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OK, just enough time in the day to post some recent pictures. I am not lying, L smiles and giggles LOTS of times each day. When I try to take her picture though she gets the crazy, double chin, zombie red eye picture each time. The flash pisses her off. We have at least 100 pictures with this one expression. I even tried to imitate her to get her to smile, but that didn't work wither. I did manage to get a couple of her slightly smiling after realizing that with enough natural light the evil flash won't scare her into the dreaded Winston Churchill pose.

She found her feet today and is grabbing for her toes. Soon they will be in her mouth and one more part of her body will be covered with a nice sheen of slimy, dripping saliva. She is teething and loves that frozen ring for a late night snack when the teeth start a' hurtin'. She chews on that thing like a crazy woman, moaning and slurping with relief and ecstasy.

In other news, positive reinforcement technique just put into play in our household: when certain hygienic practices are maintained for a whole week, said child will get to choose whatever they want for dinner one night that week. No complete crap allowed. Both kids were ecstatic when the idea was proposed. E immediately decides that he'll be working for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (note: he eats this for at least one meal every day). The bonus is that he plans to eat this TWICE IN ONE DAY. D will be working for frozen ravioli. And to think I was afraid they'd actually want something that would take some effort to prepare. I'll be kicking myself if this is all it would have taken all these weeks for said hygiene practices to become habit.

Other parenting news, E brought home two pages from a coloring book from his music class at school and stated that the teacher said the his parents would have to sign the one page where he colored the composer's face blue. He says that the teacher told him that people's faces could not be blue and to re-do it, discuss his misstep with us and return the blue composer. E was pretty relieved when we started laughing hysterically and let him know how ridiculous this was to us. My God, has this woman never heard of the Smurfs? We might not have been as disrespectful if we had had more initial respect for the teacher whose curriculum includes coloring, watching movies with music in them (usually DIsney) and repeatedly singing the school anthem.