Libby

Choo Choo Train

Hayden and Violet usually come downstairs after they get dressed to have a baba beebee (vitamin) and watch some PBS kids. Today Hayden got up, got dressed, but didn't come downstairs. Expecting the worst, I walked up stairs to assess the damages. To my surprise, Hayden was playing choo choo train by himself. He made…

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New Bed

Libby was brave and took both kids to get shoes today. In addition to this, she also took them to Mattress Mart to get a bed frame for Hayden so he could have a big boy bed. It’s a good thing Libby got a bed frame because Violet was waking Hayden up from afternoon nap…

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Mom’s Night Out

Libby had a work meeting tonight so I picked up the kids and am now letting them play before Hayden's bedtime. We got home and immediately they changed into their bathing suits so they could play in the kiddy pool and sprinkler while I made dinner. So I didn't have to get them dried off,…

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Go Fish!

Monday nights are Mike’s class nights. He is able to come home home between work and class to have dinner with all of us. Tonight, we had the pool set up for the kids to play in, since it was 80 degrees and all. They loved it. Not as much as yesterday, but they still…

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One less finger…

…nail, that is. Soon. I hope. Last month or so, Violet shut Hayden’s hand in a door at daycare. It went from black, to purple to multi-colored, and finally to brown. We knew it was due to fall off, but were hoping it wouldn’t. It is currently hanging on by part of a cuticle. Since…

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Eeeeww…

On Tuesday, we went to Bob Evens (down on the farm!) for dinner since Mike was training at the Fetzer Center for work. Dinner went really well partly due to the fact that we got both kids chocolate milk with really long bendy straws. The kids both wanted breakfast for dinner, so we got them the…

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“Thursday Party”

Violet loves to sing, and now that Violet is being exposed to even more music, she loves to sing NEW songs – well, songs other than “Twinkle, Twinkle.” Her latest favorite is what she calls “Thursday Party” (“Can you say, TH, TH, THURS, THURSDAY?” – Violet). It took Mike and I a while to figure…

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