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My son likes to mess with the spring-style door stop on the wall between our rooms when he gets up in the morning.  It’s near the top of his to-do list every day.

6:35 AM: “boinggg.  boyoiinng…. boyoyoyoing.”

It helps me to remember that no matter how hard, messy, and difficult life is–he’s concerned about the neat noise that door stop makes.  And I think he’s onto something.  Life is stressful, MPD is difficult.  But God wants me to lay my head down beside LB on the carpet, and be amazed by the sound of a door stop.  I can’t think of a better use of my time.

When’s the last time you stopped to make funny noises with a door stop?  That big problem will wait.  In fact, in light of the joy you find laying in the floor with a toddler laughing at the wall, those big problems don’t seem so big anymore.

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The Best Video I’ve Made all Week.

June 17, 2010

First step: notice that elmo has been “eating” the yogurt. Second step: find something with which to record the process. Third step: upload video to YouTube.

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Gratuitous video for the sake of the grandparents.

June 1, 2010

I suppose others can watch it, too.  (I uploaded a few more today to our YouTube Channel)

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Terrific Twos: An Adventure in Parenthood.

May 24, 2010

Yeah, he’s got a terrible streak.  He’s impossible to discipline.  He will frequently “go boneless” in a parking lot to avoid being put in his car seat. But there are times like Saturday that make it all worth it. We went to “Monkey Joe’s” — which in the original Greek translates more closely to “How [...]

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When he Falls and Bumps his head.

October 13, 2009

Is it wrong that I love it when my child bumps his head, or scrapes his knee?  Not in a sadistic way but because, at least for a minute, he’ll put his head on my shoulder, wrap his arms around my neck, and need me. Today, as we were hanging out at a friend’s birthday [...]

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This actually happened.

October 7, 2009

Ben: I have no idea how to potty train. I wouldn’t even know where to start. Jacq: Me neither. Ben: I mean, I know how to house train a dog, so it’s probably pretty similar… Jacq: What, are you going to rub his face in it? Ben: (laughing) If it works…

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October 1, 2009

I really like his big head… no, I really do like his big head… Random five(ish)-year-old, upon seeing LB in a shoe store. His mother blushingly tried to shh him, but was greeted with the second half of the quote.  Yes, we are aware that our son is roughly 30% head at this point.  We’re [...]

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A year ago.

September 18, 2009

One year ago yesterday we handed our 4-month-old to an anesthesiologist and said a prayer. One year ago yesterday we had more individual viewers on our blog in a single day (by over 300) than any other day before or since. One year ago yesterday we experienced something that, even today, we don’t like to [...]

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August 25, 2009

LB has started having conversations with himself.

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Who’s Cutting off your Passy?

August 17, 2009

Two nights ago, we did it.  We stopped feeding our son’s addiction.  It’s his earliest addiction.  We posted about it over a year ago, and as of two nights ago, he was officially a junkie. We chopped the end off of all the pacifiers in the house, and forced him (and to be honest, ourselves) [...]

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