Today's updates:

• 22:23 Four-year-old theodicy: "Daddy, does everything in our world have an important job?"

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Today's updates:

• 15:25 Zeke (3), after I warned him about spinning to make himself dizzy: "I LOVE hurting my head. It's FUN. It's, like, terrible but fun."

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Today's updates:

• 10:59 Zeke: "Bugs poop, you know. Every single day. -- Bugs are pooping RIGHT NOW."

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Today's updates:

• 08:26 Zeke (age 3) on the meaning of life, the universe, and everything: "A giant robot is pooping on our world."

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Today's updates:

• 16:58 Zeke (whispering privately to cat): "You stink, little Jimmy, but I don't mind. You're stupid, but I love you anyway. You're the best"

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Today's updates:

• 08:33 Zeke, telling a story: "Then... it happened!" Talia: "Then what happened?" Zeke: "No. Then IT happened."

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Today's updates:

• 18:35 Zeke, while watching a chunk of butter dissolve into a pan of noodles: "Daddy! It looks just like baby Jesus!" I have no idea either.

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Today's updates:

• 09:05 Somehow Zeke seems to have managed to get Raisin Bran onto his shoulder while eating breakfast. That's talent, folks.

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A couple of photos from the last few days

If you are a contact of mine on the photo-printing site Snapfish, you can get prints of any of these (and a bunch more) by going to ReinFamilyPictures.Snapfish.com.

Talia laughing

Collage of Talia laughing (made with Picnik), uploaded 29th November, 2008.

Someday soon I should record her laughing and post it here. It's very enthusiastic. It sort of sounds like she's shouting.

Thanksgiving at Naani and Pop-pop's

Uncle Abie and the kids, uploaded 28th November, 2008.

Here's a snapshot of Zeke (left) and Talia playing with their uncle on the floor. They were very excited to see him (and the rest of the family).

Today's updates:

• 14:04 Z.: "Daddy, we're not held up by the earth, we're held up by ... a giant birthday cake, which is another planet. It's South America!"

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Today's updates:

• 08:35 Zeke, this morning, while rushing to the kitchen table: "I don't want to be late for my hungriness."

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Today's updates:

• 14:34 Zeke, after baking a cake with his mother: "I think the cake doesn't want people to be late to have a bite of it."

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Today's updates:

• 21:06 Q.: "Zeke, what do you want to be for Hallowe'en?" A.: "A toilet in a shark costume."

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Talia

Talia, uploaded 27th October, 2008.

Heather took this with her phone. It doesn't matter what I do -- her pictures are always better than mine.

Today's updates:

• 10:36 Zeke, on walking into the bathroom: "Something stinks in here. Something is FILTH."
• 15:35 Talia peed on the potty yesterday. And on the bathroom floor. Not bad for a 22-month-old.

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"Don't think about your mommy"

Zeke, a few weeks ago, trying to comfort a friend on the way to school:

Don't think about your mommy. And don't think about your daddy. I'm thinking about how nice it is inside our school. And about how nice our teachers are.

Talia has learned a new skill

Sorry for the long silence. There's no especially cogent explanation -- mainly, I don't seem to have collected many very good pictures, and it's only fairly recently that I managed to get my home computer working properly again. Anyhow, though, I intend to begin again, and to show I've turned over a new leaf, here's a nice webcam photo of Talia for you. I have a camera attached to the computer at home, and I was trying to prevail on Talia to do something cute for it. Like, for example, sing. Ordinarily she seems to sing pretty much constantly, except, I guess, when you want to show her off. Her favorite song is the alphabet, but she will repeat almost anything she hears anyone else singing. Anyhow, though, this is all I could get out of her.

Today's updates:

• 21:35 Zeke does some weird acrobatic move and then says, "I learned that from my shadow."
• 21:35 Me, to Zeke: "Was Euan mean to you?" Zeke: "You and me and who?"

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