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Posted in Kids on Jan 29th, 2012
Heidi’s favorite thing lately is to pretend to be my cat. She lies on my bed and “meows” and crawls around a lot. This morning she added the super-hero element to her pretending and said that she needs to have her special book to know who to save. Ah, this super hero thing is short-lived. [...]
Posted in Kids on Dec 13th, 2011
This morning I stayed half-asleep as the kids stood in the hallway negotiating (part playing, part arguing) about the magnets on their chore chart. Colin came in eventually and woke me up the rest of the way so that I’d have time to get ready for the day, and I discovered that they’d been making [...]
Heidi recently learned how to climb out of her crib and tonight she tried it for the first time in a see-if-I-can-push-bedtime-later attempt. Of course, I took her right back to bed and she didn’t want to. As I put her in bed and firmly commanded “Do not get out of bed again,” she asked [...]
Posted in Kids on Jul 13th, 2011
This morning four-year-old Maggie was writing a note to her brother (Mom, how do you spell “sorry?”) and she looked up at me and said “How does….” and then stopped to think of how to phrase it for a while. Then she said “How does God know how to write?” I wonder what question she’s [...]
Posted in Family, Family Home Evening, Family Home Evening, Gluten Free, Holidays on Apr 17th, 2011
Colin’s mother’s family has started holding their annual family reunion on Easter weekend. I really like the idea of helping the holiday to be special by getting together and connecting as a family. This year we’ve got fancy dinners and traditional Cuban food and an easter egg hunt and all kinds of fun planned. I’ve [...]
Saturday will be Maggie’s 4th birthday! We’re having a Princess “lemonade party” (little girls’ version of a tea party) on Friday morning for her and we’ve been getting ready for it all morning. Colin started by cleaning up the family room and setting up Maggie’s Hello Kitty tent, which Heidi is more excited about than [...]
Two trips to AT&T Park in a week! That is seriously unusual for us. But the week after our free giants game was free opera day at the ballpark. This is one of the amazing perks of living here–free world class arts events. And we got to see Verdi’s Aida. We almost took the [...]
Posted in Kids on Sep 21st, 2010
Today is our first picture day at school. I want to be all relaxed about it and just let him go in regular clothes and uncombed hair as usual. But Sonja reminded me that “this is for posterity” and it occured to me that this photo may show up in any number of places, including [...]
Posted in Family on Sep 19th, 2010
We got to go to the Giants game on Friday! I entered all the kids’ names in a drawing at our public library a few weeks ago, and Heidi’s entry won! I’d already forgotten about even entering when Colin called me as I drove back from dropping Degen off at school and said that the [...]
Posted in Family, Family Home Evening, Kids on Sep 19th, 2010
Last Monday for Family Home Evening we had a lesson about prophets and General Conference. Keep in mind that our kids are 1, 3, and 5 years old, so our lessons are always quick and interactive. Here’s what we did: Opening Song: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (Heidi can enthusiastically say “BEAM!” now, so [...]