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Russell loves his choo choo train from Aunt Hayley!!
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Russ with Grandpa Bob.
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We went to Grandpa Ward's house and got to play with the baby cows.
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He is a newborn. Isn't he cute?
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Russell loved his snake cake that mother slaved over. Forked tongue and all! It was like two feet long!!
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Russell and his friend, Riker. They had a conjoined birthday party.
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Russell was unable to blow out his single candle.
Anyway. Things are good here. I held my first book club meeting at my house. We had a very lively discussion about the book, The Five Love Languages. Travis is of course studying a lot still and being his cute self.
We just put Russell in a "big boy" bed. Wish us luck with that!! We are going to need all the luck we can get now that he is two!!!