Category Archive for 'Tommy'
Evening Pictures
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 22nd, 2011
I definitely overdid it when I first came home, and after a pretty difficult night (Susanna was up every couple of hours to eat), I was pretty tired today and basically did nothing. But here are a few pictures of the kids this evening. I’ll do better about taking more tomorrow! The big kids reading […]
Derek thought it would be fun to compare the kids as they came home from the hospital. Tommy: Elizabeth: Susanna: And here are all three of them at home, at last!
Well, Palm Sunday kindof crept up on me this year. I wasn’t anticipating being able to attend church because I thought I’d be in the hospital by now, so I hadn’t said anything to the kids about it. But when Saturday’s hopeful contractions died down by evening, I realized we’d be at church again. And […]
Yesterday was warm and sunny–hurray! We met friends for an Easter egg hunt this morning, ran around until lunch, and decided to have a picnic in the back yard. Then I let the kids open their eggs…joy, wonder, delight! Can’t wait to do it again on Easter morning!
Buzz Aldrin
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Apr 13th, 2011
This week Tommy used his rudimentary phonics skills to write this: That’s “Buzz Aldrin,” Tommy’s favorite astronaut hero, in case your phonics aren’t quite the same as my son’s. And this is a picture of Buzz Aldrin and the Saturn 5 Rocket, which Tommy delights in telling us is “the most powerful rocket ever!” See […]
The kids love dressing up for church, and yesterday morning they decided to do a little dance routine after getting dressed!
This morning with a nesting impulse geared towards cooking and baking, so I made the kids “breakfast cookies” (really more like muffins), whipped up some apple bread, and prepped some loaves of French bread I’d started last night. Perhaps I should be focusing more on cleaning, but this is tastier.=)
The kids love dressing the same and being “twins”…isn’t it sad that it’s still cold enough for them to be in their fuzzy Christmas pajamas?
Elizabeth recently rediscovered one of my smaller purses, and it’s her new favorite toy (best used in conjunction with the shopping cart). We’ve got a little shopper on our hands… Meanwhile, Tommy’s coloring fixation shows no signs of slowing down…