You Could Say We’re Going Through a Sticker Phase.

Bennett has twice this week already created what he calls “Sticker Man,” whereby he covers himself in as many stickers as he can. I don’t care that he does this for two reasons:
1. He stays out of trouble for a very long time while placing the stickers, and Jack Henry usually joins him (though [...]

A Birthday Gift

You know I love Compassion International.
To me, the most powerful testimonies for why this program works is to hear from adults who were sponsored as a child, and what it meant to them. I recently read Peninah’s story; it’s so moving. Being involved with Compassion rescued her from a certain horrible future, as [...]

Because the Beginning of “Finding Nemo” Is Kinda Scary.

It’s a sick day here today…after feeling like we’d dodged a bullet when Bennett’s fever lasted less than 8 hours and produced no other symptoms (Tuesday night to Wednesday morning), Luke woke up at 5:45 today feeling warm and coughing a little. Not good.

Brothers

I’m not going to lie and say that parenting a house full of boys is all sunshine and happiness for me. There’s a lot of wrestling, fighting, and yelling that takes place on a daily basis. But in the last few days, I’ve caught all three boys playing together, and it just flat-out [...]

Bound to Happen

Well, it didn’t take long. Today, Luke forgot to bring his lunch to school! It was packed and ready to go, and in his excitement to get on the bus, he left it near the door. I left immediately after he did with the two other boys to take Bennett to preschool [...]

He Is SO the Third Child.

First of all – I linked to the “It Was the 70’s” voting in the sidebar! Keep voting!—–>
I’m (inadvertantly) keeping with a Jack Henry theme this week…more about our littlest man and what he’s like!
Poor baby. The third child in some ways gets the short end of the stick, ya know? I [...]

School Days

Now that the stress of last week and Luke starting first grade is behind us, I’m starting to get excited about what the school year schedule looks like!
Bennett started preschool this morning with quite possibly the two best preschool teachers I’ve ever met. I am so happy for him…while he is crazy rambunctious at [...]

Putting Me in My Place

This morning Bennett is working on some puzzles (seriously, he has such a lost look on his face half the day, due to missing Luke!), and he wanted some help with a particularly-hard 100 piece Star Wars puzzle.
He finished the frame of the puzzle, and after a few failed attempts at finding a piece that [...]

Hey, Wake Up!

Anyone else know that board book by heart? ‘Cause I do.  “Yawn, stretch, touch your feet, breakfast time, c’mon, let’s eat!” There’s plenty more where that came from.
Anyway, last weekend, after baby Will’s baptism, we came home with a sleeping Jack Henry in the backseat. I brought him in and laid him [...]

Sprinkler Fun

After school on Wednesday, we got the sprinkler out, and the boys had a blast. I just stood back and snapped pictures! Jack Henry was pretty timid the whole time, but he did still end up pretty wet. The glee is contagious when they’re in the backyard running through the sprinkler…it so [...]