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	<title>Monkey House &#187; Family</title>
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	<description>Shenanigans in new parenthood and renovation</description>
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		<title>The Things You Wish You Saw</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose the title of the post should more accurately be, &#8220;The Things Your Children Do That You Wish You Were There For,&#8221; but that&#8217;s a bit long.
As everyone knows, you can&#8217;t be there for every second of your child&#8217;s life. If you&#8217;re lucky you&#8217;re there for some of the big ones, like first steps, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Too Big.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m too big.
With Cole&#8217;s birthday came the arrival of our first wave of &#8220;big things&#8221; that occupy square footage in our house. There&#8217;s a climbing play structure, there&#8217;s a ball pit, there&#8217;s a water-table-slash-picnic-table, and now there&#8217;s a playhouse.
And I&#8217;m too big for all of them.

It&#8217;s not about me wanting to play with those things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the world, Gummi!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days late; on June 27 (I should check my calendar to be sure I got that right&#8230; but I&#8217;m going to go daredevil style and wait to be flamed in a comment!) my friends Heather and Sacha had their first baby! His name is Cohen, though H called him Gummi (Gummy?) for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Day: the First, no wait, SECOND one!</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/canada-day-the-first-no-wait-second-one/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/canada-day-the-first-no-wait-second-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Cole&#8217;s mid-June birthday created an interesting phenomenon this year. My father&#8217;s day felt like my &#8220;first&#8221; father&#8217;s day, even though it was my second. And Canada day felt the same. I guess because he was so small and helpless for the true &#8220;firsts&#8221;, and we were so tied to the house during those initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrapes&#8217;n&#039;Bruises</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/scrapesnbruises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People visiting with Cole will quickly notice bumps and bruises. His shins in particular seem to take a beating; though, now that he&#8217;s walking I&#8217;m not entirely sure where from. It used to be my suspicion that the bruises were from crawling over our long gate (there&#8217;s a metal bar along the bottom, not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Cole&#8217;s first birthday.
It&#8217;s 2:37 so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not going to do justice to how great that fact makes me feel.
A bit of self reflection before I start yammering about the Monkey: I think I wanted to be a dad every since I was in my teens. Not that I wanted to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Park!</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/at-the-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex and I were going to take the monkey to the beach, but I was worried that we were cutting into naptime, so we headed home instead. Not long after, we realized that he wasn&#8217;t going to sleep, so Mama Monkey came up with the great idea of going to one of the local parks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Monkey Walks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video was taken only a few days after Cole started walking. At first he was only walking a few steps at a time, but as you can see in this video, he began &#8220;catching&#8221; himself and adjusting his balance. And then there&#8217;s the push-truck-thingy. It&#8217;s not the same fun as fully-independent walking, but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dreaded downgrade to one nap</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/the-dreaded-downgrade-to-one-nap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 05:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It hasn&#8217;t happened yet, but Alex figures it&#8217;ll be coming sooner rather than later.
Cole is fighting his afternoon nap. He doesn&#8217;t want it, doesn&#8217;t think he needs it (and in fairness, for parts of this afternoon, he had energy and wakefulness to spare), and isn&#8217;t going to let his parents make him have one.
Well, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Firsts for Cole</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cole has had a couple of &#8220;firsts&#8221; lately:
First Steps
This one is tricky. The day we&#8217;re considering his day for &#8220;first steps&#8221; was the 9th of May. But it&#8217;s subjective and different parents will classify differently. Here&#8217;s how it played out:
Cole is standing there, not holding onto anything, and decides to put one foot in front [...]]]></description>
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