Category Archives: Family

I haven’t done a lot of Katie updates lately – I feel like we’re getting to the point like so many others in their Christmas card listing where you just list off their activities.  So I guess I’ll start there – Katie starts Senior Preschool on Sep 22 – she has about 17 kids inContinue reading “Katie Update”

Amelia has really bulked up on her vocabulary lately, and it’s so much fun to hear her learn new words.  Of course, her favorite words are still some variety of "Daddy do it" or "Mia do it".  She has learned all the common words she needs and is constantly dropping words I didn’t know thatContinue reading “Parrot”

Becky finds it weird when I tell her I don’t really know my cousins.  She has like 30 and grew up with 20 of them, so she knows everything about how they were like when they were growing up.  I have 7 1/2 and really don’t see them very often.  I have two and halfContinue reading “A Rare Rendev-Vous with My Cousins”

Here I go again falling behind on blog entries.  It’s been a very hectic month.  It seems like every night we have something going on – or it’s nice enough outside that we decide to do something.  By the time I get the girls to bed I’ve either been too tired or had too muchContinue reading “Where Does All the Time Go?”

My brother Marc just called with the great news that their new baby has entered the world this morning.  Sawyer Ashton Newell was born this morning and weighed in at 8 lbs, 2 oz.  He is 20 1/2 inches tall.  Kari and Sawyer are doing great.  Parker just got to meet his baby brother andContinue reading “Sawyer Ashton Newell”

Amelia really has grown up quickly over the last few months.  She’s been behind Katie’s development pace in just about everything up until now, so it’s been really interesting to seem how far she’s come so fast.  By her second birthday, she could only say the most basic of words and couldn’t really put togetherContinue reading “Amelia and Her Puzzles”

We set out on a quest over Memorial Weekend to get in as much family time as possible.  Friday night we made the long ride back to Becky’s hometown and survived with minimal crying or complaining from our back seat drivers.  We didn’t make it in time to figure out the sleeping arrangements, so IContinue reading “Memorial Weekend Recap”

In our town, there are two T-ball leagues that kids as young as 4 can participate in.  One occurs during the day, but with our work schedule, that one won’t work for us.  So we signed Katie up for the T-ball league in the evening, which is a Town league.  That means we get toContinue reading “T-Ball Time”

Today marked the last day of Junior Pre-school for the 4 year olds in town.  Katie has made it through one grade!  If she goes to college, that only leaves 18 more years of school.  She’ll be in Senior Preschool next fall, so things will be getting pretty serious then.   She really enjoyed theContinue reading “1 School Year Down, 18 to Go?”

I told a lot of people that my favorite time with Katie thus far was when she was between 18 months and 2 years when she was learning a new word every day, and every day we were surprised by whatever came out of her mouth.  Amelia has just started to enter this phase now,Continue reading “Amelia’s Getting Chatty”