The Lieslands

Things have been going well for us this Spring. The kids love to be out, and so do the parents.

Andrew – Andrew is doing well. His school year is coming to an end. He has really enjoyed school this year. We are trying to figure out what we should do for school next year.

Mari – Mari is as wild as ever. She is still on an emotional roller-coaster, which I would guess is not going to end soon. We are also trying to figure out what to do with her next year.

Elliot – Elliot has been growing up a lot lately. He is communicating a lot more and seems to be learning more words. He isn’t talking, but he knows what more words mean when we say them. He has been standing a lot lately and has just recently started moving his feet, a little. He appears to be on the same timeline as Andrew & Mari were.

Susan and I have been spending most of our time parenting. She did get to go to a belly dancing class last Saturday night, which sounded like a fun time.

Here is a good post in a blog that I follow:

Motherhood Is A Journey

We had a busy Easter weekend. Erin and kids came to town on Wednesday morning. I was supposed to work until 3 on Thursday, but Rod called Thursday morning and we had a couple of showings, so I took the afternoon off. Friday we hit the Natural History Museum, a nice alternative to the busy Children’s Museum. Saturday we had Kelli, Emory, and Oliver over for dinner. Sunday we hunted for eggs, ate candy, went to church, and went to my Aunt Elaine and Uncle Mikes House. Monday we ate some more candy and hung out at home.

Erin and her kids left this morning and I headed back to work.

Susan just called and said she is lonely.

Last weekend was a Gala-filled weekend. Friday night Susan helped set up, and then Saturday night was the actual event. I was on the committee, so I had to be there at 5:30. Susan was going to stay home with the kids, but at 6:30 she showed up and told me that my parents were going to watch the kids. She was planning on taking an intermission at 9 to go home and help with bedtime, but when she called my parents said that all the kids were asleep. She ended up going home at 11 and I was up until 1. It was a good time.

A couple nights ago I read an interesting article about parenting and modeling proper behaviors for our children.

Today I came across an article which I like, agree with, and think has the same message.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/14/beckfloridamichigan/

It is time again for my semi-annual complaint about the time change.

I am sure that to someone the time change seems like a good idea, but they must not have little kids.

So apparently we got a lot of snow. Seems like a lot to me. It started snowing Friday morning and didn’t stop until Saturday afternoon. I got to leave work early on Friday so I could enjoy the white stuff. Friday was spent watching it snow and hanging out in the kitchen. Saturday was spent digging out and playing, and then by Sunday it was all play.

Simon and Rachel came over on Sunday and we hit the slopes of Mt. Airy Forest, at the same place where we had our wedding reception. It was pretty warm and sunny out, so the snow was slow. We sledded for a while and then went for a nice winter hike. By the time we were finished we were all a little warm, so instead of heading home and having hot chocolate we headed home and had some chocolate milkshakes. It was a fun day.