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		<title>Parental Leave &#8211; Conclusions&#8230;? Sort of&#8230;!</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-conclusions-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the last day of Parental Leave, I haven&#8217;t written anything about the experience. I suppose I wanted the last entry to be special and insightful, but instead, it is what it is. There was nothing particularly noteworthy to blog about for the last day, so this was going to be a reflective piece on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Day 38 &#8211; The Last Day (overdue)</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-day-38-the-last-day-overdue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last day of Parental Leave was a Friday. That meant a visit from Grammy (Grammie?) and Abuelito.
Part of me wanted to do something memorable, but honestly&#8230; what can you do? The best thing to make sure it was a great last day was to have help.
Nothing of particular interest happened. Watched some TV (Olympics), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Days 35, 36, 37 &#8211; Lame Catch-up, Daycare Transition</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-days-35-36-37-lame-catch-up-daycare-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried posting, but our internets have been lame lately. Here is tonight&#8217;s speed, which is actually a GOOD connection for what we&#8217;ve had lately:

At least that&#8217;s a connection. The last 2 times I&#8217;ve tried updating the blog, I haven&#8217;t been able to get the page to load without timing out.
So, yeah. Here&#8217;s what happened:

Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Day 34 &#8211; Morning from Hell</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-day-34-morning-from-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the title says, I had a morning from hell.
Sunday, I slept. And slept. Woke up very late (too embarrassed to say when), and just when I thought I was getting up to walk the dogs, etc., I slept some more. Alex had already gone to her parents&#8217; place for a planned dinner that evening, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Days 31, 32, 33 &#8211; Yeah, I got lazy.</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-days-31-32-33-yeah-i-got-lazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got lazy in more ways than one! First, three days without updates. Secondly, Friday turned out to require very little work from me.

Day 31 &#8211; The Grocery Store
Didn&#8217;t really do anything. The morning has become very predictable: wake up, play a bit, have first nap. This week, I mostly let him have his first nap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Day 30 &#8211; Dog-walking. Again.</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-day-29-dog-walking-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-day-29-dog-walking-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The morning nap was great. 9:30-ish until 11:15-ish. He slept on my chest. That method of sleeping doesn&#8217;t always guarantee longer sleeps, but it sure promotes the possibility.
By the time we woke up, went through a diaper change, had some food, played with some toys, and read a book, it was time for his next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Interlude: Downs and Ups</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-interlude-downs-and-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a good reminder of why being a parent can be a roller-coaster. Although there are ups and downs, the final feeling is that of exhilaration. Well, for me it is. For some it might just be the sudden need to vomit.

The Downs
I woke up to a loud frustrated sigh. This was at 10:30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Day 29 &#8211; Grammy and Abuelito</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-day-29-grammy-and-abuelito/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our regularly-scheduled lazy day. The day in which I hand off my son to other people who love him.
OK, so it&#8217;s not completely like that, but it is to a certain degree.
Morning: the usual. Except that his nap was crap-tacular and I didn&#8217;t get any sleep when he finally went down.
Afternoon: after lunch, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Day 28 &#8211; Visiting Nana</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-day-28-visiting-nana/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-day-28-visiting-nana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note for regular readers: Day 27 is also posted below; I decided not to gang them together this time, even though I&#8217;m posting both on the same day.
Not too eventful a day.
Cole had a short but fuss-free nap in the morning. We did a few small things, had a few small laughs, and then I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Leave Day 27 &#8211; Dog Walk / Cry-it-out</title>
		<link>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-days-27-dog-walk-cry-it-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.monkey-house.ca/parental-leave-days-27-dog-walk-cry-it-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 27 &#8211; The Day We Walked The Dogs. Again. Later, Cole Wailed.
Had a great sleep in the morning again, after a false start waking up grumpy. Then lunch. Then walked the dogs. I filmed him in his jolly jumper, which I&#8217;d post here, except Windows Movie Maker isn&#8217;t co-operating.
Naptime sucked. We&#8217;ve been trying to [...]]]></description>
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