This is the second time in about a week I have heard the following from the youngest boy - “A-A-A-CCHHOOO, sorry mommy I got some of it (snot that is) on your phone”. Casey J is obsessed with a simple little jigsaw puzzle game that I put on my iPhone to help entertain him at [...]

This is Casey J’s most favorite word as of lately. Yes, he says it just like Forrest Gump did.

Today as the Z Man and I were walking the two blocks to his guitar lessons he told me this:
Z Man: “Mom, I know I have a lot of time to decide and I don’t need to rush but when I am a teenager I want to D-A-T-E Saraphina and then when we are adults [...]

UPDATE - I apparently told some of this story incorrectly and the Big C would like me to set it straight.
We haven’t really had to broach the subject of adult words with the boys. There was a word one of the boys learned back when they went to a babysitter but that was quickly nipped [...]

My Z Man sometimes seems wise beyond his years. Although I’m sure I’ve said that before he never ceases to amaze me. He brought home a creative writing paper last week and was at first embarrassed to let me read it. It was so simple yet carried a much bigger message. He brought it home [...]

Yesterday morning we had to turn the water off so that my dear Big C could dig a giant hole to figure out where our water leak was coming from. Z Man had his daily constitution after we got home from church and was panicked when it wouldn’t flush. I told him not to worry, [...]