Of big kids, beavers, and babies!

GO BEAVES, it's that season again. WE're READY!!!!


Nate is our lawn mower now. What a worker he is to take on the entire back lawn three times, unloads the bag...

Darbi and Todd successfully chopped up an entire deal of strawberries all alone. Todd using a knife (YES, a sharp object, which he did a very careful job I might add) and Darbi using the egg slicer to get them the rest of the way chopped.


Halley, is my biggest helper, folding laundry all alone, putting them all away, getting the little kids dressed and hair combed, all her school done very precisely and well...

Andi has grown about 6 inches in the last year or so, everything is so short for her (however, she has stayed the same weight so she's our cute string bean).

Trae has gotten 6 teeth in the last month (if not less time than that). Poor little guy, it has NOT been fun but he's sure a cheerful little guy when the gums are numb.

And baby ???? is growing, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. It's hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under the gums, and some of his/her bones are beginning to harden.

He (for the sake of writing he/she all the time) already busy kicking and stretching, and his tiny movements are so effortless they look like water karate. These movements will become more frequent as his body grows and becomes more developed and functional.

As for Me (mom) I'm sick, it's not fun, but it does end soon. I usually only have about 5 weeks maximum of sickness and then it's home free from there :).

Dad, well he's working two jobs now. His day job all day and then comes right in, starts the rest of what I didn't get done on dinner, gets the laundry going, cleans up from our day and then falls into bed after helping the kids get cleaned a bit, working on his speech for toastmasters, doing all the bills and paperwork still leftover from the house project, helps me get clean and something to eat and drink before a fitfull night of sleep. I didn't know a man could become more impressive and valuable than Nate already was.

So, here we are, a ReaL post on our LiFe: