One Year Old
Sentences!
While having the boys at my house this last weekend, I heard Logan use what I could consider to be a full sentence. When I first got home with the boys I had the baby gate up at the bottom of the stairs to keep them downstairs for a bit while I unloaded the car [...]
Letting Go and Having Fun
I’m extremely stubborn. It’s something that has caused a multitude of problems for me and that I’m constantly working on. It’s particularly difficult being a mom because I want to be the laid back mom that is able to let the boys get dirty and make messes and just go with that flow [...]
Happy Birthday Forest and Logan
Tomorrow the boys turn two. I don’t even know where to begin or what to say.
I love the way Logan calls animals and things “cute” with the sweetest accent. I love how he says “hi” and “bye” in a very high pitched voice.
I love how Forest dances around all [...]
Christmas Tree Parent Hack
I’m not the most creative person, as in I have trouble thinking outside of the box. I’m stubborn. But as anyone will tell you, when you have kids, you learn to be less stubborn. You learn to bend a bit. And so when we put up the Christmas tree and Logan [...]
Numbers and songs
I’ve started introducing the boys to numbers and counting. They already know all the capital letters of the alphabet and most of the small letters, although we are still working on the order via the alphabet song, which they love. It’s adorable to see them trying to count EVERYTHING. It’s a lot [...]
Choice
Both of the boys can nowadays be quite contrary. They say “no” for the sake of saying “no” even if they really want to say “yes”. While up in DFW for Thanksgiving my Mother told me about a trick that she learned a while back that works really well in that when a toddler is [...]
Forest the Negotiator
Last week I took the boys up to DFW to see my family for Thanksgiving. I noticed over this trip that Forest has begun trying to negotiate for the things he wants. There were two really good examples of this during the trip:
First, ever since the Childrens’ Retreat out at Earthsprings Forest has been obsessed [...]
“Cookies” he said
I threw it out to the world for suggestions of blog posts and all of the responses were good ones. The first was from an old friend from Virginia. He and I dated briefly and were good friends for some years while I lived in the DC area. Now he has a [...]
Brotherhood
The boys may not do everything together but they definitely have a strong attachment to each other that is becoming more and more obvious as they get older.
Ever since their ability to crawl out of their cribs began a few months back, they love to fall asleep in the same bed. At first we thought [...]
Update before Thanksgiving
We are less then a month away from the boys turning two and as much fun as these days can be, they seem to also be that difficult. The boys are cutting their canniness and Tracey gave me good warning that it is the worst! It’s been so bad that we’ve been letting [...]
