Category: parenting

  • The poo saga continues

    When we last left off, Leo had shat on the living room carpet upstairs.  I worried he would do it again as he loves to take off his pants and diaper and sometimes I’m just not paying attention.  I’m happy to report he has NOT pooped on the living room carpet upstairs again so far.…

  • Spring has sprung

    Spring is truly here!  Our backyard fruit trees are beautifully blossoming and are so pretty to look at! We are only going to be keeping the one pear tree (white flowers) and cutting down the apple and peach as they are too close to our back fence line.  But we have another peach tree planted…

  • Spring Break 2017 edition

    Ezra’s spring break was this past week so we decided to head out with Velvet’s family and go to Green River, UT.  We didn’t have an auspicious start to the trip; Jesse was pulled over and ticketed twice within maybe a half hour for speeding.  It was completely ridiculous in the sense that he was…

  • Ezra is a smarty

    Ezra’s class finished mid-year testing and we went in this morning to get the results.  Apparently our child is amazingly brilliant, which we already knew.  He is leading his class in all areas and is more than double where he “should” be for the year.  She suggested for kindergarten we tell his teacher that he…

  • My lovely new boots

    Jesse got me a great pair of house boots for Christmas and I’ve been wearing them all the time.  In fact I’ve been wearing them as shoes outside of the house as well but have discovered that isn’t really their purpose (the foam soles are starting to look a little rough and really they are…