Respected. Knowledgable. Partner.
Thank you to everyone who commented, talked to me in person, emailed me, Facebooked me, or sent me messages! You all have great suggestions for dealing with toddler tantrums. I thought I’d lighten things up a little and show you the other side of Maximus. Favorite activity: playing his drums and singing songs Favorite food: … Continue reading Toddler Tuesday
I see people talk about how three’s are worse than two’s. And then I wonder how I’ll survive the age of three. I rationalize with myself by convincing myself that Maximus started his three’s early. He’s got a couple more weeks of age two, but the unreasonableness has been going on for a while now. His moods … Continue reading Dealing with toddler tantrums
Yes, he does! If you know him, it’s pretty obvious that he loves to eat. He’s been taking 8-9 ounce bottles for a while now. If you try to give him less, he will scream until he gets more. Dude knows what he wants and it’s milk. Or food. Really, just anything will work. We’re … Continue reading Quinten Eats
Yesterday I wrote about cutting cable. We made some other changes in our house when we said goodbye to our DirectTV boxes. We wanted to put more focus on our family and less focus on the screen. During a random lunch date in my office, Bryan mentioned that he should have put our bedroom tv … Continue reading Cutting more cable!
One is pretending and one is actually sleeping.
A few weeks ago Maximus and some friends went to a kids day at the park. It was national park day, or national kids day at the park. I don’t know. I just know that our community sponsored a park day and they had all kinds of cool things to do. It was a good … Continue reading Kids day at the park!
A Sunday night should be full of clean babies and relaxation. This week was only one of those things. We had a busy weekend full of running around outside. Maximus was in need of a bath, badly. I was flying solo so that meant both boys were going to get a bath. I knew there … Continue reading A basement, clean babies, and a dog
We’ve been soaking up life at home. Carrying on conversations with Maximus like he’s an adult. At supper we try to talk about our days, teaching him to talk to your loved ones. It kills me when he rests his chin on his hand and says, “daddy, what you have for lunch?” It usually turns … Continue reading Brotherly love
The calendar said May, but Mother Nature had different ideas for us. We basically had a snow day on Friday and today there’s a high of 72. Iowa weather is weird. One weekend we pulled out the shorts and the next we had snow on the ground. It was 79 in our house on Monday … Continue reading Snow day…in May!
Bryan and I spend a lot of time talking about managing expectations. It’s become a good foundation for our everyday lives. It’s much easier to deal with “disturbances” when you know they are coming. For instance, if I’m planning on cooking a meal when I get home from work it’s easier to manage the boys … Continue reading Managing expectations