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This week both of The Little Boys had their Christmas programs at school. Sam worked hard ringing and singing: Introduced a song to the audience: And sat on Santa’s lap: And Luke was the best Toy Soldier the school has ever seen: One more half-day of school and Christmas Vacation begins. Heaven help me.

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Today was supposed to be a big day for our family.  We were finally going to go to Kiddieland. I guess you’d call Kiddieland a miniature amusement park.  It has a gazillion rides, food, games, etc.  But, it’s for the younger set.  No gigantic roller coasters or drop-from-a-million-miles-up rides.  Mostly spinning, swinging, coasting rides.  Kiddieland [...]

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Maria graduated from kindergarten today. In the fall, during the first open house/teacher conference, Maria’s teacher told me, “I’d take a hundred Maria’s.” Within a few weeks of that, Maria had been “red-carded” several times and started a behavior chart to help keep her in line.  Thankfully, it worked and she pretty much sailed through [...]

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Staying true to his Gloria Gaynor ringtone, my dad (and mom) survived the visit with us. I talked to my mom from the airport in Austin a little while ago and I told her I thought the weekend went really fast. “Well, I’m glad you thought so,” was her reply. Hmmmm. Does that mean she [...]

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I can’t help myself. I am so stinkin’ proud of Jack. His homework for the week included drawing a picture and writing a sentence about it. Here is what he did: A year ago he was just learning to write his name and his pictures pretty much looked like blobs. Then this week he wrote [...]

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…that “gonga” means “chimney” in Spanish? (Neither do any Spanish speakers.) This afternoon while were were playing outside, Luke kept saying something that I just could not understand. So, I asked Maria what he was saying. “He’s saying gonga!” “Gonga?” I asked. “What does that mean?” “It means… chimney in Spanish,” she says. ?!?! A [...]

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My ship has come in!!! We are the next Partridge Family. Who wants to sign us? (No offense to the little guys out there, but we’re really only interested in signing with one of the big labels.) [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3642502278038128277&hl=en] Email me for a demo tape and I’ll get it out to you ASAP. By the way, [...]

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Luke did. And, not only did we know about it, but so did the whole neighborhood. Jack, Maria and Luke went outside for a while after dinner tonight while I cleaned up the kitchen and Dan gave Sam a bath. When Sam was out of the bath, I called Luke inside. He was on the [...]

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Sam’s new talent? Sticking out his tongue. I mean, he could do it before and he loves to make raspberries. (Although it isn’t really raspberries at this age. I’d say it’s, well, spitting.) Anyway, it seems he’s just discovered that he can stick it out and keep it out. So, for your enjoyment, I’ve posted [...]

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