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The other day we spent the day hiking with a few families from our nature club. We explored a smaller forest preserve not too far away from us, but one we had never been to before. The preserve was Raccoon Grove in Monee and we had a wonderful time spotting a variety of spring wildflowers, [...]

Last week Aidan rode his very first horse! He was extremely excited (and a bit nervous). I was so proud of him for deciding to try it. The event happened at a birthday party for one of his good friends, Autumn, who loves horses. Here’s a picture of him.  Aidan rides a horse!

All summer we’ve been asking Aidan if he’s ready to try his bike without the training wheels, and all summer he responded with an adamant “Noooo!” Well, tonight Aidan decided this was the day.  It was very cool having him announce that he wanted his training wheels off and we definitely wanted to embrace and [...]