I made a lightning trip home to San Jose, then to LA for my cousin’s wedding, and back to Denver this weekend. I was home long enough to pick up my French Press and glean a bucket of produce from the garden to drop at the neighbor’s. I caught up with my sister’s crazy full life over pedicures. And I stayed back in my...
This weekend we went to Uncle Ron’s car show up in Loveland. We drove through a crazy thunderstorm to get there but shortly after we arrived the sun came out and proud car owners were squeegeeing off their prized beauties. Dylan’s word of the day was “awesome” … “Wow! look at that awesome blue car…and over there, another awesome car, it’s green and black!”...
When we packed up our little sedan to move to Colorado for a couple of weeks I spent the last few hours picking up messes and cleaning out rooms for some friends who would be staying in our place. By the time we left our house was like a different house – so much cleaner than usual, and it felt great! While picking up...
A week ago we packed up the car and headed out on our most ambitious (and last minute) adventure yet. A week prior we had heard concerning news about Tyler’s brother’s fight with cancer and soon after that we opted to seize the day and come be with him in Colorado. And so we ventured East. I started a collection of “out the window”...
Whitney is four! Last Saturday we celebrated with family and she marched in her annual parade and blew out candles in a giant doughnut. We’ve been constantly talking about birthdays this week. We’ll sing her “Happy Birthday, Whitney,” and she smiles and scrunches her shoulders and almost always passes it along to someone else (“Happy Birthday, Mama!”). At lunch today she turned to Tyler...
It’s no question (or surprise for me) that Daddy is absolutely adored by our two munchkins. He works from a home office every day but one during the week and on that one day it is so noticeable that something’s missing form our home. Last week on daddy’s day “in the city office” I was having breakfast with the kids and Whitney says “I...
We went on a family adventure last weekend to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I was sort of anticipating saying “okay kids, c’mon, over here there are MORE fish” because aquariums are just tanks and tanks of boring old fish, right? WRONG. What a fantastic place to take kids, especially when they are little! Why? Tons of brightly colored and oddly shaped moving things are...
Ladies and Gentlemen, Today I took my toddlers to the beach by myself. and survived. I’ve been wanting to earn my Motherhood Beach Badge for so long, but it has been a way-too-intimidating hurdle for me. There’s mess, gear, parking, cars…and what about rogue waves? Conquering this feat today was motivated by hot weather reports and sheer desperation: we just can’t repeat the past two...
After much anticipation (and years of jumping on the bed), Whitney has finally reached the JUMP milestone. Yay! For those of you who might not have the opportunity to witness the many little steps that make up something like jumping (since most often a kid hits a certain point and you say “jump” and he just does it, right?) here’s what it looked like...
Proof that the neighborhood kitty actually let us pet her once… He rides in his own now, and pops his back foot. Fell asleep reading…just like his daddy. Best way to eat greens…a daily ritual for us now. Home made root chips. Not bad! Not a big fan of hot oil splatter burns, though. 🙁 Child labor. But if Daddy’s doing it, it must...
Me: “Dylan, tell Daddy where we went after nap!” Dylan: “poo poo” Me: “Dylan, which book do you want to read?” Dylan: “poo poo” Whitney: “poo poo” <sigh> The potty talk has begun. I should have seen it coming when a few months ago the ketchup bottle squirted and Dylan started laughing uncontrollably. Is it coincidence that bathroom humor is kicking in shortly after...
Happy July from our little patriot… Apparently, Gramby has been pledging allegiance to the flags on their walks. This little guy has got a memory like a steel trap. True, he has no idea what he is saying except that it goes with our flag, but I’m still proud of him. I hope he keeps this ability as he grows! Whitney tapping into her...