19 days ago by Lam

On many occasions when James asks about how my day went, I've started the conversation with, "You know what made me mad?" To this obviously rhetorical question, he always replies, "You mean *madder*?" Okay, okay...I get his point. I have a passionate manner of speaking (and typing) that makes me see ...

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24 days ago by Lam

Last spring, I snapped some shots of my nephew and his girlfriend before they headed off to his Senior Prom and A1 asked about the event. He promptly told me that he was going to take one of his buddies from Kinder to his prom. He's made a good choice...we adore both her and her family and are grate ...

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52 days ago by Lam

Last week and the one before had me running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I promise myself every year that that scenario will not repeat itself and every year, it actually gets worse than the year before. I need to practice saying, "No," more. And I have to realize that it doesn't hav ...

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69 days ago by Lam

...and then I happen to look up from the hustle and bustle only to realize that both boys had outgrown their seats. Their shoulders rose above the seatbelts so A1 is now in a backless booster and A2 moved from his carseat to a booster. How did so much time elapse? Of course, on occasion, our days ar ...

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80 days ago by Richard

G was on the receiving end of some hilarious playground-style bitching at a parent-and-toddler group this morning. I overheard one youngster saying, as she pointed very deliberately in G's direction: "I don't like that girl." What G had done to irritate her remains a mystery. Anyway, she rose above ...

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97 days ago by Lam

Our house is old and overly compartmentalized so that we can't even see the family room from the kitchen. And the dining room is so isolated that we hardly spend any time there. Last weekend, A1 received a Lego set (remember when they were just a bunch of interconnecting blocks and not entire sets t ...

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99 days ago by Lam

When I quit my job to be at home full time with A1, I knew about the positive feelings I would experience but didn't expect the overwhelming feelings of being lost and alone without constant adult contact all day long. It was obvious that regular playdates would be good for both of us. I quickly dis ...

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100 days ago by Richard

G can be a bit timid around older children. In the playground, she usually backs away when a bigger toddler wants to go ahead of her on the slide, or swings, or whatever. G often needs a bit of encouragement from me to get her elbows out and stand her ground. This isn't the case when G is with young ...

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105 days ago by Lam

We've been hanging out with one of A1's friends from Kindergarten a little more. We've been showing him things like ice skating and he's been showing up things like...flying through the air. Hmm...seem fair to me! And because I have no place to post this photo, I'm adding a pic of the boys super exc ...

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119 days ago by Lam

I don't want to dilute the awesomeness of these photos with my meaningless words:

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