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	<title>A Little World Made Cunningly</title>
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	<description>Satisfaction is a lowly thing; how pure a thing is joy. This is mortality; this is eternity.</description>
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		<title>Yard Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the perks of living in the basement of a home in a residential neighborhood is that we get to share a good-sized yard with our upstairs neighbors. This also means that we have a yard to care for, which is something I&#8217;ve never done before. Growing up, I couldn&#8217;t care less about gardening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Reunion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Grampy recently turned 80 years old, and to celebrate, he wanted to have the family get together in the mountains for a camping trip. I hope I&#8217;m up for camping by my 80th birthday someday! Anyway, we had a great time, including swimming at a hot springs pool, feeding fish at a fish hatchery, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day for Disasters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The toilet overflowed this morning. Then, when Jonathon was in the shower, I noticed that the carpet next to the utility closet (furnace and two water heaters) looked damp. It was. I opened the doors to the closet and found an inch of warm water. I told Jonathon to get out of the shower, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day for achievement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Duplo peed on the potty this morning! He woke up dry, so I sat him on the toilet. For a while he wouldn&#8217;t go and wanted to get down, but once Lego took a turn and Duplo knew what was expected of him, he went a little bit too. He got lots of congratulations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duplo Day 29: Happy Birthday, Little Buddy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a great day today, finding treasures for the boys at yard sales, playing outside, opening presents (Mrs. Potato Head was a huge hit!), reading, eating cake and ice cream, and watching Finding Nemo together as a family. Duplo was happy the entire day, which isn&#8217;t actually normal for him. On to the terrible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duplo Day 28: Straight to Bed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I brought Duplo home from the hospital, almost two years ago, he wouldn’t go to sleep the first afternoon. He’d been awake for a while and had eaten, and I was reasonably sure he was comfortable. The more tired he got, the more fussy he got. I tried nursing again, since that had always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duplo Day 27: Outside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just like his big brother, Duplo has fallen in love with the outdoors. Sometimes he’ll bring me his socks and shoes to put on, and then demand his coat, as if merely being dressed and ready to go outside means we will be going. Once out there, Duplo likes to ride the ride-on toys, color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duplo Day 26: Storytime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Duplo is really getting into books lately. At night, after Lego’s in bed, we read pretty much straight for 30-60 minutes. He’ll bring Daddy a book, then run and get another one for Mommy to read, then back to Daddy, and so on and so forth. He’s started commenting on what he sees in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duplo Day 25: Breaddich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Duplo&#8217;s word for &#8220;sandwich.&#8221; We all love it, and I&#8217;ve started using it sometimes myself. I wonder if it&#8217;s one of those baby words that we&#8217;ll still be using from time to time when the kids are teenagers. Duplo loves sandwiches (peanut butter and honey is his favorite). Both kids request at least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://galacticcactus.com/brinestone/?p=391</link>
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		<title>Duplo Day 24: Destructor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And here&#8217;s the other side of the coin. Duplo is way (as in orders of magnitude) more destructive than Lego ever was. He colors on walls. He pours anything he can get the lid off of onto the floor. He rips books. He breaks things. For a month, right after he learned to climb onto [...]]]></description>
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