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		<title>The Chase Is On. (A Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Remember <a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/11/17/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-115-a-video/">this video</a> from a couple of years ago? I have a new one in the same vein. Unfortunately, I cut off the end somehow, but this is how it goes every night lately around these parts.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember <a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/11/17/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-115-a-video/">this video</a> from a couple of years ago? I have a new one in the same vein. Unfortunately, I cut off the end somehow, but this is how it goes every night lately around these parts.</p>
<p>These are my boys:</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s another one:</p>
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<p>Rest assured, Murray still gets to chase Em around as well. No one here will ever forget about Murray even if Murray <em>wants</em> us to forget about Murray. He&#8217;s a VERY popular kitty cat these days.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/06/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-129-murray-scares-emory-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 129) Murray Scares Emory. A Video. (April 6, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 129) Murray Scares Emory. A Video.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/03/23/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-128-a-new-diet/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 128) A New Diet. (March 23, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 128) A New Diet.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/12/15/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-119-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 119 (A Video) (December 15, 2009)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 119 (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/10/28/wanna-see-my-kid-eat-dirt/" title="Wanna See My Kid Eat Dirt? (October 28, 2009)">Wanna See My Kid Eat Dirt?</a></li>
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		<title>Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 132) A Video.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/27/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-132-a-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>(Warning: Music and a whole lotta awesome.)</p><p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=8ee7f4295d&#038;photo_id=4557819487&#038;hd_default=false"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=8ee7f4295d&#038;photo_id=4557819487&#038;hd_default=false" height="225" width="400"></embed></object></center></p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/27/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-132-a-video/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Warning: Music and a whole lotta awesome.)</p>
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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/12/28/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-143-micro-transcations/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations! (December 28, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations!</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/11/02/nablopomo-tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-142-his-feline-friends/" title="NaBloPoMo: Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 142). His Feline Friends. (November 2, 2010)">NaBloPoMo: Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 142). His Feline Friends.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/10/12/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-141/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 141) (October 12, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 141)</a></li>
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		<title>Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 129) Murray Scares Emory. A Video.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/06/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-129-murray-scares-emory-a-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Emory and Murray have become even closer, something I didn&#8217;t think was possible. Yet. Here we are. I am often too late at filming their interactions because I&#8217;m usually too busy enjoying them to run for the camera—I don&#8217;t want to miss anything! But I&#8217;m trying to have it more handy. We&#8217;ll see!</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/06/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-129-murray-scares-emory-a-video/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Emory and Murray have become even closer, something I didn&#8217;t think was possible. Yet. Here we are. I am often too late at filming their interactions because I&#8217;m usually too busy enjoying them to run for the camera—I don&#8217;t want to miss anything! But I&#8217;m trying to have it more handy. We&#8217;ll see!</p>
<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a short video that <em>might</em> give you an idea of how much Murray actually <em>plays</em> with Emory—toys with him. I hope you enjoy it!</p>
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<p>I love how nonchalant Murray is at first. And then he hides as if he&#8217;s scared and then BAM! It&#8217;s an all out run! Every time Emory watches this back he cackles. </p>
<p>Kids + animals = world of awesome. </p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/12/28/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-143-micro-transcations/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations! (December 28, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations!</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/11/02/nablopomo-tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-142-his-feline-friends/" title="NaBloPoMo: Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 142). His Feline Friends. (November 2, 2010)">NaBloPoMo: Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 142). His Feline Friends.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/10/12/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-141/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 141) (October 12, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 141)</a></li>
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		<title>Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 128) A New Diet.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2010/03/23/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-128-a-new-diet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We got a new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Pocket-Video-Camera-Black/dp/B002HOPUPC">Kodak HD Zi8</a> so I decided to give it a try today. In typical Michele fashion, I haven&#8217;t read the directions and probably won&#8217;t. But I reckon I&#8217;ll figure out how to use it eventually. Anyway, here&#8217;s a short (uneventful) video of how Emory often feeds Murray (and others) at dinner time. Bon appetite!</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/03/23/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-128-a-new-diet/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We got a new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Pocket-Video-Camera-Black/dp/B002HOPUPC">Kodak HD Zi8</a> so I decided to give it a try today. In typical Michele fashion, I haven&#8217;t read the directions and probably won&#8217;t. But I reckon I&#8217;ll figure out how to use it eventually. Anyway, here&#8217;s a short (uneventful) video of how Emory often feeds Murray (and others) at dinner time. Bon appetite!</p>
