I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Elizabeth, State College, Tommy on Apr 1st, 2011
I really couldn’t believe it when it started snowing again this week. While Thousand Oaks, CA was in the 80s yesterday, we bundled into the snowpants and snowboots for the last time (??) to sled and play in the snow here.
We really like to try to get the kids professionally photographed once a year, and I’ve been fortunate to know some great photographers in the last two places we’ve lived. A couple weeks ago, it was finally warm enough for Lauren to come over and do a session with Tommy. He was very hard to […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Mar 26th, 2011
Lately I’ve definitely been letting the phonics part of preschool slide because Tommy has all his sounds down but wasn’t ready as of a couple months ago to start putting them together to sound out words. This week, though, he rediscovered the foam letter stickers in the art box and asked for a preschool project […]
One of my “big” purchases over the weekend was an Ikea roll of butcher paper for the kids. They’re loving it!
In honor of Grandma Willett’s birthday today, a little photo shoot. (Yes, the kids picked out the clothes themselves…Daddy’s preferences must be rubbing off…)
Posted in Tommy on Mar 14th, 2011
If wearing one favorite shirt is good, two favorite shirts together must be better!
So we don’t do day trips the easy way. Yesterday we had a simple plan: drive down to Harrisburg, meet the Gaetanos at the State Museum of PA, play and hang out all day, and come home. Yeah. The kids were so excited until we pulled up in front of the museum. Then Elizabeth started […]
Kiddos posin’ Fashionista stylin’ Colorin’
I’m always signing up for free samples of things, and last month I won the chance to host a Huggies Pull-Ups Potty Party. (Shameless commercialism, but hey, I got free pull-ups out of it!) It’s one of those things that you never imagined you’d do before you had kids…a party all about using the potty?!?! […]
Posted in Tommy on Mar 4th, 2011
Today Tommy made this block city “just for you, Mommy!” It’s great being a mom.=)