Baby’s First Roly-Poly

or rolli-polli, or rolie-polie, or…whatever. I figure its a pretty non-technical name, so you don’t have to worry about getting it exact. It’s part of the fun of the english language really.
We were playing in the grass when I found one and then I held it for her and let it crawl up her arm. [...]

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Tudae

Today Violet and I were out walking/garage-saleing and we saw a front yard with Easter eggs hidden all over. It was the perfect afternoon for a walk because the weather was amazing…except that a dog barked at her and made her cry, and I had to carry her most of the way home AND push the [...]

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Ewwwww….

Ok, so here’s a horrific little story to help you sleep tonight: today, a friend of mine pulled the foot of a dead rat out of the mouth of her infant daughter.
Anyway, so here’s my great new idea. You remember those write-your-own-adventure books, where you could choose at different parts in the story what the [...]

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excerpts from today

Watching Violet eat couscous for dinner, I realized this; when you’re 8 months old, eating is as much about the journey as the destination. That’s why I have a hard time getting annoyed when “food time” is really just a prequel to “mess time.” She would attempt to pick up the little granules of couscous [...]

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Overheard today at Costco

“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo!”
“I’ve been looking for pens all day.”
“They don’t have those spring rolls that I like.”
“You sound like a little man!”
“…goes well with some avocado.”
“What would I do with two of ‘em?”
“It’s just so darn good, I can’t wait for it to thicken up.”
“Daddy, want me to sing a song to you?”
“I tell [...]

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of Easter dresses, and bunnies and posers–not poseurs.

Things That Make Me Happy: unexpectedly finding a friend who has a hand-tame rabbit that I can sit next to Violet for her Easter pictures. Luckily, I also have a friend who has a daughter the same age, so that way we can help each other out with baby and bunny wrangling.
Ideas For a Cute [...]

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Twitter tweets are for birds

and self-absorbed narcissists. Do you Twitter? Please stop. Everyone, please stop! This media darling needs to be disposed of the old-fashioned way, back before people thought everyone cared about what they ate for lunch or how mad they are at their cable company. The hottest new Twitter phase? Celebrity tweets; because you really do need to know [...]

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Here’s to my day

Here’s to my sibling that wrote “Hi” on my windshield with pieces of tortilla.
Here’s to the man out walking with a walkman and headphones.
Here’s to my daughter who stole her friend’s teething cookie and put the whole thing in her mouth till it dissolved.
Here’s to the little boy at the grocery store that made my [...]

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Great things that come in 4’s

A four leaf clover
The Beatles
The Indiana Jones series
The Gospels
Four horsemen of the Apocalypse
North, South, East, West
Four chambers in a heart
Four seasons of the year
The number of movements in a symphony
Four suits of playing cards
The Fantastic Four
A quartet
Players needed in the game of Foursquare
The Libby brothers.
That’s right–Violet is still the only girl cousin. My sister-in-law had her [...]

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play pretend

So I guess most kids experiment with cigarettes in junior high these days. That certainly was true fora couple of my brothers. Of course, keep in mind that we were homeschooled growing up, so their introduction to smoking was really via the private-school boys next door who encouraged the idea of smoking. Don’t freak out Mom, when [...]

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