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<p>In other news, forgive me for not updating YET AGAIN I got bitten by the inspiration bee recently and have been busying myself to try and get this new adventure up and running. Rest assured, once it&#8217;s complete (any day now!) mihow.com will be the first to know. Yay, projects! Yay, inspiration! Boo, lack of updates. Boo, me. More soon! I promise!</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/12/28/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-143-micro-transcations/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations! (December 28, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations!</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/12/02/the-night-terrors-continue/" title="The Night Terrors Continue (December 2, 2010)">The Night Terrors Continue</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/11/02/nablopomo-tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-142-his-feline-friends/" title="NaBloPoMo: Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 142). His Feline Friends. (November 2, 2010)">NaBloPoMo: Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 142). His Feline Friends.</a></li>
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		<title>Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 119 (A Video)</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/12/15/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-119-a-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I watched this video today and realized that from an outsider&#8217;s point of view, it&#8217;s a little sad. Hell, it even makes <em>me</em> a little sad and I know the truth, which is that 9 times out of 10, Emory wants Murray to do something and Murray does it and everyone is happy.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/12/15/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-119-a-video/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I watched this video today and realized that from an outsider&#8217;s point of view, it&#8217;s a little sad. Hell, it even makes <em>me</em> a little sad and I know the truth, which is that 9 times out of 10, Emory wants Murray to do something and Murray does it and everyone is happy.</p>
<p>But then I started to imagine a grown up (and slightly sarcastic) Emory watching this and saying, &#8220;Oh, great. The only friend I had when I was little was a cat and even he wouldn&#8217;t play with me. Thanks, guys.&#8221; But I picture my younger brother&#8217;s voice in this imaginary conversation because my brother Ryan is the king of sarcasm and would totally say something like that to my mother. This is the same brother who recently taught my 2-year-old to say, &#8220;Oh my. Life is so hard.&#8221; And my son says this so full of lament, you&#8217;d have guessed him to be an old man who has spent his entire life working in a coal mine, supporting a family of five living in a Brooklyn, three-floor walk-up right near the sewage treatment plant. (There are coal mines in Brooklyn, right?)</p>
<p>Actually, that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s going to say to us whenever he&#8217;s older and watches this video: &#8220;Oh my. Life is so hard.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Life can be hard sometimes, Emory. But it&#8217;s so worth it.</p>
<p>Also: Don&#8217;t believe anything Uncle Ryan tells you.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/12/28/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-143-micro-transcations/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations! (December 28, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 143) Micro-TransCations!</a></li>
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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/10/12/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-141/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 141) (October 12, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 141)</a></li>
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		<title>Wanna See My Kid Eat Dirt?</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/10/28/wanna-see-my-kid-eat-dirt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Friends of ours visited last weekend. We met them for brunch and then we hit the playground because that&#8217;s what all the cool kids do after brunch. While there, something came over my son. I&#8217;m not sure if he was trying to show off for <a href="http://yougrowgirl.com/">Gayla</a> or what. But he started to imitate Cookie Monster. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gayla/4048148181/">Here&#8217;s the video</a>.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/10/28/wanna-see-my-kid-eat-dirt/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friends of ours visited last weekend. We met them for brunch and then we hit the playground because that&#8217;s what all the cool kids do after brunch. While there, something came over my son. I&#8217;m not sure if he was trying to show off for <a href="http://yougrowgirl.com/">Gayla</a> or what. But he started to imitate Cookie Monster. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gayla/4048148181/">Here&#8217;s the video</a>.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s done this before, just not with dirt.</p>
<p>Thoughts on ways to let him know that eating dirt isn&#8217;t how you pick up girls?</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/12/02/the-night-terrors-continue/" title="The Night Terrors Continue (December 2, 2010)">The Night Terrors Continue</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/10/29/halloween-2010/" title="Halloween 2010. (October 29, 2010)">Halloween 2010.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/10/29/it-could-be-worse-2/" title="It Could Be Worse&#8230; (October 29, 2010)">It Could Be Worse&#8230;</a></li>
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		<title>Paper Towels! (Tuesdays With Murray ch:104)</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/08/11/paper-towels-twm-104/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Murray has a thing for paper towels. We have no idea why. </p><p><a href="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2009/08/Murray_Towels.jpg"><img src="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2009/08/Murray_Towels.jpg" alt="Murray_Towels" title="Murray_Towels" width="575" height="385" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-34192" /></a></p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/08/11/paper-towels-twm-104/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Murray has a thing for paper towels. We have no idea why. </p>
<p><a href="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2009/08/Murray_Towels.jpg"><img src="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2009/08/Murray_Towels.jpg" alt="Murray_Towels" title="Murray_Towels" width="575" height="385" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-34192" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a mighty good thing it&#8217;s adorable otherwise we might stop him more often. But we can&#8217;t. I have decided that he does this because it comforts him, like maybe they used paper towels in his cage when he was a kitten? I have no idea. It&#8217;s the same thing every time. He hops up onto the counter, rummages around for a bit and creates a little nest using his front paws. Adorable, right? Totally.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I haven&#8217;t caught him in the act on video yet, but I did get the aftermath last night. Here&#8217;s a video of what usually ends up happening after he makes himself a bed on the countertop. </p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=c62600e083&#038;photo_id=3811498710"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=c62600e083&#038;photo_id=3811498710" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>This is just one more thing that makes Murray awesome and adorable. </p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
