the kids

  • our house,  the kids

    this week.

    November 17, 2013 /

    We had our 12th week of Classical Conversations on Monday, which wraps up our semester. Now we have a nice long break to do some review work and keep plugging away at math and reading before starting back up with our co-op at the beginning of January. The kids were very disappointed to learn we aren’t “going to school” tomorrow which makes me happy. We had a fire pit mid week when the temps dropped. Can I just say how much we’re enjoying our house (wait, I’ve said that about a dozen times already, I know)? It’s cozy and snug and it feels like home, even after just four months.…

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    well visits.

    October 1, 2013 /

    We had our six and four-year-old well visits last week. Wait. Can you believe I have a six-year-old? And a four-year-old? I cannot. Judah is in the 95th percentile for height (no surprise there) and Amie is in the 85th. Both are around 75th for weight. Somehow these details seemed much more important when they were infants. If you’re a parent you may remember that the four-year-old well appointment is particularly rough (the worst, in my opinion), because they get their boosters. They’re old enough to know exactly what’s coming but not to understand why it has to happen. Amie got four shots and a finger prick. She screamed. She…

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    judah turns six.

    September 12, 2013 /

    On Sunday we celebrated a new church and our boy’s sixth birthday. It was a big day! Judah sneaked in my bedroom first thing and woke me up by asking, “Mommy, am I six now?” To which I sleepily answered, “Yes! You are buddy!” And he said, “But my pj’s still fit!” He ate his favorite “color circle cereal” for breakfast (Fruit Loops) and got to open one present: a Star Wars toy set that David picked out on Amazon, and exclaimed, “This is the best birthday ever!!!” We had an incredibly sweet first worship service at Columbia Presbyterian Church. I was overwhelmed by the love, joy, and answered prayer…

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  • the kids,  travel

    a little trip to the e.r.

    August 4, 2013 /

    Like I said Judah and Amie and I had differing degrees of colds and sinus trouble all week.  Yesterday Judah obviously wasn’t himself, a bit droopy and tired all day with an increasing cough.  In the evening he started wheezing, which I took note of, but it’s happened before when he has bronchitis. He grew more agitated throughout the evening, and said his chest hurt, but it still appeared more like discomfort than like anything urgent.  I gave him a steamy hot shower before bed, tried to put him down in his room, but he was whimpering and short of breath.  So he laid on the couch while Linda and…

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