Outnumbered and Overjoyed

We took our first camping trip as a family over Memorial Day weekend. Lehr and Eli have camped half a dozen times, but Maddux had never been...

For Maddux's last ballet class this week, she was allowed to bring a friend along to participate in the class with her. Maddux chose Ann...

Eli and his team (the Twins) had their last game tonight: the championship game for the Shetland league. Up until that point they were undef...

Today was bittersweet. Eli loves school, but we're all excited about pool, park, family, fun times in the next two months. Lehr shot a q...

Hard to believe, but this is Eli's last week of Kindergarten. He has 1/2 days this week and will finish the year completely on Wednesday...

Eli is finally old enough to join our neighborhood swim team. He was so anxious last year as he watched the older kids, including a few of h...

Wow. Eli's baseball season has been amazing, but tonight takes the cake. The Twins finished the regular season, undefeated. Even through...

What a weekend! The four of us drove to New Orleans on Thursday, and arrived just in time for bed. We were staying with friends who were awe...

The day we left for Jazz Fest, Maddux's class had a performance including their favorite songs from each month of school. Quite the medl...

Eli is very into writing these days. Sometimes it's labeling a picture he drew, sometimes it's writing lyrics to a song (current or ...

Eli had THE best day today. It would figure that it started out rough with a capital 'ROUGH'. Lehr's short time with him before ...

Eli had a short performance at school this morning. Parents were invited to come see the entire Kindergarten perform songs for events from t...

Yesterday was Maddux's spring ballet observation. Eli and I got to sit in her studio and watch her whole class (no photos or video allow...

When we're downstairs, I often have music on with kid pictures flashing. This weekend, Lehr put up music with the original video. (Sugar...

Tonight the four of us went to a Good Friday service at our church. We had already been through an Easter Egg hunt and baseball and limited ...

I just came across some files I shot back in the first week of December that I never edited. Here is a short video from the weekend we went ...

My girl is good. I really am not too scared about her letting people push her around. She stands up for herself, kindly but firmly. We'v...

Today was much better than the rest of the week. Eli had no outbursts and was only minimally rude to me on only one isolated occasion. The b...

I am really really really hoping that is the explanation for Eli's outbursts. If not, I'm not sure what to do. At least if it's ...