Is it possible for a 15-month-old to hit the "terrible twos" phase?  I was counting on another nine months.  Lately Mommy and Daddy's favorite word has been "no."  Hanging out around our house sounds something like this: "No, Isaac.....no.....I said NO.....ISAAC!"  I remember training our dog, N...

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Back in July when Grandma Kathy and Aunt Becky were in Cancun, we did Isaac's one year photo shoot.  We had done them when he was one month old and six months old, and we think it's important to capture this time of our lives (and not with our point-and-shoot, even though it's really good).  We hired the guy who had done our s...

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Brian came down for a visit over Labor Day and Margie at the last moment decided she couldn't wait for her November visit, so she stocked up on frozen dinners for Sam and booked her ticket south for the same week. On day 3, Adam and Brian packed up their scuba gear and we left the house, with me driving, at 7:15am for the bus station. &...

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