The big kids got in the back yard a few weeks ago and "built an airplane." And before they flew away to live on their own, they decided they needed to make sure they knew their own rules. So they wrote them. I typed what they spoke. It was Elliot and Clara, standing on either side of me, brainstorming and taking turns. I did not lead them at all, ( Read more... )

This is an important landmark in anyone's childhood. Clara learned how to ride without training wheels just 3 weeks after her 5th birthday. Yay for Clara! Elliot still won't even really ride his bike even with training wheels. Kids are so different. From the way Philip seems, he might be the most athletically inclined child we have. But anyway. ( Read more... )

Last night, Tim reminded me to read the chapter about Elliot in Please Understand Me II, a great all about personality types, character, temperaments, and intelligence.

I am an ESTJ. Elliot is probably an ENTP, and this means we're basically complete opposites from each other. Which is no surprise to anybody. :)

Elliot is an NTP for sure, and we're ( Read more... )

Elliot is a little boy. He is six and a half. He has imagination. He has determination. He has passion. He is focused. He is serious. He is intense. He is busy. He has vision. He is tireless.

( Click here to see Elliot's latest invention. )

I have to show Elliot I love him in different ways than talking because when I talk to him, I'm usually either ordering him to clean, fussing at him to calm down, or too mad to actually speak words. He's just such a busy little boy and basically I can't be around him. But I do love him. See?

The other day he ran in and exclaimed that Ronald was ( Read more... )

Yay for the White Christmas!! 

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The Kansas City Southern Express came to Siloam Springs last weekend and the kids and I braved the cold drizzly weather to have a look. It was a LONG wait, but the inside of the train was decorated to the hilt so I think it was worth it. Except that Elliot definitely came down with a bad case of strep throat immediately that evening, so maybe it ( Read more... )

I'm updating my lindsleykids journal to be public so that people can actually read it. And I came across this entry with pictures of baby Conner (my sister, Leah's kid). Look at Conner and tell me who that reminds you of. :)

I can't stop this year. I started SO many projects and I'm having SO much fun. And so are the kids. But seriously, I do need a Christmas Craft Intervention for real. Let's see what all we've done.

First of all SALT DOUGH ORNAMENTS OUT THE WAZOO. We made a ton of Christmas ornaments that the kids and I painted. We mailed 30 or so to Grammer and ( Read more... )

The other day, the kids sat Philip in his chair and gave him his present, the present they'd wrapped for him before he was even born. I think it was lost under my bed for a while.  They helped him open it and everything. His very own toothbrush. :)
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