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on January 21, 2008 at 7:25 pm ×
The Bear is infatuated with the word EYEBALL. She has a funny way of saying it too, more EYEBAWWWWL then eyeball. It’s hilarious. TOOTH is a distant second in the favorite word area. 20+ years ago, I remember my parochial-school-best-friend’s annoying little sister announcing “guess what my favorite word is? […]
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on January 13, 2008 at 10:00 pm ×
On Friday, when I picked up the Bear and Mouse from their grandparents, my mom sent me home with a platter of frozen, breaded chicken – the thinnest you’ll ever see. She prepared it and then, like everything else in her house, it went into a deep freeze – unsure […]
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on January 11, 2008 at 6:25 pm ×
The start of birthday party season is upon us. For years now I have dreaded these days, when the schoolmate b-day invitations begin to roll in. I was always miffed when Charlie Brown would moan about the fact that he was never invited to a party – personally that would […]
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on November 30, 2007 at 12:07 am ×
After 18 months of successful breastfeeding and pumping, spread across two kids, our little Mouse received 2 oz of Earth’s Best Organic Formula this afternoon and 4 more this evening at bedtime. The Mrs’ milk production has slowed to the point where we have no choice but to supplement with […]
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on October 17, 2007 at 8:33 pm ×
During our annual pumpkin picking trip this past Sunday, the Bear picked up a jack-be-little pumpkin for Kitty. It has been tradition for us to purchase a pumpkin for each member of the family, a sort of round, orange and seasonal version of ourselves to be on display in the […]
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on October 14, 2007 at 3:20 pm ×
I am not really sure if I am ready to write this post. I have started and stopped several times over the past 48 hours. The OWTK house feels a little emptier this weekend. At around 3:30 pm on Friday, we lost Kitt – our beautiful brown tabby cat. An […]
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on October 11, 2007 at 11:11 am ×
So all this fever business got us worried enough to pay a visit to the good Dr. yesterday. They took a urine sample and with a phone call at 6:45am today, we learned that it came back positive (which is a negative thing – weird.) She has a urinary tract […]
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on October 5, 2007 at 9:20 am ×
The bear came down with a fever last night. I had to make a run to the market for Children’s Tylenol after discovering the meltaways and the liquid had expired in April and August respectively. I went with the bubblegum flavor meltaway and Strawberry liquid (a girl has to have […]