I grabbed the camera last night thinking I’d get a couple quick picks of the latest project we’ve been working on for today’s post. Instead, when I turned it on I noticed the battery was almost dead and the memory card was half full – a little shocking since I had just cleared the memory […]

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We were on the fair grounds for less than an hour last Thursday morning when Lulu first spotted the slide and what she had only imagined from my stories became an actual vision. With the bombardment of new sites and sounds though, she seemed content with just walking by the first day with a promise […]

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After wrapping up Peanut’s check-up last Wednesday, we were off to spend the rest of the week at the Iowa State Fair. I would be helping my family exhibit cattle in one of the beef shows and the DW was excited to introduce Peanut to some of our friends we only see while at the […]

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We had plans for Saturday afternoon/evening that had to be canceled last minute. The kiddos were looking forward to it and rather disappointed, so the DW and I thought we’d pull the tents out of the closet and go camping. I use the word camping rather loosely. You’ll notice we didn’t even leave the back […]

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With four kiddos running around, I’ve come to learn there are many funny-scary-humorous-interesting-never-know-what’s-next aspects of parenting. Sometimes, it’s simply their perspective, and how they express it, that keeps us on our toes. Here’s just a few examples from this week… During supper one night the conversation somehow turned to 90’s music. Potato Boy was listening […]

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When I mentioned in passing on Monday that we took the kiddos to the drive-in for a movie over the weekend I didn’t think it was that big of deal, but judging by some of the feedback I received I guess the drive-in is worth a little bit of discussion. Earlier last week, the DW’s […]

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With a week of weather that felt more like the end of September than the end of July, we had a weekend packed full of things to do – the county fair, a movie at the drive-in, more work in the kitchen, and catching up in the garden to name a few – which means […]

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We’ve been eagerly waiting for this day. July 20th…Peanut’s 1st birthday! I remember every moment, every sound, every smell, every emotion from July 20th, 2012. Here’s the short version of what I remember. It was a Friday. I was 30 weeks 5 days gestation. I had been on bed rest for almost four weeks…it was […]

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For once, someone else in our household was “the patient” instead of Peanut. A few weeks ago Potato Boy suffered a right of passage in a sense, and had his tonsils and adenoids removed. Our suspicion that his tonsils were enlarged was confirmed by the ENT doctor when he first looked into the boy’s throat […]

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Peanut is no longer content to just sit and watch her siblings have all the fun being “mobile”. Over the past two weeks, her large motor skill development has exploded! She is crawling (and she’s a quick one), she is pushing herself up from her belly to sitting, and she is pulling herself up to […]

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