http://www.lunenburg.org/kids Getting Bigger Every Day Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:26:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We had a pizza delivered to the house for dinner tonight.  When I answered the door, the girls were bouncing right behind me, excited about the food.  As I was signing the slip of paper to pay for our meal, I heard Kate's little voice pipe up behind me. "It's a ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/11/05/sometimes-you-wish-you-had-a-muzzle/ Kate often makes us laugh with the things she says. The other day, Grandma Queen's iPod was sitting on the end table by the couch.  Kate tried to get it, but I told her that she couldn't play with that, it was Grandma's.  Kate said, very seriously, "If it's Grandma's, it's ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/11/05/funny-words/ Kate has been perpetually sick for the last month-plus.  It started out as a cold that both she and Hayley had, but Kate had a worse version of it.  We had to run the humidifier at night to help her breathe and during the day we were constantly wiping her ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/10/06/sick-of-it-all/ Hayley played in her first "official" soccer game today. Since she was about three, Hayley has taken soccer classes but the program she was in didn't focus on any real skills at first.  Within the last year, they focused a little more on skills but they still never played real games.  ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/09/20/529/ Hayley got a couple of free kids passes from school to the Alzafar Shrine Circus that is at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio this weekend.  So we decided to take the kids to their first circus. It was a smaller-scale circus than, say, a Ringling Brothers circus but I think ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/09/20/let-it-shrine/ I bought new underwear for Hayley the other day, and Kate wanted some too.  I thought, why not?  She'll wear them eventually, right? Well, Kate wanted to wear them as soon as we got home.  I let her since it was pretty close to bedtime and we would have to put ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/09/19/potty-talk/ (For those of you who haven't read about or have forgotten about "Ugly," please revisit this post). It has been several weeks since we were at Sam's Club but the time came when we had to go back.  I talked with Kate before we went, telling her that we would most ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/09/16/ugly-2-electric-boogeyman/ Kate doesn't usually go right to sleep when I put her down for her nap.  She usually spends at least ten minutes (and in the case of today a half-hour) talking or singing to herself.  Lately, it's been singing, and as she jumps from a few notes of one song ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/09/10/new-from-kids-records/ A conversation at dinner the other night. ME: "Hayley, did you just kick me in the knee under the table?" HAYLEY: "Yeah....it was an accident." ME: "Well, what do you say?" HAYLEY: "....hiiiiiii-YA!" Holly about spit out her food. I had to explain to Hayley that if you accidentally kick somebody, you should ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/09/04/i-know-kung-fushow-me/ I never thought I'd be a grandma at 30, especially when my oldest daughter is only five. But after more than two years of promising, we finally got Hayley the chihuahua she wanted yesterday and she wants to be its "Mama." The new member of our family is an 8-week-old male chihuahua, ... http://www.lunenburg.org/kids/articles/2008/08/30/hayley-isa-mom/