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My First Happy Tears as a Mother

Yesterday, I had written that we received a surprise gift in the mail: the book Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go! A Book to Be Read in Utero. As I sidled into bed last night I decided to take the book with me so that I can read to Tater Tot for the very first time. The book itself is very similar to the one from which it was adapted - Dr. Seuss' Oh the Places You'll Go! - with a few changes here and there. I quite enjoyed myself, although occassionally stumbling over the funny words, colorful rhymes and frequent alliterations that is the trademark of the author. Then I reached the last spread.

You'll find that this world'sa great place...

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Baby Gifts

I feel so incredibly lucky to have great friends who are as excited about the baby as we are! We have already received two baby gifts in the mail. The first, a Care Bear from our friend Anna (who has an almost unhealthy obsession with Care Bears and says that we need to train the baby young!): Thanks, Anna for our first baby gift! It really means a lot to us...

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The BBC 100 Books Meme, And Why I Am a Book Nerd

I read on That Wife today that the BBC believes most people have only read 6 books of the 100 in the list below. Although I had seen the meme on Facebook before, I was intrigued, because earlier today I had spent $100 on new books and was thinking that I need to get over this addiction called "reading." According to the instructions, you are supposed to put an 'X' after those you have read. Let's see how I stack up...

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Information Is Beautiful

Gizmodo just featured an image from the upcoming book The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide To The World’s Most Consequential Trivia. As a lover of design, data collection, charts, and graphs, data visualization is right up my alley. I was delighted to discover that there exists a corresponding blog called Information Is Beautiful. Unfortunately, the blog is still fairly new and so only houses 13 posts - not nearly enough to quench this geek's unsatisable thirst for knowledge. However, I have no doubt that the blog will blow up very soon...

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