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Well, I think I’ll attempt to keep up with the news here.  That way I won’t feel pressured to update everything else at the same time (although this iWeb thing is so wonderful and easy, I might anyway!). Maybe it will help me remember some funny things the kids (or hubby) did.  Wish me luck.
 


Thursday, August 3, 2006
Jamish and Bellanese

Those are the languages my children speak.  As soon as I got fluent in Bellanese, I had a whole new language to learn with James.  There’s a lot of overlap, but there are some new terms we’ve learned.  For example, Eeya-dah-wah is Isabella in Jamish, whereas in Bellanese it was Eeya-beya.  It’s a 
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Isabella Sings

Raindrops sing
Every time
Snow starts to fall
      (copyright Isabella Verratti 2006, just in case)

A song she made up and started singing in the shower this afternoon.  We may have to start recording her.  If we do, we’ll put it up here for your enjoyment.

Oh, and by the way,  we got a second 
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
My car has cancer

Well, that’s how the service rep described it, anyway.  Apparently, while the engine and everything else on my ’99 4Runner look really good, especially for over 100k miles, the undercarriage looks like it’s been sitting in Boston Harbor for the past year.  The rust, while not really any worse than 
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Monday, July 10, 2006
Childhood Magic

The simplicity of the things that fascinate kids never ceases to amaze me.

Isabella just came into the kitchen wielding a long strip of toilet paper.  “Mommy, you have GOT to see this!”  She then proceeded through a long, drawn out demonstration of folding the TP back and forth (“You fold it over 
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Friday, July 7, 2006
Close examination

I hate it when my kids are sick.  James has got something weird going on that is defying diagnosis.  Screams of pain in the middle of the night, stomach and leg pain (or so he says), little grunts of pain with each breath, 101 fever.  Unlike his sister, James is not one of those cry-at-every-
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