February 4th, 2010
at school miles class has an estimation jar. the teachers fill it with buttons or marshmallows or cotton balls or pens and then the kids all guess how many whatevers are in the jar and the teachers write down the guesses and circle the closest one, wahoo.
last night in the bath, miles filled a bottle with water and said, “let’s guess how many water are in this jar!”
i guessed 53. in a slightly condescending but gentle voice miles said, “that’s kind of a large number, let’s try to think of a smaller number.”
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December 1st, 2009
it’s going to be an interesting december around here. miles is really excited about christmas because he remembers some of the highlights from last year. but he doesn’t really understand everything he remembers so we’ve been trying to explain why santa didn’t come on thanksgiving and why he hasn’t come every night since. why we had to wait until today to start the advent calendar. why some places had christmas lights up but some places didn’t.
we put up the tree on sunday. the boys helped with the ornament hanging and were fully engaged the entire time. the front bottom third of the tree looks ridiculous, but they did such a good job coming to me to get an ornament and then taking it over to the tree and finding a spot for it. miles would stop and ask about different ornaments and where they came from and ozzie would stop and pluck ornaments off the tree and try to hit vixen with them.
i waited until this year to put up christmas lights outside. i wanted to wait until someone besides me would appreciate it and in past years erica’s been a little grinchy about stuff like that. miles was pretty oblivious to lights last year but i knew when i saw how excited he was when he saw the christmas lights on the starbucks in september, that this year would be the year. i finally finished the job today and had the house all lit up when i brought the boys home from daycare. miles said, “daddy, the house is so BOO-dee-ful!”
the cutest thing so far though is miles singing “jingle bells.” his best bit is the part that goes “oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh, HEY!” in miles-speak it goes “oh what fun it is to ride and what, What, WHAT YOU SAY? HEY!!”
before i get in more trouble, i have to say that erica isn’t grinching this year. she was supportive of my idea of starting a “snowy village” she says that like everyone knows what that is. she also said she wanted to start collecting snowmen which prompted our friend to say, “when did you turn so middle-aged?” which i think is what erica always wants to say to me at christmas time. i’ve been planning our future christmas traditions for the past three years and obviously that makes so much sense to erica because “planning” is her middle name. hopefully we’ll have plenty of traditions that develop organically, but the years fly by and without a little planning, before we know it the boys will be teenagers and i’ll be all, “where’s my snowy village?”
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December 1st, 2009
which new partnerships are you looking forward to seeing?
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November 27th, 2009
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November 24th, 2009
double routine night!! wahoo!! Let’s see if this trips anyone up…
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November 17th, 2009
anything to say?
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November 12th, 2009
i’m curious to hear what everyone thought of nigel’s attitude and comments this week. i don’t know what they’re ratings are like during the summer but this week they were second to last ahead of the CW shows, 90210 and Melrose Place. i’m just not sure what his purpose was for being so mean to the dancers, the studio audience and the at home audience.
i have many opinions about this but in short, i think it’s ridiculous that he was upset with the voters for not letting him pick off nathan and mollee. this was the first week that the audience got any say in the staying or going. he and the other judges are responsible for the top 20, the choreographers, the dance styles, the format of the show, the ridiculous claims that this is the best group of dancers they’ve had on the show.
And why in the world does he think that the bottom quarter of the cast should be outperforming the top quarter of last season’s? no makey sense.
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November 10th, 2009
which of the top 8 couples would you pick up the phone for?
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November 8th, 2009
since they could walk, both boys were very interested in my coffee on weekend mornings. thinking they’d lose interest once they had a taste, I let them try it. I could not have been more wrong. I could have tried, but I would not have succeeded.
miles’ interest has waned a bit in the last year but oz loves a strong cup of cah-PEE.
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November 3rd, 2009
show is just starting here on the west coast. they jumpy split thing jakob just did already earned a rewind. hope that’s a sign of things to come. comment away!!
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