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Kadie has asked for this for Christmas and her last Scholastic order form had the entire series for a good price, but I've never read any of them. From what I've heard, I'm skeptical of the content (apparently, the kid is pretty obnoxious). We've started steering Kadie away from the Junie B. books for the same reason (that, and the grammar is atrocious - yes, it's written in 1st person, but when a kid is learning English, it doesn't help to have them read very poor examples of it). Anyway, I...

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11 months and 1 week ago, I was in excruciating pain and running a fever. They put me in the hospital for three days of IV antibiotics and then I spent the next 2.5 weeks on oral ones. Numerous tests were conducted, but they never figured out what was wrong with me. This morning, I felt that pain again as I was dropping Kelan off at daycare, but I pushed it off, thinking,"No way!" Of course, I then had two hours to sit in my car and stew about the increasing aches and stiffness. By the time I...

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For those of you who don't venture much outside the family blogs, I thought I might share some links for articles I've written on Expeditionr. Most of the content is related to various upgrades and modifications I've made to the FJ Cruiser over the last four years, as well as some of my experiences testing these mods in the field. No obligation to visit, but there are plenty of pictures, how-to articles, and product reviews if any of you are interested. And please feel free to post comments or...

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I caught a pretty nasty bug Saturday night. Woke up at 3am Sunday and barely made it in to the bathroom. Had tacos the night before, so that was pretty nasty. Because the vomit spell didn't cure the stomach queasiness, I went downstairs to sit on the couch. That way, I wouldn't disturb anyone and I would be closer to a bathroom that had washable paint (the master still has flat paint and, well, it wasn't pretty). Spent the majority of the early hours in the bathroom. At one point, the dry...

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The local rock radio station got an offer for a contest this morning. The guy that owns the Bunny Ranch out in Nevada (I assume it's a, well, you know...) apparently knows the DJs quite well and offered to give"one lucky listener" a chance to live the"Charlie Sheen Dream" for a day: air fare to Nevada, a limo to/from the airport, a VIP room with TWO"bunnies" for the day, etc. They did state that drugs were not going to be part of the deal, but they didn't mention whether or not alcohol was...

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Kadie informed me this morning that she had already decided on what she was going to do for her science fair project this year...running a hamster through a maze. When I informed her that we didn't have a hamster for this, she told me we could rent one. When I told her that you can't really rent animals (at least not hamsters), she started in on the argument that we needed to buy one. I told her, in no uncertain terms, that we would not be buying a hamster. The discussion ended with a very...

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Not that I'm overly surprised, but we woke to about a 1/4 inch of snow this morning. Yesterday was heavy rain and wind (wind has lasted through the night in through today), so everything was icy to boot. I was actually quite surprised that the county did not delay schools. Unfortunately, traffic was abominable and it took me well over 2 hours to get to work. So, crappy night...crappy morning...here's to a better day!

24 Dec - started crawling26 Dec - tooth #7 (lower right lateral incisor) pops out3 Jan - tooth # 8 (lower left lateral incisor) pops out10 Jan - starts working on pulling himself up16 Jan - pulls himself up on everythingbtw...baby's eye color is supposed to stop changing at 9 months. At days short of 10 months, we still can't determine what color Kelan's eyes are. Most of the time, they appear light, almost golden, brown, but they have hints of green and blue at times.