Outnumbered and Overjoyed

Maddux is known for waking up before Lehr returns from the bus stop in the morning. Nowadays she often wakes before the boys leave, earning ...

Besides the OBVIOUS silver lining of last night's events - the fact that Eli is 100% ok - a great sibling development came out of Eli...

And not even because of Maddux this time! We all went to the Braves game tonight. Mom-Mom was in town and so were the Phillies - a no braine...

Those are the words Eli used to describe the day. A wonderful, eventful, long and FUN day.... Eli had a great day at school, double PE sessi...

A few months back, Eli got to fly to Florida with Lehr to see the last shuttle launch. Maddux and I had a great time, but of course a trip a...

Eli has started his last fall season of baseball with the Shetland (read: ity bity little kid) league. His team is a small one, much smaller...

Not quite the fun it was last year , unfortunately... Eli seemed to be excited for this race; he was to run the kids' version of the tr...

Sometime towards the end of summer vacation, the kids and I were at the pool practicing kick-turns when Eli, somewhat nicely, complained tha...

On Thursday, Eli and his classmates (and the whole school) participated in their biggest fundraiser: Boosterthon. For a week leading up to t...

I know there are many first graders who read faster and 'better' than Eli, but he's come a long way, even in the last few summer...

Wow. Two days in one week. Not sure I can handle all of this obedience and niceness. I don't think the kids realize that by showing me t...

I know I'm jinxing it, but I have to record the awesomeness that was today. We've had some struggles with Eli again. Bad struggle...

We've only intentionally 'named' a few family date nights in the past, but I hope our schedules allow us to keep this in the rot...

Last night each child slept at a friend's house for the first time. How did we get here? Lehr cooked up a great idea to try and get a fe...

It's here - Maddux is four and today she went to her first day of Pre-K. Crazy! Sad too, not just because of the obvious. While I wrestl...

That's what I feel like time is saying to me. How are you already six years old, Eli? I can remember rocking you as I read you bedtime b...

We celebrated Eli's birthday with a friend party today. As Lehr likes to say, "We learned a lot today." Lehr and I let Eli ...

Eli had a great day. Seriously. This is a big deal for him, especially since it's the first week of school and fatigue makes him not so ...

Eli started first grade today. Woah. When did I get a 'grader' in my house. Last year was big with Kindergarten, but it was still Ki...

I know I've titled blogs like that before, but this time I REALLY mean it. This morning I made the kids pancakes for the last mid-wee...