Tag Archives: parenting
Break
Last June we started second grade. We didn’t want to take the summer off because while I had a few miscarriages, we were still hopeful that I would stay pregnant at some point and I wanted to be able to take time off when the baby came. It was also nice to have that built-in …
Bobcat
My dad and both brothers are all Eagle Scouts. In fact, all of us had to stay in scouting until we earned Eagle (for the boys) or Gold (for the girls). Not that I should complain. After all, both my sister and I got to go to Europe while teenagers through scouting. It’s an experience …
City Day
Whew! What a day! Some moms in my ECHO group thought it would be a good idea to teach the kids how to ride the bus system. So we met at a mom’s house, walked to the bus stop, and rode the bus downtown. The bus stop from the mom’s house was a few blocks …
Racer is 3!
I forgot to schedule Racer’s 3 year pictures until after I scheduled Miss C’s 2 month pictures. Because I had major mommy guilt over this, I decided to do something extra special for Racer this year. He is now the official middle child and I will try my hardest to make sure he doesn’t have …
Our Lovely Miss C
Miss C reached 2 months yesterday so off we went to JC Penney to get her pictures taken. As you can see, she is filling out quite nicely and weighing in at 13 lbs, she will be caught up to Racer in no time!
Gifted Students
Ok, so my child is probably gifted. While we would need an IQ test done to have an official diagnosis, I think we’ll take the fact that at 6-years old he scores in the top ten percentile of all second graders nationwide according to the Woodcock-Johnson Normative Test as proof enough. Most of the people …
Patience, My Child. Patience.
Last night Papa Bear and I were slowly eating our dinner. Blazer had inhaled his and was ready to go downstairs and play his video games (he’s only allowed after 3 PM). We had told him we would come down and play with him when we were done eating and apparently we were taking way …
Congrats Ashley & Brandon
My sister’s friend, (and mine by extension) Ashley got married on Saturday. We decided to brave the hour-long ceremony and hour and a half drive and take all three kids to it. Unfortunately, we arrived right after the procession so didn’t get to see Aunt K walk down the aisle as a bridesmaid. Blazer was allowed …
Mama’s Doing the Crazy Dance
To be honest, three kids is kicking my butt right now. My days have been a blur that involve waking up with Miss C leaking through her diaper (despite being changed), mounds and mounds of laundry involving some combination of spit up and poop, changing diapers, bathing children, and spending four days or more on housework just to …
Some?
Racer has entered the stage of wanting to eat only what we have on our plate, especially when we have given him the EXACT same stuff on his plate. Below is a glimpse of what mealtime at our house has looked like:
