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People familiar with Michael...
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...will not be surprised to find...
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... that he loves swinging...
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... leaping ...
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... and landing.
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Sofia carefully adjust her helmet strap
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Lena isn't paying attention to the stage.
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And Sofia wants the stroller and pretzels.
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Le Vent du Nord, our favorite group at this year's Bangor Folk Festival.
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Sofia prides herself on her new witch hat
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Yeah. I look good.
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The duck who likes to read.
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The duck who likes to draw.
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Maestro, play me another!
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At Buela's in Surry for a nice dinner
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Public fashion disasters and allowing to dress yourself...
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The rain in Maine falls mainly on the duck-in-boots.
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That little bit older, that little bit bigger.
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Putting on a show for Mama and Papa, songs and dances and stories for all.
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Uncle Rich and Baby Thomas!
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Eat eat eat! Drink drink drink!
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Tante Erikka and baby Thomas
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Laura looks on
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Pirates boarding ship!
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I heart pirates.
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I tilt when I'm ashore.
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That, or I smirk.
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Halloween hugs!
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Duck with stripes.
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Shy duck, happy duck.
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Some witches fly, some strut.
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HEE HEE HEE
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My, what large earlobes you have.
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In case of earthquake, stand in door.
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Resting in a San Francisco hotel
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The view from windy Lombard street in SF, looking at Coit Tower.
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We loved the cable cars.
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Sofia got to ring the bell!
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She was very proud of herself
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Walking on "the beach"
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Mama blinded by the sun
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Be sure you don't fall! hold tight!
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Sisters with the same smile I
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Sisters with the same smile II
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The deck at Tante Maggie and Onkel Radle's place
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Tante Maggie chillin'
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Onkel Radle illin'
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Leaping into the unknown!
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Follow the leader
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Maybe I want to go up these steps. Maybe I don't.
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One of us is not thrilled.
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Radle and Maggie borrow a baby for a family portrait.
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The world's greatest jungle gym gets a family visit.
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Follow the red balloon if you get lost
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Ride the horsey
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Swing on the Chinatown rings
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Golden Gate Park and the bell in the arboretum
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Sofia was itching to feed the birds
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Contemplating roots
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or perhaps just hiding
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Running! running! through the bike rack at the DeYoung
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I'm a pagoda, short and stout.
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Lena loved the Buddha so much we bought her a small one
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Onkel Thomas pushes and the girls fly dizzily
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Snack time with Sarah
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I'm on top of the world! And not too happy about it, perhaps.
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Onkel Thomas again causing spinning mayhem
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Didn't mom tell you not to cook with scissors?
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Seattle meets Bangor at the dinner table
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Sarah and Annika
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Perusing the photo album
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so many cameras, which do we look at?
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someone always has their eyes closed...
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...or is looking away from the camera
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Three personalities. One tub.
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My, what a large elbow you have.
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First play snow in Bangor
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Ben and his girls read a book one morn
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Barb and the Monahan-Frey ticklefest
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Grandpa Larry watches Mama read
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Advent singing
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Grandpa Larry and Oma in a non-child moment
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