Essie’s birthday party was held the last day she was two; this is that evening. She turned three the next day.

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I think you’ll see the poetry here. No need for an affecting soundtrack, the wind and the shoes in the grass serve just fine.

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Compare to last year’s picture of summer kite-flying. How Ess has grown in just a year!

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So here’s a cool thing: Kourtni and Arlene put their heads together and engineered this collapsible cardboard boat from the Disney movie Moana (Essie’s favorite movie this summer). Ess LOVED it and started pretending in it right away.

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Best part of this video is the end: Ess singing happy birthday using only the word ‘flutter’.

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Mykala outdid herself with Essie’s birthday cake this year.

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Mykala put together a ladybug picnic-themed birthday for Essie’s third. These treats were delicious AND cute.

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So, I anticipated this problem when we gave Ess her full name: Esmé… but I didn’t quite realize the extent of the problems she’ll have with computers accurately displaying her name:

… my girlfriend’s surname contains an ‘é’. I have yet to see a year go by without receiving mail having ‘é’ on the address label where the é should be.
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We’re Dutch, and the é is part of our language, and even part of the legacy character encoding standard everyone used before Unicode’s widespread adoption. This is just a matter of code that works perfect as long as all characters are part of the ASCII set, but fails on the characters that don’t conveniently match between UTF-8 (é) and ISO-8859-15 (é).

I doubt these issues will go away within even, say, twenty years.

Continued…

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