It’s not often I appreciate a baby crying, but I do love to see Kaitlyn’s tears. For the first 9 weeks, both of her tear ducts were blocked. She didn’t cry tears and always had eye goop – sometimes really, really bad. Then overnight it seemed to clear and now real tears form when she…

I thought I had done all I could with my apples. Then my friend, Krista, posted about canning apple pie filling. I decided I needed to try that too. I used the same recipe she did from Our Best Bites. For my own future reference, the recipe calls for 6 quarts which is about 50…

Alex’s bottom front teeth have been wiggly for weeks but today one of the teeth was REALLY wiggly. Alex was determined to lose his first tooth today. With a little help from Wade, it happened!

Today’s soccer games were not as nicely lined up as last week. Teague had the 8:30 game and Alex had the 10. It didn’t really make sense to go home in-between so we went to the playground and Reid (a new friend from soccer with a brother in Alex’s class) joined us.

Kaitlyn was so excited for Granny and Pop to arrive. She then promptly had a bottle and went to bed.

I have recently been working on my Project Life layouts and had a lot of ideas for photo collages to add more pictures in a single photo space. Wade quickly decided it was time for me to learn how to do these things myself. Below are two of my favorite photo collages:

Kaitlyn had some serious issues with gassiness/fussiness the first two months. Then the craziest thing happened. She turned into a sweetheart who smiles and giggles when awake. She has been a good sleeper from day one and is now sleeping pretty much through the night. When she does wake it is only once between 5-7…