Before Elise, I never realized how many learning opportunities there are in life. She is a very curious child so I am always trying to teach her about her surroundings.

Everything can be counted, coloured, named and explained. We have to repeat each word several times to help her pronounce it correctly.

Then there are the abstract concepts, like up, down, left, right, high, low, happy, sad, hungry, angry.

And I never realized how poor the English language is; never try to teach...

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I have seen a bunch of movies lately, so here are the massively detailed reviews:

• Dreamgirls - very good movie; Eddie Murphy was great, Jennifer Hudson even better; great music; a must see.
• Children of Men - I didn't get this movie; why does everyone say it is so good?
• Pursuit of Happyness - very uplifting movie and almost true! I really like Will Smith.
• Live Free and Die Hard - extremely entertaining, the second best Die Hard.
• Good Shepherd - turned it off as it was way too slow and we...

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I am very happy to report, that after tomorrow morning, Clan Dalzell is debt free! Assuming of course, that you don't count our mortgage as debt.

It took an unexpected event to do so, but what the heck, it still counts, right?

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Here is the result of us teaching Elise the Mah Na Mah Na song.

The first few words are "Hi Dave". Dave is Christine's Muppet buddy.

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