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	<title>Buttons Aren&#039;t Toys!</title>
	<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com</link>
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		<title>How to get your toddler to eat a daily allotment of fruits and veggies in one sitting. This post is boring unless you actually have a toddler on a hunger strike.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have done extensive field testing with my single toddler for an extended period of time over the last two weeks to perfect this recipe for the perfect sloppily thrown together smoothie.  My 2 year old gets more than a full cup of fruits and vegetables (veggies which she normally detests, like tomatoes&#8230;she won&#8217;t even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=375</link>
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		<title>For about five minutes, I was genuinely concerned she had eaten something out of the trash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scene: Our kitchen. Ari is standing in the dining room, playing, while I make breakfast.
Ari (shouting to me): &#8220;MOMMY! I have teeskums in my mouth!&#8221;
Me: &#8220;What&#8217;s a teeskum?&#8221;
Ari (walking into the kitchen and opening her mouth, revealing nothing): &#8220;This! I put it in my mouth!&#8221;
Me (definitely not panicking AT ALL at this point): &#8220;What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=373</link>
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		<title>With so many rules, it&#8217;s truly a wonder they learn anything at all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing list of the rules of our house. We add to it daily.

No eating New Hampshire.
Puppies can lick people, but people can&#8217;t lick puppies.
Pouring milk on yourself does not make you cleaner, it makes you messier.
Don&#8217;t show me your boogers.
Stop trying to lick my tongue, that&#8217;s just weird.
I don&#8217;t care what it was originally, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=353</link>
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		<title>It helps that she was excited about it, it really does</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now at UND we have access to two dorms. One is Smith, and one is Fulton. We live in Fulton, but everyone studies in Smith&#8217;s basement because it has air conditioning, and is in fact the only place we really have access to anything cold.
Today we were on our way back from dinner and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=351</link>
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		<title>Goldilocks and the Kidnapped Sister</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In grad school right now, I’m teaching a lab where I’m learning Hindi. It’s now the 8th week, and we are telling each other stories. They are very basic, and consist of sentences like, “The bear is brown. The bear is holding a hat. The bear feels angry.” The problem is, my lab group is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=345</link>
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		<title>This was an actual conversation my husband and I just had</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justin: &#8220;So if you could pick one TV series&#8230;&#8221;
Me: &#8220;Firefly.&#8221;
Justin: &#8220;&#8230;to continue&#8230;&#8221;
Me: &#8220;Firefly.&#8221;
Justin: &#8220;&#8230;and retain all it&#8217;s former charm&#8230;&#8221;
Me: &#8220;Firefly.&#8221;
Justin: &#8220;&#8230;would you pick&#8230;&#8221;
Me: &#8220;Firefly.&#8221;
Justin: &#8220;&#8230;Firefly,&#8230;&#8221;
Me: &#8220;Firefly.&#8221;
Justin: &#8220;&#8230;Lost,&#8230;&#8221;
Me: &#8220;Firefly.&#8221;
Justin: &#8220;&#8230;or Harry Potter?&#8221;
Me: &#8220;Fire&#8230;oh, crap.&#8221;

(PS &#8211; Turns out? Still Firefly.)
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		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=341</link>
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		<title>I went rock climbing for the first time in a decade. Spoiler alert: it ends well.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to pick up rock climbing for a long time &#8211; years, actually &#8211; but never had the time or the money or both at once. I finally decided to force the issue and just go! After much research (what? me? research? never), I finally decided on a gym pretty close to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=334</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: For anyone who needs a laugh today</title>
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Wordless Wednesday hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom.
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		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=327</link>
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		<title>Ari, on spankings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporal punishment from the eyes of a just-turned-toddler.
&#8220;Now my butt has an owie!&#8221;
*pout* &#8220;Kiss it and make it better.&#8221;
&#8220;I give mommy &#8216;pankins on your butt. I kiss your butt make it better?&#8221;
&#8220;Don&#8217;t &#8216;pank my hand! &#8216;Pank my butt.&#8221;
(I just realized how obsessed my child is with the word &#8220;butt.&#8221;)
&#8220;Gimme a &#8216;pankin! Then next time I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=317</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Something about this picture makes me want to be six years old having watermelon seed spitting contests on the backporch listening to Poppy tell that same story we heard yesterday.</title>
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Wordless Wednesday hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom.
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		<link>http://buttonsarentoys.com/?p=315</link>
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