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We picked up Ari’s glasses the other day. Here are some shots (today was a big photo upload day, so be sure to check out our full photostream at Flickr).

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Ari had an eye doctor appointment and it turns out he is far sighted.
The school was the first to catch that he might need glasses. The doctors did some testing, wasn’t sure, so they dilated his eyes, retested and confirmed that he is far sighted. He need glasses while at school, reading, doing art projects […]

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Ari made this pillow in school a while ago. He did all the sewing (they were impressed he spent the time to focus on it enough to complete the project, that isn’t too common at his age yet). He first sewed the designs, then he sewed the two sides together, stuffed it, and finished sewing […]

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A video of an invention Ari made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9MWstwY5NI

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We had a parent/teacher conference at Ari’s pre-school the other day. The short of it is that Ari is brilliant, doing very well, fits the Montessori method, and is a delightful addition to the class.
He still needs work on going up and down stairs, mostly going up since going down takes longer anyhow. Specifically he […]

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A reminder to all friends and family, Ari will be four this Satuday the 8th.

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It may take a little while for the pictures to filter through Flickr’s RSS feeder, but new pictures of Ari should appear on the side real soon. Either way, you can click one of the pictures and it will take you to Flickr and the pictures anyhow. Sorry for the long delay.

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Ari has started saying Totally and Dude occasionally. “That was totally neat! Dude.” That sort of thing, though normally not together in the same sentence.
Meanwhile we got back from the Emergency Room late Friday morning. Ari turned out to have upper repertory infection and possible early pneumonia. I ended up calling off work at 2:30am […]

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Ari has graduated his Pre-pike swim class and in a couple weeks will start work on Pike swim lessons.

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There is a good way to tell when Ari is misbehaving. He’ll say “Don’t look at me,” he may expand this to say what it is he is doing that you are not supposed to see him doing. An “Oops! Sorry!” may also be a clue.
We may take him roller skating Saturday… I haven’t been […]

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Ari the other day, nor for the first time, broke my heart. I had to go to work, and Ari just started balling, crying and saying “But you don’t want to. You want to stay and play with me. It’s play in my room day.” I actually cried on the way to work, thank God […]

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I talked about Nuttin But Stringz a while ago, and now the video is out there I thought I would share the video on Noggin that got us to learn about them. When Ari sees the video he pretends he has a violin. Check out their official site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cB2Q8I_7PQ

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Ari wanted to type something so here we go:
123456790qwertyuiopasdfghjklrgeyreh

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Enough political posts today.
Ari is wearing regular underwear now, except at night where we still put him in a regular diaper. He is now more or less officially out of pull-ups except on trips.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t checked out the rest of the Ari Updates in a while, be sure to do so now, lots […]

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The video quality here isn’t great, as it was taken with a camera phone, but here is a video of Ari, at the end of which he claims he is Darth Maul (lead villain in Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace. The look on his face was very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oya6a1CuwAs

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Ari’s favorite music video of late is Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights. He does it with lots of her dance moves while he watches it and it can be quite funny…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdmvs7r1u9c

He is also a fan of Ben Harper’s A Better Way, sometimes asking “I want the Better Way song.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TILzJ-_4urk

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Sara’s mom took Ari and Sara to COSI yesterday (I had to work so I couldn’t join them). From all reports, Ari had a great time as one would expect of Ari at a science museum like that. Ari was asleep when I got home from work, and I haven’t got much out of him […]

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The newest video I uploaded to YouTube. Here Ari is dancing while watching Lord of the Dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izfal8uqmns

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Ari has been full into asking “why?” for a little while now. Anything somebody says to him is followed by “why?”, and he’ll just ask “why is ?” off and on as well.
He is also into saying “I want to ask you something?”, although it sometimes comes out as “I want to tell you something?”, […]

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Last Saturday, after we cleaned the house, I took Ari out of Sara’s hair for a little while and took him to a public star gazing party at the Astronomy Club of Akron (I myself was a member… 30 or so years ago…) Ari had a great time, as did I. These star gazing parties […]

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