Outnumbered and Overjoyed

Well, actually both hands. But who's counting! We've been offering Ruby puffs on her tray since almost the first time she ate sol...

Ruby has added a new piece of equipment to her ever-changing home gym. She now practices crawling on what we are referring to as a 'craw...

Maddux opted to take a gymnastics class this spring instead of doing a team sport. I was able to find a class that offered gymnastics AND ba...

As usually happens when a new baby enters the house, things around here have been busy to say the least. And as stay-and-attempt-to-work-at-...

It's been one of those weeks. One full of car seats in and out of the back seat, into this parking garage for this doctor, onto that mas...

I find the most awesome, the most creatively spelled, and the most random notes all around the house. Sometimes they are to me, sometimes th...

How many posts do I have with that title? If I had to guess, I'd say a dozen or more (per year)... Maddux and I had a quiet afternoon ...

What a crazy week. We got a few inches of snow on Tuesday. It immediately turned to ice. The interstate froze over. Six million people were ...

Ruby is an eating machine. She started a little slow, but her speed of consumption is up there with McQueen these days. She eats three meals...

60 degrees. Sun. Midway through January. On a day off from school and work. Awesome. That pretty much sums it up. I would have to say that...

That is honestly the only word I can use to describe Ruby's progress in many many areas over the last week. When I guide Ruby into a s...

Most contacts I made online after Ruby was born told me that I would cherish each and every milestone Ruby reaches, even more than I would e...

When we first started therapy for Ruby, I felt overwhelmed by the thought of picking out the *right* type of toys to help her advance in her...

Every kid gets hurt in sports at some point, and tonight was by no means the worst it will ever be. But now it's starting to feel worse ...

This article came out last spring, yet I didn't read it until about a month ago. I immediately started this post, but it's taken me...

Just before the holiday break we got an email from Maddux's teacher. Seeing an email from her teacher didn't raise any red flags imm...

With two weeks off from school, and a few visits from Grandmas (to help after Lehr's surgery), I thought the holiday break would be a go...

Lehr had surgery two days before Christmas this year, so our holiday break didn't look quite the same as years past. No Christmas Eve se...

The kids and I have a bucket list every holiday season. We don't call it that, nor do we physically make a list, but in the months o...

As we are in the season of Christmas, gifts are on everyone's mind. Because Maddux is who she is, she thinks at least about giving gifts...