This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Nov
12
2012
Every four years, a certain word is used much more frequently than usual. Here is a chart of that:
I expect a smaller spike, a localized maximum, around January 20, 2013.
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 26:4
Nov
8
2012
Deodorants are well named. Their names evoke connotations that relate well to their purpose and sway you to buy them (or at least think favorably of them). I thought I would invert their names and see what happened.
We’ll start with an easy one:
Speed Stick
versus
Nov
6
2012
About a year ago, I wrote this post comparing Ohio State’s football coach to Adam Sandler.
I still think it was a good likeness:
After watching some more football last weekend, I thought I would try a couple more separated-at-birth photos.
Exhibit A:
In case you’re wondering, that is Bret Bielema (head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers) and Al Bundy (of Married…With Children fame).
Exhibit B:
And that is Mike Smith (head coach of the Atlanta Falcons) and Steve Martin (of Father of the Bride movie fame)
Any other coaches who resemble actors?
As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.
Ezekiel 10:22
Nov
5
2012
And now it is Delta’s turn.
It is appointed to our children once to contract roseola, and after that the judgment umm… not to get it anymore.
As you may recall from having read my roseola post from a couple years ago,
Alpha got roseola at 15 months of age,
Beta got roseola at 17 months of age,
Gamma got roseola at 11 months of age,
and now Delta got roseola at 16 months of age.
Like Gamma, his fever was slight. And he had a loss of appetite. But he doesn’t eat very well anyway, so there wasn’t much to be lost there.
It’s hard to pinpoint when or how or where he picked up the virus, since the incubation period is over a week. The only major thing we did was the Lego Fest, about 10 days before the fever started.
So now we’re 4 for 4 with kids catching roseola before they turn 18 months old.
The priest shall look at him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and the mark has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Leviticus 13:6
Nov
1
2012
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 10:14
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