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Story time at the dinner table

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Last night, unprompted, Piper started reeling off some stories of her own.  I grabbed for my recorder and got several of them down. Recurring themes: a little girl going to bed, snuggling with her polar bear, curtain rods, drinking juice. Piper Tells a Story: 1 (01:57) Piper Tells a Story: 2 (01:09) Phrases that I’ll [...]

Audio snippet: Laughter in Burgville

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Piper and Addie laughing Above, Addie and Piper sharing some chuckles at dinner last night.

Piper Notes #2: not our monkey, cooing, Governors’ Island

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Piper-Notes-2 Here’s the next installment of our Piper Notes. Included in today’s installment: A failed attempt to get a laugh out of her using bathroom humor, and our lamentations that she is not our trained monkey A review of her accomplishments in the last six weeks, interspersed with random coos, cries, and snorts, painstakingly hand-collected [...]