What a Successful Day!

Today was Evan's 1st day of school. We did 2 phonics lessons on the parts of a paper and the first set of basic strokes. He did a great job and listened very well. We had a few interruptions from Elliot, but that's nothing unusual so I gave him his own "school" work to do. Evan took a small break while I put Drew down for a nap and then did a poetry lesson. Once both little ones were down for noon naps we read a chapter from "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe".
We are going to start his Math lesson on Thursday, because he starts learning the calendar and they begin with September. I sent a picture of Evan working at his desk. Gran and Pop got him the desk and it fits him perfectly. We might need to be on the search for another one for Elliot.

Today was Elliot's 1st day of potty training. I did not decide to coincide the two events, Elliot took that upon himself to not want to wear a diaper and he successfully used the bathroom twice so far. We'll see how that goes!
So tonight I think we are going to celebrate a day of firsts. I will keep you all posted on our schooling and training. Keep us in your prayers and we will pray for you all. We love and miss you.

God Bless,
Chad, Kim, and the boys

A Day in Our Life

Evan with a few of his favorite things. As you can see we have lots of Darth Vaders, 4 stages of Obi Wan - from Padawan to Hermit, and Palpatine's slide from Senator, to Chancellor, to Evil Emperor.


















"I've been waiting for you Obi Wan."














Elliot, Drew and Evan, in all their sweetness, ham it up for the camera.

The World's Greatest Woman

My lovely bride, Kim with Elliot.

Evan...I am Your Father!!!

Being a dad is really fun. I would like to say that it was always like this, but I must admit that for the first, oh, year or so of Evan's life I wondered if he would ever want to do anything with me. We were very much into attachment parenting and Kim was nursing him and it was our first child, so I had no idea really what it would be like.

Well, each month had a little more for daddy to do with Evan. He became less and less of a mommy's boy and more and more of a daddy's boy. Then the inevitable happened...he discovered my old Star Wars toys. It was at this moment that I realized exactly how cool it was to be a dad. Now I had someone to play with again!! To re-live all the fun times that I had as a boy growing up. We had all my old toys out and he played with all of them: Star Wars, Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe...you name it.

The only problem is that it seemed like I missed the first year of his life. I was so caught up in waiting for Evan to "do something" that I totally forgot about the joys of everyday life with a little infant.

So, when Elliot was born, I took in each and every moment he had as an infant. They grow up so fast, I just couldn't believe it that before long Evan and Elliot were playing together. And of course, Elliot likes the same things that Evan likes, which are the same things that I like, so again, here I am re-living my youth through my children.

Now we have Drew. At almost 4 months old, he is certainly a handful. It is a challenge: Evan was 3 when Elliot was born and he was totally potty trained. Elliot was 2 when Drew was born, so he is not as mature as Evan was, nor is he as independant. Still, I wouldn't have it any other way. I love being a parent. I love my family. I love playing with the boys, as you can tell from the picture.

God is Good.

We have a Winner

As you can clearly see, Elliot is happy with the results of the blog. It is pretty simple to post pictures and comments, so we will probably stay with this. As a side note, I actually set up a blog here back in June, but I couldn't remember what the name was. That old one is Tiny-E@blogspot.com . This one is TinyEBlog@blogspot.com

Can you hear me now?

After attempting a website and then trying to use Yahoo 360, I think we are going to go to this for our main way to keep everyone updated on our goings on.

The webpage is too darn complicated and time consuming for me to deal with. Maybe once I have some more time, (like when the kids are in College!), I'll upgrade to a full blown website. Until then, this is it!

At the moment, this is really just a test to see how easy it is to post pictures and comments.