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My family (my brother, his wife and their two kids) just concluded a two-week visit here. Given the amount of running around this sorta trip entails, and the fact that the kids are 4 and 7, I hesitate to call it a vacation.<\/p>\n

We had a 4th birthday party for Sela on Saturday, over at my Dad’s. I was too busy reveling (okay, getting sprayed by silly string and going swimming) to take many pictures, but here’s my photoset<\/a>. My wife took a lot more<\/a>, and got the kids to “perform” a little, too.<\/p>\n

I like to think I took the “candid” of the day, while my brother was making like Lawrence Welk with the bubble machine:<\/p>\n

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I think they had a good trip, and it’s always fun to spend time with the kids (in small doses before we flee back to the house and say, “How do they do it?”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family (my brother, his wife and their two kids) just concluded a two-week visit here. Given the amount of running around this sorta trip entails, and the fact that the kids are 4 and 7, I hesitate to call it a vacation. We had a 4th birthday party for Sela on Saturday, over at … <\/p>\n

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