tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79479168533810522002024-03-12T20:53:41.936-06:00Mortons LoveMortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-41046029321069305682013-08-17T22:18:00.000-06:002013-08-17T22:18:04.318-06:00Bear Lake Dreams<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The important question here is: What have we been doing with our summers if we haven't been going to Bear Lake?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These kids spent most of the day building a hot tub, of course.</span></div>
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Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-84895869695860271222013-02-21T17:21:00.002-07:002013-02-21T17:21:34.063-07:00Updated<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally wrote a post about Leo on his blog. I'm going to try really hard to update this one too. Baby steps</span>.Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-70866789533658092112012-08-27T14:26:00.003-06:002012-08-27T14:26:35.013-06:00Picture<div style="text-align: center;">
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I'm posting more over on his blog.</div>
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<br />Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-1722452964737593352012-08-25T22:10:00.001-06:002012-08-25T22:10:56.125-06:00Leo update<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leo is doing well so far. It's a bummer to see how much he's been poked and how much he has to be hooked up to, but we know it's not much compared to what's coming.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His first heart surgery is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. It should take about 6 hours. We are holding him as much as we can before then. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He is absolutely beautiful and we love him a whole bunch. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We feel so blessed that he is here safely and so far no surprises. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Super sorry if you have tried to call, I have zero service on my phone.)</span>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-2186098134000095582012-08-24T21:49:00.002-06:002012-08-24T21:49:55.920-06:00Leo Leo made it into the world! And he waited 39 weeks!!! He is a champ already.<br />
He has light red hair just like Macy did and I think I spotted a dimple. I got to hold him for a few minutes. Right now he is with Scott getting settled at Primary Children's Hospital. <br />
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Sorry no pictures. I'll try get some ASAP.Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-45708996429858783682012-08-24T12:29:00.001-06:002012-08-24T12:30:20.716-06:00WaitingThis was my fortune from Tuesday nights Chinese dinner!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some friends and family have asked how they can stay updated on what's going on. So here it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hopefully I'll have a way to post while Leo and I are in SLC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His due date is getting closer and I am trying to enjoy this life we have now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know it's going to change soon and I hope everyone (the kids) adjust o.k.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last time we met with the Pediatric Cardiologist he told us, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"No matter how hard you think this is going to be, it's going to be harder."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could have used some more encouraging words, but I think he is trying to prepare us, which I appreciate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a big thanks for everyone's kind words and support!</span></div>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-46379284241219911882012-07-02T15:22:00.000-06:002012-07-02T15:22:03.793-06:00Farm Reunion<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scott's family had a reunion on his aunt and uncle's farm in Idaho.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a zip line, and a teeter totter (how do we spell this word?), and a slide, a movie outside, and water fights and lots of butterflies to catch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sprinkler, my babies in swimsuits, AND getting along.</span></div>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-55900938513146468742012-06-15T07:59:00.001-06:002012-06-15T08:00:12.366-06:00The Obsession Continues<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or to get his hat on straight.</span></div>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-64776847557260183282012-05-27T09:46:00.001-06:002012-05-27T09:46:53.019-06:00Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome- A post I never wanted to write<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My fourth ultrasound. Our last child. It was going to be a breeze. I had planned to celebrate that night with a fun family dinner, followed by a pink cake or a blue one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tech glided along with her running commentary of what we were looking at. See the baby's little fingers? Here's the stomach, the spine, the brain, little feet, legs. It looks like a boy! Yay! A boy! Just what we were hoping for...quickly she was back to the heart. Why is she back at the heart again? She has spent a lot of time there. I watched the fast thump, thump thump on the screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I looked nervously at Scott. Did he notice how much time she was spending looking at the baby's heart? He didn't seem to notice. The tech kept the same calm expression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"There's just one thing I want the doctor to look at..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It looks like Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pardon? I heard the doctor say heart and syndrome. Heart and syndrome.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It means, the left side of your baby's heart is small and underdeveloped. The left side of your baby's heart will continue to deteriorate and have no function."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few weeks later, the pediatric cardiologist at Primary Children's made sure we knew how serious this diagnosis is. His face showed it. The room he brought us to. The cozy couch. The lamp. The box of tissues. Two women followed us into the room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It's not the most rare heart defect, but it is among the most serious and complex." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was I listening to? I tried hard to concentrate on his words, the diagrams he was showing us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"This is a normal heart"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've seen enough pictures of a normal heart to last me for a while. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He told us we had a choice to make. We could choose to do nothing. Take our baby home. The valve currently connecting the left side and right of the heart would take a few days to close after birth. Our baby would die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our other choice was hard too. Heart surgery. A minimum of 3. One when he is a few days old. One when he is 4-6 months old. One when he is about 3. The heart can't be fixed, just re-plumbed. He would live his life with half a heart, acting for both sides. No one knows how long a heart can sustain life this way. They haven't been doing it long enough. Not a lifetime. It is a hard road, with lots of risks and possible complications. Expect them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I held it together for as long as I could. He was talking about my baby. He fumbled to hand me the box of tissues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went home and looked at my 3 beautiful children. Their healthy bodies have become an unbelievable miracle that I had been taking for granted. Everything works. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My brain cannot quite process the thought of one of my children enduring such a thing. Including this newest little boy, whom I love with such fierceness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have to try. I have to trust in the Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am unbelievably scared. Every day I have to make an effort to not get overwhelmed. There are so many unanswered questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I kind of like them there.