Month: June 2008

Date Night

Last night Casey and I decided to do a family date night… after all, who knows how many more chances we’ll have to go out on the town with just the four of us?? (Dudley is one of the four, in case you are counting…) We sat outside at our favorite restaurant, then walked for […]

Bedtime Tango

Hm.   That title sounds potentially steamy, but let me assure you that the only thing getting steamed is my nerves.   Kenny is suddenly turning bedtime into a real battle.   He’s always (with a few exceptions here and there) been very good about going to bed and sleeping all night.   But the […]

Boogers

A poem, for Kenny:   Kenny loves to pick his nose.   He does it with relish; With gusto.   He does it in the morning, noontime & bedtime; In private, in public, At church and at play. In the car, near and far: He’s my nose-picking star! And he doesn’t stop until He fishes […]

Tell it Again

Tonight Casey and I started talking to Kenny a little more specifically about what’s going to happen when this baby decides to make an entrance.   Here’s the “story” we told him: One of these days in the next few weeks, Mommy will be walking along, or sleeping, or eating or playing, and I will […]

The Latest Scoop

At my OB visit today (those funny 5-minute deals they drag you in for every week at this point… really… is the thirty-minute round trip drive worth it??), I was declared, “Still doing well.”   The good doctor confirmed the positives of my “pelvic architecture” and made the prediction that I would do “very well” […]

Saturday…

The day starts with some coffee and chocolate milk on the deck… Then Daddy and Kenny take off for their weekly breakfast date while Mommy hits prenatal yoga… Close encounters of the reptile kind (click on this for a better view – a four foot black rat snake that we first saw right on the […]