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Explanation

I was videotaping the kids yesterday, and amidst his raspberry blowing, B sounded like he said, "hi Annie." It was really cute, and I wanted to share it with you. This is my first attempt at audioblogging, the clarity of the recording might not be the best because I was recording it from the camcorder via my cell phone's speakerphone. And then transmitting it to my blog via my high speed internet connection. Talk about technology!

Little B's First Words...

Looking Forward to a Weekend

I am going out to dinner tonight! Yes, that's right, I didn't say we- Mike is staying home with Joy #1 and Joy #2. I am going to Salut with my friend since grade school, Kim. I am looking forward to a meal which doesn't involve helping someone keep a straw upright in a cup of milk. Bridget, Steve, and Maren will be in town this weekend to attend a wedding, and we hope to see them at some point during the weekend.

I had fun picking A up from school today. They read The Secret Birthday Message, by Eric Carle, which A already has, thanks to Grandma and Grandpa J. They also talked a lot about birthdays (great, we already talk about her birthday enough!) To my surprise, A ate a blueberry muffin which the class made with the help of Teacher Lisa! Woah- now if she can just remember that she liked it, next time we offer her one. Actually, she ate the top of the muffin, and the rest was sent home with us in a baggie. Teacher Sue told me that A was watching everyone eat their muffins, then she finally tried licking the top of her muffin, and finally started to eat the top, and Teacher Sue had to take her muffin away, since the class had already moved on to the next activity.

Have a great weekend, all! Love, K

Mr. F is back!

Yay! It was a long two days, but Mike is home from San Fran. He is exhausted, and now has more work to do than before he left, but it is great having him home. I did really well with the kids; having dinner with Danielle and the boys last night really helped. Danielle made an excellent dinner- see her blog for the corn fritter recipe(http://www.areyoueffingkiddingme.blogspot.com/) My Texas friend, Mrs. B, sent a bumbo chair UPS today, for B to try. Her little Miss F was not a fan of the bumbo chair after approximately 3 days. Let's see if it was worth mailing to us to try it. If you don't know what a bumbo is, that's okay, it was new to me too. Amazing how quickly things change in the world of baby-rearing, even two years ago it was a whole different ballgame. If B likes it, I'll post his picture so you can see him happily sitting up, and to get a glimpse of the revered Bumbo.

Hanging On

What an isolating day... sometimes this staying at home with babies is lonely work. I'm doing well though, Mike was off for San Francisco before the kiddos woke up this morning. We didn't go anywhere until I absolutely had to get out of the house, so we went to Old MacDonald's for supper, because we couldn't rustle up any other action. Everybody busy with their own stuff, I guess.

Now I have to get everything lined up on the counter, so we can be out of the door no later than 8:20 tomorrow morning. I have A's outfit layed out already, so there hopefully will be no discussion about that in the morning; B is going to school in his pajamas (again, poor second-born). I showered this afternoon, while A whined about something, sitting on the bathroom floor, and B cried in his travel swing in the shower area with me, so I will be ready to go tomorrow (with crazy, frizzy, air-dried hair, no less). Diaper bag for B, backpack with change of clothes for A, car breakfast for A, kids' snacks for tomorrow and Friday, and adults' snack for tomorrow! Wooh! ( I know that Danielle thinks this is no big deal, but it's still a really challenging feat for me.)

I was going to post a picture of our motley crew today, so Daddy wouldn't miss us too much, but I never had a good opportunity to snap one. B was cracking us up on the way to McD's with his talented raspberry-blowing.

Lost tidbit

In the Buddhist context, Dharma means “existence”, but it also means the
teaching about what actually exists.

Lost is such a cool show. All of the little things that jump out at me, sure enough, when I check on the internet, turn out to have some cool symbolism. Like for example, wondering what Dharma meant after seeing it in the hatch all the time.