...and woke up a 4-year old

she fell asleep a 3 year old...

and with one last goodnight kiss as a 3-year old child, my baby girl fell asleep. sweet dreams my love.

teaching to the whole child

hot and not-hot

when you have children, you truly learn (or should i say relearn) something new everyday. over the weekend i was helping wyatt with his heat transfer science homework. he is studying the effects of the earth's core heat on plate tectonics...words such as convection, radiation, and conduction were ones that i heard in my college level geology class at uf. however, i do not remember learning the concept that there is no cold...only the absence of heat (and if i learned this seemingly basic concept, it never was presented to me in a memorable way as i apparently have forgotten it). so my new sink faucet, pictured here and soon to be in our kitchen, should read "hot" and "not-hot" instead of "hot" and "cold." can't wait to see how the next lesson impacts our home. maybe there is a continuum of housework i am unfamiliar with...like my house often is "the absence of clean" and laundry "lacking completed particles."

kylie's dance party

new house for us?

so grace's birthday is coming up next week and i would like to get her something that is more purposeful than just an assortment of various little toys. this house is on sale at walmart so i am considering it for her. do you think she will outgrow it too fast? will it just end up being a home for spiders? not too sure just yet.

"is this my cup?"

gone are the days of searching for your drink and going from person to person asking the seemingly unanswerable question of "is this one mine?" did you notice that no one ever is too sure of their answer? so for a person like me that gets a major case of the heeby jeeby's when considering sharing a drink with a random person, here is solo's newest product that allows people to scrape their names onto a labeled cup. guess it is the version of "wine glass jewelry" for kids and mommies.