Sheila on December 20th, 2008

For Maggie’s 5th birthday, I put together a CD of songs for the party favor.  I totally stole the idea from a wise friend, and I still receive compliments on that CD today. In the original song list, there were a couple songs that were eventually rejected because they had the word “hell” in them.  [...]

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Sheila on December 12th, 2008

Getting into the car last night to go to Katie’s Christmas Sing-a-Long, I tipped over a travel mug of hot chocolate from this morning. Milk dribbled out got all over
Me:  Oh shhhhhhhh
Katie: Mommy, were you going to say shoot?
Me:  Yes, that is exactly the word I was looking for.
Maggie: Oh.  I thought the word you [...]

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Sheila on December 8th, 2008

Maggie lost another tooth tonight. She is really relentless when she decides that she wants one out. This was a bottom tooth, and its permanent replacement has been growing behind it for a while now.
Considering the vigor she used to get tonight’s tooth out, I’m a little concerned at how consistently she’s been singing “All [...]

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Sheila on December 6th, 2008

I thought Maggie was really hard to potty train.  At 2.5, it seemed like every time I thought she was ready, she’d pee in her pants. And then when I was just about to give up, she would tell me she needed to go, and use the bathroom like a champ.  After weeks of pulling [...]

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