Am I missing something?

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Did I miss the boat on hot holiday gift items? Did Baby Einstein puppets suddenly become all the rage? Is there a logical reason why a pig puppet would cost $149.95????

I'm making a puppet theatre for Micah for Christmas. He loves Baby Einstein (still!) so I looked online to find puppets. I was shocked! Then I decided to look at the official Disney website, thinking that I wouldn't be able to find them there since they were so high-priced on Amazon. Maybe they were discontinued. No, they are $7.99 on Disneyshopping.com. What's the deal?

Advent Conspiracy

Many thanks to Karen for posting this. I hope you find this as inspiring as I did!

Random Stories

Ethan came down with a double ear infection yesterday. His fever spiked to 104.5! I'm so glad I had called earlier in the day and scheduled an appointment. Our clinic is open on weekends for urgent care. Its really nice that they have that so you can take your child to see a pediatrician and not some random doc. It also turned out our regular doctor was even working! I love our pediatrician. I love her so much its getting to the point where I might not tell you her name if you live locally. =) It's getting harder to get in to see her. When she examined Ethan she said she hoped he had an ear infection with a fever that high. If he didn't she would want to do more tests--she didn't say it but I suspect spinal tap. Whew, I'm so glad it was just the ears. She had me give him a double dose yesterday evening and by this morning his fever was completely gone! Gotta love Omnicef!

The other day Joel climbed into bed with us in the morning. He was holding Aaron's hand and kissing it. He gave Aaron a big smile. Very sweet moment. Then he reared back and hit Aaron on the mouth as hard as he could! So if you ever come over and Joel wants to wrestle, then you know that he really likes you!

We started a sticker chart for Joel. He is still tantruming and we think he's old enough to be tapering off, especially since his verbal skills are so good. If things don't go how he planned or someone messes with the plan he had in his head he will throw a huge fit. We're working on him verbalizing why he is upset instead of screaming/yelling/crying to get his way. So we told him everyday he didn't throw a fit he would earn a sticker. Once he earned 4 stickers we would have movie night. So tonight we're watching Finding Nemo. I'm sure once we're done with tantrums with Joel it will be just in time for Ethan to start up. Joel started at 15 months.

I just finished You'll Never Nanny in this Town Again by Suzanne Hansen. I found it at the library and thought it looked interesting. Its the memoir of a gal who was a nanny in Hollywood in the late 80s. It was an interesting, quick read but not one that I would recommend. Good for an airplane and you need a mindless book.

Election, smelection

There is a small event happening tomorrow. Maybe you've heard? There is an election going on here in our corner of the world. I'll be glad when its over and I stop getting so much junk mail. Really, does anyone read it? I don't even read it because I just assume its incorrect. Its goes straight in recycling. What a waste of money and resources.

Now for the important perks of voting: free cup of coffee at Starbucks (pun intended)!