I brought the kids to the annual advanced design team picnic this week at the IBM rec center. Connor was his usual chill self, just wondering around and loving the attention of all my teammates. And Cailee was her usual shy self – hiding behind my legs for the first 20 minutes, crying if I…
Its hard to believe that Tuesday marked Cailee’s last day of school for the year. I really think school has been a good thing for her this year, she definitely grew up a lot from start to finish. She’s made some friends, although Grayson is still her “best friend”. She loved her teacher – Mrs….
This past week was a whirlwind. Monday marked Cailee’s last day of the Little Gym – well, before she has a week off for Memorial Day – because summer session begins right away. Even still, they made a big deal of the final day as a funny bug; they let parents come into the gym…
On Friday night we were all tired, but had no plans for dinner so we decided to head down to Brightleaf Square for some Mexican and music. During the summer, local bands come out and play music in the middle of the square. In the past Cailee has always enjoyed it and even given the…
So as a late birthday gift, JJ went to the mountains for the weekend to camp with some buddies and ride his bike (mountain bike). So the kids were stuck with me. I did my best to wear them out so they would sleep well at night, although, it probably had the opposite effect and…
Today is a day worth celebrating! I feel so blessed (and sometimes intimidated) to be a “mommy” – its hands-down one of the most rewarding aspects of my life, as well as the most challenging. Its so exciting to see them grow into these wonderful little people, as well as scary to realize how influential…
On Wednesday we went to the Brown Farm. It was Cailee’s first fieldtrip with her school (Unfortunately, the fall fieldtrip to the pumpkin patch had gotten rained out). We were lucky, even though the rain was threatening us the whole day, it held out just long enough. At the farm, the kids were told to…
So typically, kids get read a book at night, and we try to do that – actually had a good thing going for a while, until the singing took over. Cailee has slowly added more and more songs to the line-up and it takes us quite some time to get her to bed because she…
