Here we are, a great selfie of us. And on with the party–the usual crowd was there, celebrating: There you are, heading inside on your long legs. Here are a couple sweaty kids enjoying the doll house: Time for presents! They were all pretty helpful and giddy: Okay, here is the game where you take […]
Three years ago we were up at the cabin, waiting for updates on your arrival. In three years you have grown so much, and you are one of those guys who is smiling all the time: Ear to ear grin, scrunched up eyes. Just our best guy. There’s a frown. And you do have those
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It’s been a long time we’ve known each other. Fifteen years? You once were a young squirrel. Possibly even the nuttiest one. You were a very entertaining child, creative, off-beat, hilarious. And then you became civilized and appropriate, but every once in a while that craziness comes peeping out again around the edges. Thank goodness.
We had a birthday party on Thursday for Little Jay and Kari–a day late for his, a little early for Kari. Power heroes and a tiger and muscle man were there. These are pictures Kirsten took. I told my mom these are the Where’s Waldo pictures, wide photo of a mob: Cake time! Happy Birthday
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It’s true, Jimmy’s an official adult, turned eighteen today. When people find out how many kids I have, I often tell them at this point I do not have ten children. I have however many adults and the rest are children. Now I have seven adults and three children. Actually I never had ten
Today was the fourth birthday party and it was fantastic. There’s a whole mob of people who love this child, and they filled the house and even the yard. It was 40+ degrees out, and sun shining. This is John and Dannell’s baby, growing fast, so cuddly and funny. She is starting to smile, though
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m.c.’s birthday was earlier in the month, and Jay’s is now. So we had a party Saturday night for fun. We haven’t really all been together since Christmas time, so it was good to be together and eat and goof around for the evening. Here are all the ipad cousins, doing what they love to
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Tomorrow we’re having a party for Jay’s birthday, so the afternoon was spent cooking and cleaning. The kids cleaned before we came home from vacation, and that’s been a while already. And it felt good to peel potatoes. I used to do this constantly, but now? Nope. I haven’t peeled a potato, could be possibly
We gathered at Dan and Alicia’s to celebrate the Little Guy’s birthday. Kids were very wound up. This is where I intervened, “No more jumping on the furniture!” They all looked at me like I’m crazy and did kind of half stop doing it. Happy Birthday, Mister! They have some very realistic looking fake food
three years old, and a superb new year’s eve party Read More »
Yeah, it was -6 degrees F when I received notice from Alicia that they were taking the kids swimming for the Little Guy’s birthday, if we wanted to come too. This was yesterday evening–thank you for almost 24 hours notice to psych up–as much as the kids LOVE all this, I detest being cold and
