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Just today Leif started using consonants. His main forms of communication are now ga-ga-ga-ga-ga and a high pitched shriek. I much prefer the babbling.

He's also learned to take things out of boxes, and is starting to get the hang of putting them back in again. Not that I'm counting on having his help cleaning any time soon.

He didn't like his first swimming lesson very much. We skipped the second because it was awfully cold (Though not as cold as today. We had a windchill of -8 when I got up!). Hopefully Monday will go better. He enjoys baths so much that I thought he'd really like the pool, but the water is cooler, and he seems to take after me and hates getting his face wet.

Right now he's chewing on a stick of celery. He likes chewing on everything, especially things that mommy and daddy chew on.

At the doctor's on Wednesday, he was 17lb 1oz and 27 inches. I thought he weighed more than that, but we'd been weighing him with clothes and a diaper on, and I suppose that makes a difference.

He's currently petting and singing to the cat. They're quickly learning to be more wary of him and his grabby hands.

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I just made cookies.

It was kind of stupid of me to make cookies, as koyote is on a low-carb diet, and I'm kind of pretending to be, but I got the idea of mexican chocolate cookies, and decided I had to make them.

They're a standard chocolate chip recipe, with mexican chocolate (the type you use to make Mexican hot chocolate) crushed up into approximately chip-sized chunks.

I used a whole piece (patty? hexagonal prism?) of chocolate. The process of crushing left me with a lot of powdered chocolate, so I just threw that in with it. If I were doing it again, I'd probably use 1 1/2 or two hexagonal prisms, as the flavor is really mild.

We cut the sugar in half (used only the white sugar, not the brown sugar, and threw in a tablespoon of honey, too), and it was still probably too much. The chocolate has a lot of sugar compared to your normal semi-sweet chocolate.

Possibly a little less salt, too.

These are good stress relief cookies because you have to crush up the chocolate. I used a pestle. A clean hammer would probably work well, too.

Because I didn't use enough chocolate, they aren't really what I was hoping for. Still good, just not the exact flavor I wanted. Oh well, I'm not making more any time soon. It's not as much fun when you're supposedly dieting.

Speaking of cookies, this has to be the most screwed up cookie recipe I've ever heard of. I dare you to try it.