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		<title>What Lies Below (TWM 103)</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/08/04/what-lies-below-twm-103/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re away for the week, trying to get our heads in a better place. My brother and his girlfriend are staying at our place in Brooklyn so they have been tasked with taking care of our fatties.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/08/04/what-lies-below-twm-103/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re away for the week, trying to get our heads in a better place. My brother and his girlfriend are staying at our place in Brooklyn so they have been tasked with taking care of our fatties.</p>
<p>The road to feeling normal again is proving to be a slow and rather hilly one. I go hours and hours where everything is fine and then BAM! something completely random triggers the anxiety or sorrow and <a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/07/27/my-miscarriag/">I&#8217;m  a mess all over again</a>. But I am healing. I went a whole <em>three days</em> without crying, which is pretty amazing for me.</p>
<p>On one particularly difficult day, I missed Murray something fierce. So I wrote to my brother and told him I needed to see the little guy as soon as possible. We received a video within hours. And even though I never actually got to <em>see</em> Murray, the video cheered me up. This is a regular occurrence at our house.</p>
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<p>I hope you enjoy it too!</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
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		<title>Emory On So You Think You Can Dance.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/06/12/emory-on-so-you-think-you-can-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post called <a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/05/06/please-dont-blush/">Please Don&#8217;t Blush</a> about how Emory had become self-conscious and stopped dancing. I have good news! My boy is back.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/06/12/emory-on-so-you-think-you-can-dance/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post called <a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/05/06/please-dont-blush/">Please Don&#8217;t Blush</a> about how Emory had become self-conscious and stopped dancing. I have good news! My boy is back.</p>
<p>The video below was taken yesterday while showing my mother a few dance numbers from Wednesday&#8217;s <a href="http://www.fox.com/dance/">So You Think You Can Dance</a>. One of the numbers was a hip hop routine and it turned Emory into a dancing machine. (His second favorite was the Bollywood routine.)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I was too busy smiling from ear-to-ear, basking in the joy of my son&#8217;s return to dance to film his first attempt. But he wanted more! So I got it the second time around. He&#8217;s a little tired in this one, but it&#8217;s still awesome. And I am so happy my son is dancing again.</p>
<p><center><object width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=cda82268b4&amp;photo_id=3618813399" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></center></p>
<p>A few things to note: He&#8217;s watching <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YgMI2gdWs&amp;eurl=http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&amp;q=Paris Torres &amp; Tony Bellissimo&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wv&amp;feature=player_embedded">this routine</a>. And he was really trying to emulate their moves. For example, when he comes at me, he&#8217;s acting out what the dancers are doing. And whenever he grabs the sides of his head, the dancers are messing with headphones. For those of you who may have seen this, you&#8217;ll probably (albeit loosely) follow his smooth moves. :]</p>
<p>The baseball bat? Entirely his own addition.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/13/youth-2/" title="The First Board. (December 13, 2011)">The First Board.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
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		<title>A Video Of My Son Singing.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/05/13/a-video-of-my-son-singing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A few things about this video:</p><ol><li>Yes, he&#8217;s playing with Q-tips. I don&#8217;t have an excuse to give you for that. </li><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/05/13/a-video-of-my-son-singing/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few things about this video:</p>
<ol>
<li>Yes, he&#8217;s playing with Q-tips. I don&#8217;t have an excuse to give you for that. </li>
<li>&#8220;Mumu&#8221; is Pookum, which is funny because if she could, she would definitely wear a mumu.</li>
<li>The song he&#8217;s singing is &#8220;The Goodbye Song&#8221; they sing at school. He loves it. </li>
</ol>
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<p>(Do people like this sort of thing? Or does it border on that-one-annoying-coworker-that-sends-out-too-many-emailed-pictures-around-of-their-kids?)</p>

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		<title>Cupcake! WOW!</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/04/24/cupcake-wow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been baking cupcakes for Monday&#8217;s <a href="http://mihow.com/tags/mom-it-down/">Mom It Down</a>. I&#8217;m learning stuff, perfecting stuff by simplifying it as much as I can. In doing so, I have had quite a few cupcakes around lately. This is what happens when Emory realizes there are cupcakes in the house.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/04/24/cupcake-wow/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been baking cupcakes for Monday&#8217;s <a href="http://mihow.com/tags/mom-it-down/">Mom It Down</a>. I&#8217;m learning stuff, perfecting stuff by simplifying it as much as I can. In doing so, I have had quite a few cupcakes around lately. This is what happens when Emory realizes there are cupcakes in the house.</p>
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 <br />
And we&#8217;re not sure where this technique originated, my guess is at school. But it&#8217;s awesome. He pretend eats stuff and then uses his hands to show it moving down into his belly. </p>
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<p>Last, but not least, today is not only Pony Day at school, but costume day as well. Look at mommy&#8217;s little Chelsea soccer player!</p>
<p><a href="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2009/04/em_soccer.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-33033" title="em_soccer" src="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2009/04/em_soccer.jpg" alt="em_soccer" width="400" height="597" /></a></p>
<p>Happy Friday, my friends.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/13/youth-2/" title="The First Board. (December 13, 2011)">The First Board.</a></li>
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		<title>Datadoo!</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/04/15/dabadadoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A few weeks ago, we had a parent-teacher conference at Em&#8217;s preschool. He was 19-months-old at the time and I assure you, the absurdity here does not escape me. But this is the sort of thing that happens when you combine over-achieving, uppity parents with bloated, private school tuitions. They come up with parent-teacher conferences where terms like &#8220;fine motor skills&#8221; and &#8220;sensory stimuli&#8221; are used in place of &#8220;he mashed Play-Doh&#8221; or &#8220;we found him digging through the trash.&#8221;</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/04/15/dabadadoo/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few weeks ago, we had a parent-teacher conference at Em&#8217;s preschool. He was 19-months-old at the time and I assure you, the absurdity here does not escape me. But this is the sort of thing that happens when you combine over-achieving, uppity parents with bloated, private school tuitions. They come up with parent-teacher conferences where terms like &#8220;fine motor skills&#8221; and &#8220;sensory stimuli&#8221; are used in place of &#8220;he mashed Play-Doh&#8221; or &#8220;we found him digging through the trash.&#8221;</p>
