When Owen was first born, I was not too sure how I felt about baby signing. I thought he might use it as a crutch, rather than actually learning the words to communicate. Well, I’ve been convinced that baby signing can be very helpful as a means of communicating with your child before your child [...]
Archive for June, 2008
baby signing, anyone?
Posted in emily, owen on June 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My latest quest…
Posted in emily on June 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Some of you may know that being a stay-at-home mom hasn’t been my only job over the last few months. In January, our children’s ministries director asked me to consider being the co-director of vacation bible school at our church. My understanding of the position was that I would be attending planning meetings [...]
mormans, terrorists, and the apocalypse
Posted in pop culture on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I thought I’d do a little update on some of the books Emily and I have been reading the past few months…and as you can tell by the post headline, they’ve been filled with feel-good family fun!! Note: most of these are books I’ve been reading. I can’t really speak for most of Emily’s recent [...]
In case you’re curious…
Posted in emily, just cuz on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Our friend, Sarah, tagged me with this fun little questionnaire. If you check this blog for the sole purpose of learning about the little tyke, you may not be interested in reading on. Here are some things that you never knew you wanted to know about me:
What were you doing 10 years ago? [...]
i am your father
Posted in the fam on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What can I say? Without getting overly sappy here, it’s been a better year than I ever could’ve imagined. And last Saturday was a great reminder of that (we celebrated my father’s day on Saturday and had lunch with Em’s dad on Sunday – a quick shout out to my dad, who we greatly [...]
13 months old!
Posted in owen on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Owen just gets more fun every day. He’s developing quite a sense of humor! He loves to laugh, and he talks constantly! He calls everything a “boggy”, but he has also started saying “up” and “car”. I’m loving the fact that he says “mama” ALL the time…it’s pretty cute!
I’ve got braggin’ [...]
happy father’s day, travis!
Posted in travis on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year we spent Father’s Day doing a lot of this:
This year, we spent Father’s Day doing more of this:
Yep, you got it. We spent Father’s Day looking at lots of monster trucks. What more could a boy want? More on that to come…
Happy Father’s Day, Travis! Owen couldn’t have a better Daddy!
kathee the bird lady
Posted in the fam on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Our friends Tony & Kathee truly love animals. They’ve got dogs, cats, turtles and gerbils living in their house (and yes, each of those is plural). Apparently the good word’s out in the animal kingdom, b/c a bird recently came home to nest in Kathee’s hair.
water baby
Posted in the fam on June 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Owen’s first experience in the water led me to believe that we’d be spending lots of time at the pool this summer. We have a great neighborhood pool just a block away from our house. I love that I can pop Owen in the wagon and head over there for a quick dip [...]
two crazy one-year-olds!
Posted in owen, the fam on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend we babysat Ella, the daughter of our friends Ben and Anna. It’s great to have friends with kids similar in age to Owen so that we can trade off babysitting! As those of you who are parents know, getting out for a night together without the child is really important…but really [...]
