Adventures of a Family

Jonah has made some wonderful observations and posed some intriguing questions recently. While talking about leaves falling from trees Jonah said, "Do leaves have parachutes?" While playing down in the basement Jonah found the wireless doorbell button in his horde of toys and said, "the ding dong." Hallie teased Jonah, "You are a ding dong." Jonah replied, "I'm not a ding dong mommy I'm a little boy." Jonah is kind of becoming obsessed with a couple animated movies at the moment. Though he typically only gets to watch about 20 to 30 minutes of tv a day he still chooses to watch the same video each time... Monsters Incorporated. In a quest to end his obsession (because I really can't bare to hear Billy Crystal as the voice of a one eyed little blobby monster anymore) I showed him the movie Cars. Now all he wants to know about is "What is Lighting Mcgween doing right now?" While in the stroller Jonah asked, "Do cars h...

I started to realize the other day that although Michael and I do a lot of work keeping these two little ones alive and happy, it is all the amazing helpers in our lives that keep the two of us alive and happy. And so we are able to keep it together (for the most part!), get on with the task of being parents, and have enough energy to love our babies just a little more. We keep thanking our lucky stars that we have such giving and amazing people in our lives. So thanks grandma and grandpa diltz, grandma and grandpa clark, kealie and chris, heidi and joe, sandra and sean, gabrielle and ellie, shannon and mike, lori and ryan, terri and ro, erin and craig, jess and dylan, matt and alexis, elke and byron, miq and thui. You are all family to us and we couldn't pull this off without you. Here's to a wonderful community of friends and family that has enriched our lives so tremedously.