Pachelbel Bedtime

Here is a great video that Fern forwarded to me. It is amazing how closely this guy nails the trials of bedtime.

Science Fair – First Place

Guess who took home 1st Place for her grade level. Ellie did! She did a great job and worked really hard putting it all together. Ellie and Fern have been working on it for the last two months, usually a couple of nights each week. Ellie thought up the experiment (making gas with wet and [...]

First Time Running

On Wednesday, Ellie had her first experience running. I’ve been running for a while now, and Ellie has always seemed interested in what I was doing. So I recently offered the chance to go with me. On Wednesday night she took the challenge. We had a great time, we started off with some stretching, then [...]

The Tooth Fairy Finally Comes

Well the Tooth Fairy finally made a visit to our house last night. After a month of waiting for that loose tooth to finally fall out, I gave it a yank last night and it came out.
Fern was at a meeting and I was getting the girls ready for bed. Like we do every night [...]

The Tooth Fairy

We knew the time would eventually come for the Tooth Fairy to visit our house. If all goes well she will be visiting our house in the very near future (maybe even tonight). Yes, Ellie has her first loose tooth. In fact she has two of them, and they are her bottom two middle teeth. [...]

First Day of School

On a cool and rainy Friday, Ellie had her first day of Kindergarten. Because it was raining, Fern drove Ellie to school. Just before pulling into the parking lot Ellie said, “Mauma (her grandmother) said that if I’m afraid, to take 3 deep breaths.” At which point Ellie took 3 or 4 deep breaths.
The following [...]

Kindergarten Room

Last Thursday Ellie’s school had an open house and we stopped in to take a look at her Kindergarten room (her teacher was not there). Tomorrow morning we/she has an orientation, which we are all attending, and where we’ll meet her teacher for the first time. Her first full day of Kindergarten is on Friday. [...]

Growing Up and Minor Flooding

Tonight was a busy night. The first big adventure was converting Sarah’s crib into a toddler bed. If we had our way, I’m sure we would have waited, but Sarah forced our hand. Last night I woke up to some terrible screaming. It seems that Sarah had tried to climb out of her crib, but [...]

First Haircut

Ellie finally had her first haircut on Tuesday. After 5 1/2 years, she decided that she wanted to get it cut. Because her hair is so curly it’s really hard to tell how long it was without it being wet. She wanted it to be cut up to her shoulders, but it ended up being [...]

Word for the Day: Bubblegum

That is the flavor of the amoxicillin that we picked up last night for Ellie’s case of strep throat. So needless to say there is a lot of hand washing going on at the Nerhood house today.