Happy Birthday to Benji!

Last week, on Benji's birthday, Aaron sent me this email message:


"This morning, Benji asked the babies if either of them wanted to say happy birthday to him. They both immediately started singing Happy Birthday. Except the only line they knew was the first one -- which is admittedly 75% of the entire song. But without singing the other line, you have no idea when to stop the song. So they just kept singing happy birthday to you over and over and over again, getting more and more confused, because they both felt like they had been singing for a long time, but they weren't getting to the end of the song."


--Victoria

Apologies for the blog silence!

Dear all,

I am in the second week of my new job and while thing are going very well, I am absolutely swamped with training, administrative tasks, and work. I will start blogging again as soon as I can. I know you need your daily fix!

Love, Victoria

Very Useful Helpers

I feel like one of the things Aaron and I dropped the ball on with Benji was making sure he had chores to do around the house. I'm trying to teach the twins early on that they can help out with household activities. They loved helping me to push the garbage and recycling to the curb and carry the recycling bin back to the house.

--Victoria
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Benji loves building (in video games, too!)

Benji is sometimes allowed to play Minecraft on Aaron's phone. It's a building game in which all the adventures are premised on building things with the blocks in the game. Kind of like a lego in a video game, I think?  Needless to say, our busy building boy loves it.

--Victoria
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Daniel the Goofball

He found his summer hat from last year and decided to wear it while he was riding the alphabet train. The hat really doesn't fit him anymore, but he doesn't care!

--Victoria
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Benji lost his sixth tooth!

He just lost the one on the bottom left side of his mouth, and he says there's one on the top that's very wiggly! Thanks again to Auntie Roxana who made Benji a special little bag to use when he's putting his tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy.

--Victoria
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Afternoon Fun in the Park