Even before Shark Week came, Benjamin was on a bit of a shark kick. Okay, a marine animal kick with his focus on dolphins, whales and sharks. So, we let him watch a couple of the Shark Week shows and he really liked them, but left him with a few […]
Lately, when the boys wake up, they have gone out into the hall or down into the living room and played without disturbing Andrea and I (much). This morning, they wouldn’t leave the area around our door. When I asked Ben why he didn’t want to go play in the […]
Yesterday, Andrea and I suddenly realized that Matthew was saying “bathing suit” pretty clearly and correctly. It wasn’t long ago that he really struggled with his “s” sound and so he would say “bading doop”. ..it was very cute and, as proud as I am of how well he has […]
So, back in January, I started dieting with the goal of losing 35 pounds. In the process, I got Benjamin and Matthew involved and they were good in helping keep me in line. During this time, I have been self-deprecating about my weight that the boys picked up on. Today (with […]
As the dolphin boat made it’s way back to the dock this evening, the crew handed us a bunch of bread to feed the seagulls off the back of the boat. I decided to try to feed the birds by hand and held pieces of bread that the gulls came […]
For the summer, Ben is back at the daycare he has been at since he was an infant, a place he is basically very comfortable at, especially since he is reunited with Matthew. As I could have predicted, Ben has started coming home complaining about the same boy that has […]
The kids had an absolute blast this 4th of July. At one point during a fireworks show Benjamin said, “The Fourth of July is awesome.” A couple of days later, Matthew was talking about how much he wished he could watch the fireworks again. To which, Benjamin responded, “I do […]
Officially, I have broken my pledge to post at least one blog entry a week. It took nearly half the year before I slipped, but I did none-the-less. So, I’ll make up for it over the next couple of weeks. June was a weird month, to say the least. From […]
I asked Benjamin why he wasn’t listening to me this evening, and he thought about it a moment before he said, “Well, the bad angel talks too fast, before the good angel can tell me what to do.”
With Ben’s last report card, we made a deal with him. We told him that if he improved his scores in a couple of areas (listening, being neat, coloring inside the lines, etc) we would bring him to Dorney Park soon after school ended. Apparently, at the time we made […]
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