Ferris, age 3: “I just burped when my mouth was closed. THAT’s a magic trick!”
Yup, we’re classy.

I made the kids Mickey Mouse pancakes for dinner tonight. It’s not the first time.
Yet, we did have a first.
I cut up Grayson’s pancake up. (He proudly called it his “Hunkin’ Mouse can-kick.” ) I then moved on to up Ferris’ pancake.
Cut off the ears. All was fine. Then I started to cut [...]

Hunting season is fast approaching, which means I’ll be a “hunting widow” for most of the season. My three oldest boys will take turns going with Daddy, too, so things will be quieter around here.
Ferris was asking me the other day to buy her “some bwacelips.” I’d been thinking the girls I needed a hobby [...]

Evan just ran into the kitchen and tattled, “Mommy, Ferris colored on her fingernails and toenails red with a marker!!”
I sighed and said, “Go tell her to come here.”
She scurried off to find her sister while Nate & I chuckled at our daughter’s latest rite of passage. We then heard Evan loudly say, “Ferris, Mom [...]

It’s hard to believe Ian is already three months old… Or that Sweet Baby Gray turned 2 yesterday! OR that Nate is celebrating his 9th Father’s Day today. Wow.
Much has been happening with our very busy family. Here’s a photo update for you:
You may remember that we bought a used shuttle bus in January… [...]

Ferris will turn three on March 4. She’s know for quite some time that the baby is coming in her birth month (or as she calls it “Marching.”) Yesterday was March 1.
I was sitting on the couch at the end of a long day. I put my feet up and Ferris immediately snuggled up next [...]

Ferris (and Connor) is really into drawing these days. She draws on paper, envelopes, paper plates, walls… Whatever she can get her hands on. She loves it when I draw with her:
“Mama, draw me wiff curls… And draw my leggins!”
Her favorite subject to draw is our family. Right now, we mainly do stick people (because [...]

The other day, I was in the boys’ room putting Grayson’s laundry away. Ferris came in to “talk to” her fish.
She climbed up on a toy horse so she could be at eye level with the fish tank. She excitedly pointed out HER fish to me (as though I wasn’t with her when we bought [...]

I generally try to correct my children if they have a gross mispronunciation of basic words. Like, when Andy and Brady thought the singular form of “clothes” was “clo.”
But two-year-old Ferris has this saying that I just find incredibly cute, though very wrong. I correct her occasionally, but not every time.
She’ll bring me [...]

Don’t try to follow my train of thought. It derailed awhile back.
1) Speaking of trains, Ferris “rode her potty train to the end” this week. We started with her Special Potty Day last Monday. Yesterday (Monday again) she finished it off by getting 26 stickers (successes) in a row on her chart!! Woo-Hoo.

Her reward was [...]