Hats!

 
There are also princess hats and cat-eared hats, but I don’t have pictures of those.  But I have them, I swear.

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Stalling monkey

After a bathroom break, after washing & drying hands, comes reading time: currently four poems from Shel Silverstein’s “A Light in the Attic”, which will segue nicely into “Where the Sidewalk Ends”. And after the reading, the stalling . . .
“Could you give me a bunch of kisses? Like a hundred.”
I pause, momentarily [...]

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More awesome awesomeness

The monkey just ran into the room where I am sitting, dressed in a pink leotard (with attached tutu, natch) and purple-striped legwarmers. She was carrying her computer keyboard, and had a plush Kermit the Frog stuffed down the front of her leotard.
She tells me: “it’s your birthday time, mama! Let me make [...]

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Coming soon to a Mailboxes, Etc. near you . . .

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Dancing monkey

She was being so cute the other day, dancing around the dining room, that I had to get my camera out and capture it for posterity. I only intended to film one song, but ended up getting two because I couldn’t bring myself to stop the camera, and because I have no video-editing program [...]

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What a way to start the morning . . .

It has to happen with every child, I’m sure; the sudden realization of biological differences, the divide between male and female. It happened to the monkey yesterday morning, while getting ready for the shower with her papa.
“Izdat? IZdat?” she inquired, pointing. I looked down, expecting to see her holding up a piece [...]

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The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

The Good: I got my application to be an API Group Leader completely finished and the last assignment turned in this afternoon. It is Ilze’s namesday, and Valdis (despite being sick) made her a beautiful pineapple upside-down cake from scratch.
The Bad: My grandfather died this afternoon
RIP, Grandpa–you will be dearly missed. You helped [...]

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(*insert chicken noises here*)

All right, I didn’t do it.  Ended up rethinking it when I realized how frequently I would need to get into a salon to have a short hairstyle trimmed.
Instead I had the stylist re-dye the whole lot of it so that my roots were hidden, and the glaze she put on is supposed to fade [...]

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Attention, sports fans!!!

Today she cheered for the Seahawks for the first time!*
We were hanging out, nursing and watching the game, and she kept popping off to wave her hand at the television and say “ah-ka! ah-ka!” I couldn’t figure it out; it sounds like the word she uses for “carrot” and “avocado”, but it wasn’t [...]

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I’m sick, so the day sucks

I’ve had that weird, raw-throat-that-feels-like-the-beginning-of-a-cold feeling for days now, and yesterday evening I was dumb enough to mention to my husband that my throat had been feeling weird for a few days “but it doesn’t seem to be getting any worse.”
Ha ha ha.
So this morning I woke up feeling like ass, and after I got [...]

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