<p>Naturally, I got myself worked up over this meeting. When I was a kid, parent-teacher conferences usually didn&#8217;t include the part about how awesome I was.</p>
<p>&#8220;Aren&#8217;t you nervous?&#8221; I asked Toby Joe on the walk over.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why should I be nervous?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Because <em>this</em> is a <em>teacher-parent</em> conference.&#8221; Like that answer alone would sum up years worth of my getting into trouble. &#8220;Oh, I forgot, you were an honorable student.&#8221;</p>
<p>Em&#8217;s teachers started off by saying how great he is. And I&#8217;m surprised when the tell me that he doesn&#8217;t kick them in the guts and face when they&#8217;re changing his diaper. And I&#8217;m surprised to find out that he listens to them—all of them.</p>
<p>Then we move on to goals.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to work on his pronunciation.&#8221;</p>
<p>They had to come up with <em>something</em> attainable for a 19-month-old, suggesting he find Higgs boson is setting the kid up for failure. </p>
<p>&#8220;Is there something we can do to help?&#8221; I asked. </p>
<p>&#8220;Just repeat things to him—clearly.&#8221;</p>
<p>Toby and I looked at one another and had one of those silent conversations couples tend to have. Then he continued.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, I realize that the word &#8216;paci&#8217; is already a bastardization of another word, but what you&#8217;re saying is we shouldn&#8217;t find <em>his</em> pronunciation more charming than the real one. So using &#8216;bappy&#8217; instead of &#8216;paci&#8217; is doing nothing to help him when it comes to pronunciation.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not like they were suggesting that he&#8217;s slow or anything. I know they were just doing their job—possibly too well considering the age group. And I&#8217;m not at all surprised given the pressure they get from some parents. But we aren&#8217;t those parents. </p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not giving up bappy.&#8221; I said. &#8220;It&#8217;s <em>way</em> better than paci. And I&#8217;m not ready to give up datadoo either.&#8221;</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m certain, that after you&#8217;ve seen this video, you&#8217;ll agree.</p>
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<p>Datadoo is going to be hard to let go of. </p>

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		<title>My Son Loves The Vacuum.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/03/02/my-son-loves-the-vacuum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I have no idea how this happened, but Em <em>love</em>s the vacuum. He treats it like a pet. He requests I take it out of the closet at least once per day, which is kind of sad considering he might think we keep a pet in the closet. He likes the Dyson so much, he throws starts crying whenever it has to go &#8220;night night&#8221;. (I swear I didn&#8217;t start personifying the vacuum until <strong>after</strong> he developed an attachment to it.)</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/03/02/my-son-loves-the-vacuum/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have no idea how this happened, but Em <em>love</em>s the vacuum. He treats it like a pet. He requests I take it out of the closet at least once per day, which is kind of sad considering he might think we keep a pet in the closet. He likes the Dyson so much, he throws starts crying whenever it has to go &#8220;night night&#8221;. (I swear I didn&#8217;t start personifying the vacuum until <strong>after</strong> he developed an attachment to it.)</p>
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<p>Babies are weird.</p>

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		<title>Emory Is Actually An Old Polish Man</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2009/01/08/emory-is-actually-an-old-polish-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This is how Emory reacts to the hammering taking place on the floor above. We have no idea where he got this from. But it totally reminds me of our previous neighbors and their pipe-banging antics.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/01/08/emory-is-actually-an-old-polish-man/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is how Emory reacts to the hammering taking place on the floor above. We have no idea where he got this from. But it totally reminds me of our previous neighbors and their pipe-banging antics.</p>
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<p>My favorite part is where Toby Joe says, &#8220;STOP IT!&#8221; and Emory laughs, like, dude, that&#8217;s <span class="caps">SO NOT THE WAY THIS IS DONE</span>!</p>

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		<title>Em Dancin&#8217; To Ted Leo.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/11/05/em-dancin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Emory dances a lot. He has two dances. The first one (which we can&#8217;t seem to capture on video) is by far my favorite. He shakes his head really fast from side to side until he gets dizzy and falls down. It&#8217;s truly one of the most outstanding things you&#8217;ll ever witness.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/11/05/em-dancin/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Emory dances a lot. He has two dances. The first one (which we can&#8217;t seem to capture on video) is by far my favorite. He shakes his head really fast from side to side until he gets dizzy and falls down. It&#8217;s truly one of the most outstanding things you&#8217;ll ever witness.</p>
<p>The video I have for you today features his <em>other</em> dance. This one is a little easier to capture because it lasts longer (since he doesn&#8217;t get dizzy right away). I love this one as well.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m two parts melancholy, three parts joyful today, so I thought this might be a perfect way to express as much. (You may watch Ted Leo play the song live <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYzpuRSslCk">here</a>.)</p>

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		<title>CNN Outside Lehman Brothers Headquarters.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/09/15/cnn-video-outside-lehman-brothers-headquarters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Forgive me for the horrible quality of this video. I don&#8217;t have the fancy equipment needed to do this. Plus, our TV died last week, so we&#8217;re using the 70-dollar tube we purchased from a Radio Shack in San Francisco. But it&#8217;s clear enough that I think you&#8217;ll get the point.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/09/15/cnn-video-outside-lehman-brothers-headquarters/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forgive me for the horrible quality of this video. I don&#8217;t have the fancy equipment needed to do this. Plus, our TV died last week, so we&#8217;re using the 70-dollar tube we purchased from a Radio Shack in San Francisco. But it&#8217;s clear enough that I think you&#8217;ll get the point.</p>
