Yesterday I read someone’s blog post about taking her son outside to paint the snow and I got nostalgic about the times my boys painted and played in snow in our bathtub. We did it last winter and this winter too but winter can feel so long and the last time we did this in [...]
Jamie recently began going in happily (even when awake) and sleeping beautifully the entire night in her crib and then she learned how to CLIMB OUT! She climbed out without falling because she is a good monkey but I couldn’t take the chance that while I was still asleep one morning she would fall, so [...]
Our boys are very creative players and yesterday morning (and much of the day) they were prairie dogs. They started making their home by pushing the chairs into position and getting pillows and blankets on their own but I did help by attaching the big sheet with clothes pins and grippy clips. Using the pop [...]
Sickness won out over everything on Valentine’s Day and all our plans were changed. Luckily the strawberries hadn’t gone moldy and we dipped them in chocolate last night instead (along with mini plain donuts, pretzels and bananas). The kids were so cute and messy and we all enjoyed our belated dessert and the bath afterward! [...]
Years ago I became hooked on a show out of the UK called Junkyard Wars. Two teams would be challenged to build something in 10 hours using parts from the shows junkyard. I loved watching the teams struggle to find the right parts and hobble together some amazing machines in such a short amount of [...]
He is beautiful, photogenic, a royal pain in the ass, and we love him. Reuben is an excellent jumper. When he was only a couple years old he jumped high for a ball and shattered his leg when he landed. He now has a steel plate and a dozen screws, but he can still hop [...]
I think having a temp that got above 103 at times the last few days has fried my brain so I won’t write too much BUT I wanted to thank John for taking over for me and doing everything the last 2 days while I’ve been useless! He is sick too so I really feel [...]
I heard about a great free kids program on Jumping Monkeys a few weeks ago called Alphababy. This is a Mac only program so when we got our new computer I was excited to get a chance to try it out. Alphababy is very simple concept. When you run it the screen turns white and [...]
I apologize for the deluge of Mac tips this week. My plan had been to write those while they were fresh, but spread them out to one a week. Unfortunately we’ve all been sick this week. I’m feeling lousy, but Heather is worse with flu like symptoms that have her confined to bed watching Some [...]
I can’t stop sneezing and blowing my nose! I haven’t been up to writing any good posts this week BUT I have found some fun blogs out there. Thanks for the links when I asked for non-ranting blogs! Those led to more blogs, I really like the blogroll thing and I have started adding to [...]
