Miriam and Mikaela are in Salt Lake City visiting Steve and Sali. Yesterday, Mikaela had a story to tell Mommy & Grandma Mouse:
Once upon a time there was a little girl and she wanted to ask her mommy to see if she could go to the rainforest. Her mommy said to go on the [...]

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Yesterday evening we were about to head upstairs to get Mikaela into a bath when the doorbell rang. Our neighbor had come by to tell us that one of our sprinkler heads (over on the side of the house closest to hers) was malfunctioning. We walked outside for her to show it to us and Mikaela [...]

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With cousin Annie in town for a concert this weekend, we got a special treat today. Annie, Sarah, Margo, Mikaela (and me) spent the day at Science City. Mikaela had a wonderful time with her cousins. We took a lunch break to Crown Center (we wanted to try the new Harvey House [...]

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I don’t know how I would put this into words, so I’ll just borrow Corey’s:
I lost a good friend this weekend.
The very difficult decision to have the veterenarian put Ted to sleep was made on Friday. He was 12 years old. He was having some recurring renal failure, and while I won’t chronicle the specific [...]

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We got our clearest ultrasound image yet  last week.  The ultrasound confirmed the earlier hints that we might be having a boy this time.  It’s now pretty much as certain as we can be without having already delivered him. We didn’t happen to get a still snap of the “money shot,” so you’ll just have [...]

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Mikaela had been chomping at the bit for the last three weeks, ever since she caught part of a promo for the special Blue’s Clues 10th Anniversary episode, in which Blue gets a little brother. “It hasn’t been on yet,” was a VERY difficult concept for a child raised with TiVo and DVDs. It FINALLY [...]

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Back at camp after the New York trip, Mikaela was having a bit of difficult following directions at first.  Her teacher tried to use a reward to get her to cooperate.  She told Mikaela that if Mikaela didn’t follow direction, she wouldn’t get a sticker. Mikaela’s response? “That’s OK.  I have stickers at home.” [...]

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Sorry I didn’t update last night, but we finally walked in the door to the house at about midnight last night.  We were all pretty cranky and exhausted.  Overall, it was a great trip, even if the travel itself was awful.  But we had a wonderful time in New York, enjoyed seeing Aunt Bunny, and [...]

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