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<p>The United States woke up with a wicked financial hangover today. But I&#8217;m happy to see that at least these two guys are enjoying themselves. The nipple slurping is particularly unsettling.</p>

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		<title>Finding Comfort</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a while. I have no excuse. The sounds you hear are of Em in the background playing with Tupperware, his new favorite toy.</p>
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<p>(This is video for a series called <a href="http://mihow.com/stories-for-my-son">Stories For My Son</a>.)</p>
<p>Below is a video showing how Em uses the orange pillow, which is precisely how he acted with the woman from the story above.</p>
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		<title>The Goiker</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/05/21/the-goiker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I shot two videos today. The second one is an outtake. I simply <em>had</em> to include it because it&#8217;s damn funny.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/05/21/the-goiker/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I shot two videos today. The second one is an outtake. I simply <em>had</em> to include it because it&#8217;s damn funny.</p>
<p><strong>The Final Video</strong></p>
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<p><strong>The Outtake</strong></p>
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<p>I have to admit, recording these videos makes me feel entirely too self conscious. And if they&#8217;re difficult for me to watch, I can&#8217;t imagine how hard it is for the people I know (or don&#8217;t know). Or maybe this is just one of those examples where you&#8217;re overly critical of everything—like hearing your own voice on tape? Nevertheless, because of that weird feeling, they are really difficult for me to shoot knowing that I&#8217;ll put them online. I keep wondering how different and/or better or worse they&#8217;d be if I didn&#8217;t have the public part in mind. You see my dilemma?</p>
<p>Anyway, we&#8217;ll see. This project is still new and therefore being sculpted.</p>

	<h4>Related posts:</h4>
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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/12/02/the-night-terrors-continue/" title="The Night Terrors Continue (December 2, 2010)">The Night Terrors Continue</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/10/29/halloween-2010/" title="Halloween 2010. (October 29, 2010)">Halloween 2010.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/10/29/it-could-be-worse-2/" title="It Could Be Worse&#8230; (October 29, 2010)">It Could Be Worse&#8230;</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/07/17/on-soccer-camp/" title="On Soccer Camp. (July 17, 2010)">On Soccer Camp.</a></li>
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		<title>There Will Be Whiskey.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/05/14/there-will-be-whiskey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 03:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mihow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Today has been the longest day of my life. Maybe.</p><p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&#38;photo_secret=d807179b2b&#38;photo_id=2493487568"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&#38;photo_secret=d807179b2b&#38;photo_id=2493487568" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/05/14/there-will-be-whiskey/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today has been the longest day of my life. Maybe.</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=d807179b2b&amp;photo_id=2493487568"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=d807179b2b&amp;photo_id=2493487568" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>I realize I say &#8220;I haven&#8217;t been able to record a video today&#8221; and I&#8217;m saying as much <em>on a video</em>. I don&#8217;t have much of a rational mind left today. What more can I say. No excuse. Simple truth.</p>
<p>(See previous Stories For My Son <a href="http://mihow.com/stories-for-my-son">here</a>.)</p>

	<h4>Related posts:</h4>
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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/27/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-132-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 132) A Video. (April 27, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 132) A Video.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/06/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-129-murray-scares-emory-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 129) Murray Scares Emory. A Video. (April 6, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 129) Murray Scares Emory. A Video.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/03/23/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-128-a-new-diet/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 128) A New Diet. (March 23, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 128) A New Diet.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/12/15/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-119-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 119 (A Video) (December 15, 2009)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 119 (A Video)</a></li>
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		<title>Fudgepacking Happiness.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/05/07/fudge-packs-and-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 23:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=958849&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=958849&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" /></object></center></p>
<p>(Note to self: You know what&#8217;s funny about this one? This is the first video you took telling that particular story and when you totally derailed yourself midway through you went on to take a few more. Yet, after watching them all, you settled on this one because it&#8217;s more you and Emory will most likely appreciate that part someday—mistakes, fudgepacks and all. &#8220;Mama? What&#8217;s fudgepack?&#8221;)</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2012/01/06/what-i-learned-from-rolling-paper/" title="What I Learned From Rolling Paper. (January 6, 2012)">What I Learned From Rolling Paper.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/13/youth-2/" title="The First Board. (December 13, 2011)">The First Board.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/11/18/the-penn-state-thing/" title="The Penn State Thing (November 18, 2011)">The Penn State Thing</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/10/27/chronic-urtcaria/" title="The Seven Year Itch (October 27, 2011)">The Seven Year Itch</a></li>
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		<title>The Flip</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/05/06/the-flip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Tobyjoe gave me an early (first ever!) Mother&#8217;s Day present on Saturday. I now own <a href="http://www.theflip.com/">The Flip</a>. I am in love with it. I feel the same way about it that I felt about my Elph back in 2001 when I took pictures of <em>everything</em> and nothing.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/05/06/the-flip/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tobyjoe gave me an early (first ever!) Mother&#8217;s Day present on Saturday. I now own <a href="http://www.theflip.com/">The Flip</a>. I am in love with it. I feel the same way about it that I felt about my Elph back in 2001 when I took pictures of <em>everything</em> and nothing.</p>
<p>Here are a few of my first, not so major motion pictures.</p>
