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Yesterday while shopping we had one of many moments that indicate the teenage to come ( Read more... )

In the past week Little T has made a huge leap in his speech. He's started having conversations. I admit these conversations are on the level of Koko the gorilla and not typical conversation, but they charm me ( Read more... )

Top Ten Signs My Kids Live In Silicon Valley, my second post on Silicon Valley Moms Blog ( Read more... )

Yesterday Special K discovered 'Knock Knock' jokes. Over forty-five minutes we spent telling them until we begged her to stop. Thank the gods for the Internet, so I could look them up. And she got her first pun. The classic ( Read more... )

As I wrote in February I fell in love with the David Hasselhoff video "Hooked on a Feeling". Apparently so did many other folks. If you haven't seen the video, you're missing out on many delights like Hasselhoff catching a fish between his teeth.

Flush with the success of this video, he started a small tour. In this concert video of "Hooked on A ( Read more... )

This 1.1 million-dollar house on our street is almost identical to ours. Both are 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath houses built nine years ago by the same developer. No, we don't live in a mansion. Yes, housing prices here are crazy.

I got woken up by the 4.7 earthquake this morning. So did Little T. Fortunately we both went back to sleep. Normally I ( Read more... )

Okay now I know I'm an bad mom, because this series of doomed ducklings made me laugh out. I think mostly because I think it's a twisted metaphor for motherhood. You try to get your ducklings safely across the street. You're looking for traffic and all kinds of other bad things, but you miss the grating, because it doesn't really affect you. ( Read more... )

gconnor has Sophie, Killer of Socks Well, our cats are also brave sock killers. They hunt down socks from our neighbours and bring to them to our back porch. Right now their trophies include a blue baby sock, a man's white athletic sock and a woman's black sock. I have no idea where they came from. And they remain on our mat. I can't match my cats' ( Read more... )

frumiousb kindly sent us some Dutch knick-knacks including a small yellow clog with wooden tulips. Now this clog is bright yellow and has a sort of tip at the end that does look like a kind of duck's beak. This prompted the following conversation between me and Special K ( Read more... )