Friday, May 24, 2013

10 Years!

Hunter had the day off on our anniversary so I took the kids to McDonald’s for lunch then to the police station’s open house.

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The kids got to see and sit in different police vehicles, see what drugs look like, meet the people on the other end of a 911 phone call and watch a police dog in action.  The police dog was the most fascinating to me.  They import these dogs from Europe because of their pure blood line which costs $3,000-4,000.  We watched the dog find marajuana hidden in the inside of a car door on display.  It took him 3 sec.  When he found it, he stopped and looked at his trainer.  The officer rewarded him by letting him play with a rubber ball.  At the end of the demonstration, a woman asked if there was a preference in the gender of the dog.  The officer said that they only take males because if the dogs are chasing someone, a female will stop after a certain distance because of her concern for the owner.  Apparently the tendency to nurture and care for someone else is not reserved for humans.

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RJ and I went out to Biaggi’s for dinner.  It was wonderful.  After we fully digested the amount of bread we ate, I had RJ run to the store for a treat.  When I was 13, my friend Keezer bought me Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey.  I remember it tasting amazing and I have thought about it off and on over the last 20 years.  I kept talking myself out of buying it because it was too expensive or had too many calories but I finally broke down and RJ decided to capture the moment.

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So good!

Second Grade Program

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Hunter has been working on his second grade program for a long time.  Unfortunately it had to be cancelled twice but it was worth the wait.  It was so great.  It made me ask myself if I really wanted to transfer him to a charter school close to our house.