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Archive for October, 2008

The Waning Days of Summer

( Family/Parenting and Photos and Porter and Ranger and Stella and Steve )

With the upcoming time change, our days are going to turn inside out. Not only are the kids going to start getting up at like 4 in the morning now, but the evenings - as we know them - are going to be gone, baby gone.

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The Great Debate: To Swing or To Slide

There was a time, back in the day, that Stella and I would walk to the park in our old neighborhood and I would spend the entire time pushing her on the swing. We are talking 45 minutes straight. I even figured out a way to incorporate an abdominal muscle workout timed to [...]

Body Language

( Holidays and Photos and Stella )

This lovely frock arrived last Friday. As you can see, she is trying to keep herself from exploding into a glittery pile of Disney princess micro-particulates. Even the graininess of the photo doesn’t mask the raging boil of joy that erupted the moment she slid into it’s iridescent embrace. Saying she loves [...]

Pumpkin Patch ‘08

( Friends and Holidays and Photos and Porter and Stella )

If I could bottle the frantic energy of my children during this outing, I swear I could stop buying gas for my car.

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Play-date

( Photos and Ranger )

The last couple of days it has been windy. The kind of windy where you look out and find your lawn furniture resting inexplicably in the next door neighbor’s yard. I am very much enjoying the shift in the weather. It has gotten colder and clearer and the few trees that have [...]