Moshing

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The girls working on her form. There was no music playing, but I'm pretty sure she always has a theme song of some sort running through her head.

Summer's last gasp

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We can always count on a week or two of really great Fall weather. Soon to be followed by reality.

Treats

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The girl made these treats for her class.

And the Chef

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Hard at work and suffering from too much sugar.

Dinger

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This is my nephew ... (in-law I guess). Took a line drive off the noggin and you can see the results. Those aren't stitches ... at least not medical stitches.

Little guy is fine!

There. Finally reciprocated with an expanded list of links. Republishing was quick, leading me to believe - I do not have a large blog. My physician (if I had one) would be very happy.

Socializing technology

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Yesterday, the boy tripped at daycare, bit his tongue and bled quite a bit. Leanne called me at work, from her office, wondering if she had to go get the boy early, get him to a doctor, etc ...

I IM'd my dad who happened to be online (for those of you that know, that's not lucky happenstance, at this time of year, i.e. past prime golf season, those are pretty good odds), asked a few questions and could confidently tell Leanne that the boy should be fine.

Thanks dad.

Another nice Sat morn ...

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This morning, the girl decided that "the girls" would go to gym-kids and "the boys" would stay at home. We showed them. We had a grand time at the school playground, including the boy's first swing on the "big kid" swings. This was followed promptly by his first spill from the "big kids" swing. (I was gonna take a pic of that too, but someone was watching so I thought I should pick him up first.)

Everybody OUT!

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This thing's gonna BLOW!

Fresh off the press

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My girl drew this, just this morning. Guess who is who. (BTW - that's "DaDDY", not "DUDDY".)

Mmmmm ... Starbucks Thai Noodle salad.

So, is it just me or is it counter-intuitive that the "Show 30 days" in the blogger settings appears to mean 30 distinct days, i.e. regardless of when they were v.s. "30 consecutive days"?

What's the joke - I thought you were open 24 hours? Not in a row!

Also note how I deftly avoided using the collection of letters -"irregardless"?

Note also how I referred to that as a collection of letters, so as not to confuse it with an actual word?

Guessing game.

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Guess how many toy coins I have shoved in my mouth?

Lordy. Lordy.

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Look it's her birthday.

Thirty-four, it's the new Eight. Happy Birthday.

I think I can, I think I can.

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The boy recalls seeing his sister scramble up the slide on other occassions - he just can't figure out how she did it.

Nice day for a walk.

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Gymkids has started up again. This is the walk back, while it's still nice enough to walk. Nice bonding time.

Lookit me

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The girl puts her gymkids training to good use.

Another playground

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This is another playground we can walk/bike to for a change of pace. Usually more kids here, because it's by the community center and some baseball fields. (I can feel myself catching a third hand cold just thinking about it.)

Ooh Aah

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Lookit. This thing shows consecutive pic's on the display so you can use provided software to stitch it too.

I click the pics.
I load the pics.
I click to stitch.
I luvvit.

Oops - kinda didn't notice the floating limb thing.

"Renee, I barely knew ya." Kenny.