Category: Our Life

Adrianna has had what appeared to be a cold for a couple of weeks. Over the past couple of days it started to develop into a deeper cough, congestion, and wheezing. She has also...

Adrianna is fond of pointing at various family members in our little household and saying their names. She’ll say “Momma” or “Mommy” as she points to me. She’ll point at Greg and say, “Daddy.”...

I just found out last week that I am getting a new boss. I guess our director is being re-orged to another department soon. i have to admit that I am very sad about...

Adrianna loves our Christmas tree. When we came downstairs on Sunday morning (after putting the tree up on Saturday night) she excitedly pointed at the tree and loudly exclaimed, “Dee! Dee!” She then had...

Today was the perfect day (other than the baby waking us up early thing.) We laxed around the house all morning. Then we decided to brave the holiday rush and go Christmas shopping, which...

Adrianna normally sleeps in until around 8:00 each morning. Unfortunately I do not get to partake of this blessing very often since I often am at work by 6:00. So when Saturdays roll around,...

I have mentioned many times before that Adrianna likes to dance with me. This usually consists of her sitting against my hip as we twirl and bounce around to whatever music is playing at...

One minute she is awake and happily chowing down her spaghetti and breadsticks while we watch George of the Jungle and make lion sounds (roar) together with the lion on tv. The next thing...

Adrianna loves our dogs. Whenever she hears them bark, she starts woofing too. When Molly tries to lick her face and darts her tongue in and out, Adrianna sometimes copies and flicks her tongue...

You know you have reached Mom status when you reach into your coat pocket on a chilly day and the single pair of gloves contained within will only fit little toddler hands.

I am working on cleaning up one of my cupboards and as I was placing our many large phone books into a box to be taken to a recycling bin down the road, I...

Dave and Marilyn had invited two Nepalese students from a University in Wichita to spend Thanksgiving day with us so they could see an American Thanksgiving. This was their first time in an American...

My mother-in-law and I compiled a list of all of Adrianna’s current words yesterday. We are probably missing a few, but here is an extensive list of over fifty words that we came up...

I was a little worried about having to sleep in the same room as Adrianna both in our hotel on the way here and once we got to Greg’s parents’ house. In the past,...

So we are spending Thanksgiving with the Reimers this year. Having decided that we wanted to split our long drive to Kansas into two days rather than taking it all in one haul, we...