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As I said earlier, McBaby really likes to talk. It's pretty funny the things he picks up, and how quickly he learns to apply new words to situations. Sometimes though, his applications are a little surprising. It's also difficult to predict when those applications will cause future confusion. Seriously, don't accidentally say that a dirty diaper is garbage at our house.

Yesterday I read this news article:   Many 'hipsters' abandoning backyard chickens .  The article talks about how raising your own chickens is falling in popularity, so animal shelters and open areas, like canyons, are filling up with unwanted chickens. One of the shelter workers is quoted saying, "Basically there's nowhere for these animals to go." Nowhere? NOWHERE? In other news, cupcake shelters are filling up with unwanted cupcakes from fad bakeries flagging in popularity. Barbara Hannigan, a shelter worker in Los Angeles, blames "foodies" saying, "These people are dropping off dozens of cupcakes a day at our shelters. We just don't have the facilities to care for so many cupcakes. No one has any ideas for what to do with all these abandoned cupcakes."

How much longer will people be saying "What's up?" as a greeting? If we could all agree to stop now, I would be grateful, because it is a greeting that I have never known how to respond to. In high school I would always answer by saying, "The sky." I pretended like it was a cheeky answer, but really it was just a coping mechanism to hide my awkward inability to respond. I no longer say, "The sky" because it is not actually as hilarious as I used to think. It is also sometimes misheard as, "This guy" which would sound kind of scandalous coming from a married lady. Abandoning the cheeky answer tactic has left me grasping for something to say in response. I understand "What's up?" to mean, "What's going on?" or even "What's wrong?" If it is used in reference to an object, like "What's up with ponytails?" I can handle it. In the context of a greeting however, it is too vague a question. I am...

I've spent a lot of time exploring the crazy things people say to you when you are pregnant. So you will likely understand the queasy fear that runs through me when a stranger corners me and asks when my baby is due. But sometimes the person doesn't want to comment on how enormous you are, or ask if you are REALLY SURE it isn't due today; sometimes they just want to offer you a free car-seat that they no longer need. It happened to me today. Sometimes people are really great, and it kind of makes up for all the other people who accidentally told me that I am super fat.

So I killed it and fed it to the pool filter. The end.

 McBaby used to never say anything. He would just burble and giggle and occasionally whine. Then I had this great idea to teach him a bunch of words. The problem with this is that it turns out he has opinions about everything, and shares them all the time.   Goodbye kisses in the car? Those are not going without comment anymore.   Which socks to wear used to be a non-issue, but now he has an expressible preference that will not be ignored.   And that is not the only preference he decides to make known either. Hmph.

My brother-in-law, Trent, just returned home from a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! He has been gone two years and a lot of stuff has changed since he left. I was thinking about doing a, "2011-2012 Recap" to catch him up on the things he missed. I looked up a few lists on the internet and it turns out I didn't know about hardly any of the things that happened on any of the pop-culture-type lists. So I have determined I am not the most qualified to do a review of 2011-2012 in general. Instead I decided to review some of the movies that I suspect people will be telling Trent he HAS to go see. That way he can avoid this:   Here are 5 movies people might freak out about:  A lot of people thought this movie was "Amazing" but to me it was one of those movies where if you have anything critical to say about it they say, "GEEZE! It's a COMIC-BOOK movie!" So I thought it was cheesy, and kind of ridiculous, but it's a comic b...