</span></div>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-48960679169491208642012-05-15T16:16:00.000-06:002012-05-15T16:16:22.258-06:00A Very Tractor Birthday<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It involves garbage trucks, fire trucks, buses and especially tractors! 4 or 5 months ago, his auntie read him their book about different kind of trucks. A book we took home and read 67 times a day. He napped with it. No biggie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was the beginning. We talk about tractors a lot. I looked up tractor cakes on Pinterest. I scrolled through for 5 or 10 minutes. Abe sat at the computer for a good 30. He has been shouting TACTOR CAAAAAKE ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abe is about the funnest 2 year old ever. He makes us laugh a lot. And only throws fits on occasion, when he really means it! (Like when we have to pry him off of a tractor.) </span></div>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-84197541829548681232012-04-16T07:30:00.000-06:002012-04-16T07:30:43.961-06:00Easter<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Easter we thought it would be fun to dye our eggs with foods we had in the house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Macy has been going to a drama class at Unicorn Theater and was just in her first play, Dealing With Dragons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She auditioned for a non-speaking part and was cast as a princess. She quickly decided that a small, non-speaking part was a little boring and wants to try for a speaking part next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was a great princess and she had a lot of fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the first year Polly has wanted to have a party with friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She only wanted to invite girls and only a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is kind, considerate and the peacemaker in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our marriage turned 10 years old last month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought possibly my dear husband was up to something...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The morning of our anniversary, he had lovely flowers and a card for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Including a note saying he had planned a weekend getaway for us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He arranged everything including the kiddies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I had to do was pack. We were leaving that afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most darling (and true) part was the end of the letter said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I know this is probably giving you anxiety, but breath deeply and relax, everything is taken care of."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other day at dinner, Abe tried to pick up the full gallon of milk. It was a bit too heavy for him. Instead he pulled it off the table and he followed it, falling onto the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We tried not to laugh, but it was funny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then a few days later the almost empty gallon of milk was next to him. He picked it up and held it over his head, like he was the strongest boy ever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We continued to have a blast and wear ourselves completely out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abe and his buddy Landon soaked their perfectly good shirts by playing in the toilet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best part was Abe had found a spoon and was using it to scoop water into his mouth!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just thirsty, I guess.</span></div>
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My girls were very excited and also very opinionated about Valentines this year.</div>
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Macy made each of her classmates a bracelet. </div>
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Polly made adorable hearts with her thumbprint.</div>
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Macy came home from school the other day with a list of all her classmates and the animals they chose to do a report on.</div>
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The list was filled with deer, snake, eagle, cheetah, monkey, etc...</div>
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Next to Macy's name? Skink</div>
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This made me laugh and it also made me happy. I'm glad that in second grade she feels like it's okay to be unique. It feels like maybe something is going right around here. </div>
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I'm going to store that little piece of information in my parent brain for when I'm hearing about the MANY injustices of her childhood. </div>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7947916853381052200.post-66365900246679441792012-02-07T13:43:00.001-07:002012-02-07T15:17:25.613-07:00What Abe is Up To<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abe continues to be the entertainment of the family, besides me of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If he wants your attention be prepared to listen to your name over and over and over at full volume. Even if you are sitting/eating/brushing your teeth RIGHT next to him. He would like both eyes directly on him until he is satisfied. He usually doesn't even want anything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lately he has been baking/cooking with me up on the counter. This usually qualifies as my undivided attention. But not always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His favorite foods are apples, noodles or whatever YOU are eating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also ate nearly an entire red pepper the other day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He calls Macy-Maimy, Polly-Poppy and himself-Babe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He enjoys a good toothbrush. Preferably dad's (see below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He is always putting on everyone's shoes but his own. And your helmet if you leave it sitting around. This reminds me of <a href="http://mortymortmort.blogspot.com/2008/04/helmet-heads.html" target="_blank">this post</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dad is his all time favorite person. (sniff) If Scott is home, Abe is right next to him. He is a perpetual dad-shadow. A Dadow! (You're welcome, you may use that.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Dad, gibberish, recognizable word, gibberish!" and then he laughs. Undoubtedly telling me something hilarious and awesome about dad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All my children are well aware of the latest and most awesome technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We just don't have any. ANY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No ipad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No iphone (or any like it)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No gaming systems* </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scott likes to say, we don't own an i-anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(He's wrong, I own the original ipod shuffle. BOOM!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grandmas do. And aunts and uncles do. Friends do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They watch everyone playing Angry Birds and Plants V. Zombies. They play too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when we are home alone, living the deprived and lonely low-tech life, Macy will sometimes take my phone to play "calender". What? You've never played it? It's easy, really. You pull up the calender on my Samsung and you shuffle through the calender year, looking for important dates, like your own birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It satisfies her needs. And so it does mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Macy reminds me, we are like the only people in the whole entire world without a Wii !!!</span></div>Mortons Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01950204919830568515noreply@blogger.com8