Author: Cindy

4 weeks or 1 month?

Our baby is a month old today!  It doesn’t seem real that we’ve had him that long, but he is getting so big already. Billy is a noisy little thing.  He doesn’t cry a lot, but he does make a lot of grunts, moans, squeaks, and purring sounds. His chicken legs are getting a little […]

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Ricky is a great helper with his baby brother. He puts dirty diapers in the trash and fetches blankets and pacifiers. When he touches the baby’s pacifier, Ricky is very careful to only touch the little handle part and he only uses his pointer finger and thumb. It almost looks like he thinks the pacifier […]

Ricky-isms

Tonight we were watching BYU play in the NCAA game and Ricky joined in the cheering.  “Ome on, Ee-Ew!”  (translation:  come on, BYU).  My favorite thing to hear him say is his own name.  Ricky calls himself “Kiki.” Ricky has picked up on his colors and shapes the last week or so.  He is especially […]

Ricky & Billy

I think Ricky has caught on that Billy is here to stay. He was very impatient with me for not playing with him yesterday because I was busy feeding the baby. For the most part, though, Ricky seems to like his “baby brudder” (the brother is new today–until then, Billy has just been the baby). […]

Max

Being as I am now up at odd hours of the night, I get to hear what Ricky does at night. Mostly it is just sleeping and snoring, but about once a night he calls out, not for Kevin or I, but for Max. Max is Ricky’s stuffed cat and is getting pretty tattered looking […]