Dear Nathan, You have grown up so much this last month; it feels like you jumped from a newborn to a four month old overnight. You have rolled over twice from your tummy to your back! You can lift your head up really high during tummy time (although you still prefer to just leave your…
Family
Fire Station Tour
I set up a tour of the fire station a few weeks ago and yesterday was the day! We got all ready and met some of our friends to walk over. The fire fighters were incredible with our large group of 2-4 year olds. They showed their one-month old firetruck that has been to three…
Snow Globe
This morning we woke up to rain. While we were making breakfast the rain suddenly turned into snow. We spent the day in a snowglobe of huge, fluffy snowflakes. I kept exclaiming, “Emily! Look out the window! Check out that snow! Those are huge snowflakes!” She told me after a couple of my suggestions while…
Round Three
Last week I started having c. diff symptoms. I went to the doctors on Wednesday and she sent me to an Infectious Disease doctor on Friday for c. diff round three. Wednesday I felt like I got hit by a truck. I used all the swear words in my vocabulary while venting with my mom…
Valentines 2016
I’m trying really hard to use holidays as an opportunity to create memories, teach, and draw our family together. This is a huge step forward to how I’ve felt about them a year ago – a reason to store more stuff to pull out for a few weeks and then have to clean it all…
The Family that Grips Together, Sticks Together
Friday afternoon Andrew came home and told us about the adjusted game plan for the grant he is working on. It included making lots of soft robots so he could become more of an expert and know how to help teachers avoid common pitfalls so that their students can be successful and build their confidence….
King Jack and the Dragon
A few months ago Emily got the book King Jack and the Dragon by Peter Bently. It took one reading for it to become a family favorite. This is the first book that captured Emily’s imagination enough to bring the story into our lives. Lately the Thing with Four Feet has been in the kitchen and…
Coat Rack Project
Two Thursdays ago we were in the middle of a stretch of very little sleep. On Monday night Emily and Nathan both got up at least a half dozen times. By 4am we were counting down the hours for the night to end. Tuesday night both kids didn’t go to bed until around 11pm, instead…
My Food Puzzle
C. Diff round two caused a little more havoc to my insides that I would like to admit. I’ve realized that just taking the antibiotics is not enough. I need to step up the probiotics and heal my gut before I am back to better. When I realized that what I ate would play the…
Whirlwind
The last few days have been very productive blur of fun and progress. It feels good to have a quieter, slow morning after the hustle and just think about some of those things. Andrew has been working on four papers that were due today (he finished around 2am this morning) for conference submissions. Emily has…