Outnumbered and Overjoyed

Not much set-up needed here. Just another absolutely awesome exchange with my daughter as she prepared for her shower a few minutes ago. ...

I recently realize something. Even when Ruby isn't racing towards her next milestone, she is still moving in it's direction. Sometim...

That girl. In the last few weeks I have often found her trying to break into the cabinet under the kitchen sink. That's where we keep...

While Grandma and Grandpa were in town, Eli and Maddux begged them to go to Ted's Montana Grill. We seriously never go there (maybe twic...

Eli and Maddux's school has gone into spirit day overdrive. There are dress-up days all of the time right now. And I love it! Today wa...

Eli has long since enjoyed the sport of golf. Lehr sawed off an old golf club when Eli was younger - maybe four - and Eli's been putting...

Last spring break, I took the kids roller skating for the first time. They loved it so much that we returned to the skate rink a few days la...

When my parents secured their travel plans to stay with us for Spring Break, one of the things Lehr and I planned to do was take the older k...

In the last few years the older kids have become very fond of Easter Egg hunts. Not necessarily for the goodies inside of the eggs, but for ...

Both kids have been studying a fire safety unit over the last few weeks. Eli and Maddux each have special fire safety workbooks and they are...

World Down Syndrome Day was last Saturday, but the after effects are still being felt in our house. We've heard so many stories, seen so...

Maddux is well into this season of softball, but we've only had one game so far. Between freezing rain and ice storms, so many practices...

They never stop, and I only manage to remember a small fraction of them. We were at Chipolte for lunch over the weekend, and Maddux saw ...

Here comes the truth train again....choo choo! *Disclaimer: I realize that all too often these days I open up the doors to my crazy mind a...

For at least the last two years, Eli and I have been planning his first official 5K. We've signed up for two or three, only to have spor...

As World Down Syndrome Day approached last year, we had just started having conversations with Eli and Maddux about what 'Down syndrome...