I started this week out strong with pictures but took NONE on Thursday, Friday or today. By Wednesday evening things in this house were basically in upheaval and Thursday was a nightmarish extension of Wednesday evening. (Think car got fixed & returned Wednesday only to have it break down and have to be towed away [...]

I have no idea if this is as crazy as I think it is. Friday morning Hudson built this. Without any intervention from completely disassembled Legos. Started like this. Then this. This is where my mind got kinda blown. Then, like a true genius made the switch out for a different color to throw off [...]

I have a new parenting issue that has been slowly creeping up on me. Hudson has been in his big boy bed for a few months & for the most part it goes really well. He does run around for a while in his room every night. He does climb in bed with Tru & [...]

This kid is getting big! Just as Truman & Sawyer are starting to fumble over a few simple words- Hudson’s vocabulary is rushing forward at speeds I never thought possible. He didn’t say much until pretty recently. But now? I can understand at least 75% of what he says. He can make 5 word sentences [...]

2 year olds don’t listen. It’s pretty much a given- but I never knew exactly HOW FRUSTRATING that would be until I was in the trenches being totally and complete ignored by my kids. Sure, 1 year olds can’t really follow instructions- but at 26 months- HUDSON CAN. He just WON’T. And though I’ve resorted [...]

Watching my children interact with each other is the most heart wrenchingly beautiful thing I have ever seen. Though Hudson tends to push Truman & Sawyer down- Yells “MINE!” as he steals THEIR toys from their hands, he is in love with them. I know he is in love because of the moments I see them together when [...]

At 11:02AM on March 3rd, you joined our family as the younger twin & the little girl I always wanted. You were 6 pounds & 8 ounces- just one ounce shy of your singleton brother’s birth weight! I was shocked! You were almost a full pound bigger than your twin brother. And gosh, you were [...]

11:00AM on March 2010, you were born. You were the older, smaller twin at 5 pounds & 15 ounces. You were delivered, then, your sister & once in the recovery room- they started to survey you. Within a few minutes they whisked you off to NICU for what amounted to a 3-day stay of tubes [...]

Things have been very exciting around the Brandt household lately. We are all feeling better & the house has been buzzing with the excitement of Scott’s birthday, Truman & Sawyer’s 1st birthday, their party & the fact that they are officially walkers!! It started a day or two ago when Truman walked about three steps [...]

Today marks the last day for cloth diapers in our house. Truman got this really temperamental rash recently & I seriously tried EVERYTHING but the only thing that seemed to help was switching to compost diapers. And compost diapers? Well, they are freaking EXPENSIVE. Like, $1 a diaper. So, we had to leave our service that we’ve [...]