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Our personal nature show.

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lately we (and especially Jessica) have been enjoying watching lots of lots of birds feed at our new bird feeder. Just this morning Jess saw a bird with new markings and raced upstairs to get her bird identification book. "It's a red bellied double necked pistol whipped warbler shmorbler!" She's able to identify each one. It is actually pretty fun to see lots of different kinds of birds outside our window. The birds can empty the entire feeder within a couple days.

Shovel ready.

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Pee report.

Now I realize this isn't something everyone will care about, but Jess and I certainly do! And it's our blog and we can do whatever we want!! Ahhh ha ha ha! so here's a mid-day pee report: https://clients4.google.com/voice/embed/embedPlayer And, purely for your entertainment, here's Google's transcription of the message: "Hey it's me and I'm just calling to say that Louis Pizza Hut again. Hi blessed paper off and just having the leggings approved and a long sleeve shirt, and he's just a walk around for an hour and a half and then I just say, hey, let's try to use the Patti and he said down. I think did so you know that's kinda cool. Alright, I'll talk to you later. Bye."

Snow for breakfast.

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Hugging brothers.

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What our boys like to wear lately.

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Art LOVES his new tights. His preschool teacher dressed both her boys in tights until they were old enough to care (around five) because the don't slip down like socks and they keep the legs and ankles warm on cold days. I also thought he would love a pair of tights because it is FUN to have your whole legs and feet be a new color! And he sure does find them fun. He wanted to wear them to school today without pants over them because he wanted to be able to see them. And when he got home it wasn't long before he was just tight-legged. Here he is doing some serious jumping from the coffee table in his nice, brown tights. Lewis, on the other hand, prefers to wear nothing at all lately. He pulls at his shirt and pants until he gets help removing them. There is a bonus, though - he went to the potty and peed in it today! Not possible had he been wearing pants. He did pee on the floor two times before that, though, so don't be gettin' the potty-training hopes too hi...

Nature Day at mn zoo.

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I woke up today feeling a bit blue. A very cold gray day. But a cold gray nature day, so we bundled the kids up and headed to the zoo. We went through the huge tropics building which is really pretty amazing. And I realized how much seeing green and feeling warm and seeing beautiful animals can perk a fellow up. The kids were entranced throughout, and were even able to watch a scuba fellow feed fish.