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L’s cousin from South Africa is in town for a couple of weeks, we (along with some of his other family) took a trip to Mackinac Island. E enjoyed the butterfly house, but wanted to touch and kiss the butterflies (I did let her kiss one).
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Some of family at the butterfly house
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Along the shoreline
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The weekend cleared enough for some outside tummy time.
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Decided that dahlias must make it into our flower bed somewhere – these were too beautiful. Speaking of garden beds, we used our first bit of
compost on our bed yesterday. You can’t imagine our excitement.
E and I shelled the last peas of the season, and snipped the green beans. Notice E put most of them in her mouth… seriously, this kid loves fresh peas (and her diaper showed it). Loving harvest season.
Hope you had a lovely weekend too!
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