Category Archives: Winfield

Because you know that toilet time=Titanic time

Someone has earned some bragging rights.  He just doesn’t know how to brag so I’ll do it for him.  Winfield has been reading like a maniac lately and we’re really impressed.  He reads everything, all of the time.  He sits on the toilet and reads.  He reads all of the billboards when we drive, he...

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They all say that you should read to your kids when they are young.

But I say, you should teach the young kids read to the young kids.  It saves a lot of time! Yesterday Baby Nate came over for a bit in the afternoon.  I needed to put Harriet down for her nap so I laid Nate on the floor of Win’s room and told Win to take...

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About 2 months before Win’s birthday…

…this company sent us a catalog.  They knew what they were doing. Win loved to pour over each page.  He and Harriet loved to discuss which theme was their favorite.  He finally settled on one that was his ultimate favorite and he would always go back to it.  He passed over Cars, Mario, bugs, monster...

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Bambi seems to be the top choice on the list…

…of names for our little baby GIRL!  A couple of weeks ago Winfield told me, “Harriet and I agreed that if it’s a girl his name will be Bambi.”  We had our ultrasound this morning.  We’re having a little girl in September.  So far “Bambi” seems to be the only suggestion.  I guess that Jared...

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Too much!

Win’s been learning to read.  And it’s really cute.  He has a bunch of boxes of BOB books that he’s been flying through.  He reads everywhere we go, in stores, on billboards.  It’s like he’s unlocked a secret code.  Today in the store he asked me, “Why does is just say ‘towels’ and not ‘paper...

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Okay, how is it done? I sort, I bleach, I soak. What more can I do?

I’m a laundry nazi.  I really like throwing clothes in the washing machine.  In January our wonderful 30 year old washer started spraying transmission fluid on all of our clothing during the spin cycle.  Yeah…not okay.  The kids were both sick and puking and I was desperate.  Do NOT take my washing machine away from...

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