Archive for the ‘Children’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The Little Guy lost a top front tooth today. The Tooth Fairy will be leaving him a Thank You card.
We were eating Cheetos and hadn't yet brushed our teeth...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
We went to Target today to get the two main ingredients, marshmallows and Pillsbury crescent rolls. Somehow the crescent rolls did not make it home although they did make it onto the receipt. Ah, well. It happens. I'll pick up some more crescent rolls later in the week when I ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
We went to the Illinois Railway Museum yesterday to ride a train pulled by Thomas!
We rode in antique passenger cars
and saw this advertisement in the car we were in.
We've come a long way.
*ed note: changed the advertisement picture to one that is closer in to read the ad.
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Awesome!
We went this morning after church and I must say that Michael Bay did an incredible job bringing the Autobots and Decepticons to life. The special effects were beautifully done.
One of may favorite things was the slogan on the side of Barricade, the police car Decepticon, "To Punish and Enslave..." ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
We have three different stories in the past few weeks that have national media attention.
Bobby Cutts, Jr. is accused of killing Jessie Davis, the mother of his son Blake and Blake's soon to be little sister Chloe. Chloe's death, unfortunately, was incidental to her mother's death. Blake was physically unharmed ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
I figured out an easy way to make "silver dollar" pancakes.
Using any pancake mix (I used Bisquick shake and pour) put the batter into a plastic ketchup type squeeze bottle ($1 at WalMart or dollar stores). You have a lot of control over where the batter goes and no messy ...
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
We got to see the Wiggles today at Six Flags! The real Wiggles; Sam, Murray, Jeff, and Anthony, Captain Feathersword, Dorothy, Henry, and Wags!
I took the pictures with my Treo, from up in the stands, so they're not terrific pictures, but we did have a lot of fun!
Jeff (Purple) is ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
It is certainly crazy week this week. There was a tragedy and an anniversary of another tragedy and school lock-downs for called in threats, suspicious packages, and other reasons.
I went to pick my older son up from school and all the school buses were in the Home Depot parking lot ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
How does a 42 pound 6-1/2-year-old boy clog the toilet EVERY TIME? And it's not as if he uses too much paper.
I purchased some Sunsweet Pitted Prunes and he will eat one every day! I bought the Cherry Essence prunes, the link is to Orange Essence prunes.
I need one of ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Listerine's Agent Cool Blue for kids has been recalled, all lots, all flavors:
Press release:
MORRIS PLAINS, NEW JERSEY - April 11, 2007 – McNEIL-PPC, Inc. (the "Company") today announced a voluntary nationwide consumer recall of all lots of the GLACIER MINT™ and BUBBLE BLAST™ flavors of LISTERINE® AGENT COOL BLUE™ Plaque-Detecting ...
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