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Ok, here we are in week #2 of our first selection.  I think the discussion is going well so far.  Anyone else want to weigh in on the love scene between Marie and Kashpaw?

I am debating whether to copy and paste the comments up here but I think I will not and just let us go back to those if needed.

So, comment on this post from here forward….thank you.

Funny story about Griffin. We walked up to the grocery store yesterday with my mom. I actually had P in the sling so my mom was pushing the stroller. G wanted to get out once we were there which is fine. First he wanted to smell the sunflowers. I told him, “smell them but don’t touch them.” Then he got ahead of my mom a bit and went to “smell” the broccoli (or at least that was what she thought he was going to do), instead, he took a huge bite out of it. A lady nearby saw this and said to my mom, “well, that was a kodak moment :)” My kid is craz-ay!

Last night P ate dinner with us. She is so not into baby mush food. She wants the real stuff man. She had three pieces of steak, two pieces of yellow squash, a nilla wafer, and two pieces of watermelon. Guess what! She slept soooooo well. I am hoping to incorporate more food soon so she will sleep better. It was glorious. She was hysterical with the steak. My little carnivore LOVED it.

This list of 20 Creepy Baby Products made me laugh pretty good today so I thought I’d share. Fun stuff for kids — Paisley better be ready for me to use the manual snot sucker!

20 Creepy Baby Products

So, Griffin refused shoes last night while playing outside.  I should have known better but alas I let him be piggie free!  He, of course, tripped and stubbed his toe.  He was hollering about it and when Lee went to investigate he screamed more.  He didn’t even want us to look at him, let alone the toe.  I couldn’t really tell what was going on with the nail so I dumped some hydrogen peroxide on it while Lee held him a bit.  It seemed from what I could tell just to be around the nail and not actually the nail.  So, I calmed him down a bit and then he asked for his shoe.  No bandaid, No looking, no nothing, just his shoe.  He even slept with just that shoe on and wouldn’t take it off this morning.  Bath should be interesting tonight

My kid is such a goof….

Ok, today begins our book club.  This will be the thread for commenting so far.  The rules are simple:

1. buy or borrow book

2. read book

3. comment here on book

I have invited my friends Mary and Amanda (hope they join us).  I’m excited about this fun club.  Also, if this thread gets pushed down you can find it with the tags for bookclub.

*update* Image from John below(use adobe 8 to read)

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LOL.  We have a small flip lid trashcan that belongs in our bedroom.  I say belongs because it is never there but that’s where it should be.  Griffin uses it as a drum, space ship, and yesterday for holding his pee.  YIKES!  Lee went to get him up from his nap and congratulated him for waking up with a dry bed (we are working on positive reinforcement for this behavior).  Anyhow, Griffin told Lee something along the lines of, “I dry.  I pee in the trashcan.”  Lee wasn’t sure what he was talking about but since Griffin kept repeating it Lee figured he should investigate.  Sure enough, G had gone into the other room and peeed in the flip lid trash can.  Jesus, child, a trash can is NOT a toilet!

Today was a rough parenting day.  Griffin woke crying.  I guess he had a great morning but I was at work so I didn’t witness that part.  Then he fought a nap, destroying his room in the process and at times saying things like, “you are making me very sad”, as tears rolled down his cheek.  Then bedtime….the tears, the screaming, the kicking….he said he was “too sad to potty”.  Wow!  That is pretty sad.  Finally Lee laid down with him so I could tend to Paisley.  She fell asleep easily while eating.  Now SHE is crying because she didn’t want me to put her down.  I’m so tired, otherwise I might cry too.  boo hoo.

ok, we have one suggestion from Shirley

“Love Medicine: a novel” by Louise Erdrich

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Medicine-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0060786469

any objections?  any other suggestions?

Shirley, Alli, Johnny, who else is in on this virtual book club.  I say we give a deadline for reading, then I will post a topic on that date and we can start discussing in the comments section.

p.s. ANORRIS is Allison Norris, mom :)  lol.

Griffin is either getting clumsier or getting more active than before. He has obtained soooo many boo boos over the last month. The kid is starting to look like I harm him (and I decidedly do NOT). Tonight one said boo boo (from the bike running over his foot) broke open and he came downstairs, naked might I add, to tell us about it. We figured it was his foot but he wouldn’t even let us look at it so we weren’t quite sure. Then I doubted anything was wrong and took him back to bed. That is where I found blood on his wall and window (and also his clothes in a pile on the floor). The kid is going to freeze his butt off with the AC going. Boo boos apparently feel better naked

Here’s a sneak peek at a new papercraft toy I developed for the 9 to 5… It’ll be debuting at San Diego Comicon 2008 (San Diego means whale vagina in German you know)!

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