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    Happy First Birthday, Cormac

    I'm a little late posting this as Cormac's first birthday was Aug 28. He's our third so that's how it goes, I guess. Happy birthday, Cormac!

    The obligatory off-key song:

     

    Julia made some creative cupcakes with the kids:

    September 09

    Zack goes to school

    Today is Zack's (5) first day of kindergarten. We walked down to John Stanford International School where he'll join Ms. Lucy's class and spend half the day immersed in Japanese. We bought the house in Wallingford 7 years ago in part due to this excellent public school, and here we are now feeling lucky to be able to send our son there. Amelia (4) will follow next year, and Cormac (1) maybe 5 years from now.
     
    Iki-mazo! (I think that's Japanese for "Let's Go!")
     
     

     

    September 05

    Brooke marries Shannon

    Brooke, my graduate school classmate and Thistle shipmate, married Shannon in August. We had the crew in town at our house for the weekend. Very fun catching up with Johnny (who officiated and gave a truly amazing sermon - people were weeping), Holmstroms, Freeths, and Nettesheims. The theme was retro, 1930s-ish, so we did our best to dress classy, at least until the sake came out for the reception and we all went swimming in Salmon Bay.

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