Today is Little Man’s seventh birthday. I still can’t believe how old he is now. He’s in the first grade and is really enjoying himself. We celebrated tonight with our family, my parents and my father in law (my mother in law is in Florida taking care of her step mother who is dying).  Here [...]

Yesterday afternoon I had to go to the grocery store. After cajoling my older son into changing his shirt because the one he was wearing had splatters of the various foods he had eaten all day, we headed for the door. That was when I remembered Littlest One had been walking around wearing only one [...]

This has got to be the chilliest summer I can remember in quite some time. Right now, it’s about 65 and rainy.  I don’t want to complain too much because we need the rain badly because, sadly, our grass is brown and crunchy. But this chilly summer weather combined with the economy in Michigan is [...]

Three times this week alone I have walked into my dining room and found Littlest One, my 19 month old son, sitting on top of dining room table playing with whatever was on top. All three times I swear my heart stopped for a nano second.
Keep in mind, Littlest One is the only of my [...]

Up North we like to start ‘em early:

What can happen when you turn your back on a 17 month old while he’s eating ravioli:

What a mess! He is going right into the bathtub.
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Littlest One trying on his big brother’s winter boots:

Is there anything that embodies the sweetness and innocence of childhood than a little one enjoying a treat and getting it all over his face?

You remember the character from Peanuts who had a cloud of dirt and grime that followed him around? We have our own little Pigpen. This is what he looked like after dinner:

He has spaghetti sauce in his hair and all over his right hand. Why just that hand? That was the hand he ate [...]