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		<title>Down With Princesses: Eight More Things I Never Thought I&#8217;d Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Did you know that fairy princesses grow up to be wicked witches?”
(During a bath.) “I have to run into the bedroom for a minute. Keep talking so I&#8217;ll know you haven&#8217;t drowned.” 
“If you ever date someone who drives an Escalade, I&#8217;ll disown you.”
“I&#8217;ll love you almost as much if you have an outie.”
“Who told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Where are we going today, daddy?&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 08:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Where are we going today, daddy?&#34;





Baby Day Planner reprise.           (The year is 2007.)




What startled me about the question was how long it had been since I&#8217;d heard it. From the time she was about a year and a half old, Boo asked me that question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desperate for a Hair Ribbon</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/04/29/desperate-for-a-hair-ribbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;



&#160;
Girl.




We&#8217;re at the hospital getting the Blueberry&#8217;s weekly casts. She&#8217;s been called a &#34;cute boy&#34; and a &#34;big strong boy&#34; and a &#34;tough guy&#34; already and now there&#8217;s a grandma coming down the hall who&#8217;s going to call her a boy, too, I can just tell.
Clearly, I don&#8217;t really care, because I dress her like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penis Boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boys forbidden toy guns, I’m told, will chew their toast into gun shapes and shoot their baby sisters with them. They needn’t trouble themselves: boys, of course, have a built-in gun.
We were playing with five kids who always come to the playground in a pack, trailing a couple of parents. (I’ve never been able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Boobaby (part XXXV)</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/01/03/dear-boobaby-part-xxxv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Boobaby,



    
Images of Month XXXV




You turn 35 months old today, ostensibly entering the last month of your terrible twos. For most of this year you haven&#8217;t shown much tendency to the &#8220;terrible,&#8221; though the last few weeks, we&#8217;ll admit, have brought some challenges.&#160;
Not that we&#8217;re surprised. After all, we&#8217;ve taken a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Static Cling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll get scant sympathy from those of you digging out from the usual winter (or celebrating a melted Christmas, below the equator), but we&#8217;ve had a week of heavy rain here in San Francisco.
Surplus indoor time means discovering new games and also new uses for our long, unruly hair, often all at once:





Van der Graffin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Wondering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How old will you be when you no longer prefer falling asleep on my lap anymore? 




Ready to go?




How old when you stop creating outfits from two pairs of underwear, one spanky-panty, a plaid skirt and a polka-dot dress, all topped off with a fluffy tutu? Someday will you beg and plead and persuade and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swing time</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2008/11/20/swing-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco&#8217;s combined fall and winter hit today with a chilly fog up here in the western wilds. The fog at the playground was so cold that even Boo volunteered to put on her jacket &#8212; an event I was hardly ready for, since it&#8217;s so rare.




A somewhat disturbing visual, I know




Alas! The jacket wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys Are Dumb</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2008/11/17/boys-are-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boo and I went to check out a new playgroup today. Boo immediately hit it off with two of the girls and they struck up a game of (not kidding) &#8220;running errands,&#8221; caroming around on tricycles they could barely control.
&#8220;We have to go to the market to pick up some pears and bananas,&#8221; said Boo.
&#8220;Okay. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boo and Blue</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2008/11/15/boo-and-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boo is so far pretty happy about sister&#8230; 

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