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1. Wednesday, November 29, 2023:
   End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2023  album.       Events   Went to the dentist on W 11/1. Family dinner at Fire Works Pizza.    Date Night at Local Provisions on F 11/3.    Had my parents over for dinner (ham) while Rebecca taught Yoga Anatomy at Easy Day on S 11/4.    A day of raking, fire pit, and outdoor meals on S 11/5.    Breakfast for dinner with the kids at IHOP on M 11/6.    Voted on T 11/7. Also went to the doctor for my annual physical and a tetanus shot.    Ian was sick for a day on H 11/9.    Visit with Tom and Peggy on S 11/11. Made lentil and sausage sou...
2. Monday, November 20, 2023:
   Easy Photos Day    Playing Twister on a compass rose.      Getting some miles-per-hour.      Interrupting Board Game Arena night with Larry and Janice.      Sunday afternoon fire pit.      Messy marshmallows. 
3. Wednesday, November 01, 2023:
   Easy Photos Day    Practicing Trick-or-Treat with grandma.      Carving pumpkins obtained from their respective school field trips.      The My Little Pony, Rainbow Dash, and Piggie from "Elephant and Piggie".      Ready for trick-or-treaters. (We probably ended up with about 20).      Warming up by the fire after hitting Hanford Court and Hummer Court.  
4. Monday, October 30, 2023:
   End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2023  album.       Events   14th anniversary. Family dinner at Bungalow Lakehouse on T 10/3.    Anniversary date night at Local Provisions on F 10/6.    Rebecca went on a Bikes and Beers bike ride with her coworkers on S 10/7.    Low-key sick weekend at home, S 10/14 - 10/15.    Solo dad dinner at Miller's on M 10/16.    Rebecca went to Atlanta with Emily, W 10/18 - S 10/21. My mom came for an overnight visit on W 10/18. Went to the HOA annual meeting that evening.    Went to Frying Pan Farm with my mom and Ian on H 10/19. Maia had her class field trip ...
5. Wednesday, October 25, 2023:
   Ian Year 2 Month 6 Battle Report  At two and a half, Ian is 35" tall and 27 pounds. (This is where Maia was at  three and a half  so Ian will end up being more normal-sized than bite-sized).     He goes to Kids Under Construction preschool three mornings per week and has acclimated to the experience after several mornings where it felt like pulling teeth for Rebecca to get him to go. He can recite the names of his classmates when he looks at their pictures, and likes the trucks at school most of all.   At home, he loves to build specific things with Duplo blocks. Most often, a bunny office, an airport, or a tower. He likes to make tall stacks of blocks on the backs of Duplo trucks to represent delivery trucks full of packa...
6. Monday, October 23, 2023:
   Easy Photos Day    Ian heads to Frying Pan Farm with Grandma during Rebecca's 3-day holiday in Atlanta.      Exhausted parenting.      Maia comes home from her Cox Farms field trip with a new pumpkin.      Forest cleanup party of one, along Fillmore Rd, while Ian's at preschool.      Supine parenting.      Rebecca comes home!  
7. Friday, September 29, 2023:
   End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2023  album.       Events   Visited the Ahlbins in Rhoadsville, VA, F 9/1 - S 9/2.    Took the kids to Volcano Island on M 9/4. Dinner with the parents (spaghetti) in the evening.    Date night at Local Provisions on F 9/8.    Maia did a trial dance class at Sterling Ballet Academy on S 9/9. Went to the native plant sale at Morven Park in Leesburg where we also met up with Aunt Carol and Uncle Dave on their anniversary.    After church on S 9/10, Maia and Rebecca went to the Cheesecake Factory with Elizabeth and Sammy for Aunt Carol & Uncle Dave's anniversary.    Maia ...
8. Monday, September 25, 2023:
   Easy Photos Day    Maia is really into her educational math game, Prodigy, which she plays on her school-issued Chromebook.      Ian plays "Senor Don Gato" at Sully playground.      Ian and Maia go to a 4th birthday party at the fire station on Saturday morning.      Ian reunites with Abby at the Smith household on Sunday afternoon.      Tropical Storm Ophelia turns out to be a moderate nothing-burger, with only 2.5 inches of steady rain. 
9. Wednesday, September 20, 2023:
   Tree Removal Day  The maple tree in our front yard came down today by chainsaw.   I don't have many pictures of the front yard from the early years of homeownership. Usually, this tree only appeared in the background of photos showing how much snow we got, when I got a new car, or when they repaved the road. I do remember that it once had full coverage of the front yard in 2004 -- I used to have to rake the front yard multiple times per year, but haven't even done any raking in about a decade.     In 2019 when the tree was in permanent decline, we planted a new maple tree nearby. The new tree sapped the old tree's spirit by shouting "Okay, boomer" and actually being able to grow leaves.     Since t...
10. Monday, September 18, 2023:
    Easy Photos Day    This is the cabin where we stayed with friends over my birthday weekend. It was at the top of the mountain in Shannondale, just 0.4 miles from an Appalachian Trail access point so the views were top notch. Maia named her rock, "Ginormous Rock".      Of course, we had smores.      Rebecca and Ian take a walk down Rebels Roost Road.      This is Ian's current favourite face to make for the camera.  
