<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress.com" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>those darn kids</title>
	<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>making our world a better place, one kid at a time.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:08:18 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>anxiety, part 674</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what drives me crazy, today. As everyone knows, my anxiety is frequently out of control. Quite often, friends family and healthcare providers tell me I need to Calm Down, ie stop worrying so much. And so I try. 
Then yesterday: I phoned the nurseline to check on some abnormal blood test results for F. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=68&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/anxiety-part-674/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>overheard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a particularly bad day of infighting amongst the little people, K looks deep into F&#8217;s eyes and says:
&#8220;Baby. . . . .I *guess* you are my favorite baby in the whole town. I&#8217;m never going to say bad things to you.&#8221;
Pure.
Love.
or something.
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=66&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/overheard-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Explain this:
How can K remember the words to the TingTing&#8217;s Great DJ song (which he&#8217;s heard twice), but not be able to identify any of the alphabet (which we&#8217;ve worked on considerably more than twice).
Is this good or bad, I ask myself.
And like most things in parenting, it just is.
      [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=62&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/memory/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>mid-night activity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kentucky/Fried have both had garden-variety colds. So when F woke up at 2am coughing, and that progressed to vomiting, I was happily (and confidently) unconcerned. Cough, gag, vomit. Babies do that all the time. But then she vomited at 4am and 6am too and that kind of shot my theory. She&#8217;s sick. 
   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=60&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/mid-night-activity/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>embed experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=58&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/58/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>when i grow up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The house across the street is vacant and for sale because Margaret, who lived there from birth until death, died.
K says that when he grows up, he is going to marry F and they will live across the street in Margaret&#8217;s house. Unless Bob or Mike (our left and right hand neighbors) die, in which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=56&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/when-i-grow-up/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(written 12/31/2008)
F is saying more and more in an increasingly word-type way. She still can’t walk, god bless her, but she is a good talker.

In order of appearance
(and to the best of my memory):

ticky ticky ticky (tickle tickle tickle)
a-mah (mama)
da-da (daddy)
bud-duh (brother)
ow (ear)
hi
huh-lo (hello)
boar (bear)
up (up)
bey-bah (baby)
bub-bah (bubble)
mo (more).

As I mentioned she doesn’t really walk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=53&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/word/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>survival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(written 12/31/2008)
Today’s saga involves documentation of 2 weeks (from hell) in the life of our little family. We were SICK.

(Now it is much later, but I will try to re-call. Because this really was a stunning stretch of ick.)

July 04, 2008 While we were preparing to go to my cousin’s cabin for the annual booya [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=49&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/survival/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>not well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[baby is not well. i want baby to be well. i have posts written about her previous medical travails. . . . . just haven&#8217;t put them up yet. but here and now, she is not well.
December 05. chicken pox
December 10. pneumonia1
December 26. cold + fever
January 03. pneumonia2 + ear infection
January 14-present. suspected herpes virus.
her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=48&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/not-well/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I dropped Kian off at school this morning he told me, &#8220;Maybe you should put your hat on so you don&#8217;t look so crazy when we go into my classroom.&#8221;
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thosedarnkids.wordpress.com&blog=2616348&post=45&subd=thosedarnkids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thosedarnkids.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/truth/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
