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There's so much to share, mostly about Sarah of course, but I can't seem to get past the mud bog that is our front yard or the incessant sound of trickling rain. Chinese water torture is no myth, my friends! But, I don't want to talk about the weather.

I want to write about the random music mix that I let my computer pick for my mp3 player the other day. It churned out an astonishing compilation of John Denver, Milli Vanilli, and gangsta rap. Wow! Going from happy, sappy Rocky Mountain High, to lip-syncing make-up wearing Germans telling me it's all true (oooh...oooh...oooh I love you), to angry, rapping criminals looking for places to stash their yams and cock their glocks (I don't even know what half of that means!) all during a single jog is enough to make you wonder whether you've had an adrenaline overload or are on the verge of a cerebral aneurysm. See, but I can't write about that, because during this musical assault, I was jogging IN THE RAIN!

I also want to write about Sarah's daily vocabulary explosion. She's throwing words like crumbs, sink, towel, ladder and vacation into full blown sentences. She even corrected me the other day. We were in the backseat of my car. She had a bright red leaf in her hand and was telling me all about how birds eat leaves. Because I can't control my mouth, I tried to chime in with other animals that also eat leaves, but I couldn't think of any. So, like a fool, I blurted out that squirrels eat leaves. Sarah looked at me with a mix of extreme pity and amazement that someone so stupid could have given birth to her and managed to sustain a human for so long. Then, she said very slowly, so her poor dumb mama could understand, "No. Squirrels eat nuts." (For the record, Mike says he's never seen a bird eat a leaf, so Sarah is also wrong, wrong, wrong. Take that wonder kid!) But, I can't write about this either, because we were in the backseat of my car stripping off Sarah's soaked clothes. See, she had gotten wet splashing in RAIN puddles. Can you feel my pain?

Oh, forget it. I think I'll go back to working on that ark.