Evan loves babies. As I said before, she even treats potatoes like baby dolls. She often carries two baby dolls around at a time — one for each arm. She can’t get enough of her baby sister, either. She also refers to Baby G, who’s still in my belly, as her baby.
Last week, Baby G [...]

You’re probably getting a bit sick of hearing about our “remodel,” huh? Sorry. It’s consumed our house for about three weeks. While we’re all moved in, some things need to be done to our “old room” before the girls can move in.
Like painting… and, um, cleaning.
See, our old room became sort of a family room [...]

So, we’ve been moved into our new bedroom for two whole nights now. Night one, one of our children ended up sleeping between us in bed. We rarely, rarely allow that, but after trekking up and down the stairs three times because he was having foot cramps in the middle of the night, he joined [...]

I’m baaack! Did you miss me?
I hated being “away” so long. Our bedroom “remodel” took a little longer than expected (don’t they always?) plus we got hit with a couple of rounds of really bad colds and our internet was down for several days. Oh, and our dryer died. We don’t do anything half-way.
Just to [...]

I’m just going to bite the bullet and do it. I’m going to make an announcement.
“I must take a bloggy break!”
There… I said it.  See, we’re remodeling part of our basement to make a new bedroom. People are coming and going. The kids still need fed, school still needs done, laundry and dishes are still [...]

I know I promised photos of Ferris’ big family birthday shin-dig, but I’ll have to wait and post those when my camera and I are in the same place… until then, here’s something to get you through.
I know I’ve said over and over again that baseball is a way of life around our house. I [...]

Upon the recent discovery of Brady’s allergies to dogs, Nathan and I have made the difficult decision to find new homes for Sirus and Dusty. It was a tough choice — being a canine officer has been a dream of Nate’s for a long time. He is, however, thankful that he got to use Sirus as [...]

Connor has recently taken up a new hobby: communicating with Baby G. He’ll snuggle up to my belly, say something, then lay his ear on my tummy until anything makes noise… then he interprets!
The other day, he announced, “Mommy, Baby G said, ‘Hi Connor!’” Truthfully, I think my stomach growled, but whatever gets us through [...]

Our Evan is really good at just being two. Here are two examples:
I was out getting my hair cut the other day (for the first time in more than a year!) and the others were all napping. Nate was hanging out with Evan, but apparently, she wanted more company. She was convinced that her brothers [...]