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Tuesday, 6:24pm

May 16, 2012
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* Don’t worry, the bidet is clean. We never use it…except as a baby doll bassinet.

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Random silliness

May 12, 2012
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That time when Norah fell asleep on the couch

May 8, 2012
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Incidentally, Norah loves these photos. She asked me to frame the one of the alligator biting her head so she can put it on her nightstand. I also feel like I should explain her hairdo. She has been experimenting with three ponytails lately. It looks rather Seuss-ical, doesn’t it?

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A lesson in “fruit stapling”

April 30, 2012
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Most of the time I am at a loss for creative activities to do with my kids. The other day the girls were listing all the reasons why our buddy Sarah is such a fun babysitter. “She tells us stories without a book! She teaches us games without looking on the internet!” My secret is [...]

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Tim Keller is our son’s favorite “babysitter”

April 26, 2012

When Aliza was a baby and she was extra fussy then we would watch a few videos on YouTube of laughing babies. That usually helped distract her from crying as though someone had taken away her birthday. When Norah was a baby she liked to watch music videos and people dancing. Technology has changed. Since [...]

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What makes you seriously happy?

April 22, 2012
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Of course she has her moments of indiscriminate frustration with life just like every other 3-year-old (or 33-year-old). But sometimes it seems like the only thing this kid takes seriously is being happy. Our problem isn’t that we love joy too much; it’s that we’re quite happy without it. That was my attempt to paraphrase [...]

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Mr Smooth

April 15, 2012
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I’m always reticent to cut Judson’s hair for several reasons. (A) The boy cannot sit still. (B) The boy likes things that are sharp, electric, poisonous, and otherwise dangerous. Dangling scissors near his face is like taking Aliza to a pet shoppe and telling her she can’t take any baby animals out with her. You [...]

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