May 26
May 26
I just browsed through my photo album and thought you might enjoy these:
May 21
I attended Timothy’s Hawaiian end-of-year party at his school. Despite the fact that Timothy was proud to wear his grass skirt (hula) and some “jewel” stickers, it was a lot of fun for me. I followed the class around as they went on a scavenger hunt finding each element of their outfit before going back to their classroom for lunch. I, then, entertained a few kids by dancing my own version of hula dance and sticking paper umbrellas in my cap.
Tomorrow will be Zachary’s party.
May 15
Today, I went with Timothy’s class on a field trip to a place in Lubbock called Kenny’s Korral. It was a blast, as you can probably tell from the pictures and videos.
May 14
For nearly a decade, I’ve had fruitless mulberry trees in my yard. In Plainview, living there from 2000 - 2007, we had one very large in the front yard and one equally large in the back. They provided massive amounts of shade, which was great for the front yard, not so great for the back since the previous owners of the house had installed an above ground pool that spent the hottest hours of the day in that shade. It made for pretty cold swimming.
It was almost comforting to see that the house we decided to rent in Lubbock also had one of these trees in the back yard. Well, turns out, to my surprise, it is not a fruitless mulberry. Similar though it is to those Plainview trees, we are now tracking mulberry juice into the house as it has shed quite a few berries.
Looks like we have ourselves a good old fashioned Texas Mulberry tree:
Jan 14
This past Saturday, we did something that should be commonplace for us but was actually a new excursion. We took the dogs for a walk. Emily has a project this week for Brownies: She’s supposed to be helping to take care of the dogs, feeding them, watering them and taking them for walks. It just so happened that it was Timothy’s turn to take home the class pet as well. Fortunately for him, the class pet is a stuffed animal: a dog named Buttercup. Apparently each weekend, a different member of Timothy’s class gets to take the pet home and then write a story in the Buttercup Journal about his/her adventures. After reading a couple of stories, I noticed that the gender of Buttercup changes from one story to the next.
At any rate, we took all three dogs for a walk yesterday around the blog. We hooked on the leashes and for most of the way, Lucy walked Timothy and Cramer walked Emily. (Yes, I said that right.) Buttercup had the privilege of being held around the neck by Timothy for most of the way.
It was a fun trip and something we should definitely do more often.
Cramer:
Lucy:
Dec 12
Three days ago, we left church early because Timothy was feeling ill and lethargic and complaining of pain in his ear. By the end of the day, we was crying in pain. Ibuprofen and Tylenol were keeping him from being completely miserable all the time, but each time the meds wore off, he would begin to cry again.
On Monday morning, Lori took him to the doctor to find out that he had a sever inner ear infection. Fortunately, even though it was bad, it had not perforated the ear drum.
He’s now on antibiotics and doing much, much better. He was back at school today (Tuesday). I can’t think of anything more upsetting then knowing your child is in pain and you can’t just make it stop.
Nov 02
Here are the long awaited photos of Timo on “Grown-up” Day:
