This week, Peytra is pictured in a dress that is a hand-me-down from my parents. I am not sure if my sisters wore this, or if it was something a foster baby wore. But it is pink, yellow, and blue, and Peytra loves chewing on the collar.
We went to the baptism of Keith’s cousin Tara’s [...]
Stryker has conquered the potty chair.
Stryker no longer needs his potty chair. He is able to get up on the toilet by himself and mostly get everything in there on his own. On Wednesday, we put away the potty chair. It can be used as a stepstool, but I don’t really want Stryker or Peytra playing around with it, [...]
Gina and Jon (on the ends)
My sister Gina is pregnant! She and her husband Jon will be expecting their first baby around April 25, which is almost exactly a year from when Peytra was born. I am so excited for them, and for our kids to have another cousin, and for myself and Keith to [...]
Now that Stryker is 3, starting this fall, I am going to be his “teacher” for “preschool.” We are not actually enrolling him in 3K because I don’t think there is much that he can learn from school that I can’t teach him at home right now. Plus, we don’t have to pay tuition at [...]
Last weekend, we made a trip to St. Louis. After the traffic we encountered, I’m not sure we’ll ever go back! It was a good reminder of why we left: When we were in Illinois, only 6 miles from the Missouri border, the traffic was completely stopped. We crawled along, going only 3 miles in [...]
Here is Peytra in the dress she wore last Sunday. This is actually only a dress in front, not in back. In back, it’s just a onesie, which makes it nice, so you don’t have to constantly be adjusting her dress when it rides up in the back. She loves it because she can pull [...]
Last Thursday, I took Stryker on a field trip to the County Shed, where they keep all the snowplows and other trucks for Washington County. It was pretty neat, and we got to see the big pile of salt that they keep there for the winter. But as usual, Stryker doesn’t like getting his picture [...]
Today, my brother Jacob turns 16. On the day he was born, it was my first day at high school. When my dad picked me up from school, we went to the hospital to see Jacob and my mom, but no one would tell me if Jacob was a boy or a girl, and they [...]
Today is Keith’s stepdad’s birthday. When I asked Stryker what kind of cake Grandpa would like for his birthday, Stryker’s response was, “A mustache cake!” Whatever that is! Happy Birthday, Grandpa!
Last Sunday, Keith’s dad, stepmom, and sister came for the day. We had a nice time, and one of the things we did was go to ride a miniature train. A guy in our old neighborhood has a hobby of running this mini train in his backyard, and twice a summer, he invites the public [...]
