A hair-raising good time…
The week before Christmas the Spouse was giving the girls a bath when he created this masterpiece:
The week before Christmas the Spouse was giving the girls a bath when he created this masterpiece:
Lately the Toddler has a fascination with locking herself in the bathroom and doing various things in there to amuse herself… playing in the sink, flushing little pieces of toilet paper, going through my make-up bag, making faces in the mirror, etc. This, though, is the most recent predicament she got herself in while playing…
Dear Dad, I can’t believe it’s been almost nine years since we lost you. In some ways it seems like yesterday, in other ways… like a lifetime ago. My girls ask about you so often. It amazes me how curious they are about who you were and what you were like. Something deep inside them…
I learned two main lessons this week at VBS… 1. Choose your parking spot very carefully. Our church is in the process of building a student center, so a huge area of the parking lot is fenced off and under construction. This makes parking a little more complicated, especially if you’re not early enough to…
Watching a two-year old learn to deal with her emotions and navigate through her day is a fascinating study in human development. Toddler 2 hit the infamous “terrible 2’s” a little early, so we’re kind of used to the intensity at this point. But, it never fails to amaze us just how dramatic her version…
Given Toddler 1’s aforementioned sensitivity to anything that hints at being scary or violent, we give careful consideration to the shows we watch on television, the movies we rent, and the books we read at bedtime. We have a pretty good idea of what she can and can’t handle, and we just avoid situations… like…
The Kindergartener had her first homework assignment over the weekend, and to be honest… I was just a little too excited about it. Her teacher has a cute honey bee theme for the classroom this year, so in step with that theme, she wanted everyone to decorate their own honeycomb with pictures or drawings of…