Family News

I just noticed this morning how many questions I use with the kids when I’m redirecting and/or annoyed with them.
When they’re mindlessly mouthing random objects:
Is that food? Does it belong in your mouth?
Seeing their use of books as stepping stones across an otherwise clear floor:
Are books for standing on?
Through squalls of desire for the [...]

N: I’m Miss Clavel.
M: I want to be Miss Clavel.
N: I want to be Miss Clavel!
[pause]
M: We could both be Miss Clavel…
N: Okay!

…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 [...]

We are *so* not buying brand-name Children’s Motrin again. The generic tastes so much better.
I’m looking today, and if we don’t have any generic in the house we’re going shopping this morning. Elisha’s learning to resist medicine, and that wasn’t the case before. This stuff is nasty, and I hope we can [...]

Elisha was up three times in the night (I can’t remember what his top-wakings number was– that phase was an understandable haze).
But thankfully we seem to be at the next phase of sleep teaching.
(The first, if I forgot to mention, at its worst had him up nearly every 45-minutes. That was doubled maybe once [...]

Jay bought two varieties of Dorito chips while we were out shopping yesterday. Both of them spicy.
Our girls love doritos, so when Jay opened a bag tonight he gave some to each of them. Poor things! They wanted so much to eat them but they were too hot. Jay said they’d [...]