Author: rcragun
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Housing Market Rant
My sister posted a rant the other day… My turn! —Begin Rant— We bought a condo in Cincinnati because we were told: (1) home prices never go down and (2) if you’re going to live there for more than 2 years, it is a safe investment. We now recognize both of those as lies. Always,…
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Toren tag with nieces and nephews
I’m never 100% sure, but I think my parents now have 23 grandkids. My siblings are kind of split into older ones and younger ones (my brother Mark, who is just older than I am, is the transitional sibling). My older siblings all have finished having kids and their kids are now either in their…
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swimsuit edition
Thursday night my family had a pool party at my brother Danny’s house in Ogden. We have a swimsuit for Toren, even though he’s too young to swim at this point. But it was cute enough that we figured we should get some photos of him in it. Here’s one with all three of us…
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Toren meets Grandma and Grandpa Cragun
It took until he was two months old, but Toren finally got to meet his Grandma and Grandpa Cragun:
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Toren flies first class
We were worried that Toren wouldn’t enjoy flying to Utah. While we’re usually pretty tolerant of crying kids on planes, we didn’t want to be “those” people with the really whiny, crying kid. So, we decided we’d spoil Toren and let him sleep on us as much as possible, hoping it would keep him happy. …
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jumper
Toren likes to kick. He’s wiggly and kicks a lot. So, we thought we’d try putting him in the Johnny Jumper again: We tried a couple times before, but he was even smaller then and didn’t like it at all. This time, he was still too small, but was okay in it for about 10…
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Life’s Good!
If you’re following the blog closely you’ll note that I said yesterday we usually swaddle Toren to put him down to sleep. With his arms out, he usually wakes himself up. That is, generally, true. But that is also not the way Toren thinks about it. We’ve noticed a pattern: Whenever I’m holding him to…
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baby darth
We swaddle Toren most of the time when we put him down to sleep. It seems to really keep him calm. If we don’t, he has a tendency to flail his arms and legs, waking himself up. I walked into his room the other day to find him like this: My Mom has already told…
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time for a crib?
When your child’s able to stretch his arms from one side of his bassinet to the other, is it time to switch to a crib?
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Toren’s BMI = Severely Underweight!!!!
I’ve been using Google Health to track Toren’s immunizations and other medical stuff (e.g., circumcision, doctor’s visits, etc.). As I entered Toren’s updated height and weight information into Google Health, it generated a Body Mass Index score for him: 16.4. Not remembering what that means, I visited Wikipedia to see how Toren’s BMI suggests he…