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	<title>Cool Cucumber</title>
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	<description>Down with gourds, up with chocolate...</description>
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		<title>Birth Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, January 10th was the day I woke up to contractions.  Rob and I were planning on getting up at 8:00 to go to church, but I was aware of light, intermittent pains in my abdomen at 5:00 or so.  I woke up and started wondering if I had dreamed them (I had woken up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iris Amelia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iris Amelia was born January 11, 2010 at 3:32 in the morning.  She weighed 8 lbs. 5 oz. and measured 20.5 inches.  We are all doing well and resting at home.  I will write up her birth story here soon before I start forgetting parts!


 


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		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2010/01/21/iris-amelia/</link>
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		<title>40 Weeks</title>
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Well, 40 weeks is here, and we’re very excited to meet our daughter.  Now, for the waiting…
Really, we’re fine with waiting.  Some other people in our lives (Mom? Sound familiar?) are a little more impatient.  (Just teasing, Mom- we can’t wait for you to be a grandma either!)  I am working my last day of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2010/01/06/40-weeks/</link>
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		<title>2009 Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, another good year of reading has passed, and I wanted to review the books I have read.  My goal was to read 50 books, and alas, I ended the year 4 books short.  I blame my iPhone which was purchased in November (and the Words with Friends app- argh, so addictive)!
Here’s a run-down of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2010/01/05/2009-books/</link>
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		<title>39 weeks</title>
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Taken with Royal and his new jacket that he got for Christmas!
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		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2009/12/30/39-weeks/</link>
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		<title>38 Weeks… Merry Christmas!</title>
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This week, Rob’s family came to visit for Christmas.  His sister Melissa, her husband Jim, and his parents all stayed with us.  We had such a great time hanging out with them and playing our new Wii!
Notice the gift on Royal’s nose?  And the corner that is slightly torn open?  The photo for Week 38 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2009/12/30/38-weeks%e2%80%a6-merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>36 weeks… the week my hand fell off</title>
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This is a little late because I’m almost 38 weeks as I write this… but the past 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind.
For 36 weeks, I posed with thank-you notes because I had so many to write.  I had a family/close friends baby shower on the 6th of this month, then (as a surprise) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2009/12/21/36-weeks%e2%80%a6-the-week-my-hand-fell-off/</link>
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		<title>35 weeks</title>
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Royal looks the way I feel right now… totally worn out!  Teaching for the past three days (after a wonderfully relaxing week off) has been so difficult!  I feel like my energy is waning and I have no way to bring it back.  Only two and a half more weeks until winter break… I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2009/12/02/35-weeks/</link>
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		<title>32 weeks and the Boppy</title>
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When I told Rob I wanted to include one of the Boppy pillows that were given to us in the weekly belly pic, he said, &#8220;What&#8217;s it for?&#8221;.  As I tried to explain, I realized that I really didn&#8217;t know.  &#8221;Um&#8230; for nursing????&#8221;  The Boppy web site was very helpful in figuring out that these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coolcucumber.net/2009/11/11/32-weeks-and-the-boppy/</link>
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		<title>31 weeks</title>
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Everything&#8217;s still going well!  We started our birth class three weeks ago and now we&#8217;re actually getting to the good stuff&#8230; labor, what happens at each stage, Rob&#8217;s role in the whole thing, etc.  Fun fun!
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