Miriam made a family favorite for dinner tonight – french toast souffle (made with leftover challah) with mixed berries on top. Having just spent the afternoon before dinner getting the video in the post below ready, I had the video camera handy.
He had berries from head to toe. They were all over his highchair [...]

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After posting about Mikaela’s basketball games last week, I had several requests for video – so here it is. This is just a short clip of Mikaela scoring a basket in today’s game (she’s number 11 in white).

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The most important part of this post is that Mikaela lost her first baby tooth on Monday morning. I say that both to keep the focus on Mikaela and also in an attempt to minimize the way in which I totally botched the whole Tooth Fairy thing.
To set the stage, I remind you all that [...]

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For the first time in years, my old high school buddy Guy Forsyth was touring around these parts with his own band (rather than solo or with the Asylum Street Spankers). When I saw the tour schedule, I noticed that they were going to be playing a club in St. Louis that I’d heard great [...]

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Mikaela has started a new activity – she’s playing basketball at the Jewish Community Center on Sundays. She’s working hard on developing her basketball skills. She’s especially proud of being able to dribble and run fast (we’re working on the “in control” part), and has good natural defense instincts, shuffling her feet and keeping [...]

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We had a couple of days in early January when the weather was spring-like. It gave us a chance to get outside for a bit, and for Jonathan to show off his newfound walking skills. He took his first halting steps way back on Thanksgiving, but since then he had been limited to just [...]

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Happy 2008 everyone!! Sorry for the lateness of this post. I actually wrote another version earlier, but apparently never got around to posting it. Ringing in the New Year was a kid-family affair this year. Mikaela was excited to play hostess to her cousins Margo, Rylei and Samantha (and she reluctantly allowed Jonathan and us [...]

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