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Crap Hams

Posted on October 11, 2006

Sometimes I don’t know which I like more, watching the girls or just listening to them. Today I was sitting on the sofa, Sean’s mom and Jeannie had just stopped by with loot from the Disney Store in the city. Briar had wandered over to the computer where Little Einsteins had been playing, forgotten in the background. She climbed up in the chair, started bobbing her head to the trick or treat song and then raised her new Minnie and Mickey dolls and waved them in a silly dance above her head. She was oblivious to us as she worked to move her head and the dolls to the music. Later she took the dolls, a dump truck, a monster truck, a Barbie dune…

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Sweet Sounds

Posted on October 10, 2006

Our house is filled with the sweetest sounds. Briar is a cheerful little chatterbox with an ever expanding vocabulary. She has been stringing words together for sometime now, but lately they have really begun to be sentences. “Daddy. Coming, back. Now, Daddy. Happy eating now.” or “Barny, soft, happy. Ella barking, back in. Nice.” And Avery has this squeal she uses to let us know that she’s happy. She kicks her little feet out, juts her chin forward and then squeals. She is also getting very good at mimicking Briar. This morning she was actually flirting with her dad and I heard her say an almost perfect, “Hey.” On our way back from Connecticut on Sunday she was cooing and then Briar started laughing…

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Gulp

Posted on October 9, 2006

Whether I am ready for it or not, Avery is moving forward at warp speed. Last night, this morning really, we were in Connecticut visiting the Magee clan.I had started out in bed with Avery and Briar while Sean camped out on the floor.By 4am I was on the floor with Avery and Sean was up in the bed with Briar – Some day I’ll do an entry on the challenges/adventures of sleeping away from home with a toddler and an infant. I was cooing in Avery’s ear trying to keep her from doing the loud orating she has taken to doing in the early hours of the morning. My cooing actually spurred more conversation, so I slowly put my finger on her lips,…

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