{"id":1217,"date":"2008-01-03T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/01\/03\/where-weve-been\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T19:06:51","slug":"where-weve-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Where We’ve Been"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may have noticed, we’ve been absent from here for a few weeks. A good chunk of that was due to the holidays and our trip home to see our parents. During that time, Liza said her first semi-word: Pop. That would be my dad’s nickname among his grandchildren, and given that she only had eyes for him while we were there, I have gone ahead and written her out of my will.<\/p>\n

Liza and Eli received their bounty of toys. Eli was particularly taken with a set of Tinkertoys two good friends of ours gave him. He would put a stick into one of the hubs, wave it around, and say, “This is a banger! Bang! Bang!” while smashing it into his other toys. He did build non-banger things, but the banger was his favorite by far.<\/p>\n

We also secured a Wii, which has provided much entertainment. Eli likes bowling, though his release is so slow that the ball meanders towards the pins. Then again, he got more strikes than I did. He also likes “Super Mario of the Galaxy”.<\/p>\n

Other random notes:<\/p>\n