do my kids get their dislike of sleep from a gene that derek and/or i am carrying? or do i simply make my kids hate sleep? perhaps i’m just so fun that they can’t stand to miss out on just one minute of it… all kidding aside, we’re having a pretty tough couple of days […]
ghetto deck pool

i commissioned derek to purchase a $10 blue plastic wading pool from walmart for our deck. we’re high class now. isaac doesn’t really like full all out swimming, so it’s pretty much perfect for us. i’m not sure how many more things we can cram on the deck. we currently have a pool, a sand/water […]
one month
anna is one month old today. it’s gone by fairly quickly, i suppose. more quickly at first than it’s going now. she’s getting a little tougher. a little more needy. and a little less likely to sleep. it’s definitely challenging here and there. (like right now, that she’s awakening from a nap way way way […]
anna’s first big adventure

with beautiful weather in the forecast for the day, and a mom and boy itching to get out of the house, we decided to head to the natural science center in greensboro. we packed up the entire contents of our house (it felt like) and rolled on down the road… the springy teeter-totter like contraption.water […]
boys love hoses

isaac loves to fill things with water. preferably hose water. so, i pulled out all kinds of containers and let him have at it on the deck…
Blog name
I'm in the market for a new name for my blog. If you couldn't tell, Ididn't work very hard making the jump from "about the boy" to "aboutthe boy and the girl"… It was a lazy choice. 🙂 Anyhooo… I'm taking suggestions… Any ideas? Sent from my iPhone