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Zoe parrrots everything we say. Time to watch the language, sailor. She can finally pronounce 's', so she has started making everything plural. She cracks me up.

Silas lets his sister do a lot of the talking. He mimicked me tonight on skype, though, and said "exactly", over and over and over. With the same inflection. He cracks me up too.

We skyped with Rachel, Dana & Stephanie this week. Every time I answer the phone or turn on skype the kids say "auntie" over and over and over.

Zoe calls Silas 'Siya', and whenever he is upset about something she says 'Siya sad' over and over.

I've nicknamed Zoe "the tyrant". You'll figure out why the next time you skype with us or stop by for a playdate.

Silas had a fever for 2 days this week and still has a runny nose. Thankfully the fever passed quickly - it was our first sickness of the season.

The highlight of our weekend was buying the kids new socks and going to Ikea. Apparently our very awesome summer is officially over. Here's a picture of Silas wearing some really cute 3T hand-me-downs we just dug out.


Derek baked us a delicious apple crisp yesterday using apples from our trip to Russell Orchards last weekend. Yum yum.

My mom gets here in two weeks, for two weeks. Can't wait!

It's conference submission time, so I'm analyzing tons of data. Hopefully we'll be in Minneapolis June 7-9th for the International Conference on Infant Studies! The conference would kick-off our first trip home in 2 years.

We had an impromptu playdate with Vanessa and Oliver on Friday, and we hung out with Teresa, Josie & Theo this afternoon. I heart my mommy friends.

Week 3 of menu planning starts now. I'm trying to rock the slow cooker more often. Tommorow we try slow cooker pulled pork (thanks to Shal for the recipe!).

The grant that has paid my salary for the last 12 years is reviewed by NIMH for the last time this month. I hope the funding gods are with us on this one.

I'm listening to podcasts these days. My two favorites are "On Being" and "New York Times Book Review". Sadly, I also sometimes listen to one called "Culturetopia".

Derek's uncle Larry has been in the hospital (ICU) for 2 weeks with an infection. Last news we got he's still on a ventilator and not showing any improvement. We're really, really worried and praying for a turnaround any day now.

Football has started. Derek does crazy things with his sleeping during football season and it makes me crazy.

I'm reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and it has made me realize that I need to read outside of my comfort genre more often. I'm loving it! I still love Goodreads too.

We're slowly getting our living room back. We took down another set of 5 superyard panels today. This leaves us with only a few left that block off the computer desk and litter box. We also put a coffee table that belonged to my grandparents back up in the living room. The kids like to play and build towers on it. 


October is here! S&Z's SECOND birthday is this week, so there should be lots of fun stuff to come. Oh yea, our 3rd wedding anniversary is coming up too :-)
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