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Flower Girl
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Candy
Alleke slouched in her high chair and stared at the plate of food sitting in front of her. “Why do I always want candy?” she asked and sighed.
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Pumpkinland
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Dan and Julie Perkins, a Case Study
We visited our college friends, Dan and Julie Perkins, on their organic farm in Indiana last Friday. Their son, Harper, was waiting in the red Radio Flyer wagon with his muddy boots when I lifted Teo into the wagon behind him. Dan pulled the boys in the wagon ahead of us through the fields, pointed [...]
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Teo stands up on his own
Teo’s first attempts at standing up on his own. (YouTube video)
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Alleke crawled up on the couch next to me and pointed at the computer on my lap. “I want to see a movie of someone dying,” she said. I sat back and looked at her. “Why?” I asked. Alleke shrugged. “Because I haven’t seen that before,” she said.
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Dad and I climbed into his truck, rolled down the windows, and pulled out onto the highway headed towards town. Dad had invited me to ride along with him while he ran errands, which was something the two of us had been doing together since I was a kid. “How do you feel about turning [...]
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Green Beans
Pick beans with Alleke in the garden…
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Sweet Corn
Join Alleke on the farm as Grandpa shows her how to pick sweet corn.
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A Time for Everything
“Why is she crying?” Josie asked. I sat down on the couch next to Alleke and lifted her into my arms. “Because Alleke has to say goodbye to her cousins, and she’s not going to see them for a very long time. Not until Christmas.” Alleke screeched again like tires skidding through an intersection, then [...]