communication
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ball Pit!
One of my favorite things as a kid was playing in the ball pit at places like Chuck-E-Cheese and Showbiz Pizza, so when I saw a bag of 100 colored balls at Wal-Mart, I had to buy it to turn one of the portable cribs into a ball pit. The boys loved it too!
I think [...]
Geen!!!
Yesterday afternoon Dawn brought the boys over to my house so that I could spend some time with them after them having been gone with her on the Family Vacation all week and so she could have some time to run errands. The boys almost always want to immediately start playing video games when they [...]
Father’s Day 2008
I was fortunate enough this year to have the boys all weekend for Father’s Day weekend. We spent the entire time having fun together, which included playing with lots of toys, wrestling, going outside, watching Saturday-morning cartoons, playing in the water sprinkler, playing Mario Kart Wii (the boys LOVE the WiiWheel), learning and practicing new [...]
