Cook and organizer

Since Thursday, when the new kitchen set for E arrived at our house, our little boy has been busy putting food in his oven, refrigerator, on his stove, and dumping out and sorting his food and dish bin. It has been amazing watching him immerse himsel

New Phrases

Well, E's vocabulary is growing every day and he is now adding common phrases like "Help Me" and "I don't like that." Yes, that's right, a four word phrase. He has also now mastered "I like that." We don't know when he learned "I don't like that" but

Hello, Again

I had to cut that last entry short as E was crying. Anyway, as E has been busy saying new words (He just said "Outside" earlier this afternoon meaning he wanted to go out) I have been busy trying to recapture our last year of memories. The day after

Short Hello

Well, this is just a quick, hello, from our family. E is saying a few words like "Hi" "More" "All Gone" "Puppup" (dog) "PaPa" (Grandpa) "Da" (Dad), "BaBa" (Bubbles) and the like. He will once and a while pick up a video game joystick and play around

Dairy Farm

Today we took a trip up to Forest Lake, MN, to visit a new dairy farm. The Autumnwood Farm just started dairy production and had an open house. E enjoyed looking at the animals and Amy and I enjoyed learning how they process milk. We sampled some cho

We Weren't Home, And It Wasn't Our Neighborhood

I'd say it is a bit unusual to have to field phone calls from well wishers on two nationally reported events within 9-months (I-35W Bridge last August), but here we are again, and a quite a bit closer to home. As most of you know, if you have been wa

Another Fever

Yesterday afternoon E started running a temperature at daycare. They gave him medicine but his temp did not go down. Amy picked him up, brought him home and give him two Popsicles as well as dinner but it didn't help. At around ten o'clock I went in

Weekend Scare

I'm emerging from a hectic 14 days of grad project and final studies, UST Board of Trustees presentation prep, final AITP meeting of the semester, and various other work projects. Amy is counting down the days to the end of school, scheduling E's app

Spring has sprung!

Blah, over-used phrase, I know, but after the snow last week it was a treat to actually hear the sounds of the frogs coming off of our lake. I love having our windows open finally !

15 Months Old

It's Saturday night. E is sleeping, Chad is working on Master's homework, so I decided I'd take the time to add an entry. E is now 15 months old and as the daycare says, he's "Mr. Investigator." He wants to see, touch, and play with everything! His f

St. Patrick's Day on KUST

St. Patrick's Day is next Monday, which happens to also be a day that I have the KUST studio all to myself between 10 and noon, so I figured I'd celebrate BIG! I'm "taking" the studio to Chicago in order to bring the listeners the sounds of St. Patty

Welcome to toddlerville!

Gosh, it seems like it's been forever again since I've taken the time to blog. Between being a mom, wife, housekeeper and teacher, I sure find very little time for all of the extras that life has to offer. I decided that it was time I come on here an