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The one negative that I have to say about My Baby A to Z is that it’s not very long.

By the fourth time of Cara cycling through the video and me being punched in the arm to restart the video, I finally got smart to the “continuous play” option.  [I think my arm is bruised.]

I was concerned that the DVD was going to look homemade and be annoying.  I have my doubts that my two year old could give a flying flip about a DVD looking homemade since she routinely plays with straws and rocks, but it matters to me if I have to watch the thing over and over and over.

At 7:59 this morning, Cara officially turned two.

Oliver wasn’t impressed.

My dad actually showed up and came bearing a tricycle.  Not the tricycle that I wrote about previously [and that he knew about] but whatever.  It just annoys me that he knew the specific tricycle that we were going to get her and he had told me that he was NOT getting it for her because it was too expensive.  Then, instead of just getting her something else [or nothing at all cause I told him he didn't have to get anything], he still shows up with a tricycle…just not the one we wanted to get her.

When I found out that my first child was a girl, I was relieved.

Boys have higher rates of autism; we dodged that bullet.

I had an overconfident self assurance that Cara was safe from this horrible, incurable disease.

Thankfully, Caroline is six days away from her second birthday and she shows no signs of autism.

When I found out that my second child was a boy, I freaked.

Boys have higher rates of autism; we’re screwed.

Just like pretty much every other parent in the civilized world, I’ve watched celebrities expound the horrors of vaccines and their purported links to autism.

And the winner for the Maybe Baby contest is:

Elizabeth M. !

Yippee for, Elizabeth M.

I have an Enfamil diaper bag to giveaway next week along with some formula coupons and wipes samples so keep your eyes peeled.

What does this picture say to you?  [The kennel door is open, by-the-way.]

To me, it means that the end of the summer is getting damn close and the beginning of Fall is on its way.

Let me explain.

We live in Arkansas and Arkansas is usually unbearably hot from sometime in May until sometime in September.  But, yesterday was a fluke and it freakin’ ROCKED!

Our back door was open almost all day.  The windows were open.  The ceiling fans were on.  I wasn’t sweating my ass off.  [Sophie's kennel is blocking the door so that Oscar the Cat doesn't escape.]

Hello.

This is a call to action.

In the spirit of the Democratic National Convention, I present to you an early opportunity to vote…FOR ME.

To make it easy on everyone involved, I have included not one, but TWO places for you to click so that you can vote [FOR ME].

The first is on the far sidebar and the other one is right here:

As photographic proof of my hotness [for those of you who doubt me] I present you with these:

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Hmm...maybe this one isn't such a great example...

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Way back in October of last year I reviewed Joshua Henkin’s book, Matrimony.

I really enjoyed the book and wish that I could link to the review that I wrote.  Sadly, that was one of the posts that got assassinated during the “Great Host Move of ‘08″.  [Just take me at my word that I wrote a review and like the book, m'kay?]

Anyway, the paperback version of Matrimony is coming out on the 26th of August and Joshua has contacted me and offered to give away one of the signed books to a lucky reader.