Last day as a kindergartner

A few less teeth, a little bit taller and a whole lot smarter - Tyler had a great first year of school. 

My Little Climber

Miriam's new favorite "perch" and a snack date with Daniel

Freezer Jam

As Bryce watched my mom measure the 8 cups of sugar required to make this batch of strawberry freezer jam -

"That's a lot of sugar, Nana....I think that's enough.....you're kind of wasting the sugar....."

Baby Curls

Bryce quotes

After looking at a picture of me when I was little - "Mom, who was my mom when you were a baby?"

While wiping a kiss off his cheek "I don't like to get kisses, I only like to GIVE kisses."

A nurse with lids

So everyone in our house is sick this week. Some more than others. After two trips to the doctors today we found out that Andy has pneumonia and Bryce has an ear infection. Since I'm less sick than anyone else I've been playing nurse all week. Andy and Bryce keep hacking up gross phlegm while sitting on the couch so I've brought them Tupperware containers to hack into (sorry if this is TMI for some). Well my observant little 15 month old has noticed me going into the Tupperware drawer and wants to be a nurse too so I noticed a pile of Tupperware lids on the couch too. 5 Tupperware lids ought to do the trick.

Fun with cousins

Sarah and her family are visiting this week. It's been almost of year since the cousins have played together. The contrast between gender dominated households is best described in the following conversation while driving back from lunch with Nana and Pop:

Anya: I had my hair done at a beauty parlor this morning (Sarah spent hours trying to untangle an accident with the bubble machine).
Bryce: Don't say beauty, it's a potty word.
Anya: (very curious now) what's a potty word?