More Halloween

I think this Halloween was the most enjoyable yet! T seems to “get” and enjoy trick or treating more and more each year. This year he was really chatting up the people as we went house to house. Also, we went with friends and I think it was more fun going with a buddy. Q [...]

Happy Halloween!

Have a safe, fun and HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Mario and Luigi!

       
Photos courtesy of Stylized Portraiture.

Touching Trucks

This weekend our city sponsored free a “Touch a Truck” event where they had lots of big trucks set up for kids to explore.  They had a fire truck, police command station, police motorcycle, a bomb squad robot, city bus, tractors, just to name a few.  Is it a sign that my kids spent the [...]

Book Fair

On Thursday we attended a book fair at T’s school.  They had pizza, a jumpy house, and face painting (he chose to have a purple ghost painted).  It was also pajama day so most of the kids were running around in their pj’s.  He was SO excited to wear his Spiderman pajamas.  There was a [...]

Walking and talking

For a while I was going on evening walks/jogs after I put Q to bed.  Now that it’s getting darker I can’t do that anymore.  My neighborhood is not well lit enough to be walking about after dark.  Some days we’ll walk as a family after dinner.  (I love that the weather is so much [...]

Because I’m a joiner…

My friend Mary Jessica, Queen of Halloween, is knitting 31 pumpkins in October!  I joined in the fun and knitted a grand total of two.  One for each of my munchkins.  They’re enjoying tossing them around.
I tried to take a picture of T holding the pumpkins.  Any time I try to take a picture of [...]

My two – stylized

View more, bigger at Stylized Portraiture! Heather and Anna did such a great job of capturing these moments.  Any time I take the kids for photos I worry a bit and hope the kids smile and that they’re able to get good pictures.  I don’t know why because they ALWAYS get AMAZING photos!  They [...]

Ditching the list

Friday afternoon, I made a list of things I hoped to accomplish over the weekend.  By Saturday morning, I ditched my list and decided to ENJOY MY WEEKEND.  Sometimes, I find that I get more things done without a list.  I guess I feel like a failure if I don’t get through a list, but [...]

Bedtime Antics

Last night, T went to bed pretty easily, or so we thought.  Ken and I sat down in the family room to watch the season premiere of Heroes (tivo-ed) and I didn’t last too long before I felt like I was going to nod off.  I guess that says a little something about how exciting [...]

Struggles

I’ve been struggling lately.  My patience is gone and I would actually dread going home from work and having to deal with the chaos that is parenthood.  When I lose patience, I don’t yell.  I didn’t get yelled at much as a kid (because I was an angel, of course!) and while it was not [...]