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forest fairy

Posted in the ones about ava on October 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »

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halloween math

Posted in the ones for fun on October 31, 2007 | 7 Comments »

princess + fairy + ballerina =
happy halloween!

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two’s company

Posted in the ones about friends on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »

 
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the votes are in

Posted in the ones with prizes on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »

Thank you for humoring me and my imagination by participating in the bunny house poll.
The results:
Can you see the bunny?

Of course, it’s obvious: 18%
As soon as you mentioned it: 48%
Not until someone traced it out on my monitor: 25%
There is no bunny: 7%

Seers out-see non-seers by 66%, see? Si.

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as far as the shoe hides

Posted in the ones about ava on October 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »

MAMA: Ava, put your tennis shoes on and we will be ready to go.
AVA: [Run, bang, smash, bang, smash, swoosh] Mama, I can’t find my tennis shoes!
MAMA: Did you check the front stairwell or the back stairwell?
AVA: [Runs to the front of the house. Opens the front door and runs down the stairs. Runs back [...]

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bedazzle

Posted in the ones about fashion on October 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Ava’s preschool had a Harvest Party today. Look what she won:

Look what she made:

Apparently my daughter has a flare for flashy accessories.
And if you think that she has taken her “sparkle stars” off?
You would be incorrect.
And if you were to ask she went to sleep in them?

The answer would be yes.
My daughter knows that dreamland [...]

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all good things must come to an end

Posted in the ones about ava, the ones with questions on October 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »

including DNA week at badgersontheloose.
I was going to close this week of all things genetic with another trait that was most certainly past down, but that would be following through on something I started. Instead I’m going to do the opposite and disclose a characteristic that Ava most certainly did not receive in her genetic [...]

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great minds

Posted in the ones about badgers & friends on October 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »

imagine alike.
What do you see when you look at this picture?

This is a picture of a house on our way home.
Twelve hours west of here there is a house just like this. My carpool passed this house on our way to elementary school every weekday for five years.
I had the same thought each and every [...]

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born to be friends

Posted in the ones about friends on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Some friends you grow into and some are passed down to you be your predecessors.
Sammy, Anna, and Michal are these sort of friends.
Sammy is the very likeness of his father, Tim, one of Nate’s favorite childhood buddies. Most of Nate’s school day memories involve Tim, his sidekick brother Titus, and a trusty camcorder. Together they [...]

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teasing, it runs through the veins

Posted in the ones about ava on October 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »

The night before last we were driving home from a scrumptious edition of family pizza night. Nate, being the loving and thoughtful husband that he is, decided to fill my car up with gas before we returned home.
As soon as we pulled into the fill station, Ava announced that she needed to go the the [...]

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