11. Monday, September 11, 2023:
    Easy Photos Day    Sometimes they just hop up on the couch and start reading, unprompted.      Ready to build a bookshelf for his room.      Collecting osage oranges in Morven Park.      Playing Wingspan while Ian naps in the thunderstorm.      Trial run of a regular car seat, since he's on the verge of outgrowing the rear-facing infant one.  
12. Monday, September 04, 2023:
    Easy Photos Day    Enthralled with the Ahlbins' new kitten, Layla.      Tempting fate by trying out a child-sized pogo stick (record: 8 hops).      Ian finds a place to spend the whole weekend.      Battling the heat wave at home on the screen porch.  
13. Wednesday, August 30, 2023:
    End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2023  album.       Events   Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions on W 8/2.    Dinner at my parents' house (spare ribs) on S 8/5.    Rebecca and Maia went to Nolan and Julia's birthday party at Hyperkidz on S 8/6.    Rebecca and I got sick on H 8/10 with COVID EG.5. Maia got sick on W 8/16.    Family visit to Folly Lick Park on S 8/19.    Went to Maia's first grade open house on T 8/22.    Family dinner at Fire Works Pizza on W 8/23.    Maia's first day of first grade (Ms. Meissner) on H 8/24.    Rebecca took the kids to vi...
14. Monday, August 28, 2023:
    Ian Year 2 Month 4 Battle Report  Ian is older!     He's the same age as Maia was when she climbed out of her crib, but he's still content to go to bed in a sleep sack and squirm around the crib like a larvae. We've tried to start his nap a little earlier to align with Maia's back-to-school schedule but he's been more likely to just lie there singing for a couple hours instead of sleeping. He still sleeps through the night, taking an hour to sing himself to sleep and then sleeping for 10 - 11 hours.   In the mornings, he heads straight to the bookshelf to recite books from memory before a breakfast of waffle and sausage. His meals tend to start about 10 minutes after the rest of the family while he gets one more book in. "No, I not re...
15. Monday, August 21, 2023:
    New Computer Day  I purchased myself a new desktop computer as an early 44th birthday present. The  previous one  lasted a whopping seven years, which is a record for my computers. However, in the last 12 months, it had been plagued with power issues that would prevent it from turning back on after power outages unless I physically moved it and plugged it into a different outlet first.   Here are the machine specs, since I always forget these several years into ownership and have to dig all over to rediscover them:     Dell XPS 9860   i7-13700 CPU (16-Core, 24MB Cache, 2.1 - 5.1 GHz)   16GB DD5 (2x8GB) at 4800MHz   512 GB SSD (plus a 512 GB SSD for games and a 1 TB SSD for backu...
16. Monday, July 31, 2023:
    End-of-the-Month Highlights Day  New photos have been added to the  Life, 2023  album.       Events   My parents came over for dinner (pork chops) on S 7/1.    Marc and Nicole came over for dinner (one pot chorizo) on S 7/2.    Maia turned 6 on H 7/6. After a trip to Volcano Island was thunderstormed out, we reconvened at Claude Moore's indoor pool with her friends.    Maia went to the musical, Rainbow Fish, at Wolf Trap with Miss Laura on F 7/7.    Maia's 6th Birthday Party with family and neighbourhood kids on S 7/8.    Dinner at Tammy's (fajitas) on S 7/9.    Maia had Sonrise Camp with Riverside Church the week of M 7/10.&...
17. Monday, July 24, 2023:
    Ian Year 2 Month 3 Battle Report    At 27 months, Ian is about 25 pounds heavy and 35 inches tall. He has a very sharp memory. It's no longer sufficient to say we'll do something "later" then never get to it because he'll remember that we mentioned it the next day. He can recite entire books by rote and remembers events that have happened in the past. He keeps saying that he wants to go back to Massanutten and return to the water park. (He also had two local water park experiences recently, Volcano Island and Claude Moore indoor pool).     Ian likes sharing Maia's toys but is working on being okay with sharing his own toys with Maia. He enjoys doing whatever she's doing and we sometimes enjoy that sweet spot where they flee the dinner table ...
18. Monday, July 17, 2023:
    Easy Photos Day    Maia tries out her new watercolour pens (Gift #4 of 7 from the Uri grandparents).      Heat wave boy.      Heat wave girl.      The Smithsonian's newest docent.      Maia returns home from a weekend at the grandparents'.     A day at the Cove with the Edwards family. 
19. Monday, July 10, 2023:
    Easy Photos Day    Burning match houses in Taylorstown on the 4th.      Bootleg fireworks in our neighborhood were surprisingly tame this year.      Enthralled with her new strategy guide for Tears of the Kingdom.     Maia's watery birthday party on July 8.      A great picture of the siblings, courtesy of my dad.      Blowing out candles.     Science! 
20. Monday, July 03, 2023:
    Easy Photos Day    "Take picture in my EAR!"      Ian's first fireworks experience.      Name-writing with sparklers.      Important fire safety techniques.      Guest cat. 

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