from out of the mouth

I love having a toddler in the house. His vocabulary is exploding with dozens of new words every day. But I don’t really understand why words like ‘duck’, ‘truck’, ’stuck’, and ‘cluck’ all come out of his mouth with an “f” at the beginning.
I’m sorry if that just caused you to think a foul word. I hate [...]

you’re okay

Despite all my positive thinking and praying efforts, the little one has come down with the stomach bug that seems to be circling the neighborhood. It is awful for anyone, I know, but I especially hate it for babies. They just have no clue what is happening to them, and as a mom I’m just left [...]

I think I’m in trouble

My boys just finished up their soccer season. The younger one is really into sports. He loves to play and he really seems to grasp what soccer is about. When he gets the ball, he immediately drives it to the goal. If the coach tells him to run a lap, he runs two, just for fun.  My [...]

back from…um…vacation?

We spent the last 4 days camping in the beautiful North Georgia mountains. I do really love to camp, thanks to a hot shower at the campground and an air mattress, but two days of packing and loading beforehand, 4 days of “roughing it” and 2 days of laundry afterward is not exactly a vacation. We really did have a [...]

baby talk

My little one is really beginning to master the use of the English language. He understands most of what I say and can follow simple instructions. He has probably close to a hundred words that he uses regularly now, and he will make an attempt to say just about everything. He is becoming quite the little parrot. [...]

ouch!

Poor, poor, little one. I am officially the worst mommy on the planet. In the last 10 days, the baby has fallen on his face twice while he was “helping” me with the yard work. The first time, he fell off one of those little toddler ride-ons and landed on his face in the driveway. [...]

happy hatch day

It recently occurred to me that I had never formally introduced our parrot, Frasier. He’s a Meyer’s parrot, one of the smaller birds in the parrot family, only a little larger than a cockatiel. We’ve had him since he was a baby. He hatched two years ago today, so I thought this would be a good [...]

ants!

Just when I thought Amber was beginning to grow out of some of her obnoxious behaviors…
Last night I let her outside for a while to do her business. When she reappeared at the back door, my son says (as he’s letting her in the house), “Amber’s filthy again!” Sure enough, her face and paws were [...]

happy birthday

My oldest son turns seven today. I still can’t believe that… seven.
He’s quite a kid. He loves to invent things. He is my little engineer. His life ambition is to build a real, working, life size transformer. He’s been drawing plans for months. He’s always building something and he wants to know how everything works. I’ve [...]

a “moo” in the night

Last night, I was laying in bed, nearly asleep, and my husband says to me, “what was that?”
Me: huh?
Husband: Is somebody “mooing?”
Me: What? I didn’t hear anything.
Then I heard it… “Moooooo.”
Me: Oh, great.
I knew immediately what it was - the Little People farm in the baby’s room above my head. We had been playing with it earlier, [...]