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Avery had two requests for me this morning.  For one, she didn't want me to eat Milo.  He is scrumptious and I'm always pretending to take a bite out of him.  For two, she said not to let the giant hand that wanders around the earth get us.  I think she is spending too much time reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Tucker has spent this morning building his puzzles and taking them apart, over and over again.

Piper has learned a new word this week.  "Nnnnnnnnnnnnno!"  I have to chuckle, quietly to myself, of course, at her naughtiness.  I don't know where she learned it; after all, our other kids are all angels.  Chortle, chortle, snort.  I've been ignoring it, as ignorance seemed to quell her hitting.

As I type, Milo is sitting next to me and kicking his chubby little foot into my leg, over and over.  If he keeps it up much longer, there will surely be a crater forming on my leg.  He is almost giggling these days, but can't seem to summon up the strength to get more than a grunt out when I tickle him.  This morning, he was sitting up on a pillow, but couldn't keep himself upright because he was so excited.  I'd prop him up, talk to him, and he'd grin and wave his little fists and fall over.

I went for the camera earlier this morning but was pleasantly surprised to find that it's broken.  Completely and utterly broken.  I wonder if Little Miss Piper has anything to do with it.

We have a busy weekend ahead.  Milo's 3 month pictures on Saturday, his baptism, or balsam as Avery calls it, on Sunday, and a trip to St. Cloud Sunday evening to stay in a hotel.  It's supposed to dump snow on us this weekend and Chet has to be up in St. Cloud for the driving portion of his training at 8:00am on Monday morning, so we are making a family vacation out of it.

I think I'm excited.  I don't think the rest of the hotel guests will be, though.

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