Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas--

It was a great Christmas with our family. The first Christmas for our girls. It was so much better than last year. The only draw back was Aline was feeling a little green -- stomach bug. As far as the gifts go - we where spoiled with not only materialistic things but also the love of family. It was very important to Aline and I that our girls share their gifts with everyone this holiday season.

It was also important to include our son in the holiday plans. Ryan has a stocking which had some materialistic gifts -- but he also allowed us to reflect on the gifts that we have today and everyday.

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The sleeping of babes

Hi everyone-

Well it has been a week of sleeping for the girls at least. Parents are still getting used to the idea of not waking up. And my wife still gets "VERY uncomfortable" in the middle of the night requiring a pumping session. But as some seasoned parents have reminded us, teeth are on the way...and sleepless nights will return.

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Oxiclean vs. Plumbers Putty

Oxiclean wins.

Yes -- not to dis this fine product because let me tell you it works wonders on getting baby stains clean -- it does a number on your plumbers putty. So during those sleep deprived nights we started to have a few blowouts from the girls. Well we would soak the clothing with a little oxiclean and after a few soakings with some of the clothing we noticed that the sink would no longer hold water. Not having much sleep we just moved the clothing to another sink. And the new sink started to not hold water again after several soakings. So onto the 3rd and finally the 4th sink. Well you may ask how many sinks do we have -- 5 bath sinks. Before the final sink was used I put a stop to any more soaking in the sinks -- I think that day I had more sleep. Basically I believe that the release of the oxygen ate away at the plumbers putty. Well no worries - just repack the sinks and we are all good. 2 hours later and the sinks are holding water again. And yes we still use Oxiclean because there simply is nothing else for the money that will get out baby stains -- but now we use a plastic tub to soak the clothing.


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"By George I think"....

.....they have finally slept through the night. WOW!!! Okay six months and the girls have finally slept through the night. Well the first time was Sunday into Monday. We had to get up twice to replace the binkys to keep them asleep. However last night they finally made it through the night -- well at least they went from 9:30 -> 4:30 -- we get up at 5AM. Ugh just typing that makes me tired. Well this is a great thing. That certainly is a very nice Christmas gift the girls are giving us.....the gift of sleep.

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AIM Bot that spells....

Hi everyone-

Well I've finally done it -- I finally have figured out how to spell. Well at least I don't have to pull up Marriam Websters every time now to figure out how to spell something. I also new that there had to be an AIM bot which would be able to spell and stuff. Well there is a such a thing -- or at least this is the one that I found:

SmarterChild

If someone out there has a better place let me know.

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