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Pre-Birthday Catch Up

There is, generally speaking, always something going on and let's just say that I do not excel at keeping blog posts up to date. That being said, since Zoe's birthday is tomorrow, here are some of the things, both great and small, that Zoe has been doing.

She went to Nattai's birthday party and the karate dojo right around the corner from our house. There she learned how to kick, run obstacle relay races, and, most importantly, how to fight with a foam light saber.


After that we took a trip to help Mimi with her computer. Turns out that whatever she did was well beyond my capabilities. So we loaded in to the car and took a trip to Best Buy to get Mimi a new computer. While we were waiting, Zoe tested out her artistic ability on one of the floor models.



On our way to the creek one day, neither of us were paying close attention, and we startled some deer on the bridge, who, in turn, startled us. I got a quick picture of her waving to the deer just beyond the bridge before we made it down to the water.



But that's not the best part. The best part is I had the genius idea to let her use one of her snow tubes to ride down the creek like it was a water slide. If only the tube was big enough for me!


Finally, for Dr. Seuss Day at school, Zoe dressed up as the Cat in the Hat, and then got to take a sweet picture with her friend during the book fair.



And that about catches us up! Stay tuned for more miscellaneous posts about the random things we do.

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