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May 30th - June 12th, 2011

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By Pittsburgh Midwife
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Lego Stop Motion videos
Stick Person Animation videos
Homestarrunner.com
Regular Show cartonnetwork.com
Let's Play videos - Minecraft
Lego Building Instruction videos
Cartoonnetwork.com - Adventure Time & Regular Show
Dirty Jobs
Shark Week
Invader Zim
Shrek
New Adventures of Scooby Doo

Play
Farkle - iPad
Little Big Planet - PSP
Little Big Planet 2 - PS3
Tamagotchi Connection Corner 2 - DS
homestarrunner.com
Whizzball - iPad
Nitrome.com
WarioWare D.I.Y. - DS
Lego Batman - DS
Super Scribblenauts - DS
I Spy (card game)

Art
Mandala creation program - iPad

Math
Tangrams - iPad
Nim - iPad
Farkle - iPad

Heath/PE
Outside play
Food prep
Helped make grocery list

Read/Research
Google Translate - translating Russian and Czech for gaming
Homestar Runner wikiguide
Duncan yo-yo special moves book

Go/Community
Human Motion Center - M's physical therapy
Dr. Dan Altman's Office - M's follow up appointment

Other
Elijah's Godfather, Bobby and his wife, Melinda and daughter, Kendall arrived for a visit on Friday, June 10th. They leave Friday, June 17th.
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA

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