Monthly Archive: February 2009

Feb 24

Television and Other Evils

No, I don’t think television is evil. I was going to save that for later in the blog, but there it is. I’m actually quite fond of television. Every so often on my parenting message board, there is a discussion about TV. I am invariably the odd man out, the weird one who doesn’t have …

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Feb 24

Teeth!

We all wondered if she’d be toothless past age one, but she just got it in under the wire. These two beautiful pearly whites emerged about a week ago. (Please disregard the food all over her face)

Feb 22

Sweet Baby Girl

One year ago at this time I was in the hospital, staring in awe at my 9 pound baby girl, all wide-eyed and chubby-cheeked. Our fourth baby, Tegan, was so highly anticipated that I did something I never said I’d do: I had an elective induction. Past due, and in non-productive labor for over a …

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Feb 18

A Week in Pictures … and a few words too

Has it been only 9 days since my last blog? What a full and eventful 9 days it’s been. First, I’m sad to report that we lost the praying mantises. We still don’t know what went wrong, but every last one of them had died by the time 3 days had passed. On a brighter …

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Feb 09

Praying Mantises, Butterflies, and ER Visits

I had just about given up on the egg sac ever hatching, then the other day I went into the boys’ room to find this: And this: And this: And this… Our butterflies hatched this week as well, and while we didn’t get to actually see them come out of the chrysalis (darn it!) we …

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