Without hardly leaving the house, we managed to have a big weekend around here. On Friday, we celebrated the Spouse’s birthday. This year’s festivities included enjoying a cake decorated by the girls… and giving the Baby her first real bath… As you can tell, she loved it. I must say… taking a bath while suspended…
Now that we’re a matter of days away from welcoming a third child into our lives, it’s beginning to hit me that I have no idea how I’m going to do this {“this” being simultaneously caring for three children ages 4 and under}. I think I naively imagined that the Toddler would be slightly more…
Yesterday morning I was talking on the phone to a friend when the Toddler came running into the kitchen with what she considered to be an urgent problem if not a full-blown emergency. Her plastic onion and lettuce ball had both {somehow} gotten stuck in the chute of one of her favorite toys–the Busy Ball…
One thing I’ve noticed about parenting is that children can serve as great mirrors for viewing your own vices. I see so many of my own quirks and weaknesses surface in their little personalities… impatience, a hot temper, stubbornness, etc. I know children can also mirror our strengths, but somehow the vices seem easier to…