This has been a fun week at the Hunt home.  On Monday Balin turned 3 years old and on Thursday Athena turned 6 months.

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On Monday night, we had a picnic birthday dinner of letter noodles and red sauce over at the porch, which is where Balin loves to go to drive his cars. Balin had a momentary bit of confusion when he thought we were going to his birthday party (coming up in another week), but he recovered quickly.  After dinner, we had cupcakes made from banana bread mix (as requested by B) and then opened presents.

Balin loved his Mack truck and has been driving it every night this week.  We even took him for a drive at Target on Thursday evening.

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Athena rolled her way happily through the past month and has now enjoyed several meals of rice cereal. We are getting lots of food on her face and hair and probably a little in her tummy, too.

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Today both kids saw the doctor and they are doing great. Here are the stats:

Balin: 39 inches tall (90th percentile), 34 pounds (75th percentile)

Athena: 26.25 inches long (70th percentile), 14 pounds, 4 ounces (20th percentile)

They both got shots and Balin actually laughed and said “that was funny” after his. (This was the result of some prior playing (and awesome parenting) by Josh.) Athena did not think her shots were funny, but she recovered okay.

We ended the evening with a trip to one of our favorite places for beans and rice, followed by a little browsing in the hardware store nearby. It was a really nice family day and we are happy to have such fabulous kids.

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