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mac joke
Exie has made up her first word joke! For better or worse (Susan might think worse), this is a trait that she has inherited from the Stanat side (my father has a propensity for bad puns, and my brother and I seem to have carried the questionable genes proudly forward).
At first Susan and I didn’t [...]
forty-five
I don’t feel like I’m forty-five, but unfortunately I can’t come up with any convincing arguments to the contrary. Susan continued the awesome tradition of breakfast-all-day for my birthday this year, Stella and Spencer came over in the evening and joined in our homemade donut extravaganza, and I had help blowing out the candles. I [...]
rough
Last month a lot of holiday stuff wedged itself into our lives. Included in that pile was a big book that had various textures in it. One page had a star on top of a Xmas tree. The star was a very rough texture, like sparkly sandpaper. Not surprisingly we said things like “star” and [...]
kinch & heather tie the knot
We received a surprise call from Kinch and Heather about a week ago. Of course, since you have read the title of this post, you already know the news. Whoohoo!
the wedding party
They decided to have a very small civil ceremony; we met in Oakland at the County Recorder’s Office around 10am and waited our turn [...]
just like her mama
Baby loves to dance. When the music starts, she just can’t help herself. When the music stops, she says, “More, more.” There is no question which side of the family this comes from.
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dancing & spinning 12/26/09 (2min:32sec)[bigger version]
letters & numbers
We have some of the standard learning-letters-and-numbers toys: blocks with letters and numbers on them, big rubber bath letters and numbers, etc. Exie has always shown a strong interest in these. At first, she just sucked on the bath letters, and some favorites emerged: in the letter category, ‘E’ was tops, and in the number [...]
random verbal accomplishments
When Susan came down this morning, Exie and I were sitting in the corner of our kitchen/dining room, where most of Exie’s toys live. As usual, Susan asked what we had been doing so far this morning. I replied that we’d been working on letters and numbers and then I said to Exie, “Can you [...]
weightlifter
“Biiiiig! Heaaaavy!” Actually, at the moment she seems to think all balls are “heavy.” This particular ball actually *is* relatively heavy, but the vast majority of the other balls lurking around the house are not. To make matters worse, it is quite difficult to explain that those other balls are light, since that tactic sometimes [...]
letters form words