<p>First I give you Emory&#8217;s new weird baby thing: Banging his head on his highchair! (Seriously? This would have worried me if it hadn&#8217;t been for an offhanded comment my mother made. She said, &#8220;Soon he&#8217;ll enter the head banging phase. I remember when you three did that.&#8221; And then he did.)</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=a1f63e3dcb&amp;photo_id=2471050957"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=a1f63e3dcb&amp;photo_id=2471050957" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>Babies are weird.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s one I took while walking through McCarren Park on Sunday. Whenever it warms up, McCarren Park turns into a beer guzzling, hipsterfest on Sundays. I think it has to do with the kickball leagues. And if the breeze blows just right, you can smell the VD in the air. MmmmmmmMMMMmmm VeeeeeeDeeeeee.</p>
<p>Pay attention and you&#8217;ll hear the hipster dude behind me say, &#8220;You&#8217;re going to upload that to MySpace for us, right?&#8221; To which I replied, &#8220;WRONG <span class="caps">HIPSTER</span>! HA! I&#8217;m going to upload it to <span class="caps">FLICKR</span> and my <span class="caps">BLOG</span>! Because I am a <span class="caps">COOL BLOGGER</span>!! I have a <span class="caps">BLOG</span>! MySpace is for <span class="caps">LOSERS</span>! and <span class="caps">PEDOPHILES</span>! DUH!! <span class="caps">I AM SO COOL</span>!&#8221;</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=2e5ef9f597&amp;photo_id=2471060657"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=2e5ef9f597&amp;photo_id=2471060657" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>Next up we have a video of Emory on the swing. I could not have come up with a better soundtrack. This pretty much sums up the sound of summer in Brooklyn. But for whatever reason, the ice cream trucks seem to come around at really weird hours, like 11 PM? What kid wants ice cream at 11 PM? I get the feeling that <em>some</em> of these ice cream trucks aren&#8217;t just selling ice cream.</p>
<p>But you didn&#8217;t hear it from me.</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=58ea60f16d&amp;photo_id=2471859016"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=49235" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=58ea60f16d&amp;photo_id=2471859016" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>Last but not least, we have a video of Emory dancing on the table to New Order at Nita Nita while eating Kashi&#8217;s version of a Cheerios. Unfortunately, you can&#8217;t make out the music and so it just looks like Tobyjoe is shaking him by his arms. Also, he has no pants on. Normally, we have our kid in pants but it was a special occasion, one that didn&#8217;t require pants.</p>
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<p>Why do I get the feeling that I&#8217;m going to become <em>really</em> annoying now that I have The Flip?</p>

	<h4>Related posts:</h4>
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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/27/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-132-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 132) A Video. (April 27, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 132) A Video.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/04/06/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-129-murray-scares-emory-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 129) Murray Scares Emory. A Video. (April 6, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 129) Murray Scares Emory. A Video.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2010/03/23/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-128-a-new-diet/" title="Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 128) A New Diet. (March 23, 2010)">Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 128) A New Diet.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2009/12/15/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-119-a-video/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 119 (A Video) (December 15, 2009)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 119 (A Video)</a></li>
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		<title>Beneath A Parachute.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/30/beneath-a-parachute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Stories For My Son: Scene Three.</p><p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=959068&#38;server=www.vimeo.com&#38;fullscreen=1&#38;show_title=1&#38;show_byline=1&#38;show_portrait=0&#38;color=01AAEA"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=959068&#38;server=www.vimeo.com&#38;fullscreen=1&#38;show_title=1&#38;show_byline=1&#38;show_portrait=0&#38;color=01AAEA" /></object><br /></center></p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/30/beneath-a-parachute/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stories For My Son: Scene Three.</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=959068&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=959068&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" /></object><br /></center></p>
<p>(Watch the others <a href="http://mihow.com/stories-for-my-son">here</a>.)</p>
<p>P.S. I am having great difficulty (both technically and personally) with the good ol&#8217; blog today. Do forgive me for any weirdness you may have seen here today.</p>

	<h4>Related posts:</h4>
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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2012/01/06/what-i-learned-from-rolling-paper/" title="What I Learned From Rolling Paper. (January 6, 2012)">What I Learned From Rolling Paper.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/13/youth-2/" title="The First Board. (December 13, 2011)">The First Board.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/11/18/the-penn-state-thing/" title="The Penn State Thing (November 18, 2011)">The Penn State Thing</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/10/27/chronic-urtcaria/" title="The Seven Year Itch (October 27, 2011)">The Seven Year Itch</a></li>
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		<title>Making Boys Gay.</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/23/making-boys-gay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Stories For My Son: Scene Two.</p><p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&#38;photo_secret=29b448fb53&#38;photo_id=2435903615"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&#38;photo_secret=29b448fb53&#38;photo_id=2435903615" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/23/making-boys-gay/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stories For My Son: Scene Two.</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=29b448fb53&amp;photo_id=2435903615"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=29b448fb53&amp;photo_id=2435903615" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p>
<p><em>(Side note: I realized today that I have a lisp. I am not sure if it&#8217;s due to my excessive hearing loss or all the orthodontic work I had done as a kid. But it&#8217;s there, clear as day.)</em></p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/13/youth-2/" title="The First Board. (December 13, 2011)">The First Board.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/11/18/the-penn-state-thing/" title="The Penn State Thing (November 18, 2011)">The Penn State Thing</a></li>
