Monthly Archives: September 2008

Daddy's Helper

It looks like he was going to sneeze (to me) but, really, he was just singing a song. We primed one big wall of the garage in preparation to add chalkboard paint to the lower 5 feet of it so the boys could draw on the wall in the garage with their sidewalk chalk. It...

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Just a warning…

Don’t expect much from us in the way of pictures of the boys dressed up as anything in a month.  James is very against putting on anything other than a tee shirt and his “soft shorts” that he gets to pick out.  Lowell will probably fit into the little ninja costume that we have leftover...

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LETTERS! WORDS! NUMBERS! Oh my!

James is a whiz kid with letters and words and spelling and sounding out what he reads, and we owe it all to They Might Be Giants.  Seriously.  James goes to bed (and every-other-day nap) with the Here Come the ABC’s CD playing and has the entire thing memorized.  He’s constantly singing the songs. But...

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And so it begins

We got our very first original “Why?” question from James today.  He was sitting at the kitchen table for lunch and looked quizzically at me and asked out of nowhere, “Why is Daddy a teacher, mommy?”  I was thoroughly impressed.  I expected the “Why?” questions to start simply with “Why?” when told to do something…...

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Every once in awhile…

Every once in awhile something (like finding a machacado con huevo taco here in Austin or remembering the $450/mo rent for 1100 sq. feet) reminds me of when we lived in Rio Grande City that *almost* makes me wish we still lived there. I headed to our small group last night minus the boys.  James...

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