Month: May 2010

Tommy Boy

This morning I got dressed three times in less than an hour. The first time I got dressed to head out to the store with Ricky so we could get him his first baseball glove (his first T-ball game is on Monday). I was informed that I would not be leaving my pregnant wife to […]

I really shouldn't laugh …

My sister-in-law posted this picture on her blog (among others) to celebrate my brother’s birthday this weekend … and I showed it to the big boys.  First I asked Ricky who was whom.  He almost got them all correct, except he mixed up Aunt Suzy and Aunt Nancy at first (not because they look alike, […]

Odds and Ends

Billy has very much enjoyed dressing up in costumes lately.  He especially likes to put on the Spiderman mask and try to scare people.  He actually has enjoyed scaring people any way he can.  This morning he brought me a picture he’d colored.  He told me it was a dinosaur and I said it was […]

The difference in eating habits.

I could go on and on about how differently my boys eat today … the picky, the thief, and the dropper … but it makes more sense to compare their eating habits from when they were all about the same age. Ricky.  He was always a picky eater.  My brother often referred to his diet […]

Happy Birthday, Grandpa Chet

Dad would have been 72 this past April.  We picked a day (not Dad’s actual birthday, but close enough) to visit the cemetery and sing “Happy Birthday.” We didn’t stay long because there was a family there playing soccer around the headstones (this led to a discussion about respect in cemeteries). But we did stop […]