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we're having technology issues. first, the new camera broke. then the ipod broke. then my laptop broke. then the pc broke. sheesh. the camera got fixed. the ipod went to the repairshop but jeff thinks it still isn't right. repairshop thinks my laptop is probably toast...apparently sony's have a history of power issues. jeff's not sure he can fix the pc either. all of this happened in under 2 months. oof. i'm borrowing a laptop from work to tide me over.

we've gotten rhubarb every week for the last 4 weeks in our produce box. that's a lot of rhubarb. i'd been stocking it up cause i didn't really want to make a rhubarb crisp. i wanted to find a savory rhubarb recipe. tonight i decided i really needed to do something with all that rhubarb. so i researched a bunch and finally found some crazy stuff. i ended up making a lentil, rhubarb, spinach stew! it even had tomatos in it! but it tastes pretty good. and then i made a rhubarb syrup for waffles this weekend. it's supposed to go on top of rhubarb waffles but i'm thinking that might be rhubarb overkill.

the kids are great. clara's super excited to be moving into a new classroom at school. if you see or talk to her, she'll take a deep breath and yell "i'm gonna be a DINO!" she thinks it means she's turning 4 and is telling everyone it's her birthday. asked when her birthday is she'll say "after christmas, in april." which to her, is tomorrow. she's excited.

emmett is big. oh my gosh, he's growing up. he's fun and funny. and loads of trouble. he's starting to talk a lot and trying out new words all the time. putting them together in mini sentences. it's such a great age. we started to transition him to the toddler bed because he was starting to try to climb out of his crib...his top leg on the top railing had me nervous. but then we wimped out after only a couple days and he's back in his crib.

if you haven't looked yet, check out pictures of the kids on emily's blog/picasa site!