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		<title>Happiness overload</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had one of the sweetest moments I&#8217;ve had so far as a parent. I was cleaning some things up in the kitchen and bumped my hand and said &#8220;ow!&#8221; Brad asked me what had happened and I said I hurt my hand. Eva, who was playing by herself and didn&#8217;t appear to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eva the Handywoman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the necessities of living in a very small house with a child is that we don&#8217;t allow ourselves to acquire too much needless gear for her. Eva&#8217;s room is too small for anything other than her crib, dresser, rocking chair and one little bookshelf. So we only have a few big toys at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=447</link>
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		<title>NoNoNoNo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video is pretty representative of what Eva&#8217;s like these days. She was playing with the screwdriver trying to disassemble this toy but as soon as I tried to get a video of it, she had other ideas. Because whatever I&#8217;m doing is ten times more interesting than whatever she&#8217;s doing.]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=441</link>
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		<title>Insomnia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things that happened when I got home today was one of my kitchen cabinet doors broke off as I was opening it (gently and normally, I swear). The wood just broke right away from the top hinge and the door stuck out at a crazy angle, held on by only the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=438</link>
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		<title>Life List or To-Do List? You Decide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been fascinated lately with the whole &#8220;Life List&#8221; trend. Popularized by Maggie from Mighty Girl, as far as I can tell, the trend has really taken off in the last couple of years. I&#8217;m conflicted about how I feel about it. On the one hand, I like many of the ideas behind it. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=435</link>
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		<title>The strange new world of parenting a toddler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eva is at a verbal crossroads these days. At 19 months, she&#8217;s been transitioning into the world of sentences. A typical Eva phrase these days is something like this: &#8220;Have it!&#8221; Or &#8220;milk nummy drink more want-it mine!&#8221; They&#8217;re not really sentences, but are instead Eva throwing every applicable word out there in hopes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=433</link>
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		<title>A Day (Off) in the Life of a 14 1/2 Month Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday our day care providers took the day off so that meant I also took the day off and Eva and I spent it together. Since I have clearly missed my 14-month update, I thought it&#8217;d be fun to document our day together so I can look back and see what things were like at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=427</link>
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		<title>Thirteen months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first year of Eva&#8217;s life, I had a weekly ritual of writing the week&#8217;s activities and accomplishments into her baby book, which had 52 pages in which to document the entire first year of her life. Some weeks it was hard to think of things that had happened, and other weeks we ran [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=422</link>
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		<title>Onward, into another year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I now have a one-year-old daughter, which is pretty unfathomable to me. She can say &#8220;hi&#8221;, &#8220;bye&#8221;, &#8220;mama&#8221;, &#8220;daddy&#8221;, &#8220;baby&#8221;, &#8220;no&#8221;, &#8220;puh-puh&#8221; (that means &#8220;puppy&#8221;) and &#8220;buh-buh&#8221; (which means &#8220;button&#8221;) and just this morning I think she started saying &#8220;up&#8221;. She crawls everywhere. She scribbles with her crayons. She dances. She runs all around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=415</link>
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		<title>Eva wuz here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My parents had to patch a section of their sidewalk this weekend and I joked that we should have Eva walk across the wet cement. Apparently, everyone thought it was a great idea. Eva had fun too. She wasn&#8217;t too fazed by the weird feeling of wet cement under her foot. So far, so good. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smattery.com/blog/?p=409</link>
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