Family Life

We’ve been trying to teach the boys to tidy up their toys at the end of the day, without much success. Tonight Debbie asked them, commanded them, pleaded with them, and eventually started tidying up herself. She gave up when she realized the boys were untidying faster than she could tidy up. There are three [...]

It’s a busy weekend. Debbie did the weekly grocery shop in the morning, with Joel. I stayed home and played with Daniel and Micah. Debbie took Daniel out to get his portrait in the afternoon. I stayed home and kept an eye on Joel and Micah. Debbie baked and decorated a cake in the evening. [...]

We were at a baby shower this afternoon, for a young couple in our church celebrating their first child. I overheard the new mother commenting how she’d had to hold the baby for an hour last night, just to get her off to sleep, and how much she’d enjoyed the quiet time, baby and her. [...]

I had an interesting email discussion tonight over whether, as parents, we favour one child over another. This discussion was prompted by yesterday’s blog post by Daniel, and a video of his I had posted to YouTube. The concern was that all this attention might go to his head, spoil him, psychologically unbalance him. Or, [...]

Contrary to what you might think from this photo, Micah does not like being put in bed. In general, he wants to be held all the time and doesn’t like being put down, and he especially doesn’t like being put down in his crib. Bedtime is often drawn out and painfully noisy, as the baby [...]