Development
Where is this going?
Sometimes, I realize that I cannot anticipate every conversation with a three-year old. Here’s a summary from the other day while driving home from daycare: Violet: Is glass fragile? Me: Yes Violet: How fragile? Me: Well, if you drop it, it could break. Violet: Are the car windows made of glass? Me: (starting to grasp…
A Week Away
I had every intention of blogging each day while Mike was in Puerto Rico so he could see all of the awesome things the kids were doing, but as you can see, that didn’t happen. As Mike said though, we were able to talk to him on the phone each day and the kids made…
Obsess much?
Hayden’s obsession with vacuum cleaners has hit another level. My house has never been quite so well cleaned (at least the carpeted sections of the floor). He asks me to vacuum at least a couple hundred times a day – and if you think I’m exaggerating, check out the video below. This is just 20…
Growing Trees – Part 3
The apple tree continues to grow (Part 1, Part 2). As can be seen from the picture on the right, the original apple tree now has a sibling. The proximity of the two trees with respect to one another is not ideal, but what do you expect when a three and a half year old…
Two Pea Bah
Hayden continues to set the table (See original). This morning Hayden wanted protein. He went into the corner cupboard and reached for the peanut butter. Since one isn’t enough, he went for a second. When he put it on the table, he proudly exclaimed “two pea bah” for two peanut butters. We now know the…
Growing Trees – Part 2
Fuji Apple Sprout It has been almost two weeks since we planted the seeds. Nothing has sprouted, so Libby and I were thinking about composting the dirt and “broken” seeds. We were hesitant to, however, since Violet has been checking them every day and asking us when they were going to sprout. The answer to…
Hapa-Ge-Ge!
After breakfast I was cleaning Hayden and he said with much urgency “Hapa-Ge-Ge”. In the language of Hayden, that means “I have to go pee”. After I cleaned him up, I rushed him to the bathroom, got his diaper off and sat him on the toilet. He started to pee and the stream went right…
Silence makes me nervous
With two young kids, there never seems to be more than moments of silence – and those times are generally when they are sleeping or eating (only when they get started eating, however). So, when there comes some time when I don’t hear either of them, it makes me nervous. There was one point the…
Dreams of a Future
The other night at dinner, Mike and I were talking about finances and how much we were putting away into the kids’ 529 accounts. Violet asked us what a 529 account is, and we explained that we are saving money for when she and Hayden are old enough to go to college. We talked about…