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Tim is so dang cute.  He’s really into singing and dancing.  And playing the piano.  He turned 15 months on the 3rd, and I neglected to post a happy fifteen-monthieth post…so here’s my make-up post.

This is the link to the HILARIOUS (ok, so it’s hilarious to me, I’m his Mom.  It will be mildly amusing to the rest of you) video of him playing and singing.  If I was more technologically talented, I could embed this.  But for some reason, it’s not just a simple embedding process.  Even in HTML.  And, since Lloyd is high on cold medicine, I’m afraid a link will have to do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hg9cRLpT1w

Bobbie (the Wondercat) apparently confused her uncles.  She thought today was Unlce Brad’s birthday…when in reality, it is Uncle Brent’s and Alicia’s birthday.  The misfortune lies in her present selection:

Yes, that’s on the floor in our office.  No, I don’t know how she managed to sneak it in.  She’s very crafty.  (For those of you new to bethtastic, hover your computer mouse over the picture to read the caption.)  Fortunately, I have this:

Yes, it does remove rabbit blood from the carpet.  Two thumbs up.

Happy Birthday Uncle Brent and Alicia!!

I have a new favorite cereal. 

I have really liked granola cereals for most my life, but seems I’m sort of picky about them.  I prefer them without raisins or dates.  Not because I don’t like raisins or dates, rather becasue the raisins and dates in granola cereals are usually really tough, and tough raisins are too chewy.  I also prefer my granola with minimal cinnamon.  Again, not because I don’t like cinnamon, but rather because I like to taste the oats and brown sugar, and cinnamon over powers just about everything if there’s too much of it.

Harold’s favorite cereal is Honey Bunches of Oats (with or without Almonds/Strawberrys/Cinnamon clusters).  I eat it once in a while, but my favorite part is the bunches of oats (Tara calls them “the crunchies”), and frankly there just aren’t enough of them…but can you believe it??:

My new favorite! (And for reference…it’s about a million times better than the Kellogg’s granola in the green box.  A million.)

UPDATED TO INCLUDE BLOTCHY BROWN SHIRTS!! 

So, here’s the deal.  For Harold’s Mom and Dad for Christmas, we’re getting together to take family pictures.  His two brothers, their families and the four of us.  We decided that it would be fun to put each of the three families in their own color.  Dean’s family is going to wear burgundy, Dale’s in something yet to be decided (only because I haven’t talked to Tammy about it), and we’re going to wear chocolate brown.

Chocolate brown.  It’s popular.  You would think I could manage to find four chocolate brown shirts that were matching in color, because style didn’t really matter all that much.  But.  No.  Nine stores, seventeen purchased (and returned) shirts, and no.  Enter BRILLIANT plan…

Buy white shirts and DYE THEM!  BRILLIANT!

Turns out, that dying four shirts at once isn’t a good plan.  Splotchy, sort of tye-dy-ie.  Fail.

But all is not lost…the brown was a beautiful chocolate…

I’ll try again.  With new white shirts.  And this time, I’ll dye them one at a time.