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Miss G, April 2008

This was taken on the way to her kindergarten graduation. It's shocking how much she's changed in a year and a half.

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I doctored this one to give a background that didn't show a distracting background.

Sesame Street Turns 40

It's hard for me to believe Sesame Street and I are only a couple years apart in age. I can't remember a world without Big Bird or Burt and Ernie. My mom told me that when I was little I had a special chair for watching Sesame Street. When I had kids of my own, we had an off and on relationship with the show. Now that our very youngest are able to get something out of it, it's a large part of our daily routine.

I won't write a tribute, there are many around the Internet and we don't need another one. But it's such a huge part of who I am that I needed to mention it.

The show has changed an amazing amount in 40 years. It still teaches the ABCs and 123s, with some bilingual lessons here and there. It's also managed to change with the times, staying entertaining and relevant to compete with the huge bombardment of television our children are exposed to today. When I watched it, it was on one of 3, maybe 4 channels. The other ran soap operas or news programs in the same time slot. Now it's up against who knows how much other stuff on who knows how many channels, not to mention DVDs and video games and so on.

Now, sing along with me! "One, two, three. Four, five, six. Seven, eight, nine. Ten, eleven, twelve. And they all played games... at the Lady Bug Picnic!"

Daily Cute Two-fer

I was flipping through pictures and was struck by the similarity between these two.

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I've probably posted this one a couple times before, but this one is a new version - a little cleaner, a little more pop. This was taken at an earth-day program last year.

Trucks

This one is about 2 years old, taken shortly after we moved. He loves the fact that our yard is like one big sandbox.

A Daily Cute

It's been a while since I've done "Daily Cuteness" pictures. My plan was to scan some old ones in, but I haven't gotten to it yet. But here's one from a couple years ago.

not a bad one

He looks almost angelic, doesn't he?