{"id":372,"date":"2010-10-29T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2010\/10\/7-quick-takes-friday-39\/"},"modified":"2015-01-11T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:07:30","slug":"7-quick-takes-friday-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2010\/10\/7-quick-takes-friday-39.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Happy Friday before Halloween! I\u2019m inordinately excited about this Halloween because we\u2019ve banned sugar from the house\u2026but of course that rule won\u2019t apply to Halloween candy collected by earnest, hard-working little costumed beggars. From whom I will steal. Yay, candy! I\u2019m actually having visions of mellowcreme pumpkins lure me to sleep at night. Yum. Sunday can\u2019t get here fast enough. And now for quick takes.<\/p>\n

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hurts. I think it\u2019s broken. I\u2019m not sure how I broke it, but I can\u2019t bend it and it\u2019s really annoying me.<\/div>\n
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Shopping with Sienna<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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A much younger Sienna, gettin\u2019 friendly with a mannequin<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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These little mommy milestones continue to surprise and delight me. Today, for the first time ever, Sienna and I are going shopping, just the two of us, just for her. I\u2019m surprised at how excited I am to have some time with my eldest, and how much I\u2019m looking forward to picking out clothes with her, as opposed to picking out clothes for her. I\u2019m also fervently praying that this delightful little trip isn\u2019t ruined by a cranky Sienna meltdown or a cranky Mommy getting irritated.<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/div>\n
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is not having a good life right now. Not only is she approaching the terrible twos (not an exaggeration, in my experience), she\u2019s also not adjusting well to being the middle child, or to not being allowed to eat sugar, mac and cheese, and pizza, plus she\u2019s teething. She spends her time crying, begging to be held, pointing frantically at the fridge and then throwing whatever she\u2019s given on the floor, and crying some more. It\u2019s making our days very exhausting. On the plus side, she has begun to say a few words. Yesterday she mastered \u201ccold\u201d and \u201cshoe\u201d. I was really proud and relieved\u2026I\u2019ve been worrying about both her tiny stature and her lack of speech progression.<\/p>\n

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\nLiam Xavier Bede<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I like to use his full name because it\u2019s a pretty awesome name<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
is a giant among babies. At two and a half months old, he weighs fifteen and a half pounds. His cousin Evangeline weighed seventeen pounds on her first birthday. He wears the same size diapers as Charlotte. He also spends all the time he\u2019s not sleeping or in Mommy or Daddy\u2019s arms propped up in the Boppy pillow on the couch, laughing at the fan. Every time his sisters walk by they smother him with kisses. He\u2019s got a rough life.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Confirmed<\/div>\n
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The Ogre looks like Russell Crowe. What my mom and I have been telling the Ogre for years has been reiterated by one of his students. On the one hand, I like being right. On the other hand, it was a female student, which\u00a0 means I will now be planting little spy cams in the Ogre\u2019s classroom and cubicle and hiring a private detective to follow said female student around and possibly harass her into leaving UNLV\u2026or at least leaving the Ogre\u2019s class.<\/div>\n
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crazy. I\u2019m just pro-actively protecting my family.<\/div>\n
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Speaking of Crazy<\/div>\n
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I ate a boatload of cheese last night. There\u2019s something about shredded cheese that makes it particularly irresistible. I wouldn\u2019t normally eat a half a block of cheese, but when it\u2019s just sitting there, in a neatly grated pile, it feels wrong not to snag a handful or three every time I pass by the plate\u2026which is a lot oftener than I would if there wasn\u2019t a big pile of cheese on it. Strangely, I felt neither sick nor remorseful afterward. I frakking love cheese.<\/div>\n
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Go see Jen <\/a>now, and Happy Halloween and All Saint\u2019s Day!<\/div>\n
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