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October 04, 2006
Fall Stuff
No pithy entries this week. We've just been busy enjoying the fall and nursing each other through three weeks straight of various illnesses. Fevers, chills, sore throats, muscle aches, sinus infections, and other assorted wonders. But Sunday we managed to make it out to Garwood Orchard to pick apples and consume cider and donuts. So I've been making applesauce, apple pie, etc. since then.
Our new furnace was installed on Monday, so though we are a little poorer, hopefully it will keep us toasty warm in an energy-efficient manner this winter. We were freezing two weeks ago, and didn't want to turn the old furnace on, so I noted with irony that the temperatures were back up in the 80s this week.
Lily is up to new tricks. She has started to mention when she's got poopy pants. Those of you who don't have children probably don't appreciate the sheer wonder of such a thing. She even told me before she went the other day, and we managed to get her on the potty. No one likes to look at turds, but seeing your child's excrement in the potty rather than smeared about in a diaper is definitely cause for celebration. I think her vocabulary is up to almost 100 words. She has started adding the second syllable of words that were previously unintelligible, and is tackling new words everyday. She even surprised me by grabbing my wallet today and shouting "MONEY!" You don't realize how closely they're listening. Very scary.
Oh, even scarier is that my mother—Yes, MOM, the woman who gave birth to me—has a MySpace page now. It has to be one of the signs of the apocalypse.
Posted by mwashburn at October 4, 2006 02:22 PMPosted to just for fun
Comments
Your mom isn't the only one to embrace it:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061006/D8KIT3IO0.html
While under the influence of painkillers, I also joined. I blame it on bands who don't have their own websites!
Posted by: patita at October 6, 2006 01:52 PM