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10 days later, Cole’s birthday is still going strong. In our house, we have a rule where we open one present a day. This caused Cole no small amount of grief on the day of his birthday party when tons of kids and adults trooped in and deposited a gigantic pile of party colored presents. But we’ve been doing this for as long as he can remember so he regained his composure quickly and since then he’s been very happy about it. This means that every morning for the past week Cole bounces out of bed, runs over to his pile of presents and picks out a new present to open, then he plays with that new toy all day. Though this complicates the process of writing thank-you notes, it means that he really appreciates each individual present. The other night at the dinner table he was able to happily recite the list of all the toys he got, who he got them from and what he liked about each of them.

The most amusing thing that’s come out of the presents is still from the walkie talkies that he got from Jennifer on day 1. Lisa forwarded this on to Jen who sent it on to me. Cole took his new toys over to play with Luke and their first conversation went like this:

• Luke: “Hi Cole, this is Luke.”
• Cole: “Hi Cole, (laughs at his own mistake); excuse me, Hi, Luke, this is Cole.”
• Cole: “Luke, I really love you.”
• Luke: “I really love you, too. Over.”

Luke then used it to talk to the first grader from across the street (name changed to protect the innocent):

• Luke: “Hi XXX. Can you hear me?”
• XXX: “You are stupid. I’m going to pee on your butt.”

Ahhh. This what we have to look forward to in first grade

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