This morning Violet was watching as I was putting my birthday checks in the mail to send to the bank. I endorsed the back of the check with my signature and Violet asked “Why did you scribble on the check?” I told her that this was my signature. She asked “What is a signature?” I…
Hayden has gone from not too super talkative to full sentences, full thoughts, full stories, and strong opinions. It seems like it has happened just overnight, but I’m sure this has been gradual, yet, I think that this morning I seemed to notice it more. Both kids are now beginning to attempt to help me…
As you may or may not know, Hayden is in big boy underwear. He has been in big boy underwear for the past few days now. For the most part he has been doing well going pee. He has not however ben doing well at all doing #2. For a couple of days he has…
I know that it is already the 24th of July. So I’m only a few days late writing about the 4th of July, but I’m sure you can all understand. This was the first year that we have taken Violet to the fireworks. We decided to go to the fireworks show in Muskegon at Heritage…
A few days ago we got rain while we were sleeping. In addition to the rain, we got thunder and lightning. This was good for the plants outside and normally it is a non-event for the inhabitants in our house as well. The other night however, Hayden found the thunderstorm a bit loud. There was…
I took the kids to Meijer while Libby cleaned the house. The kids wnted pretzels so I got those for the kids and some beer for Libby and I. We all had pretzels and hummus while Libby and I had some beer too. Beer at 10am after taking both kids to Meijer is warented. (The…
Tonight Hayden, Violet, and I went for a loop around the block on tricycle, bicycle, and foot, respectively. When we got home we had popsicles. As Hayden was eating a popsicle he saw a magazine we got in the mail for the previous owner. Since it had farm equipment in it he was very excited…
