Dev: I'm cleaning up the blocks so to make Santa happy.
Mom: Oh, that's nice. What about to make mommy happy?
Dev: No, just Santa.
Kid knows where her priorities lie.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
A Few Rememberies
On Friday, I picked Devyn up from school and we drove to the liquor store so mummy and daddy could have a beer with their pizza, and as we drove up and parked in front of the store, she said, "That says T-O-T-A-L-B-E-VYN." Well, she was very close. (It's actually Total Beverage; I think she got a little ahead of herself when she got to E-V and thought she knew the rest.) But I was pretty impressed! She even got the A, which on the sign is upside down so it looks like a cup with drink in it.
She can now spell two words: DEVYN and MAMA. She can't write them, but she can spell them!
Last night, she got out of bed in the middle of the night for the first time. The last two nights, she's woken up crying because her noise machine is off. (She says it just goes off by itself, but we're pretty sure she's turning it off at some point.) So that happened at around 1, and I went and turned it back on for her and came back to bed, easy peasy. Then I woke up a little before 3, I and thought I had heard a door shutting and her say "Mama!" but I was still in that haze of just having woken up from a very deep sleep, and so I wasn't sure for a moment if I had dreamed it or if it had really happened, but then I heard a shuffling, and sat up, and there she was.
We tried to ask her what was going on, but all we got was a very rambling story about dog poop, so I'm going to assume she was dreaming.
She can now spell two words: DEVYN and MAMA. She can't write them, but she can spell them!
Last night, she got out of bed in the middle of the night for the first time. The last two nights, she's woken up crying because her noise machine is off. (She says it just goes off by itself, but we're pretty sure she's turning it off at some point.) So that happened at around 1, and I went and turned it back on for her and came back to bed, easy peasy. Then I woke up a little before 3, I and thought I had heard a door shutting and her say "Mama!" but I was still in that haze of just having woken up from a very deep sleep, and so I wasn't sure for a moment if I had dreamed it or if it had really happened, but then I heard a shuffling, and sat up, and there she was.
We tried to ask her what was going on, but all we got was a very rambling story about dog poop, so I'm going to assume she was dreaming.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Veteran's Day
On this Veterans Day, I'd like to honor my grandfather, John O. Boggs, who passed away in October of this year at the age of 93.
Just a few months after he married my grandmother, Lucy, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and he knew he would be going to war. After basic training, he was pulled out to work at an army-run shoe factory, because he had experience with that work. He later became a quartermaster and was assigned to help supply units headed overseas.
He told me that one unit came through, and he really hit it off with their commanding officer, and so he asked to be reassigned to active duty with that unit. They approved his request, and he was sent to France, and later to Edinburgh, Scotland. He mostly told tales about the good times he had there, seeing parts of France with a buddy who spoke French, and about how much he enjoyed Edinburgh.
And when the war was over, he came home. He told me that it took him a little while to "get right" after all he'd seen, but then he and my grandmother started their family, and my father was born.
Just two years ago, he was awarded the World War II Cross of Military Service from the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I feel his loss so deeply, but I know that a great deal of who I am is due to the amazing person he was. He was an incredible force in my life, took care of me a great deal when I was young, was the best man at my wedding, and is the reason Devyn's name is hyphenated. I will always strive to live up to his personal integrity and code that he may live on in me and in my children.
Love you, Poppy.
Just a few months after he married my grandmother, Lucy, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and he knew he would be going to war. After basic training, he was pulled out to work at an army-run shoe factory, because he had experience with that work. He later became a quartermaster and was assigned to help supply units headed overseas.
He told me that one unit came through, and he really hit it off with their commanding officer, and so he asked to be reassigned to active duty with that unit. They approved his request, and he was sent to France, and later to Edinburgh, Scotland. He mostly told tales about the good times he had there, seeing parts of France with a buddy who spoke French, and about how much he enjoyed Edinburgh.
And when the war was over, he came home. He told me that it took him a little while to "get right" after all he'd seen, but then he and my grandmother started their family, and my father was born.
Just two years ago, he was awarded the World War II Cross of Military Service from the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I feel his loss so deeply, but I know that a great deal of who I am is due to the amazing person he was. He was an incredible force in my life, took care of me a great deal when I was young, was the best man at my wedding, and is the reason Devyn's name is hyphenated. I will always strive to live up to his personal integrity and code that he may live on in me and in my children.
Love you, Poppy.
Veteran's Day
On this Veterans Day, I'd like to honor my grandfather, John O. Boggs, who passed away in October of this year at the age of 93.
Just a few months after he married my grandmother, Lucy, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and he knew he would be going to war. After basic training, he was pulled out to work at an army-run shoe factory, because he had experience with that work. He later became a quartermaster and was assigned to help supply units headed overseas.
He told me that one unit came through, and he really hit it off with their commanding officer, and so he asked to be reassigned to active duty with that unit. They approved his request, and he was sent to France, and later to Edinburgh, Scotland. He mostly told tales about the good times he had there, seeing parts of France with a buddy who spoke French, and about how much he enjoyed Edinburgh.
And when the war was over, he came home. He told me that it took him a little while to "get right" after all he'd seen, but then he and my grandmother started their family, and my father was born.
Just two years ago, he was awarded the World War II Cross of Military Service from the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I feel his loss so deeply, but I know that a great deal of who I am is due to the amazing person he was. He was an incredible force in my life, took care of me a great deal when I was young, was the best man at my wedding, and is the reason Devyn's name is hyphenated. I will always strive to live up to his personal integrity and code that he may live on in me and in my children.
Love you, Poppy.
Just a few months after he married my grandmother, Lucy, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and he knew he would be going to war. After basic training, he was pulled out to work at an army-run shoe factory, because he had experience with that work. He later became a quartermaster and was assigned to help supply units headed overseas.
He told me that one unit came through, and he really hit it off with their commanding officer, and so he asked to be reassigned to active duty with that unit. They approved his request, and he was sent to France, and later to Edinburgh, Scotland. He mostly told tales about the good times he had there, seeing parts of France with a buddy who spoke French, and about how much he enjoyed Edinburgh.
And when the war was over, he came home. He told me that it took him a little while to "get right" after all he'd seen, but then he and my grandmother started their family, and my father was born.
Just two years ago, he was awarded the World War II Cross of Military Service from the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I feel his loss so deeply, but I know that a great deal of who I am is due to the amazing person he was. He was an incredible force in my life, took care of me a great deal when I was young, was the best man at my wedding, and is the reason Devyn's name is hyphenated. I will always strive to live up to his personal integrity and code that he may live on in me and in my children.
Love you, Poppy.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Halloween!!
We had so much fun trick or treating this year! Dev finally "gets" it.
The littlest dragon with Baba Yaga.
Dragon and Prince Daddy.
Princess Mommy, baby Dragon, and Prince Daddy.
CANDY!!
Saturday, November 2, 2013
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