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Very little time, very little to say

Miss T had her 9-month checkup today.  She is about 28.5 inches long (75th percentile) and weighs 18 pounds, 2 ounces (25-50th percentile).  I have pinkeye.  Again.  My fault for wearing a contact lens that had a 95% chance of being contaminated from the last time. Our zoo trip went very well.  While chatting in […]

Zoo trips, bizarro workplace and baby memes

Tomorrow we’re going to brave a trip to the Houston Zoo, even in the midst of power outages and downed traffic lights due to Hurricane Ike.  We’ve had it planned for awhile with Tommy’s family.  Since he and AE go to different schools now, we thought it would be a nice way for us all […]

On reaching milestones

Last night N and I caught The 40 Year Old Virgin on TV.  I liked it a lot, but I am saying that with one MAJOR caveat:  I would have HATED the theatrical – or worse yet, the uncut – version.  So much of it was bleeped, blurred out or otherwise toned down for TV […]

Update-y hodgepodge

Gymnastics – not for the acrophobic AE is being quite the trouper in his gymnastics class.  For the second week in a row, N reports that although he was clearly terrified to be on a high apparatus (last week: bar, this week: rings) AE has yet to complain or completely refuse to try it out.  […]

Six

Today AE turns six years old.  I’m really not great at writing stuff that doesn’t involve a lot of sarcasm and/or CAPS LOCK but thought in honor of my little man I would give it a go today.