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Posts made in April, 2009
We noticed that Aiden was not speaking well after his first birthday. We contacted First Steps for speech therapy when he was eighteen months old. It was then brought to our attention that he may have childhood apraxia. Shortly after his second birthday, we enrolled him at the Ludden Speech Clinic at St. Xavier University. ...
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The last time that I went to the dentist, they asked me to draw from a raffle. I pulled out a folded piece of paper from a small box. Unfolding it, I read out loud, “I got zoom”. They were very excited. I wasn’t sure why. It turns out that Zoom is their professional teeth whitening service, and I had just...
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I might be the most tragically unhip person on Earth. I just don’t jump on the bandwagon with everyone else. I dig the social media, however. I love Twitter and I make Flickr updates almost daily. But it took me a while to warm up to the idea of starting a Facebook account. Too trendy, not very useful, not my...
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For the last several years, Chrissy and I have invited my family over to our house for Easter. My mom’s side of the family is growing pretty steadily. For a while there, it seemed like we were having babies every six months or so (Gavin being the last so far). We have plenty of room, so having everyone over for the...
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I use Twitter a lot. So, when Chrissy and I got iPhones, one of the first applications that I downloaded was a Twitter client. There are quite a few out there, even though most of them only give the “crippleware” versions for free. I started out with the free version of Twittelator, but it wasn’t satisfying...
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Chrissy took the boys to the photographer again today for their Easter photos. This was a continuation of last week’s appointment, where Gavin cried the entire time. It was just as well that the last session ended early, since Gavin was in a much better mood today. Luckily, the photographer saved last week’s photos...
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We took the kids to the local high school for an Easter Breakfast last weekend. Every year, the high school hosts an event for the kids in the town and various costumed characters show up. This year, in addition to the Easter Bunny, we saw Spiderman, Spongebob Squarepants, the Railcats mascot, Zesty the Lemon, Barbie and...
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The internet April Fool’s Day joke has become something of an institution. Every year, internet sites put on some interesting hoaxes. Some of them managed to anger some people, but most of them were very entertaining. Here are some of my favorites from this year.
Last year, YouTube purposefully RickRolled its own...
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