I got the kids up at what they felt was the crack of “what the heck are we doing awake” o’clock. They grumbled, they moaned, Nathaniel stuck his head under the pillow and burrowed down in the blanket…but they did all get up, get dressed and on the road on time. Nathaniel actually said "Mom, [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2007’
Did you know that a square can be a rectangle, but a rectangle can't be a square?
Wow, again with the fun week! I have to say that our time was more relaxing this week than with Give Kids the World. We had nothing to accomplish and nothing planned to do, so that made for just good down time. The kids wanted to swim as much as possible, so holding in account [...]
The hunt for the mark continues…or all about Nathaniel
For whatever reason, I love to hear my kids mispronounce things. I try to teach them tongue twisters, I let them listen to songs like “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and then I just throw words at them that I know they’ll mangle. We laugh ourselves silly because the more they laugh the worse it gets…and then we laugh [...]
Because it’s Tuesday
So, here we are at the condo…spending our quality together time…having a nice, low-key blast. And I haven’t shot a single picture. ME! No pictures. I’m sure it would be 1000 pictures of “here’s Peyton in the pool” and “here’s Nathaniel getting in the pool” and here’s Rachael walking to the pool”…I think you get [...]
public service announcements rock!
“I am a pirate! A pirate with a cell phone!” How exactly a dress on her head and a flashlight at her ear makes her a pirate, I’m not sure. She actually has a play eye patch and little toy cell phones…so this was sheer imagination at work. She walked around with that dress on [...]
