Billy is still a good eater, but one of his eating habits makes my stomach turn. (I can say only one because he doesn’t do the chew-the-food-spit-it-out-then-eat-it-again trick any more) Billy loves ketchup. It is a must with fries, hot dogs (any meat for that matter), and pizza. Yes, pizza. Ick. And when that ketchup […]
Month: April 2009
Happy Birthday, Grandpa Chet
Yesterday would have been my dad’s 71st birthday and Ricky and I took some balloons to the cemetery. Ricky asked my mom, “What rock are your mom and dad under?” so we had to explain that they are buried somewhere else before ever even getting to the cemetery. When we got to Dad’s headstone, Ricky […]
Sandboxes, Easter Eggs, and Toddler Beds
A couple of weeks ago we finally got our sandbox! The space under our deck has just been dirt and we decided to make efficient use of the space. Now the boys have a 12×15 foot sandbox to use as they please. Just moments after it was finished they were hauling water in buckets from […]
Picture it . . .
Hooper, 2009. I’m working in the family room on a mountain of papers that I received in connection with my church calling. Rusty is napping in his bed, Ricky is at preschool, and Billy is playing peacefully around me. He then heads upstairs. I assume he’s getting some missing train part that he can’t live […]
Uh-oh, Poppy, Dusty Crying!
Billy has been working on talking in sentences for a while now. He will put words together in phrases. Sometimes he will just say words in the wrong order. Sometimes he will say one word at a time, thinking between each word, and if you listen long enough you might get a full sentence. For […]