Shop Update! - July 12, 2010 06:42 - By: PenguinBot
We've got new items in the shop to which we would like to direct your attention.


A couple new penguin coin purses, available in sparkly and not so much.


Some sweet [more]

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harvesting - July 08, 2010 16:16 - By: NoisyPenguin
Mr. Poop and Dr. Pants planted a garden a few months ago. I mentioned the dahlias last week, but now some of the other things they planted are starting to ripen. We've got lots of green tomatoes on our heirloom plant and the other dahlia is starting to show signs of blooming soon, but the most exciting thing is that we've been getting some fresh strawberries for a couple weeks.



Mr. Poop likes to pick the strawberries, so he keeps a watch on the deck to see if any are ready yet. "Mommy, [more]

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Happy 4th of July! - July 05, 2010 06:18 - By: NoisyPenguin
We had a pretty awesome day. It involved lots of delicious food, family, and fireworks.

Swimming at Gramma Jo's house:



Drinking orange slush (made from fresh-squeezed oranges from the ranch):



Playing with the cousins:



Watching the fireworks in Fallbrook:



Mr. Poop [more]

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baby knitting - July 01, 2010 14:56 - By: NoisyPenguin
Did you know how quickly baby things knit up? Why did no one tell me this when I thought I was too busy to knit Mr. Poop some baby things a few years ago? I started this baby hat last night and I'm about halfway done with only a couple hours of lazy knitting. I think baby hats are as close to instant gratification as you can get with knitting.



I've reached the stage in pregnancy where you stop sleeping well. Mr. Poop has reached the stage in toddlerhood where he likes to push buttons and run run run and crumble to the floor in an over-dramatic heap of sobs when he doesn't get his own way [more]

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In Bloom - June 28, 2010 14:29 - By: NoisyPenguin
Dr. Pants and I used dahlias for the bouquet/boutonnière flowers in our wedding. We didn't have any sort of particular love or obsession with them beforehand, I just thought they were pretty and there was a place we could get some farm fresh dahlias the day before the wedding for a nice price, so we went with it. Of course, now they hold special meaning for us because, you know, we used them in our wedding.



A couple years ago I ordered some dahlia tubers from the The Dahlia Barn (in the same varieties we used i[more]

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