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Kacen has been waking up 3-5 times a night, had a 103 degree fever up until Monday morning and an infected left eye. Took him in Monday night and he had a double ear infection. No fun, poor little guy!
Alona is taking swimming lessons this week and next week. She really enjoys it, they played red light green light and Simon Says! She had fun kicking her feet with while holding on to the noodle yesterday. Today I talked to her swimming instructor cause she wanted to give the parents pointers on how to help the children swim better. She says that Alona is still afraid to put the back of her head in the water, not much that I can do though, she is afraid to put her head back in the bath tub too. I know being in the water is not something that she is naturally good at. If she wants this talent, she will have to work hard at it.

We went to a supposed duck park on Monday with our picnic lunch. We ate when we got there under a cotton tree. Abbi really wanted to eat her fruit snack before her sandwich. It works real well lately telling Abbi that she has to finish something before she gets something else. It worked with her lunch last Friday, homemade macaroni she left it on the table almost until dinner time and ate it to get something good. Kacen wasn't so good while we were eating, but the moment that we started moving in the stroller he was real happy. We walked on a boardwalk in some preserved wetlands to see ducks that didn't exist, Alona kept pointing out the holes in the planks of wood. "Look another hole!" Then we played at the playground, we got some exstatic pictures of Kacen in the swing.

We raced home to meet grandma and ended up going to Chuck E Cheese for dinner, they are in short supply of little kid rides:( They all loved the pizza, Abbi ate so much of it. She ate half a piece and gave the other half to her grandma. She kept trying to feed grandma. We had enough tickets to get tootsie rolls and some airplanes, pens and bracelets. I love skee ball! Alona was so excited about her airplane oh and her ball trick!

Yesterday because Abbi took a five minute nap with her dad in the car, she wouldn't take a nap at home. So we made stars! We colored yellow paper, cut it out and glued it to cardboard and then we glued googley eyes on and pom-poms for a nose and a cut pipe cleaner for mouth. Then we tried to sing twinkle twinkle, Abbi stopped us, "NO!", "self!." Abbi though she cannot sing twinkle, twinkle little star all by herself did not want us to sing it with her.

Tonight we went to the creamery, the girls enjoyed watching out the window for grandma and grandpa. Alona played hide and seek with us down the produce aisle. I liked my cheeseburger, it had a homemade bun! The ice cream was good, or maybe thats just cause of all the toppings mmm! M&M's fudge and cookies, it tasted great. Alona wanted the orange and she says, "I want the orange and Abbi can have the green or another color."And so Abbi had the lime! and she really enjoyed it.