I know I have been posting a lot lately, but I couldn't pass this one up.  Included tonight in Emma's prayer:   "Please bless stupid Carter, that he can be nicer…"  (She was saying our family prayer, and that was pretty much the bulk of it.)  

So I can't believe I've never heard this song by Sarah McLachlan (from the Charlotte's Web sountdrack… I guess that's why I've never heard it, because my kids are scared to watch new movies.)   Anyways, my dear friend made the cutest slideshow of some pics from the preschool we did with Emma and her…

After Carter went down for a nap today, Emma asked to go out to stomp in the puddles of our rainy, rainy day.  I watched her tromp around our cul-de-sac from the dry porch for a while, until she came up to the porch and said, "Do you want to come march in the puddles…

Is laundry.  What I did was this:  You can tell Carter is still sleeping all night!  (Yay Carter!)  It was fun to have time to do something special for Emma's last day of preschool party.  The kids are going to decorate the cookie pops at the party – I'll get pictures to post when they're…

But instead of the sistine chapel ceiling it's just our kitchen floor.  My other kids never colored on walls or furniture (or floors) – I think I always kept the crayons out of reach.  Lucky third child!  (Looking at him I get the feeling this isn't his last art project…)

It is the biggest mess I have ever made.  This is the screen, and only a fraction of the disaster… smoothie sprayed through the screen all over the kitchen; all over the umbrella and the porch, and all over ME.  Of course still in my mostly white church clothes.  Thank goodness for oxi-clean – except…

In the LAST place you'd think… sleeping soundly in his crib, where he's been since 9:15 last night.  CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?!  My back hurt from sleeping in my bed all night!  (I know, it does sound ridiculous.)  The kids clapped and cheered for Carter when he woke up, and he looked so proud.  Zach…

Zach has been obsessed with Star Wars.  Talks about it all the time.  Clone troopers, storm troopers, droids, obi wan, annikan, (I know I am spelling all this wrong but I've only see the movies once!)  The funny thing is, Zach's NEVER seen the movies.  Just learns it all from lego magazine, lego.com, and his…

Lost, but not LOST lost. Thank goodness.  Zach's first tooth fell out in the bus line waiting to come home from school today – right onto the floor.  Where he quickly found it and stored it in his backpack.  He came running off the bus, saying (both excited and nervous):  "I lost my tooth in…

When Nate is on call and we never know if he will show up for dinner or not, I often fall into the habit of feeding the kids “kid-fare” (mac&cheese, cereal, quesadillas [in the loosest sense of the word]) and eating their leftovers.  On Sunday, however, I was HUNGRY.  For real food.  So after I…