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Allergy infested spring break turned to soccer week

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I'm sleepyhead as I had to wake up at 12am in reacting to the 2nd son coughing a lot. But I wanted to type this up before the day really turns. The past one week very our boys found very little friends of them in the neighborhood as lots of families apparently took advantage of a week-long spring break and went on vacation. As we took 2 days off back in March when a grand-mother came by, we chose to stay. Adversarial allergy in north Georgia In hindsight, we may have appreciated if we went out of the area. 3 of us were hit by a terrible allergic reaction, potentially to pollen. My wife says the reaction is the worst in her life. But 5-yr old AS is affected in the worst way. It's been a week since he started coughing. At night he has had to wake up multiple times a night, we have had to give him nebulizer treatment every night. At day#7 we are not seeing it ceasing yet... US Soccer's new development, incredible soccer clinic for kids On positive side, we somehow received an

5-yr old angry and (maybe) artsy mind

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 8-yr old HG and 5-yr old AK both learned about this Australian artist Pete Cromer (huntingforgeorge.com) in the art class at school. They brought back the painting they did at school that we can order for the framing, and my wife m noticed the resemblance of the taste to a few mugs that my sister and her Australian husband gave us. AK's drawing always comes with full of color. This time, the style overlapped with the handout that the framing/printing service provider. 5-yr old AK has been showing interests in different things than his 8-yr brother HG so far -- While HG has been keen on understanding how things work (a.k.a logic) and concepts since as early as when he was 3-yr old, AK has not yet delved into those at the age of 5 yet. He seems to have found drawing, writing fun and exciting. Sometimes at home when I can't find him, he's sitting at his small work desk (in my office) and doing some drawing or crafting. At a parent conference with his school teachers, they

Film shooting in the neighborhood and residents

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Outside of my camera scope there are 50+ people working. Picture above is from the filming scene in the subdivision we live in, on the way to kids school bus stop. You see a car with smoke, I guess this is a car crash scene. A few minutes after this picture, we watched a rehearsal that lasted just about 5 seconds. Our 5-yr old AK couldn't hold saying "Is that it?", then many staff looked back at him frantically first, then after finding the voice was coming out of a small kid all shrugged off and "phew it's just rehearsal". Embarrassed, I had to leave the site immediately. Filming or construction or anything else, I find seeing the actual work site to be fascinating, since I was a kid, and I still do now as a parent. Hope my kids find something unique out of it. Then, this time of the filming comes with lots of backlash among many neighbors. There are many many vehicles and equipment parked on the street near the site, for more than a month. Some homes are