Category: Happenings

Easter Was Days Ago!

  I hope everyone found lots of eggs on Easter and that each one contained a small Reese’s peanut butter cup inside of it, and that you didn’t dump a whole bunch of those peanut butter cups inside the cab of one of your toy trucks, and that when you shook the truck to get …

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Sick as a Pookie

What do you spy in the background of this photo?   Why, yes! That’s Emrick, lying half naked across a pillow. Let’s have a closer look.   Poor Emrick was sick and miserable yesterday. He was on a vomiting rampage. I went into his room yesterday morning to find that he’d thrown up on his …

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Complaints for a Monday

  Emrick and I both came down with colds over the weekend, and I am trying desperately not to let Holly get sick. I’m sure my efforts are pointless, though, since we are pretty much attached at the torso 15-18 hours a day. I’ve been telling Emrick to keep his distance from her as well, …

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Teeth!

On Saturday, Marcus noticed that one of Holly’s bottom teeth was just starting to poke through the gum. I checked for myself and agreed. The faintest white dot was visible and I could feel the roughness with my finger. Both Marcus and I had been feeling Holly’s bottom gums once or twice a week lately …

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Emrick’s Enrolling in Preschool

I’m not sure how it is elsewhere, but around here preschool enrollment for the fall starts in January or February, depending on the school. I’d thought about enrolling Emrick this past August, but there were two problems with that: 1) he wasn’t fully potty trained, and 2) he wasn’t yet three when the local preschools …

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Holly’s Nursery

Well, I have finally started to get Holly’s nursery ready. She has been sleeping in our room (but in her crib) since we brought her home, and will continue to sleep with us for another month or so, and then off she will go to her own digs.   This is the room she is moving …

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