Mikaela and I are having our weekly “campout” – she gets to stay up late watching movies, and we sleep in the basement (she in her tent, me on the sofa). Usually, we have microwave popcorn while we watch movies. But – as the post below indicates – tonight, we can’t make microwave popcorn.
Miriam wanted [...]

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Looks like we’re going shopping for a new over-the-range microwave this weekend. Last night, when Miriam put some broccoli in the microwave for a quick steam, it made a very loud POP sound. And though the clock stayed on, and the microwave made sounds like it was cooking when we tried it afterward, things in [...]

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One of Jonathan’s favorite things to do these days is drawing. He’s been close to picking up this skill for a while now, but he had a couple of tough hurdles to clear before he could get to the joyful coloring you see in the picture.
First, he had to conquer his uncontrollable urge to eat [...]

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That’s right. A half year.
Six months.
As of today, 187 days.
4488 hours.
269,280 minutes.
16,156,800 seconds.
By any measure – a whole heck of a lot of time for a Hy-Vee helium balloon to stay fully airborn. It has started to drift around the kitchen a bit more – we have to return it to its “home” corner to [...]

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OK, so not quite 18 months. But this sort of update is long overdue. I’ll save the height and weight recitations for the next doctor’s appointment. But Jonathan is developing in other ways. He’s ALWAYS on the go. I’ve been calling him “Pinball.” When he decides he wants to go somewhere, he just goes. If [...]

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