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Key Lime Cheesecake

Xhaiden sporting Xac's underwear

Jimmy grins at the camera

Xac telling us something with his hands

Xhaiden showing us his good side

Xac is potty trained.

He did it. I really don't think I did very much, but Xac has figured out how to use the toilet. Our only challenge now is that he is very nervous about messes. I have taught him too well, perhaps, that poop is yucky and we should not touch it. Which is true, but you still have to wipe, unless you have a bidet that you can carry around with you everywhere... So what we save in diapers we are almost making up for in toilet paper, but I think it is worth it. Don't you?

My 2 cents about books

OK, I was on msn.com today, anyone else? I saw one of the main articles about how books are becoming obsolete, or at least novels, and another which partially pondered the question of whether the new reading devices (Kindles) are going to replace books entirely. Wah, wah, wah. I hope that this will extend to textbooks, which are some of the most ridiculously overpriced things on the planet. Too many professors I think have made a lucrative hobby out of writing their own texts and charging inordinate amounts for them. I think they are a hardship on the American student who clearly needs that money for beer and cigarettes. Ok, mainly just me, not that I am in school, but after several years of school I have found that some textbooks are better than others and that some of the major publishing companies sell their books cheaper in other countries to people who then sell them back to us illegally on websites such as ebay or textbookx.com It is a different book with a different ISBN that says exactly the same thing on every page. hmmm. Should I report this and buy the legal, more expensive version, or should I use the thing and ace my class. Personally I think this industry could use a little kick in the pants. I think we should pick a favorite math, accounting, (insert subject here) text and use it nationally, and for the most part eliminate the professors who write a brand new text if they don't agree that chapter four should cover equilateral triangles. This is akin to online professors who don't like to use the program the school has provided and so write their own horrible websites, with links to pages that look identical to the one you were looking at, reminding you to do chapter 5 homework, with no helpful link to get to the instructions for it. If time is money, these professors are almost as expensive. In short, something reminded me of school and the ignorance of those who claim to know it all, which I do.

So What Have We Been Up To?

Here is my Jimmy throwing Xac into the huge Love Sac at Nick and Angie's house.

Not too much, and it's been nice. We've had a lot of dinners with our friends Nick and Angie Colon (Cologne), which is great for me because they have a dishwasher and we don't. Oh, and did I mention that Angie is an amazing chef? She follows the recipe and doesn't skip steps. Amazing!With all that I have been slowly overcoming my fear of dogs and so has Xhaiden. We actually caught him smiling at the dog the other night. Of course it hasn't happened since, he so takes after his mom in that respect. I can do so much until I get recognized for it, and then I somehow fall apart. But doesn't that happen to all of us a little? Take that Olympic swimmer, for example, who won all those gold medals and now what's he doing? Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Maybe if we didn't idolize all those celebrities so much their lives would be more normal. Hey, we'd be doing them a favor! So instead of renting a movie, go do something famous yourself. ;)