Author Archives: Jessica

Last night the boys and I played some fooseball.  It was me and Levi versus Jude and Asher.  Surprisingly, Asher and I are the best players.  But, Levi and I handily won every game.  Highlights were: The boys declaring “dead ball” and grabbing it repeatedly even when it wasn’t dead. Levi laughing so much that he said, “Always …

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Asher decided to ingest some of the bright yellow liquid inside his glow stick.  He immediately started gagging.  A quick call to poison control confirmed it is foul tasting, but non-toxic and will cause some stomach upset at the most.  It’s anything but boring around this place.

To me:  “I love you so much, I don’t want you to die.”  (He tells me this multiple times a day.)

So today, as Asher would say, is his “happy 3rd birthday.”  We celebrated with my family a couple weeks ago and he got a birthday card with a big 3 on it from my parents.  He carried his card around all weekend and his brothers tried to convince him that he was still 2.  Asher …

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“I want a baby sister but God’s not giving me a baby sister.”

“You found my Bat-Man cape.  Now I can fly.”

At 6 a.m. sharp on Sunday morning I got myself ready and then one by one grabbed my 3 sleeping boys who were dressed in their running clothes.  They had been looking forward to the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics’ kids fun run, all the way in White Bear Lake.  It was quite the drive, but …

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Work has been crazy lately and I’ve been working way too much.  I don’t like it and I know the boys don’t either.  They are incredibly perceptive and know when they are getting completely ignored.  For weeks now, as soon as I get home from work, I have to jump back on the computer and …

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Jude, who is 7, and still raves about how delicious booger are said, “Boogers, if you don’t pick them, you’re going to have a stuffed nose.”

“I’m Asher’s translator.”