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		<title>Stories For My Son. (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/16/stories-for-my-son-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m starting a new series called &#8220;Stories For My Son&#8221;. Well, that&#8217;s the working title. It may change. My plan is to record a story at least once a week. We&#8217;ll see how it goes. But for now expect a new video every Wednesday.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/16/stories-for-my-son-part-1/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m starting a new series called &#8220;Stories For My Son&#8221;. Well, that&#8217;s the working title. It may change. My plan is to record a story at least once a week. We&#8217;ll see how it goes. But for now expect a new video every Wednesday.</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.172" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=4b4cff2a2c&amp;photo_id=2419181084"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.172"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.172" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=4b4cff2a2c&amp;photo_id=2419181084" height="300" width="400"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>Edited to add: So, I think my video may have made some people uncomfortable. Perhaps giving a voice to a blog is uncomfortable for some? I can relate, I think. I&#8217;m sorry!</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/13/youth-2/" title="The First Board. (December 13, 2011)">The First Board.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
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		<title>Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 40)</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/15/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-40/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This is my 40th week doing Tuesdays With Murray. I can&#8217;t believe that. To celebrate this milestone, I put together another video of clips featuring the furry beast. Enjoy!</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/15/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-40/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is my 40th week doing Tuesdays With Murray. I can&#8217;t believe that. To celebrate this milestone, I put together another video of clips featuring the furry beast. Enjoy!</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=901706&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=901706&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" /></object><br /></center></p>
<p><del>(<strong>P.S</strong>. This is a work in progress. The final video will be up later today whenever Emory takes his nap.)</del> I&#8217;m sorry, but what&#8217;s a nap? We don&#8217;t know what &#8220;nap&#8221; means.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
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		<title>Tuesdays With Murray (Chapter 38)</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/01/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-38/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>If somebody from Animal Planet contacted you about taking part in a reality TV show about pet weight-loss (<em>Biggest Loser</em> for pets) would you consider it? Murray&#8217;s so fat! Speaking of Murray&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/04/01/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-38/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If somebody from Animal Planet contacted you about taking part in a reality TV show about pet weight-loss (<em>Biggest Loser</em> for pets) would you consider it? Murray&#8217;s so fat! Speaking of Murray&#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2008/4/1/2368867037_d6f969f3cb.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>TobyJoe and I have talked about how Murray will most likely be considered Emory&#8217;s first childhood pet. Tucker and Pookum are much older and unfortunately, he probably won&#8217;t get to know them very well. But Murray should be around for a while.</p>
<p>Lately, Emory and Murray have started to actually play with one another. They have their toys mixed up a bit. For example, Emory really likes to play with the blue cat toy shown above but it doesn&#8217;t really bother Murray too much considering they can knock the ball around together. And they do.</p>
<p>Murray and Emory tend to find the same things amusing, take the Swiffer, for example. Both of them <em>love</em> the Swiffer! Which I find really quite strange and since neither one of them speak English, I can&#8217;t get a straight answer as to why.</p>
<p>I thought today might be a good day to put together a video of clips featuring how Emory and Murray interact. I want to share it with you today to thank you for all your support lately. (I received some pretty great email last night and when I find the time, I do hope to write everyone back personally.)</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=849270&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=849270&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" /></object><br /></center></p>
<p>Lastly, and this may sound a little silly, but when I watched the final video, it brought tears to my eyes. I hope you enjoy it as well.</p>
<p><strong><span class="caps">UPDATED TO ADD</span></strong>: Lisa posted a video of <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/172537">Murray when he was just a wee little man</a>. Check it out.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/05/10/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-144-a-photo/" title="Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo) (May 10, 2011)">Tuesdays With Murray: Chapter 144 (A Photo)</a></li>
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		<title>I Write This As He Screams.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Emory has been sick. He got a cold the day before we left for Florida, kicked it the day before we headed back north, and then got another one from one of the 4 billion kids we saw while we were away. He&#8217;s been cranky.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/03/14/i-write-this-as-he-screams/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Emory has been sick. He got a cold the day before we left for Florida, kicked it the day before we headed back north, and then got another one from one of the 4 billion kids we saw while we were away. He&#8217;s been cranky.</p>
<p>Wiping his nose has become one of the most impossible tasks. It&#8217;s become such an ordeal, we basically don&#8217;t do it, which explains why we have a bunch of vacation pictures that show Emory&#8217;s face covered in dried snot.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a video of one of his smaller hissy-fits. Believe me, this is <em>nothing</em> compared to what it&#8217;s like when he&#8217;s <em>really</em> cranky.</p>
<p><center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=784414&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=784414&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" /></object><br /></center></p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a rough couple of days for this mother and son team. He&#8217;s been unbearably fussy and impossible to amuse for more than a minute at a time. Yesterday, after listening to him scream and fight sleep for almost an hour straight, I sat on the couch and cried into my egg salad sandwich. (Which was nice because I forgot to add salt and I was too lazy to get up and grab some.)</p>
<p>Wooden spoons seem to amuse him long enough for me to pee or brush my teeth. The picture below gave me mental chatter, a problem I have whenever I&#8217;m dead tired. I repeat phrases or words until I exhaust every syllable, sound, and approach every cadence. Yesterday, I must have said, &#8220;MY <span class="caps">SPOON</span>&#8217;S <span class="caps">TOO BIG</span>!&#8221; 4,000 times.</p>
<p><img src="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2008/3/14/spoonBig.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s time for some sleep training because I&#8217;m losing my mind. But I don&#8217;t know when or how to begin or if I have the stamina for it. Plus, every time I let him cry for a bit, the cats circle and <em>howl</em> because the shrill sound hurts their ears. Tucker has gone as far as to climb close to my face and touch my nose with his paw as if to say, &#8220;Please make the lambs stop screaming. Please?&#8221;</p>
