See, I didn't throw up this time! - Lucy

Three year olds are a wealth of entertainment and brutally honest comments. Tonight's comment fall into this category. In the last couple of months, we found out if you give Lucy a packet of peanut butter and crackers, she has a problem eating and swallowing them.

Like all kids, she loves them and eats them at a quick pace. However, instead of swallowing her food before putting more in, she will squirrel it away in her cheeks. She continued eating until she couldn't swallow, work the food in her mouth or basically even breath easily. She would get to coughing until she lost her cookies. Or in this case, her crackers. We thought her mouth was empty and didn't realize peanut butter was stuck to the top of her mouth. We've all been there. So she would continue to cough and spit up until we went digging and found the peanut butter on the roof of the mouth. Amazing what you do as parents!

Well, Lucy is a bright 3 year old. Tonight, we were eating dinner, pulled pork, french fries and vegetables. She was eating the pulled pork, realizing that the pork was affecting her the same way the peanut butter and crackers did. However, she was able to finish her food, empty her mouth and keep it down with no problem. Afterwards, she proudly proclaimed, "See, I didn't throw up this time!"

In the beginning...

You know... these things are everywhere. Everyone has one. Or so we are made to believe this. I am not doing this to be "trendy" or "on the cutting edge" because those are two things that have never been associated with me. And it's not going to start now.



I am starting this because of one main reason, and a bunch of little reasons. The main reason is because, around the Christmas holidays, we are sooo busy, doing things that HAVE to get done, we have missed a Christmas letter the last couple of years. So, instead of trying to remember everything that happened with our family throughout the year on a Tuesday evening in December while also trying to do everything else we do for Christmas, like baking, shopping, wrapping, DEC-OR-AT-ING, etc, I am going to try to capture the moments as they occur throughout the year and then send out Christmas cards with our blog address on it. This way you can learn more about us than you'd ever wanted to and we will have more time to buy, wrap, decorate stuff.





Once I get the hang of this, I'll even try to make sure the titles make sense so you can skip to the high point or points of the year. I hope I will keep this pretty current. I will probably have guest bloggers (Marcie and Laura and who knows who else) but for the most part it will be me providing the running commentary. I hope you will come back often to check up on us. Spend some time with us, laugh with us, cry with us and, if you want, discuss and share with us.





Enjoy and talk to you soon!

Picture from Easter 2008

(l-r) Vincent, Laura, Lucy and Sophia - all dressed up!