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Here is what the babycenter says about 16 month olds language development and here is the info on 17 months (Jamie is almost 17 months and changing so fast lately).
I love that our daughter talks a lot more than her brothers did as babies. I’m not sure if she is an early talker but, compared [...]

When we decided to gut our basement after the flood one brainstorm we had was over what to do with the space under the bottom of the stairs. Previously it had been accessible from the other side of the basement and used as a dumping ground for various items. We thought that was [...]

I grew a lot of little gourds in our garden this year and they were on display in the kitchen through Thanksgiving. We started on Christmas decorations now so they had to go. I cut them in half and saved the seeds to plant in the spring and I saved the tops with stems so [...]

Storynory started reading one chapter of Alice in Wonderland each month last year and just recently decided to give the book its own podcast feed.  We signed up and downloaded all the chapters.  If you have any holiday traveling planned this season, I highly recommend subscribing to both the Alice and regular Storynory feeds.  Ethan [...]

Thanksgiving weekend has become ice rink building weekend at our house. We’re getting good at it and can now have the boards assembled and liner in place in about an hour. This year I took photos of the whole process to share with everyone.
Ingredients
I keep the rink simple and relatively small since my [...]

Every year we like to get one of the local coupon books. They go by different names, but the one we bought last year is called Entertainment Book. I’ve also seen them called Dine-A-Mate books. These are simply a book of coupons for local businesses. These are popular fundraiser item and [...]

I finally got around to loading all the old entries from my previous site, The Family Blog.  That site will redirect to here and all the old entries, going back to 2002, are now in the archives.  Still have a little organization to work on, but it is nice to finally have everything in one [...]

I received another coupon code with our latest Netflix rental.  This time it is only for 2 free weeks and the code is good through December 31st, 2007.
Go to  www.netflix.com and use code Friend22

I was very pleased that our boys had made it to 3 & almost 5 yrs old without having any clue what Sponge Bob was. However my 13yr old brother went and messed everything up by showing them it on the computer in August (still mad). Since then Ethan has been asking about it and [...]

Ethan and Ben love listening to Storynory, but we’re caught up with the latest episodes (I’m downloading the archives).  I went in search of another kids podcast for them to listen to and found Crazy Dave’s Kid Show.  This is a radio call in show for kids.  The boys really like it, I like it, [...]