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[caption id="attachment_1330" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="My sweet boy"][/caption] My poor little Cheetokins... he's gone. He died in my arms. He's gone and he took a piece of me with him. I feel like I can't breathe. I am not prepared to...

[caption id="attachment_1321" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Jack sitting with a scarecrow"][/caption] I love autumn, and October in particular. It's my favorite month of the year. The weather is perfect, and there's always so much fun stuff to...

[caption id="attachment_1277" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Cheeto"][/caption] It hasn't been a good month for Cheeto. A few weeks ago, he started limping, which happens time to time if he jams one of his toenails. It usually improves within...

Both of my nephews spent the night with us this past weekend, though I was quite leery about keeping six-year-old Andrew overnight because of his separation anxiety from his mother. (I keep holding out hope that the expert toddler books are all correct...

[caption id="attachment_1236" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Arden, age 2 1/2"][/caption] Earlier this week, my nephew Arden turned a whopping ELEVEN YEARS OLD. It seems like just a couple years ago when he was a naughty little two year old,...

So today was my 15 year high school reunion. Which I skipped, because there's no way in HELL I'll ever step foot back in Iowa, and NO, I'm not going to talk about it, because FIFTEEN FREAKIN' YEARS?! Are you KIDDING ME?! That means we're five away from 20...

Hope everyone had a Happy Labor Day Weekend! Ours was BUSY. [caption id="attachment_1175" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Jack enjoying the view from Brian's shoulders"][/caption] On Saturday we went up to the Santa-Cali-Gon Festival in...

Today we went back up to Children's Mercy to talk to Dr. Demarco, who is a kidney stone expert. Dr. Gatti the urologist thought there may have been a stone present in Jack's right kidney, so he wanted Dr. Demarco to look over his medical records and...

We have the dumbest cat on the face of the earth. Pismo can scale a 6-foot privacy fence with ease, but a 36" tall baby gate is absolutely insurmountable. [caption id="attachment_905" align="alignnone" width="224" caption="Pismo's...

[caption id="attachment_809" align="alignnone" width="224" caption="Crayons at...