Our conversation at breakfast went something like this:

Child 1: Do birds cry?

Mom: I don’t think so. I don’t know.

Child 2: They sometimes swimper a bit like they are trying to cry.

Child 1: I guess they are always happy.

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Last week at the mall, we had to take a bathroom break. I took the two youngest into the family bathroom with me, Cole went in the boys, and the girls went into the girls. When we met back up in the hallway, Natalie was excited to tell me that she had found a quarter in the napkin machine. “I always turn it to see if a napkin will come out, but I thought I saw a quarter in there, so I stuck my finger in there and wiggled it until it came out!” She was very excited! “I wonder why they have napkins in the bathroom, anyway? I guess it’s to dry your hands.”

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After much work and paper towel testing, the science project is IN! Hooray!