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Growing Up Quickly in the 21st Century

The kids now have their own personal email addresses now! Thanks to Sergey . Let me know if you'd like them and I'll send them on. Clearly, they haven't figured out how to log on to a computer yet; we just thought it might be fun for them to check their own email once in a while. Send lots of pictures and links. No facebook accounts yet...

Dinosaurs and Pancakes

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After the US Embassy, Bella met Adrian and Tilly (Mathilda) with the kids at the Natural History Museum . Everyone enjoyed the life-sized Dinosaurs and skeletons. A trip to the now-favorite pancake house nearby followed.

A Trip to the US Embassy: CRP #2 Edition

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We ventured on Friday back to Grosvener Square to renew C's passport. He was well behaved and impressed with the gun-toting guards surrounding the place. In this picture, we're in the shadow of The Eisenhower Statue.

The Kids Names

Somewhere in an earlier post, I mentioned the pronunciation C uses when saying D's name- Dorfy. Although I've heard it a thousand times, last night I heard D call for Christian, and I thought I needed to record it as well. She pronounces his name as Fristin.

A Sheringdale Progress Report

Bella and I met with Miss Stanley, C's current teacher at Sheringdale, on Tuesday evening. It was the standard 15 minute Q&A, with a review of his folder beforehand (they keep a folder at school of work C has done, notes/comments, pictures of C in activities, etc). Of course, C seems to be doing fine at school- all good progress on reading, writing, numbers. And he gets along well with the other kids, leading Issac and Nicky around and building big things like sand castles and spaceships.

The Winter Video Collection

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The Italian Job in Southfields

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On our way home from Church today, we bumped into Duncan and his kids. They were just outside a friends house and the Vespa is his friends. Duncan thought it would make for a good photo op.