I haven’t done a Wednesday photo post in awhile. But I took the girls out for pictures last week. There may have been a Dairy Queen treat as a bribe. Maybe.Okay for sure. For me. It’s so strange this year to have a warm March and April. To have the trees blooming so early. …
The big girls went back to school today. It was a happy day until I realized how much Astrid counts on her big sisters to play with her. They play ring-around-the-rosie and hours of Candy Land. They play Little People farm and baby dolls. They sit and read to her and play dress-up. They…
Daily. No hourly my kids do things that make me go “OH YES, this is why you go to the G&T school! You are so brilliant my perfect, smart and amazing kids!” For example, just last week as I was cooking dinner my kids came into the kitchen to get a glass of water….
In the afternoon of November 1, 2011 and victim was either in the basement doing laundry, upstairs putting away laundry, in the bathroom hiding from her children, or perhaps on twitter. No matter what the victim was doing – during this brief period of time – the three young children of the victim were unsupervised. …
Eloise asked for her own room last year. Last year she also started having sleepovers more. Turns out ALL of her friends have their own room. Turns out ALL of her friends also ONLY have brothers. When Eloise has a sleepover here(which is so far rare..because I’m mean) we just kick Esther out into Astrid’s…
I’m blogging tonight and am very short on time. It’s busy here. Work has started. I have very few free moments. Working nearly full-time from home with three kids at home has it’s challenges. Even with amazing kids. I laugh on the phone as I talk to customers and bosses as my kids scream in…
Dear Astrid, Two. Just yesterday as I listened to you scream again – but this time about which show you wanted to watch before nap, which resulted in no show because I am mean like that – I tried to remind myself what a true miracle you are. Because frankly, you are difficult. And not…
More wordless/wordful Wednesday and beautiful pictures at SevenClownCircus and Parenting for Dummies…
It starts innocently enough. “Hey Eloise, grab a diaper for me.” “Eloise hon, will you play with the baby for a few minutes while I cook dinner.” “Sweetie, your baby sister is crying, can you sing and or just talk to her for a sec?” Eloise, just feed her a few spoonfuls while I get…
I love when my 3 babies take baths together. They will probably continue doing it until I point out the obvious to the big girls… ..that it is very likely they are swimming in baby pee.
This is love. Love is… Sisters… Who insist on putting on their suits and getting in the water in their baby sister’s itty bitty baby pool with her. Even when they are too big. Even after she pees in the water. This is love. Sisters. Linking up today with Angie at Wordful Wednesday… ] ..and…
We finished up our book for the night. Esther chose an “I love you” type book…you know “I love you so much…blah blah blah…the stars and moon aligned when you were born..blah blah blah…my life was complete when I held you for the first time…blah blah blah…” I closed the book, and kissed them both…
You take your baby to the playground for the first time. You remember that day – they were about 9 months old and you pushed them gently in the baby swing, making small talk with the new mom beside you, scanning the playground. Looking at your future. You watch the parents of the 2 year…
That is Astrid’s call to us constantly. She is crawling and she is stuck. She is mad. She is left in the room alone and crawls to find us after screaming her displeasure of being left. She is outside and is putting every leaf and grass blade in her mouth and she needs constant attention….
