monday, July 4th, 2011

Happy Birthday, America!

Here we are at the Fort waiting for the fireworks to start. Anton’s friend Crystal staked out a primo spot early in the morning and let us mooch in next to her for the show. Thanks, Crystal! Magnus was happy until about 10 minutes before the show. So I rocked him and hummed patriotic songs to him and he fell asleep. And slept for almost 8 hours. Whoa! Thanks also to Ivan who came and celebrated with us (and bought us elephant ears!).

Happy 4th, everybody!

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Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

Happy 2 Months, Magnus!

Magnus loves standing up. So much so that it wears his parents’ arms out. Dana devised this system for Magnus that keeps him happy for about 2 minutes. He is also a professional drooler.

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Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

I can’t remember if I boasted about my calendar project already. But if I did, here is a picture of snazzy July. Notice the Harry Potter Movie date is marked.

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Friday, July 1st, 2011

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Anton had another dessert night. This time Dana told me to make lemon sugar cookie. I was at a loss at what to make, but the cookies went over well. Dana played Jenga and toppled the tower. We played Bananagrams and I won (against Dana, not against multiple opponents).

Good times.

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Dana went to see Transformers with Brian tonight. Before the previews started the screen freaked out and then the Windows Start bar showed up… It all turned out OK and Dana got to see the movie. Apparently it was much better than the second one: way more fighting robots.

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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Today was Magnus’s first zoo visit. He slept the whole time, and we even rode the train. We saw lots of fun animals, including a new baby beaver which was very cute. And we had a yummy elephant ear. Magnus woke up when we took him out of the carrier at the end, to get ready to leave. We thought it would be fun to get a picture of him on this mountain goat. He wanted to know why we woke him up from a perfectly good nap for a dumb ‘ol goat statue. We didn’t have a good reason.

Magnus also had a doctor visit. He weighed in at 12 lbs. 2 oz. and was 24 and 1/4 in. long.