Family Life

The three non-sick family members went grocery shopping this morning. I took Daniel and Joel with me, giving Debbie and Micah a break from the usual Saturday morning clamor. At lunch I mentioned that I had some errands I wanted to run, and floated the possibility of again taking the two older boys. Debbie had [...]

Yesterday’s approach must have had some effect, because when I got home from work tonight the living room was spotlessly tidy. I could almost see all the carpet fibers combed in the same direction. I’m not sure how much of that was Debbie’s doing and how much was the boys’ efforts, but man, what a [...]

Micah went to bed at about 9 tonight. This offers us an evening of unprecedented freedom. A couple of weeks ago we moved his crib upstairs, as far away from the rest of the family as possible, where he could cry to his heart’s content (OK, so that’s a somewhat contradictory turn of phrase). We [...]

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 [...]

Joel has to make sure he has all his “babies” when he goes to bed. These are his stuffed toys. There is a greater volume of stuffed toys in the bed than there is of Joel. First and foremost is Rabbit, his senior baby. Next are Rabbit’s deputies, Happy Feet (a penguin, of course) and [...]