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		<title>A(nother) Child Is Born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been a week now, and many of you already know the barest of details:


 
 
 
  View Baby Photos Here.


h2. It's a boy!

But, in fact, we know more than that, and we can share. For starters, the boy's name is Evan. Following a rich Carlson family tradition spanning back to, um, Anna, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Baby? Noooo&#8230;. NEW YEAR&#8217;S BABY??  Nooo&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The waiting game.]]></description>
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		<title>You get what you need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes your kids know exactly what you need, even more than you do. One day, a couple months ago, Anna and I were having one of the regular disputes over naps (I think she should take one, she doesn't) and I was getting really frustrated and tired. I was about 8 months pregnant at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>104 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we knew our house was old, but it's pretty interesting to see some evidence. Darren, Rod and David, our framing crew, started to rip siding off of our kitchen wall this week, and they found some newsprint--pages from _The People's Home Journal_ and _Mail Order Monthly Magazine_, weathered and beat-up, dated October 1903.

Now I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deluge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is supposed to be snow.

That's what just hit me as I'm looking out the window. That, and my god, what a big pile of mud our construction site is becoming. What is this, Seattle? Calcutta?

Okay, maybe it's not that bad. But this is a lot of rain for Colorado, in September. And just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plunge into Chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Day 1
  
  Originally uploaded by jerika.net
 

Last week, the gloves came off. All of the planning we'd done thus far started to become a reality.

It all started when Erika held up the little swizzle stick which had turned blue in about 6 seconds. From that moment on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She's on to us.

We think we're doing some sort of game, but she knows it's a didactic exercise, and she's not going to play by the boring rules.

I'm pointing at something which has a series of colors -- you know, red, orange, yellow, green, etc. -- and I ask her what colors there are. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1!

2!

3!

4!

5!

8!

9!

10!

14!

5!

Are you sure that's right, Anna? ;) ]]></description>
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		<title>Extremely small elephants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in the midst of a mundane lunchtime, my daughter exhibited a beatiful moment of personal creativity that inspired me to keep the TV off so that her brain can be on. She's done lots of imagining playthings, from the baby hippos she finds in various locations and picks up and carries, to taking her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerika.net/words/extremely-small-elephants/</link>
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		<title>Independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone talks about the "terrible twos" and I do understand why this developmental period is hard for many parents. I remember when my friend Leah's daughter Sophie was upset about something, I said, "It is hard to be 2" and her mom replied "It is hard to be the mom of a 2 year old." [...]]]></description>
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