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Yay - Heroes starts back up on NBC tomorrow night. If you haven't been watching it yet this season, you need to start. It's one of the best damn shows on TV right now.

Neighborhood activism

Can't believe I didn't post that last week the expansion of our neighborhood conservation district passed the final stages. Vickery Place was made a conservation district a few months ago, but the area covered was just a portion of the neighborhood. We then fast-tracked additional blocks into the district, our block included. The conservation district designation puts a few limitations on what can be built with the hopes of maintaining some of the charm of our 90+ year old neighborhood. Jim and I are very happy about this. And I'm quite proud of my husband. He was our block representative and spent many hours pounding the pavement looking for support among our neighbors.

In some sad neighborhood news, we discovered that Whole Foods will be moving into the Minyards location in Lakewood. Good for the company in that the building here was unable to expand so they can now build an 80,000 sq ft store and still be in East Dallas, but bad news for those of us who have gotten used to a Whole Foods being four blocks away.

A few photos

Just pulled some photos off the camera and thought I'd share a few. A couple from the Kennemer Christmas celebration (held on December 16) and some from a gorgeous day we had last week.

My kids love spending time with their cousins. I'm sure something very important was being discussed at the top of the slide right here.


Emma was watching Alex pile leaves at the bottom of the slide, for reasons only his tiny mind knows.


Grace wanted to show off her new Disney Princess scooter Santa brought her for Christmas this year. I had to take lots of pictures because she wanted to be sure I caught her right leg sticking up in the air just so.


I looked out the back door and saw Alex decked out in his cowboy hat, riding around on the stick horse Santa brought him. I could barely keep from laughing while taking taking the picture.


For some reason Grace decided to pull out the boogie boards so she and Alex could surf on the lawn. Not moving of course - they were having a great time just standing on the boards.


Alex shows off his surfer moves.

Big milestone?

So proud of Alex tonight. After bath he tells me he wanted to pee on the potty. We had a back and forth discussion of whether he wanted to sit on the potty seat or not, and I finally understood that he wanted to "pee like Daddy". So my little man actually STOOD up and peed in the potty! I know that doesn't sound like it is too exciting, but it is in our house. He tried that before in months past, but always chickened out once he got on the stool and ended up just sitting down. Alex couldn't wait to get up the stairs to tell Jim all about it. I love that little guy.