Days of Magic and Mud Everywhere

Jack is eight weeks old now. In two days he will be two months old! He is such a good baby! He is pretty close to sleeping through the night...

The other day at lunch, Daddy grated the precious last bit of our cheese onto my food while Joel and James gazed on longingly. While Daddy ...

It has begun. While driving down our street, I could just barely hear Joel saying to himself, "has leaves, doesn't have leaves, do...

James seems to just fall over himself continually. Tripping, slipping, not looking where he's going; these are defining parts of James...

He has 10 toes . . . . . . it's Jack!

One positive attribute that comes along with James' affinity for the wilder side of life is his athletic ability in playing ball. The fo...

This book came to mind a few weeks ago - cannot remember the circumstances which brought it to mind, but it had to do with the lawn mowing ...

For all of Joel's tenderheartedness and gentleness with his little brother, James is aggressive and conniving back. No thankfulness on ...

You learn something new every day, and this time the lesson came from a CD of Mother Goose songs. For those of you who have enjoyed or suff...

Yesterday afternoon the boys took their hot pink frisbees, piled rocks in them, and called it "chicken" and "pie". Joel ...

I'd better make a list of all the songs that James can sing. Jason was also able to sing songs very well at an early age (18 months), an...

Jason has a very nice posture grid at work; it's so easy to measure the boy's height on it!!! James is 2' 8", Joel is 3...

Today I finally got the scale out and weighed the boys. I have needed to do it for some time for record-keeping purposes, and I should be d...

One of our favorite things to listen to, as I have said, is Handel's Messiah. It is a work which both of the boys are quite familiar wi...

On this, the day James turns 20 months old, I'll write a few things about him. James has suddenly grown a fondness for pulling off his p...

Happy 4th, Joel!

Joel and James have developed quite a good relationship. It is fun to see them together; I know that any day could bring a division between...

Tonight James went around with his toy cell phone, encouraging Mama and Daddy in pretend telephone conversations. We were saying things suc...

Around the end of December James became fascinated, perhaps obsessed, with spoons. It began one day while at Opa & Oma's house when...

James learned how to walk backwards about a month or so ago. He was quite proud of himself, giving the, "are you watching, huh? huh? hu...