<p>I read last night that you&#8217;re supposed to take away a baby&#8217;s pacifier at 4 months. Well, we missed that window of opportunity. (We read that they help with SIDs, so we left it in. Conflicting reports, as usual.) I&#8217;m having trouble deciding what to focus on first. Do I let him cry it out for sleep <em>with</em> the pacifier, which will be easier to deal with. Do I take the pacifier away and then let him cry it out later whenever he&#8217;s over the pacifier? Or do I do it all at once? If it&#8217;s the last option, I am going to need either a whole lot of booze or a whole lot of antidepressants.</p>
<p>The more I read about how to nurture (or train) a baby, the more I think that <em>sometimes</em> this educated woman/mother thing causes more of a headache than it helps. I am convinced that&#8217;s how mothers who are cruel to other mothers get to be that way. (i.e. When career-oriented women become mothers, they tend to educate themselves to the point of judgment. Suddenly, there are no longer raises or bonuses, bosses or coworkers telling them what a great job they&#8217;re doing, so they have to convince everyone and themselves how awesome they are on their own usually at someone else&#8217;s expense. This can take the form of a three-way call where one mother calls another mother while a third remains silent on the line and the called mother tells the instigator how horrible a mother the silent mother is.)</p>
<p>But I digress.</p>
<p>I realize that I will have to let him cry it out (and soon) because he needs to learn how to sooth himself but when I combine it with all the other things I&#8217;m supposed to do (or have done), I start to feel a little overwhelmed.</p>

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	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/13/youth-2/" title="The First Board. (December 13, 2011)">The First Board.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/12/12/the-chase-is-on-a-video/" title="The Chase Is On. (A Video) (December 12, 2011)">The Chase Is On. (A Video)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2011/11/18/the-penn-state-thing/" title="The Penn State Thing (November 18, 2011)">The Penn State Thing</a></li>
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		<title>Baby Eaters Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2008/01/24/baby-eaters-anonymous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We have a new game. I scream &#8220;I <span class="caps">AM A MEMBER OF BABY EATERS ANONYMOUS AND I MISSED TODAY</span>&#8217;S <span class="caps">MEETING</span>!&#8221; And then chomp and kiss Emory&#8217;s sides and he laughs and laughs and laughs. It&#8217;s awesome. I look forward to this more than I do chocolate and cupcakes.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2008/01/24/baby-eaters-anonymous/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have a new game. I scream &#8220;I <span class="caps">AM A MEMBER OF BABY EATERS ANONYMOUS AND I MISSED TODAY</span>&#8217;S <span class="caps">MEETING</span>!&#8221; And then chomp and kiss Emory&#8217;s sides and he laughs and laughs and laughs. It&#8217;s awesome. I look forward to this more than I do chocolate and cupcakes.</p>
<p>This is a video that was taken back in November. (I am <em>way</em> behind on uploading videos.) This was taken before I joined Baby Eaters Anonymous but you&#8217;ll get the idea of what happens whenever I miss a meeting. Also, sorry about the cleavage.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/632779">Enjoy!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/632779"><img src="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2008/1/24/BAA.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>

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		<title>Tuesdays With The Bean and Murray</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I’m sorry I can’t use up today’s post on Murray entirely, Internet. But I will include a picture and this video of Murray’s butt.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2007/12/11/tuesdays-with-murray-chapter-25/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m sorry I can’t use up today’s post on Murray entirely, Internet. But I will include a picture and this video of Murray’s butt.</p>
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<p>Today is TobyJoe’s birthday. He turns 30. <span class="caps">THIRTEE</span>. He’s finally old man river. I turned 30 almost four years ago. I am almost dead. OK, that’s not true, but my body is currently telling me otherwise. Anyway, The Bean is 30. Happy Birthday, Bean.</p>
<p>This is what Toby looked like 15 years ago:</p>
<p><img src="http://mihow.com/photos/pics/thumbs/2004_08_25_0001.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is how he looks now:</p>
<p><img src="http://mihow-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/2007/12/11/_DSC0004.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Today will be much like every other day only today will have cake (and some overflow cupcakes) because I made a cake yesterday evening. The cake (along with several cupcakes) was made right under Toby’s nose. It was supposed to be a surprise birthday cake, one baked today, but I have learned that surprises are impossible when you have a baby because there’s no one to watch the (very needy) baby while the other is baking the cake. It’s also impossible to make a surprise <em>anything</em> with Murray around because Murray will find it, rip the tinfoil off and try and eat it even though chocolate is sometimes poisonous to cats. It’s impossible to have surprises with a baby and a Murray in the house, unless you consider cake ransack a surprise or a poopie diaper.</p>
<p>We aren’t going out for a romantic meal because we don’t have anyone to watch the baby. But that’s OK, because we would much rather have the baby than a romantic meal. Plus, a romantic meal is how we ended up with the baby. And there won’t be any presents because all the extra money we’re making is going into the baby’s college fund. It’s what I like to call our “401 Kid”. We’re putting as much money as possible into the kid’s education so when we’re old and immobile, in 7 years, he’ll be able to take care of us. He’s allowed to specialize in whatever he wants, except for law. I tell Emory all the time, “Mommy doesn’t like lawyers. If you want to go to law school, I will take your money and give it to Murray the cat.” And TobyJoe always says, “That’s a surefire way to make him become a lawyer.” And I laugh.</p>
<p>Anyway, it’s TobyJoe’s 30th birthday. Happy birthday, Bean.</p>
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<p>P.S. You are the awesome.</p>

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		<title>One More Day!</title>
		<link>http://mihow.com/articles/2007/11/29/one-more-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I have one more day left of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). Writing every day for an entire month has been difficult. Especially since this month had a pretty substantial holiday. I realize that November is short, but man! It ain&#8217;t been easy.</p><p><a href="http://mihow.com/articles/2007/11/29/one-more-day/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have one more day left of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). Writing every day for an entire month has been difficult. Especially since this month had a pretty substantial holiday. I realize that November is short, but man! It ain&#8217;t been easy.</p>
<p>For those of you still here, thank you. Here&#8217;s a short video. Emory thanks you as well.</p>
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<p><sup>P.S. I will be sure to include a video or picture of Murray next Tuesday to make up for his having off this week.</sup></p>

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