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Our house was a scurry of activity during the weeks and months prior
to Jesse's birth (read The Story of Jesse's Birth)
but Barney barely took notice. We tore out and relayed all the
carpeting, stripped wallpaper and repainted every room, moved our
waterbed into the old den and assembled new baby furniture into our
old bedroom. The day we drained the waterbed, Barney had curled up on
it for a nap. I am never in a rush, so I simply start the siphon and
wander off for a couple hours, checking on the progress once or
twice. Barney was surprised (for a second or two before regaining his
'cool cat' composure) to fall asleep on a warm waterbed cover and
wake up down inside the empty shell. He stopped in his tracks, then
lept up and over the edge, then (of course) pretended that such
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