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He can count to 12. This afternoon he counted twelve steps down to the bottom of the stairs, but Matt says he counted to 12 last night. I remember being small (maybe five?) and impatiently counting the seconds it would take for my mother to drive home. I distinctly remember being somewhere in the middle [...]

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David can count to seven. Holy moly. Yesterday he could do to six. He just woke up that way, counting flowers on a tortilla warmer. The day before he was counting bits of cranberry sauce on his plate, up to four. Holy moly. Where did he learn that?

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Did you hear? The U.S. Mint has given up on the golden Sacagawea dollars first released in 2000. They haven’t given up on the concept of a dollar coin, however. Instead, they’re hoping that in 2007 we’ll happily use their new dollar coins, decorated with pictures of dead presidents on them. Give me a break! [...]

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The hardest part about moving has been explaining to people that I am perfectly aware I am moving my little toddler-children into a two-bedroom house with no yard and smack dab in the jumbled-up zoning-free center of the fourth largest city in the U.S. Yes, two bedrooms. By modern housing standards, they are small; the [...]

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Good Morning!!! “precious babies!!” I was thinkingabout you this morning in music class with Dad andMommy with the movers. I was thinking about the“Hokey Pokey” dance we learned on Saturday with me.You learned it so well, you could probably show yourmusic teacher how to do the “Hokey Pokey”. It was somuch fun being with you [...]

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