The 6 Bears

Who does Ezra looks like? Terry or I? How about me? Terry was at my folks last weekend, saw this photo of baby me that my s...

I don't remember exactly why, but the day before Evie's birthday was quite busy. For one thing, Terry preached. That evening I made...

Ezra had a cold last week that had progressed to where he had had a fever for 3 days and was really quite cranky. He was totally not himsel...

Our schedule around here involves school in the mornings during Ezra's morning nap, lunch, recess and then quiet/nap time. Noah had me ...

A couple weeks ago I caught Samuel "playing" with Ezra across the gate. Yeah, like both of those gates? We are a gated community....

We decided to start giving The Olders a small allowance. They recently saved enough up for a trip to Target to make their first ever purcha...

After dinner one evening last week while I was washing up, I looked over and saw Ezra at the back door doing this: I quickly dried ...

As I've mentioned before , Evie's reading book has occasional games. It's nice to break out of the mold sometimes, even if it i...

Samuel loves balls. It's one of the earliest words he could say. A couple weeks ago Terry was out back teaching him how to play basebal...

This last weekend I took some funny pictures of Evie outside with the remnants of a snowman. It reminded me of another snowman when she was...

The first week of March Ezra was just starting to play on and climb up the bottom-most stair . We turned around a week later and found him ...

I'm a terrible mommy. I promise I rescued him right after I took this photo. I couldn't help but grab the camera!

After Ezra did this a couple weeks ago, I guess it was only a matter of time before he decided he had to try the next level. Literally. Th...

"Can't a dog get a break here?! I'm just trying to eat." And Ezra's all innocent, "What?" We used t...

Two and a half weeks ago when Ezra pulled himself up on this toy box, it was new, exciting and impressive. I had to stop what I was doing t...

I mentioned in my last post, where I copied and pasted our 2013 Christmas letter , that I was doing so, in part, to reference an update abo...

Okay, so this post is very late. I had been meaning to post our 2013 Christmas letter before now but kept forgetting, obviously. I'm...

Just over a week ago, when Noah and I descended into the school room to start his table work, we found Evie and Samuel like this:  ...

During his day off on the last day of February, Terry decided to teach the kids how to play the game of Risk. It was mandatory, even though...