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My youngest sister, Bonnie, with my newest niece, Emily.

Welcome to the world, sweet baby :)

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Today we went to the Canyon County Historical Society Museum. It was tiny place, but really well done. We had a tour guide accompany us through the whole thing, and she was dressed in period clothing. The museum had a "treasure hunt" for the kids to do, which was basically a paper with several items pictured on it that the kids could look for throughout the museum. She stressed repeatedly that they shouldn't touch anything :) Many of the items were out in the open, not in glass cases or roped off. It was cool because it made the experience more...historical? It just felt like you were really experiencing the oldness of it in a way that was uniquely different from other museums that I've been to. Fortunately, we take our kids to museums a lot, so they know how to act. By the second room, the tour guide complimented me on how well behaved my kids were :) The treasure hunt was such an awesome idea! The kids loved it and it really got them looking around the museum. At the end, if they found everything on the list, they won a little prize. Zack and Josh picked a parachute guy and Petey picked a tiny little drawing thing.

My favorite display has to be the mustache cups. They had a china cabinet full of these specially designed tea cups meant to protect the elaborate mustaches of yesteryear. Not only would the mustaches droop, but the wax they used to sculpt them would melt and drip into their tea and down their chins. What a better way to avoid the mess than a cup built to protect the 'stach?

Chris' favorite display was the working phonograph. That was pretty awesome. The kids loved the two working railroad displays. And, to top it all off, we can use this to fulfill a Cub Scout requirement.

OH! And we discovered a hugely awesome used book store. It had tons of antique books and comic books, including some beautiful copies of Amazing Stories I wonder if I could find the copy they featured on LOST? We'll go back there one day when we are kid-free. We could literally spend hours there, I'm sure.

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I've started reading books from the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list. Turns out that I'd already read 49 of them. If I read 20 a year, and I live to the average age of a western female, I should finish before I die. Here's my review of book 50:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
Told from the perspective of an autistic boy, this book is about his investigation into the murder of his neighbor's dog. In the process of his investigation, he discovers a great deal about his own life. Also, he spends a lot of time discussing his own autistic "quirks". As I read, I couldn't help but wonder how accurately it displayed how an autistic would actually write a book. I know that the author stayed true to all the characteristics of autism. But is this how an autistic would voice a story?



I enjoyed the story, but I hated it as well. The characters were deep and they had real faults. This made me quite upset at most of them. I couldn't put it down. I still can't stop thinking about it.


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