Month: April 2009

Tonight I set out milk and a few m&m’s for the boys’ pre-bed snack.  Ricky was still getting his pajamas on, but Billy climbed onto his stool, very excited about the candy and I walked away to tidy up.  I came back and Billy was now on Ricky’s stool and ALL the m&m’s were gone.  […]

“Jesus died on the cross.  Jesus die–ed on the cross.  Jees–uh–us died on the cross.”  I’m not sure what Primary song Ricky got this little ditty from, but as we left church (and a few other select times today), he treated us to this reminder of what Easter is about. The menfolk all got matching […]

We took the boys to the Dinosaur Park on Monday.  Ricky thought the dinosaurs were okay, but both boys loved being outside and playing on the toys.  Billy calls them “dine-sores” in his gruff voice. When Kevin would try to get Ricky afraid of these big dinosaurs, the boy would say, “Poppy, they are just […]

I finally caught some of Rusty’s smile on camera!  I love that toothless grin!  And yes, those are multiple chins.  They are a bugger to clean between too!

Billy is in the midst of potty training (thanks to his father).  He is quite good at using his little potty and has been known to call out in the middle of the night to use it (of course, this is usually just a stalling technique to avoid having to go to sleep, but . […]