I'm finding that "hack" is pretty much a synonym for "mom."

Noun 1. hack - one who works hard at boring tasks. a. unskilled person - a person who lacks technical training. b. plodder, slogger - someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours. Verb 2. hack - be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office." 6. hack - fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best."

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  17th May

  This is what happens when boys wake up too early. From this picture, I can tell that Chris woke up first, threw everything out of his crib then climbed out. Then he threw more toys around, shook the floor lamp, played with the window shade and took the stick securing the window. At some point, Mike climbed into his crib. Then Chris, with the window stick, climbed onto his dresser, knocked over the changing pad and somehow got stuck.

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  15th May

  On Saturday, as we hung out outside the Ben & Jerry’s at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, Chris picked up my phone and pretended to talk on it. We noticed when he started holding up his hand, palm up, as if he was exclaiming something to someone on the phone. What could he possibly have been pretending to talk about????

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  11th May

  Cookie cookie Sundae!! #hackmom http://bit.ly/ZQYEW8

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• Mike: - Mama, I hurt my finger!

  Me: - Oh no, you hurt your finger? Were you jumping?

  Mike: - No, I was hopping.

  Me: - You were hopping? Mike, hopping is the same as jumping.

  Mike: - *walks away*
  28th April
  Semantics
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  26th April

  Um…where’s Chris?

  Turns out he climbed out of his crib, then fell asleep on the floor. #hackmom http://bit.ly/ZzQRjD

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• Aa
  18th April
  What a morning
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• 17th April

  Playdate at the Natural History Museum

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  16th April

  Strawberry banana smoothies and all of a sudden they’re angels. 😇👼 #hackmom http://bit.ly/15e93S6

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  8th April

  Um, Chris? Really? #hackmom http://bit.ly/ZhejMO

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• 4th April

  Mike is such a talker these days. Yesterday morning, he woke up and promptly and very seriously began to discuss all the misdeeds his daycare buddy Riley (a girl) perpetrated — pushing him, getting a timeout, etc. When I delivered him to daycare, it turned out those were his misdeeds, not Riley’s. Anyway, I’ve been wanting to capture one of our conversations and finally succeeded earlier this week. There are just some days when Mike is talkative on the way to daycare, and I struggle to get my phone recording and into the right position to catch it. I got lucky.

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