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It’s been an exhausting couple of days!! It all started Tuesday night when Sophia threw up all over the hallway while running to the bathroom. She was pretty shaken up and wanted to take bath. Every couple of minutes she would ask for the bucket or ask to sit on the potty. […]

We had another really busy weekend and the weather was surprisingly gorgeous!! We took the kids grocery shopping, out for supper, then to the mall. We took the kids for a walk around the lake a Jordan Creek Mall, which was really nice. Like I said the weather was perfect and the […]

Happy Halloween to everyone. We hope everyone had as good of a halloween as we did. We got together with a bunch of neighbors last night and took the kids trick-or-treating. There were three little princesses, a kitty, Sophia the duck, a teddy bear and little tiger Derek. All girls (except […]

Derek’s hair is so blonde and so super fine that it looks like he’s a little bald baby. So Kevin and I thought it might be time to give him a little hair cut…you know, to make it grow in thicker.

We decided that we didn’t want to give him any old haircut…let’s give him […]

We had Derek’s one year appointment on Thursday and just as we had suspected he’s in the 95th percentile in height at 32 inches tall. And he’s 24 lbs 6.5 oz. That’s 2 in taller and exactly 2 lbs heavier than Sophia was at her one year appointment.

It won’t be long […]

It is so hard to believe that Derek is already 1 year old. This has been by far the most emotional year of our lives. He has changed our lives so much and we couldn’t be a happier family!

Derek has come so far in the last year, from my little 5 lb 10 […]

I’m not sure what prompted me to do so, but tonight while tucking Sophia into bed I asked her what she wanted to be when she grows up. She looked at me with a straight face and said…”A fireman”.

I didn’t even think she would be able to understand the question, but […]

Our busy weekend started Thursday night when we went to Old Chicago Pizza in Ankeny to begin the celebration of Paul and Caitlin’s marriage. The kids had a fun time and Sophia liked the bathroom so much that she went potty 7 times in 2 hours.

Friday I took Derek to a doctor […]

Wow, potty training is really difficult!! We owe it to Denise for sticking with it all week long. Sophia likes to go ALOT!!

We’ve been doing a lot of celebrating around here this last week. Denise’s great idea about the Big Girl Fairy taking all the diapers has worked wonderfully! Sophia did […]

The three-day weekend of Labor Day has finally come to an end, and Kevin and I feel…Hmm, what’s the word I’m looking for…LABORED!! Really, we had a fabulous weekend, it was just super busy and tiring!

Saturday morning we woke up early and took the kids to the zoo. We all had a great […]