With sick babies, we're in for the evening. And while I wait for the 20 th load of laundry of the day to dry, here's my thoughts on...

So guess who was up last night throwing up? That would be Andy! Poor guy. He came to my bed about 11, which is weird, but there are lots of ...

After a mostly uneventful Monday, Meg threw up all over the car on our way back from Costco (where I picked up our Christmas cards, sorry fo...

So we returned and we were all excited to relax and sleep in our own beds...only for little miss Margaret to be up all Friday night, coughin...

We took 177 photos while we were gone. Here are some of the highlights. Andy proudly showing his name on his stocking. Darling Baby Emma wh...

Once the stomach bug left the building and I got some rest and stopped acting like a baby, we had a really nice visit. Here are the highligh...

We are in Dallas. The flight was mostly uneventful and the kids were generally well behaved. The added wrinkle was Meg's diarrhea that f...

I walked into my babysitter's house this week and Meg crawled around the corner and said, "Hi." It was so perfect and adorable...

Before with the old aluminum, sliding windows. During when they removed all the old aluminum frames. Installing the new windows. Viola! All...

Andy: "Uh, Mom, am I wearing any underpants or am I going ' ammando ?" Me: "' Ammando ?" Andy: "Yeah, '...

Me: "Andy, why are your hands in your pants?" Andy: Smiles, "I'm just tickling my penis. Tickle, tickle, tickle!" Me...

Meg is now standing everywhere. It's been amazing how quickly she's picked it up. I turned around yesterday to find her standing in ...

Little Miss Margaret can stand. Problem? She can't sit down. Last night, as we entertained Vickie and Christian on a Monday of all remar...

Hey look! A picture of the four of us! Together! We went to Alexandria yesterday in theory for the parade of lights where boats are decorat...

The new washing machine arrived yesterday. It looks surprisingly...just like a washing machine. The difference is this one doesn't leak ...

Andy's language continues to explode. I swear, once a day he says something that I think to myself, "I need to write that down....

I did something nice this week. I wrote a letter to Andy's school telling them how great his teacher is. We really like her. In fact, th...

It is so much fun having an almost four year old at Christmas time. Andy is so incredibly excited about all of it. He remembers Christmas tr...

I have two sets of baby monitors. One for each kids' room and two receivers for each -- one set in our bedroom and one set in the baseme...

We started the day at the home of old friends. I hope someday to have good friends we see every year that we've known for nearly 50 yea...