Emery adores flowers. He always has. He’s always begging our neighbors for some of their abundant flowers. This year we gave him a plot of ground. He turned it into his own flower garden. He’s doing a beautiful job with it. Somewhere he got some wildflower seeds. Here he is surrounded by them. He also […]
The children like to make each other presents for their birthdays. Sometimes they have them ready in time, sometimes they don’t. Emery had wanted to make Colter a butterfly net for his birthday. He finally completed it. He used an old broom handle, a wire hanger, and some old screen material. He made it all […]
I’m a little behind on birthday posts – sorry! Emery turned 8 in April! Do you believe it? EIGHT! Here he is removing the candles from his breakfast birthday cake. See his missing tooth? It has been gone for almost a year. But it is now finally coming in. Emery is becoming quite the young […]
My brother, Adam, and his family came for a short visit on their move from Arkansas to New Jersey. We had a great time visiting and getting to meet my newest nephew – Aiden James. I wish I had taken more pictures, but alas… I didn’t. But Brett remembered to grab the camera to capture […]
Emery lost another tooth! When people hear that my children lose teeth, the first question always asked is, “What did the tooth fairy give you?” I have a confession, I don’t do the whole tooth fairy thing – I think that must have been created by people with only 2 children at most! So inevitably […]
Emery was a bit slow in getting breakfast this morning. And since it was a weekend he was trying to make it special by making all the French toast first, and then having everybody sit down together to eat it (except Jim who doesn’t eat eggs). The problem, unfortunately was that he was late in […]