This week was Career Week. We talked about a lot of different jobs. Stryker plans to be a builder when he grows up. He asked me, ”What is Toby going to be when he grows up?” Toby is my brother’s dog. That led us to a discussion of dogs with jobs, like police dogs and seeing [...]
Since Peytra has been crawling around a lot, she has discovered some new things.
Here is a picture of her figuring out how to drink the half of the Icee that we had saved in the freezer (it was frozen solid).
Peytra splashing in Defense’s water dish
Also, here is her having a great time in Defense’s water dish, [...]
We recently did some redecorating at our house, which mainly consisted of moving our existing furniture from room to room. We really like the way the front living room looks now with the two chairs and the piano. In our TV room, we have the couch, futon, and recliner, but in the spring or summer, [...]
I like to take pictures of Stryker in the same spot year after year. You’ve already seen the frog pictures. Here is another theme I have done – snow by the mailbox.
I’ll be doing similar ones of Peytra. I want to do some of the same ones, but also some that are different from Stryker’s.
This [...]
Here is Peytra in a new dress – a black jumper that Grandma Hagy bought at Once Upon a Child, a resale shop, but this dress still had the original tags on it, so it’s never been worn.
You might think at first, Oh how cute, Peytra is doing “So Big.” Although she is starting to [...]
This week was originally just Shape Week, but since shapes are fairly easy, I decided to throw in some counting, too. Stryker is pretty good at recognizing numbers 1-9, so we focused on 10-20.
I found a couple of really good activities for an active boy. One of them is from a book called Smart Play [...]
We could tell that Defense has been having some pain in her legs for a couple of years now. She would limp after getting up from laying down, especially during the winter. We figured she was just getting old, and that the cold weather was aggravating her hips, which is common in Labs. She usually [...]
Today is the one-year anniversary of the first post on this blog. Since its inception, there have been 286 posts on the blog, along with 306 comments that were not spam. I would like to thank my brother Chris, who helped me set up the whole thing, and my mom who has been reading it since Day One. [...]
Today is my sister-in-law Christina’s 26th birthday. I feel like I’ve gotten a lot closer to her over the past year and a half, since we had babies only a month apart. So if you want to discuss, or hear a discussion about, anything regarding pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or babies, I can pretty much guarantee [...]
