Category Archives: Family

How important are your actions?

As a parent, we often do or say things in front of our children without thinking about the consequences. The problem with that is that children often repeat what they see their parents do.
How many times have you stubbed your toe, and strung together a string of expletives that would make a sailor blush, only [...]

4 weeks and 3 pounds later…

Gracie Bear
Originally uploaded by chris-powell.
Ms Gracie is doing great, and is now up to 11 pounds. She doesn’t look all that fat, but she is rather long. Barb took her to see her friends from work at the doctors office, and they were all “oohing” and “aahing” and going on about [...]

I hate having sick kids…

My poor baby, Mikah, has been sick for the past few days, and I have to say that having a sick toddler is no fun. Not just because they are more work, that isn’t a problem, especially with Mikah since she hates to cuddle, but because she can’t tell us exactly how she feels. [...]

IT’S A GIRL!

Ms Grayson “Gracie” Rose was born at 6:46PM CST, on Valentines Day. She weighed 8 pounds, and was 21 inches long.
Pictures are here.

The baby…

…STILL ISN’T HERE YET! Darn thing. We are all excited to know what the darn thing is, but it was modest and was covering itself during the ultrasound. We went to the hospital last night because the contractions were about 10-15 minutes apart, but stopped when they had the monitors strapped to [...]