At this point Ewan can say any word he wants; you just have to be listening carefully enough to catch it. I heard another word from Ewan today. I was giving him raspberries on his belly and every time I did it he laughed hilariously and then said "Again!"

We bought ants for Ora 5's existing ant farm recently. (The ants die after about 3 months and you have to buy new ones.) However, when the new ones arrived today, they were all dead. Probably got too hot or too cold on the way. Enid contacted the company and they are shipping out new ants today, but Ora is very disaapointed.

Enid took the kids to a place that watches your kids while you do errands today. Ewan took a fall and was holding his arm afterward and was in obvious pain. After watching it for a while Enid took him into Children's Mercy Hospital. The Diagnosis: Nursemaid's Elbow, which Ora 5 had had when he was that age so we are very familiar with it. We were thankful that it wasn't worse.

Through all the biking blog feeds, I found that there is a bicycle ride near my home town on the same weekend that we will be visiting my parents. So we signed up and are looking forward to a nice ride through the hills of Kansas. Yes, there are hills.

Ora 5 has been saving for a green iPod Shuffle for several weeks. So far he has saved $33. (The iPod Shuffle is $50.)Today Apple announced their new iPod Shuffle which is now $70 and has features that are not very kid friendly (back and forward controls move to the headphone cord that Ora has a tendency to chew on). So I went to Apple's site to see if I could still buy a 2nd-generation iPod Shuffle from their refurbished store. They had a silver iPod Shuffle for $30.I called Ora at home (I was at ...

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. MannGood read. The author's main premise is that before Europeans arrived there were many more Indians than were previously believed and that rather than living lightly on the land, they were very sophisticated civilizations that transformed their land to their needs.Although this isn't a popular with some groups who would prefer to see a different view of American Indians, the author does an excellent job of documenting a new view ...