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Decorah, part 1

On June 7th, 2015, we drove from Iowa City to Decorah to visit our (great) grandparents. Dad, Mom, Desmond, and Grandma Anne had just traveled to Iowa City to celebrate Calvin’s fourth birthday. It was Desmond’s first road trip and he slept all the way to Decorah.

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Aunt Kellie and Calvin re-enact a game great aunt Molly first taught us as kids: telephone with the pantry beads.

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Dad and aunt Kellie also spent many happy hours playing pool on trips to visit great Grandma and Grandpa.

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Aunt Kellie and great grandpa Irv

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Desi and Cal

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Des and Molly

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Great grandma Jane and grandpa Irv’s 60th anniversary

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Iowa City, part 2

Des has this hotel thing figured out

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Iowa City art fair

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Snow cone bliss

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Des’ pride and joy: spoon

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Stopping in at the Airliner for lunch and a pint

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Des and grandma playing paradiddles on the cheerio container

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Des, Cal and mom tickling the ivories

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What are these “cows” you speak of? Are they these gray things here?

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The sun has gone to bed, and so must I

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Dad and Cal playing with the stomp rocket

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awesome mid-air rocket shot by grandma Anne

Iowa City, part 1

Traveling over to Iowa City for Calvin’s fourth birthday, Desi taking a break at his first I-80 rest stop.

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Aunt Kellie and cousin Calvin picking us up at the hotel before heading to North Liberty

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Dad entertaining the troops

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Meeting great aunt Molly

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Visiting uncle/chef Mike

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Dad and Cal assembling some pirate legos

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Big Day Out

Like the last few Saturdays, the day started out with swimming lessons. Doesn’t look much different, but he’s definitely more into splashing now (a fun trick he’s extended to bath time)

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Des stayed awake for most of the zoo!

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Okay, a bit of a nap there towards the middle

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Petting and feeding the stingrays was certainly the highlight of the day

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Down by the petting zoo, we caught several zookeepers taking an 8-month-old cheetah for a walk (not for petting).

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Anne, Des and Calvin running the bases at the Rosenblatt memorial.

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January 17th, 2015

Hanging out with aunt Kellie, uncle Mike and cousin Calvin

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Jamming with Cal

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Cuddling with aunt Kellie

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Spooktacular

Des’ first trip to the zoo for Halloween, with his cousins Calvin, Liam, and Genevieve.

Helping acquire candy for his parents…

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First time out in a stroller

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I know subconsciously, he was really excited to see his first penguin.

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Calvin and a giant sea turtle

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Always interesting to see the jungle in the dark, bats flying everywhere

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Cal & Des

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