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Oct 29th

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It is 48° outside and the meteorologist on the local news said it feels like a winter morning.

Oct 29th

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Oct 28th

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Oct 28th

Watch

New Tooth, New Noises

Oct 28th

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Watch

The Babiest of Babies

Oct 28th

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Oct 27th

“Sillybands have been banned.”

– Our Girl

Oct 27th

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Oct 27th

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Costume Prep By the Numbers

Our 2010 family Halloween ensemble has thus far involved three Amazon.com purchases; one return/exchange; one successful eBay bid; two trips to the Halloween Costume Shop; two trips to Hobby Lobby (with all three kids); two interstate telephone calls; one can of black hairspray; one jar of pink Manic Panic; six silver butterfly stickers; one red ribbon, one blue; one roll of velum; one tube of...

Oct 27th

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Oct 24th

Potty Training, Take 1

I’ll forgo the photographic evidence and just say that the underpants iteration of Thomas the Tank Engine took one for the team tonight. At my mother’s good sounding potty-training suggestion and at his request, I put Charlie in undies underneath a diaper this afternoon. In theory, I understand that the strategy is to make the kid more aware of his surrounds and, having achieved...

Oct 24th

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The Local Elections →

I love political season and I’m from Chicago so of course I vote as often as I can. In fact, we registered to vote in Texas only days after moving here—long before we got our new license plates, doctors, or even our PO Box. Signs for the upcoming elections are all over town and early voting is underway. From races for mayor, city council, county court judge (the mother of one of...

Oct 23rd

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