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I’ve got all kinds of cool posting plans, I just haven’t been able to follow through as of yet. News: we joined our local CSA today, and I feel oh so environmental. LOL. It really does sound awesome and I will begin posting about it after our first “bushel” this weekend. [...]

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tadpole swing Originally uploaded by nitareality.
You would never know that he literally cries for 55 minutes out of 60 right now, unless there’s a boob in his mouth, due to two molars coming in. My nipples hurt so bad and I’m slathering them in every [...]

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kids swing Originally uploaded by nitareality.
We can all smell spring.
Thaddeus started signing “eat” yesterday. Two days ago he started saying “Mama” again, in addition to “up”. Sometimes, when I’m feeling lazy, I wonder why we try to hurry up the ability to express what [...]

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I’ve been prolific in my updates today.  I know that you don’t want to miss a single detail of my existance.
And I know it looks like we were torturing him.  We weren’t.  I was on my way, and Daddy, being helpless to do anything else, snapped this.

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How cool is this!?!  And he’s fully functional on everything except the rock climbing walls on the side which, frankly, I’m not ready for yet either.  And no, LOL, the walls are not done yet.

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I just think that it is so cool…I mean the distance from our back door to this animal is only as far as the house across the street.  We thought they would be gone because of the 30 screen monstrosity they’ve built, but I guess they’re gonna stick around for another litter, we can hear [...]

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I just think that it is so cool…I mean the distance from our back door to this animal is only as far as the house across the street.  We thought they would be gone because of the 30 screen monstrosity they’ve built, but I guess they’re gonna stick around for another litter, we can hear [...]

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During this time, the case manager is all “Wow, you guys are really excited about them coyotes…”  and I look at her and her face is like “oh.my.god.  there are actually man-eating beasts within walking distance of my SUV”.

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During this time, the case manager is all “Wow, you guys are really excited about them coyotes…”  and I look at her and her face is like “oh.my.god.  there are actually man-eating beasts within walking distance of my SUV”.

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So I called Todd to come and see and he’s actually the photographic genious who got our somewhat sloooow camera to snap these two (!) coyotes hunting mid day, during the annual Northern Illinois Unpredicted Blizzard.  Must be pretty slim pickin’s if there hunting during the day, no?

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