Category Archives: Family

It’s been a highly blogworthy week with a number of interesting events, so I’ll try to hit a few:   Katie was chatting with me last week as I was getting her ready for bed- "Daddy, we don’t change our underwear at night, right"  I said "Yes, Katie, we can keep them on until we changeContinue reading “Several short stories”

We’ve had another interesting week – this time due to our day care situation.  We’ve been very happy with our daycare at Brandi’s for the past 2 1/2 years ever since our original day care was shut down.  I remember my mind racing with possibilities about a year and a half ago when she saidContinue reading “Day Care Saga”

Amelia’s been through a lot of ups and downs over the past month or so, and I’ve been slacking and not updating as often as I should.  After her second seizure, our doctor recommended we have an EEG (electronic brain activity scan) and meet with the pediatric neurologist.  The EEG was not pleasant – theyContinue reading “Amelia update”

* Note – this was written on the plane and was supposed to be put out last week, but I forget to post it    This past Saturday we got to spend the afternoon and evening at my parent’s lake cabin.  It was quite warm (around 90) and with very little wind, which is quite rareContinue reading “Perfect Saturday”

Whenever I need to convince Katie to help with something, I call it a "project."  She loves to help with pretty much any kind of project – so we have lots of projects around the house.  Over the past few weekends, we’ve been working on some real projects.  We are desperately trying to get ourContinue reading “Outside project”

It’s been a long weekend, since we were essentially sequestered in the house with two sick girls.  Katie picked up Amelia’s virus on Saturday and was pretty lethargic both Saturday and Sunday.  She never says "can I go night-night" and we heard it twice this weekend.  She was running a bit of a fever, butContinue reading “Parenting not for the Easily Disturbed”

Amelia took her first steps tonight.  She took about 5 little steps towards Becky when she brought her her drink. We had tried to put her to bed twice but she was just too excited to go to sleep.   She had taken one step on Saturday night at our friends the Uggerud’s and sheContinue reading “Amelia’s First Steps”

Today I took Katie and her friend Jalynn to a summer music class for kids who will be entering Junior Preschool in the fall.  Katie and Jalynn both plan to start school in the fall as they will be 3.5 which is the eligibility requirement.  They were both excited to go, and as Katie likesContinue reading “Katie’s First Day of School (kind of)”

May 23 AM 5:47 Woke up – each day Becky and I trade off who gets up first and today was my day 6:25 Woke Katie up – she had wet her bed – that’s too bad since she’d made it 4 days in a row without 6:30 Woke Amelia up – as I changedContinue reading “Diary of a Long Day”

I thought it was about time to do a follow-up entry.  I haven’t been doing a great job of following up on entries – I kinda bounce around from topic to topic.  So for my next few entries I’ll try to recap and finish stories that I started before.    The first one I wantedContinue reading “New Year’s Follow-Up”