Evan on September 1st, 2008

“Someday you’re going to discover you’re not invincible, and it’s going to come as a shock.”
“Daddy, what does ’shock’ mean?”

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Evan on July 26th, 2008

In case you were wondering about the bluesy strains coming over the baby monitor a while ago, no, Keegan’s nap didn’t “take,” and yes, apparently Zoey left a harmonica in his crib.

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Evan on July 26th, 2008

“Thanks for getting more gorilla bars!”
“You’re welcome, Zoey.”
“I’m so proud of you, Mommy.”

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Rona on May 21st, 2008

“Once-upon-a-time there was a Princess and she was lost in the woods. She found a dragon and the dragon killed her. She never saw the dragon again. Because she was dead.”

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Rona on April 23rd, 2008

Keegan’s new word is “Hi”. He will peek over at you and say “hi”. It is the cutest thing! He also can eat. Yesterday he ate a whole sweet potato in two sittings. He has eaten a whole banana in one sitting. That’s our boy!

Look at those teeth!

Yeah! Keegan won.

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Evan on April 20th, 2008

I just want to point out how much I love it that Zoey calls a sippy cup a zippy cup. I mean, come on—who wouldn’t want to drink from a zippy cup?!

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Evan on March 13th, 2008

“Um, Daddy? Please can you get me some paper because I need to make a plan because we have to spy on the bad guy. And my name is Double O Zoey.”

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Evan on February 8th, 2008

This morning I woke up, next to Keegan as always, and he woke up shortly after. (Murphee probably shook her collar out in the living room or something.) I whispered “Hi Keegan.” (Wouldn’t want to wake up Zoey, after all…) Then, I kid you not, Keegan whispered back, “Hi da da da da da.”

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Evan on January 30th, 2008

Dear Zoey,
You turned 4 years old today. Okay, that’s not true at all. You turned 4 years old 10 days ago, and this post is late like most things we do these days. But you like to pretend that every day is your birthday, so I know you won’t mind. (Make that 18 days. Blogging [...]

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Evan on January 5th, 2008

“Daddy? Please can you make me some mackincheese, please? With just cheese.”
“Instead of what?”
“Instead of mackin.”
What would you do?
A quick search of our cupboard and the food shelves downstairs revealed that we’re out of the Annie’s organic Mac ‘n’ Cheese, and while we do have an old stash of the regular blue box stuff, [...]

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