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…to briefly quell the fury of the perpetually video-hungry horde.

• Arlie and Audrey, Taking Turns Crying (00:26): Audrey and neighborhood friend Arlie, both five months, take turns pitching fits while Nichole is babysitting.
• Audrey playing, listening to speakerphone (01:18): The Audrometer playing in her Christmas present, a Bright Starts “Around We Go” play-center thingamajig, while her paternal grandparents talk to her on the speakerphone.
• Ma-in-law Cindy’s 50th Birthday Surprise Dinner (01:00): Mother-in-law Cindy walking into the dining room for her 50th b’day dinner in Wi Mother-in-law Cindy walking into the dining room for her 50th b’day dinner in Winter Park, FL …only there were a few more guests present than she was expecting ;) [Ed. note: this clip was taken in a dimly lit restaurant; when uploaded to YouTube, it got even darker (?), so it’s pretty much impossible to make out what’s going on. Sorry :(]

Pictures and a new video — yay! And as if this wasn’t enough (whew) there’s more videos to come…

Audrey pictures from November 2006 Audrey pictures from December 2006 Pictures from my Grandma’s funeral (which was a wonderful family reunion — just what my Grandma would have wanted!) Good friends John & Jessica are having a girl! Pictures from my Dad’s PhD graduation and our Morris mini-Christmas while we were in Auburn

The video clip is of Audrey laughing at Ernie & Zoe (the dogs) wrestling — it’s below the fold or viewable on YouTube.

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Poor Audrometer — she’s gotten her first real cold. Stuffy head, runny nose, cough, fever… the works :( Few things are as heartwrenching as seeing your helpless yet still adorable little girl hacking and struggling to get a breath through her clogged-up teeny-tiny nose …and then smiling when she looks up at your face, just cause you’re there.

To make matters worse, it’s really starting to take it’s toll on The World’s Number One Mom & Wife (aka Nichole) in terms of sleep. Audrey doesn’t sleep for very long (although finally giving her some Children’s Tylenol seems to help), which means that we don’t sleep for very long. Check that: Nichole doesn’t sleep for very long, as she insists on being the one to get up at 4:28 in the AM when Audrey wakes up fussing and hacking, on the grounds that I have to get up and go in to work (”That’s your job..”) and she is supposed to take care of Audrey (”..and this is my job.”) I’ll take over for a while on particularly bad nights, but by and large she’s the pre-dawn trooper. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, now that further evidence is fresh at hand: I don’t deserve such blessings.

And please pray for the Buglet, so she can get to feeling better in time for her very first Christmas!

From my mother’s photo collection and emailed to me today. Her notes:

The larger you make this photo for viewing, the more the impact.

…notice the eyebrows…

And holymoly we have an adorable little girl. But don’t take my word for it ;)

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