October 27 Blog

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas all!

Thank you all for being a part of our lives.  We love our family and friends dearly and miss those that we don’t see often enough.  We are still tweaking this blog.  Trying to find ways to make it easier to share more in our hectic day to day, and our lazy slacker moments.  So bear with us.  We will settle eventually.  In the meantime we’ll try to keep the tweets up to date and pictures coming.

Love you all!

Have an amazing holiday!

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A word on Twitter.

Yes, it can be THE most obnoxious thing in the world.  But it can also be a great way to keep in touch and feel like you are closer than you are.   So here’s the deal.  Don’t be afraid of Twitter, and if you want to get on the wagon and keep up with the updates and such do this.

Go to Twitter.

Sign up for an account.

If you hate the idea of staying logged on to get updates and such you can get applications like this one to run on your browser while you do other things, they are easy to check and update without sining in or stay glued to the Twitter account.

It’s really easy.  Just follow the instructions.

You can also Tweet and or get updates from your cell phone via Text message.  The instructions are all on Twitter.  (Warning, only so this if you have unlimited messages…as it gets addictive.)

You of course don’t have to do this…but all the cool kids are.

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And the Hilarity Continues!

Elijahs new favorite game has to do with a shower and a cup of cold water.  I’m not sure how it began but now every time he takes a shower he asks for cup after cup of cold water which he will spill on himself and proceed to crack up.  The game can not end without tears unless you have a really good distraction.

It cracks me up what he finds endlessly funny.

Oddly enough it isn’t un-like the game his Grandpa played on us growing up when he would toss a cup of cold water over the shower curtain while we were in it…I don’t remember laughing, but man, he sure did.

Maybe Ijah misunderstood the rules.

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Faceliftoff!

Hello, it’s me, your blog “October 27th.” I just wanted you to know I am feeling very lonely out here in the blogsphere watching all the other blogs zip past me with new and interesting information while I sit and dangle my legs in space, twiddling my dots and dashes, just waiting for someone, ANYONE, to notice me again. Sigh. It is a lonely world out here in the sphere, abandoned, wordless, pictureless. No one visits me anymore!!!!! Can I just ask? What have I done to deserve this?? Did I not get enough hits?? Was I not funny enough, opinionated enough, important enough?? Don’t you LIKE me??? Sniff sniff??? OMG….I have been tweeted and facebooked, and I-phoned away!!!! You love them more than me!! You are the parents!! You’re not supposed to pick favorites!!! Oh no!! Now what?? How will I ever win your favor back??? Change my name? Change my logo? Oh woe is me…okay…really…okay…, I need to get a grip.I will just slowly fade into forgotten blogdom like so many other blogs who tried and failed. Beaten by new technology. DAMN YOU NEW TECHNOLOGY!! Well, this is good-bye then I suppose…it was nice. really. Sob, snort, sniff, bawl, wail, gnash letters, fade into obscurity…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….hiccup.

I received this in my mailbox the other day…I figured I should probably address the situation.  The main thing I want to explain here is that the reason there haven’t been as many posts here is also one of the reasons this blog is around.  Let’s just say our amazing 16 month old boy isn’t a fan of any time Mommy spends on the computer.  So the Tweeting and Facebooking is all usually done on my phone…in very short increments.

Which brings us to our face lift.  We have decided to have October 27th work WITH our constant Twittering and Facebooking and Flickring :)

On Your right you will see the October 27th twitter.  A 24/7 stream of all things Elijah, Sherman, and Amanda!  If you don’t have a twitter account get one :)   And follow us!  This will also save all of my friends from hearing about every fart joke and crazy day Ijah has.  Although some don’t mind, I’m pretty sure others want to slap me, so I put it here instead!  Sherman has access to it too so that is a fun stream of info with the latest kiddo updates!

In the masthead on your right you will see new pictures!  Updated regularly changing occasionally!  If you hover over it you will see an option to click through the photos, and if you click on it it will tak you to our Flick r stream!  YAYAYAYAY pictures!

I’ll still post posts, and videos, and all sorts of great stuff, BUT the main thing here is that I can give updates and happy other things through my phone so the kiddo doesn’t try to chew my leg off as I write a witty tale about his resent visit to the hospital.

So, check it out.

Stick with us.

And get with the times!  Twitter and Facebook are your friends!  Sign up and stay in touch!  (It’s not just for the kids you know)

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Finger Paints! and Technology!

It was recently brought to my attention that we hadn’t posted here…sorry…we’ll get back in the swing.

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Alert.

I’m just letting everyone know that the next time you see Ijah he may be close to invisible because he doesn’t eat. I tell him a baby can’t live off milk and fruit alone and he scowls at me as he shoved another peach in his mouth.

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Pepople watching.

iJah and I did a playground tour today, two lakes, two playgrounds.  We had lunch on the road and just swan through the humidity.  I notice a few things.  He watches the other kids, but wont run right up to them.  He observes the crowd rather than working in it.  He shares when someone is near and reacts well to hair pulling.

He may seem shy but I think he likes to skope things out first.  I get that, I really do.  And a lot of the time I’d rather play inthe mud and watch the crowd than really dig into the gossip too.

I guess we are more alike then we may think.

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I'm a sucker.

Knowing that where there is candy there is drama I still can’t help but let Ijah take a sucker when he is offered one at the store…I have the same thing with balloons.

After explaining to him that no, she wasn’t giving him the whole basket, Ijah grabbed a nice red sucker for the ride home.

Now at first I left the wrapper on and he was fairly content chewing and playing with that, but I had a “oh, what the hell” moment and unwrapped it for him.

Things were going quite well at first, happy drooly kiddo.  But as his enthusiasm grew so did his frustration.  He wanted the candy, he did not want the stick.  Knowing this could end poorly (for example an emergency pulling over as I extract both sucker and stick from a stuck kiddos mouth), I bit the bullet and told him he was all done and took it away.

I know…I took candy from a baby…believe me, he let me know too.  Eventually was was forgiven.  I was just proud that I caught (most) of the antics in photos.

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So it begins…

coverTheShepherdsDogElijah and I have diverged.  For the most part he’s as much a dad-clone as any dad can hope for, but we’ve begun to have differences that are currently amusing and which will eventually be, well, bigger.

Elijah likes to dance.  This has been well documented.  But he’s starting to choose music that I’m not a fan of.  For instance: I LOVE Iron and Wine and for the most part, he ignores it.  But when track 7 – wolves – comes on, he starts dancing.

It’s my least favorite song on the whole album and he gets this grin and starts moving.  I can only see this getting worse with age.

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Busy with stuff.

Ijah is getting to that age where he is more apt to play with stuff the “right” way…for example, crayons and cardboard boxes…

Now if I could pry him off my leg and get him to eat we’d be having real fun :)

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