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My baby is 9 months!
Swinging in Klamath Falls There’s something special about the nine month mark- it means he’s been out as long as he was in. To me Anders feels like he’s 18 months old. Because that’s how long he has been on my thoughts, part of our life, in my heart. If I were to choose a…
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Things I love
I love how Anders crawls down to his brothers, first thing, after waking up from a nap. I love how he lays splayed out on his belly while taking a break from crawling and taps one foot, because he enjoys the sound. I love his opened mouth smile and joyous clapping. I love when Scotland snuggles…
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A follow up post
Last night after writing yesterdays post I had a soulful prayer session. I was reminded of this Mormon Message that Tom shared with me a few weeks ago. https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/mormon-messages/mormon-messages-2014?lang=eng I started to list the wonderful things I’d done that day: spoon fed pancakes to Anders, even though he could have eaten them himself- just to have…
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Admitting low points
I haven’t been blogging much lately. Too often at the end of the day when I would normally blog I decide to instead hang out with Tom, or the thoughts that are streaming through my head seem too negative to share, or I’m just to fried to write anything meaningful. I’d say in my current…
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This is what a summer looks like- at the Foutzes
I’m far over due to post. And yet I have little desire to write about what we’ve been up to. I fear it would just be a travelogue, which is generally unexciting to those who weren’t riding along. And yet I want to document the wonderful times we’ve had and the memories we’ve made with family.…
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Anders: 6 month milestones
Our baby is six months today. I just can’t believe that half a year has passed since he was born. We just adore our little Anderoo. His high spirited, smiley personality has brought such joy to our family. I did a photo shoot this morning to celebrate his half-year birthday. Enjoy. Anders has a big personality.…
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Parenting, from the Man with the Manual
About a month ago, Scotland and I had a really rough week. His behavior was atrocious (to me) and I was completely at a lose for how to address it. As a result, I behaved embarrassingly myself, and there were many tears shed by both of us. After a particularly challenging morning in the midst…
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Motivation
I’ve been trying to derive a plan to help motivate Scotland to do. . . what I want him to do: reading, dishes, cleaning, behaving. I just about decided I was going to come up with a rewards chart- he would earn stickers/fake money that would add up to him being able to choose something…
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Update on the boys
Scotland: Glissading on Mt. Rainier “This is my best!” (as in, this is my favorite!) He’s very interested in sayings, and is always proud when he uses one, his current favorites are: “Keep your eyes out!” “Keep your eyes peeled.” “I don’t have any hands.” His likes to understand everything I’m saying, and as a result…
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7th Anniversary: Mt. Rainier
Mt. Rainier Tom and I celebrated our seven year anniversary last weekend. It was a totally spontaneous trip. Thursday night we were chatting about what we should do on Tom’s day off on Saturday. As we started looking at our weekends we realized it was our only free weekend before our anniversary. Considering the gorgeous…