Darcy:  age 2 Darcy has heard us talking a lot recently about moving.  Today the big day finally arrived.  Everything was finally packed and the keys were handed over to our renters.  After taking it in for months and months, she finally busted out with her opinion while we were driving away from the house:  "Oh no!  OW HOUSE is MOOOSing!  Bettew go home and get it!  It. IS. MOOSing!!!" Read More

Darcy:  Age 2   Sunday was a rough day as both my husband and I started to feel severe flu-like symptoms. We didn't feel like finishing our lunch and went to bed where we set up "Enchanted" for our kids to watch.  Twenty minutes later, my two year old, Darcy, was throwing up her lunch all over me, the portable DVD player, and the bed.  I cleaned up the entire mess myself, even though I dry-heaved a few times.   A couple hours later I was on my hands and knees nearly done sanitizing Read More

Haley Jane:  Age 3 Recently we've been reading stories about the life of Jesus to our Haley Jane, so naturally the topic of death has come up.  Little Haley had even more an opportunity to wrestle with this difficult topic when a man we knew passed away this year. After the funeral service, the church provided a nice meal in the church fellowship hall.  During the meal an elderly man with wild, white eyebrows and matching white hair came up to the table to greet everyone and stopped to pat Read More

Haley Jane:  Age 3 (After playing outside on a hot playground): "Can we go inside and cold-up?" (As I'm helping Haley put on her shirt in the morning): "MOM!!  Don't BREAK my ARMPIT!" (At the breakfast table listening to baby Darcy babble "Die-Die-Die-Die-Die"):  "Mom, Darcy says she wants you to die."  (My response:  "I don't think that's what she means, honey.") (As Daddy walks in the front door):  "Daddy's home!  Hi Daddy... I ALMOST missed you." (Peeking her head in my bathroom, loaded Read More

Haley Jane:  Age 3 Haley:  "Mama, can I wear a dress?" Me:  "Haley, you already have a dress on." Haley (starting to get choked up):  "But....(stammering through tears)....I CAN'T wear THE SAME dress ALL....DAY......LONG!" Read More

Haley Jane: Age 3 1/2 Haley got a new Ariel t-shirt recently and asks to wear it almost every day.  Even though he lets her watch The Little Mermaid, Colby isn't the biggest fan of this Disney princess because she's got an attitude with her Daddy in the movie.  So, today in Wal-Mart, an elderly man saw Haley (with the shirt on of course), stopped, bent over so he was eye-level with her, smiled, pointed at her shirt, and asked kindly if she liked Ariel.  She shrugged and responded, "Yeah... but Read More

Haley Jane:  age 3   Haley and Darcy came back from Pennsylvania today where Grammy and Papa watched them for a week.  Haley returned with a big scratch near her eye that was apparently the result of a collision with a table.   Tonight at church, Miss Gayle asked what happened to her eye and Haley nonchalantly replied, "Oh, I don't know....I think someone beat me up."             Read More

Haley Jane:  Age 3 Haley:  "Daddy, are there flying horses in this world?" Dad:  "No, honey...not in this world.  Only in our imagination." Haley:  "Ohhhhh......Wow.  So, how do we get to our-imagination?" Read More

Haley Jane:  age 3 We had a youth worker's meeting after church today.  Haley loves it because she gets to spend quality time with some older kids, have "kitty club", and watch a movie in the church nursery while we have our meeting. When I went to get her after the meeting was over, she shooed me away frantically, "Noooo....Mommy, can you just go PRAISE THE LORD some more?  Please.  I want you to go PRAISE THE LORD a loooooooong time so I can watch The Little Mermaid." Read More