Arin got this ride-on truck for his first birthday. It was too noisy and intimidating and big though, so he never really approached it. However, after sneaking out onto the porch recently he rediscovered it, and now, six month later, he thinks it’s great. Thanks Carl!
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Last night I was cooking in the kitchen and Arin decided to join me, but doing his own thing.Notice he’s somehow missing a sock again…
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If you know me you know I love Vikings. And Steven Colbert. Combine the two? BEST EVER. Colbert was at his best tonight. Well, I am hopped up on cold meds waiting for my Benadryl to kick in, but eating chicken off a sword is a surefire way into my heart. Ok here’s the link where you can watch the episode. I didn’t embed it as it has an ad at the beginning (oh, the “Gaul”!) and Tide isn’t paying ME any money, after all: The Swede Hereafter
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I am sick currently, which means that my whole world stops for a little while. I am not one of those people who handle being sick with grace. I whimper and shiver and sniffle obtrusively and sneeze all over. If I’m sick everyone knows it and I want pity. I can accept this, I know I’m no Jane Austen heroine. They are demure and modest and yet very delicate in that they are often contracting random illnesses they they accept quietly and without fuss. They just lie about in bed, graciously receiving visitors and eating toast. I eat toast and…
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Ok, now that I know how to embed youtube videos here y’all are in trouble. Yeah, that’s right. So I really like this song, and forgot about it until I happened to hear it on the radio Thursday night as I was running late for class. The scene: a cold winter night in the dark heart of Lowell with me in a giant SUV driving around the enclosed parking lots of UMASS’s administrative buildings, desperately searching for a phantom opening. And of course, getting later and later by the second. I already knew I would have to walk in while…
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Last Holiday – I love this movie, I LOVE it. It just came on tv again tonight and that makes me so happy. If you are a female then go out and watch this movie, it is fun, uplifting, sweet, funny and how can you not love Queen Latifah? So its cheesy and the plot line isn’t deep and literary, but it’s entertaining and just makes me want to go out and live life. Do something exciting, get out of the house, you know. It’s elevating. Not to mention I adore ‘travel’ movies, ones that are like taking a mini-vacation…
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Well, the day has finally come… Yes, I went THERE. I accidentally ripped the tab off Arin’s Pampers, which pretty much hasn’t happened since he was 3 days old (at which time I just threw away the offending diaper, since I changed about 15 a day anyway). This time though, I decided to bring out the duct tape as I had read in many ‘baby advice’ articles back when I was still pregnant. No need to waste a good diaper, right? Especially since I had to change FOUR poopie diapers so far today. Uck.
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Julie and/or Lauren, I’m not exactly sure who is responsible, got Arin into Shaun the Sheep. Well, the theme song to it. He LOVES to watch it on YouTube over and over! It’s alright to hear once or twice, the lyrics aren’t bad but after the third time you kind of want to strangle Shaun the Sheep. And here is the X-Factor version that he originally got hooked on, its a spin off of the UK’s American Idol auditions I guess. You can’t compete with Shaun the Sheep!
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Today it occurred to me… Arin is the firstborn son of a firstborn son and a firstborn daughter. Doesn’t that sound like the start of a great prophecy? Here’s the little son of prophecy during his very first nap.
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I don’t know how this keeps happening… my Bobosaur is a NINJA. A chocolate ninja. I was in the kitchen washing dishes earlier, and when I finished I realized Arin hadn’t eaten anything (he wasn’t hungry for breakfast), and I felt like a bad mommy so I grabbed a nutri-grain bar figuring at least he would have something in his stomach. I walk into the living room to give him the tasty snack and was shocked to discover that my sweet boy, who had been playing so nice and quietly so I could clean up, had somehow snuck into the…
