Thursday, March 26th, 2009
One of my coworkers has a ringtone of a horse neighing. After overhearing a conversation I realized the horse ringtone is for his wife. I asked him about it. His answer? “Oh, that’s not just any old horse you hear. That’s a nag.”
Ouch. I told him that wasn’t very nice. He thought it was funny. [...]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
The great thing about taking your kids bowling is that you’ve got an excuse to use the bumpers.
Bowling is so much more fun without that pesky gutter.
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
TT’s speech therapist spent several weeks slowly working up to saying the L sound. For a few minutes at the beginning of a session they would look in the mirror and make their tongue act like the elevator that TT rode on to get to therapy. Finally, they added the sound. Magically, TT made the [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
GlitterGirl was watching the squirrels running around up in the trees. Which would normally be okay, except she was walking as she was doing this. And there was a low concrete wall in front of her.
She managed to not actually fall down, but she tore up the front of her shin on the top of [...]
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
TwinkleToes had a little boo boo. Nothing major, just a scratch or scrape she got at school on the playground.
Every day during dinner we heard “See my boo boo?”
Eventually there was just the smallest bit of scab left, but we all looked at it and said, “Yes, we see your boo boo… now you need [...]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
We’re eating dinner, a sort of Chinese dinner, so we’ve all got chopsticks. TwinkleToes is using a pair of zoosticks, blue ones with a toucan on top.
TT: Thi i’ a pawwot? (This is a parrot?)
GG: No, it’s a Toucan.
TT: No. Ih’ noh’ a touca’. Ih’ a one ca’ (No, it is not a toucan, it [...]
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