Boston Dawn

A couple weekends ago, Ryan and Hunter were in Montana visiting family and Willow was at Grandma’s house in Idaho; so it was just the three of us left at home. It should have been a nice quiet weekend, but Mercedez and Boston are so similar in personality, and Boston has finally hit her breaking [...]

Boston in in Idaho this week with Grandma and Grandpa. The kids have a week off for fall break. Since she is five now and can fly unattended, I her to her the airport on Saturday and dropped her off at the gate. She was so excited. The flight attended asked her if she wanted [...]

Our backyard is nicely landscaped with a variety of bushes including hibiscus and honey suckle, large granite rocks, green grass, and palm trees a plenty. Everything is in it’s place and nicely bordered with small gravely rocks- the bane of our existence. Since we moved here, we’ve battled these little rocks which inevitably find their [...]

Boston and I were at the grocery store yesterday. She was helping me pick out fruit and said that she wanted a “yellow apple”. She kept saying yellow over and over and it sounded so strange. She was drawing out the yellllow. Then I realized that she saying it correctly. Then she said that she [...]

Boston is learning more and more words all the time. She says “dah” for yes. She also says “moy” like Hunter used to for more.
She is also learning to put words together to form sentences. However, instead of just using hte couple words she know, she fills up the sentence with “dee”. For instance; “I [...]

(In Idaho, visiting the grandparents…)
For dessert we had Dole Whole Fruit Popsicles. Boston had strawberry and was enjoying it immensely, but wanted to tasted Grandma’s lemonade one. She shuttered violently once, then again. After regaining her composure she scrunched up her face and said, “eeeww!” We all laughed and, of course, this only encouraged her.
She took [...]

Boston is becoming more talkative every day and more often we understand her. She likes to sing also. She sings “Scooby Do, where are you?” and when we say or sing “What’s new pussy cat?” she follows with the “whoa-o-o-o-o-oh!” It’s very cute.
She calls horses = hee-hees and cats = meows and cows = moos. [...]