what’s fair is fair

We bit the bullet this morning and went to the fair. The great Minnesota get-together, if you will. I thought we’d avoid the fair again this year (as we did last year), because it is always just so HOT during fair time, and so crowded, and I just do not like being one of those [...]

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randomness galore

To begin, a Ryan napping update: Monday- refused a morning nap, so took one nap mid-day that lasted 45 minutes. Urgh. Tuesday- refused a morning nap, so took one nap mid-day, that lasted 2.5 hours. YAY!! Wednesday- I decided if this is how he wants to play the game, we’ll go out and DO something [...]

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naps, naps and no naps

Do any toddler mommies out there have any sage words of wisdom for me regarding my child’s recent napping pattern? A little background on the subject:
Age: 15 (almost 16) months
Name: Ryan
Alias(es): Ry Guy, Little Dude, Bud
Favorite word(s): Ba! Da!
Napping History: Has been taking two naps a day for months and months and months. Naps occur [...]

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goldendoodles

Someone brought up an interesting point upon relating our recent dog attack incident to others… SpasticGoldenRetriever + SpasticStandardPoodle (should) = SpasticGoldenDoodle that attacks itself?!?
So much for that theory, as proven by this docile creature that we met last week during our one-day vacation.

This nice pet is the antithesis of spastic. He lives in a B&B [...]

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cupcake header

Time for a new header! This one was snapped by Jenny of stickyfeathers. (This photo of hers was also recently featured on a photography blog…she tells us about it here.)
Thanks for the yummy pic!

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the ultimate poodle alert

We have a dog. Her name is Leila. I may have mentioned her before.
Leila has two arch enemies. They are the poodles.
Across the street and one door down live two hyper-spastic standard poodles. What do hyper-spastic standard poodles look like, you ask? They look like their owner being dragged down the street in an uncontrollable [...]

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cuzzies

I just have to post this quick. These two little dudes hung out for awhile on Monday. They pretty much totally ignored each other the whole time we were outside…until…the sippy cups entered the picture. Max was not pleased with Grandma’s 1977 version of a sippy cup, so he proceeded to turn it on end [...]

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cyclops

We have returned from another fabulously relaxing and beautiful-weather-filled weekend at the cabin.
Of note:
-All three dogs came out alive, but it was touch and go there for awhile.
-FatJ inadvertently allowed a life jacket to be taken by the wind while cruising in the pontoon. Upon returning to shore, we looked out to sea and discovered [...]

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christmas lake

Question: What do a nine-months-pregnant lady who works for the public schools, a stay at home mom, and a producer of the 10:00pm news have in common??
Answer: They are all free to head out in a boat on a lake on a gorgeous summer’s weekday at 9:00am. Aaaaaah.
This one got a new boat.

And invited us [...]

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twitter dee dee

Umm kay, moving right along here in the world of technology, I now have a Twitter widget right over there>>>>. Isn’t that just uber-exciting???
Typically I scoff at anything that’s the ‘latest craze’ (e.g. Facebook), but it just so happened that I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon waaaaaaaay back in the day when Twitter was virtually [...]

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