The weather these past couple of days has been absolutely beautiful. It’s starting to cool off a bit (meaning the highs are in the low 80’s), so adventuring during the middle of the day is much more pleasant. Seeing that the day was shaping up to be so beautiful yesterday, we packed up the kids and […]
Read MoreThe kids really love helping their mom cook – particularly pancakes. They stand on chairs so they’re up high enough to reach and help her add ingredients and mix everything together. The best part, however, comes as she is putting the pancakes on griddle. That’s when they get to pick what they want to add to […]
Read MoreIf you were to search the archives for “Church Voice”, you’d find quite a number of tales. There’s something about the particular combination of various social, parental, and priestly pressures on little kids that causes all sorts of bizarre things to happen. Not long ago, I was in church with my five year old. He […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is in the Seminole Chronicle. You can read it here. Keywords for searchers: party, couch, train, photo
Read MoreAbout a year ago, maybe more, the kids hit on the idea of putting on a show for us. Whenever they could, they’d drag us to a couch, have us sit down, and then pretend they were the center of a show. They’d either grab something and pretend it was a microphone, or they’d just […]
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading along, you’ve no doubt realized that our two boys sometimes seem as different as two people can get. This was really driven home to me the other day as we were cleaning up. They had been playing some sort of game with their mom that involved extremely large plastic bowls. I’m […]
Read MoreBoth the boys are really into pretend play. They are always turning blocks into people, pillows into trains, or otherwise converting the toys they have into pretend versions of real things. One toy that they don’t convert is their plastic toy cash register. It’s a cool little thing with a real scanner on it. You […]
Read MoreC loves Sprite. Whenever we’re at a restaurant, that’s one of the first things he asks for. We don’t usually give it to him, of course, but he always asks. In fact, he and his brother are curious about pretty much everything that adults drink. The other day when we went out for pizza, instead of […]
Read MoreOne of our birthday traditions for the kids is a trip to the Magic Kingdom at Disney. C’s trip (he just turned 5) started out a little rocky. The big guy was acting strangely all morning. When we talked about what rides we were going to do, he was quiet. When we talked about things that […]
Read More“It’s hard being five.” That was C’s opening line to me at breakfast this morning. He turned five years old last week, and apparently was finding it a bit tougher than he’d expected. “Oh yeah?” I asked, “Why?” “Yellow stickers and green stickers and red stickers… Oh yeah. It’s hard being five.” His kindergarten readiness […]
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