Family News

…but at least I can still feed them well.
We had ham and chix chowder for dinner and homemade choc ice cream for desert.
While finishing up in the kitchen I had fun thinking about the different things being said around our front room (one of them was me, and one was Jay. The rest were [...]

I mentioned in another post that misting bottles are one prescribed “cure” for bedroom monsters. We have a green bottle in the girls’ room, but it’s not to dissolve monsters. It’s to dissolve whines.
Last week sometime we were at the store getting a new bottle for a cleaning solution. When I said [...]

Last night we put the kids in the car so I could help Jay with the machine and still not leave the kids unsupervised in the house. The girls very decided on a important activity.
We’re on our way to the store
What for?
We need… eggs.
Oh. Eggs?
Eggs for the chickens. (conserned voice) They’re [...]

Tonight I asked Melody, “What do you want for dinner?”
Without hesitation she answered, “Hot boiled beans!”
Grin.
It took me a minute to translate and make the connection (this is not a phrase she’s used before).
“And very good butter?” I asked.
*Big* grin. “Yeah!”
It’s Mother Goose.
This was a kick because she made the jump between dinner and [...]

The girls went to the hockey game tonight with Mom and Dad. It made quite an impression.
Jay says says that when Natasha sees something she wants to do that’s she’s not big enough for, she’ll pick an age at which to do it.
For example, tonight after we picked her up she was talking about [...]

Natasha was telling me this morning about her dreams, and I managed to record this much:
“I had a dream about you got married in that big dress. It was pretty pretty. And I was not there, and Melody was not there. Only Dad was there.”

Thank you, God, as this day ends
For my family and my friends.
Taking time to sit and pray,
Thank you God for this great day.
This little prayer, followed by some episode-specific praise, comes at the end of each Boz story. The girls have been watching their Boz DVDs back to back for a couple days, now.
Tonight [...]

Mom and Dad called at bedtime to sing “Happy Birthday” to Natasha. She wasn’t sure how to respond, really, but passed on a coached “thank you” quite smoothly. Then Mom asked her how it felt to be four, and whether she was growing.

“I been trying to,” she answered seriously, “but my skin won’t grow.”

A family from our church did a “special” for the service tonight, with their pre-school son playing along on his 1/4-size cello. Natasha was riveted.
After it was over I asked her if she’d like to learn guitar to play like Beren does (the idea of early lessons has been batted around) and she responded [...]

At our church we have a potluck the first Sunday of each month.
Elisha will be six months old this week, and for the first time since before he was born I brought something substantial and homemade. (I was very proud of myself).
Natasha asked that morning (yesterday) what I was making food for.
“For the potluck,” [...]