Us Against Them

     Tate is such a sweetheart!  Here are some of the things he's said to me recently:      He's a sweetheart, yes, but also incredibly difficult.  He doesn't seem to listen.  He has a very hard time following simple orders and we get increasingly frustrated.  We clearly need to learn patience.  The kids were helping Dustin set something up when he got home from work.  He had asked the kids to stop touching certain things and after a few times of repeating himself and kids not listening, he got on Tate's case about it a little more.  Tate then came into the other room and told Baylee, "Sometimes I want to cry but I try really really hard not to and I go away from all my family."  How heartbreaking is that?!  He's my kid that, I thought, let everything roll right off of him.  He was able to easily move on and not get upset when he was in trouble or lovingly reprimanded.  I guess I need to pay more atte...

    Happy Fourth, everyone!  We had a great day.  It was super busy but also super awesome.  We went out to breakfast as a family and ran some errands for last minute food stuff and invited a whole bunch of neighbors to come join us in our driveway for a christening of Dustin's new grill.  Of course, being last minute as we are, I think people already had plans and we didn't get anybody telling us they'd come.  Except one good friend and we decided to relocate to their house.  So we packed up the kids, the food and he came with his truck to pick up the grill.  They have a great yard with lots of shade and it was perfect.  He also works for Frazzle now and happened to have a machine for work so the kids got some red and blue slurpees which was a big hit!  We brought big bubbles which did okay, but mostly ended up in little ones drinking the solution.  Oops.      I also got to meet Josie, who I love so much, even ...

     Every time we left the house, for several months, this is the conversation we had while buckling Jude. Me: push J: push Me: good push J: me good push Me: yeah, Jude J: yeah, Mom Me: yeah, Jude Repeated three times because there are three buckles to the car seat.      Anytime Jude cries we ask him, what's wrong?  He says, "Me crying."  And we say, why are you crying?  "Me crying like this." We have to deduce the reason for tears.  It's never an easy straight forward route.      All night as we prepared for bed time Jude told me he wanted to be naked.  Baylee and Tate took showers, Baylee was first but Tate thought he was first.  So Tate had already undressed and Dustin told him to go wait in his room since he had already undressed.  He didn't exactly wait in his room.  He more pranced about showing off his nakedness.  Hence Jude's strong desire to be naked.  I felt I wa...

That's all.  We're back.  I'm determined and newly resolved to be better at this thing called life.  And that includes doing this blog again to keep a journal account of our crazy, silly, fun, blessed life.  Please laugh along with us.