April 2009

[]     XCC King of the Cage in Port Huron     going into the cage ready to fight getting patched up (caught a sucker punch at the beginning of the fight when they touched gloves. you're supposed to touch gloves, step back, and then start fighting but the other guy touched glov...

[]         on his 7 month birthday, he decided to pull up on the bouncy chair to get to the monitor! oh boy. what are we in for with this one? yay for his hair looking blond in these pics. there's still a chance!! (usually it looks red. i would LOVE for him…

[]         so far weaning is getting nowhere. i have cut beau off between the hours of about 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. (gradually taking away the morning and afternoon feedings over the last week) and in that time, i have managed to get barely any formula into him. when they say…

[]     dennis cleaned the play room out last night and put away sawyer's tracks. i honestly thought he had put this back together for sawyer but they both assure me that he didn't. sawyer did this himself! he put the stations on and built bridges. he put the road on for his buses. ...

      []           Child's Age Mastered Skills(Most children can do) Emerging Skills(Half of children can do) Advanced Skills(A few children can do) seven months • Sits without support* • Reaches for things with a sweeping motion • Imitates s...

[]         having lightly edited dennis's letter to the editor for him, i must say i am proud of his efforts to teach some nasty parents a lesson:   Good Friday was a beautiful day for an Easter egg hunt, so since our town does not have one, my wife and I…

[]today has not been a good one so far.Beau hasn't been sleeping all that well. he will wake in the night to grab my face and laugh at me. ( i guess it's better than crying but i'm exhausted.) he nurses every 2-3 hours and barely sleeps. he naps only 30 mins. at a time.…

[]              yesterday we were in the kitchen and sawyer was yapping at me (he starts yapping at me first thing in the morning and into the day and night and i get so exhausted from it) so i said something like "can you stop asking me ques...

[]         ...that i got 40 % off this (printed off coupons for Hobby Lobby from their website. dennis paid for this so i could use a coupon for the other stuff i bought): and 40% off the 3 albums (a 6x6, a 12x12 and an 8x8.) the stamps were on clearance…