Month: March 2011

I don’t let the boys answer the phone yet.  No big reason.  I just don’t think they are ready to demonstrate good phone etiquette, which I find important. I do, upon occasion, let them answer if Kevin is calling and I’m sitting right there holding the phone … and I usually have it on speaker-phone […]

Ricky rides home from school with a girl in his class and her sisters (their mom is my friend).  One day they were taking turns playing a Gameboy when I went out to get him.  Ricky had to tell me all about it and the game and what it could do … mind you, the […]

After having to wake up all three little boys from their naps so that we could pick up Ricky from school, I had this conversation with Billy. Me:  Hey, Billy!  Where is your smile? Billy:   It’s there. Me:  No.  I don’t see it.  Maybe it is missing. Billy:  It isn’t missing, Momma.  It is just […]

Billy came down wearing his new St. Patrick’s Day shirt this morning.  I gave him a hug and said, “Ahhh, my little leprechaun!” With his gruff voice and grumpy face, Billy replied, “I’m not your apricot!”

Rusty talks quite a bit.  He certainly gets his messages across!  He’s even starting to repeat back little prayers, like the blessing on the food. Some of my favorite things to hear him say are just short phrases or words that he uses a gazillion times each day.  Here’s a few: Kicky – translation: Ricky […]