OH MY! Are my wonderful husband and I CRAZY or what? Well, first let me tell you! We went to visit some friends of ours who live in the Belleville Diocese (Illinois). Belleville is right across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Cathoicmumma had the idea to go and see the Arch. Did you know you could go up in the...

Hello! I promise I will get better at posting more often. I have some BIG news. Margaret is trying VERY HARD to crawl. This morning she got up on one knee and moved about 3 inches. AMAZING! Soon she will be able to chase Karol around! Also, I started taking a class to learn Italian. This in preparation for us going...

Margaret made her first trip to the beach yesterday. We went to a beach north of Chicago, about 3 miles south of the Wisconsin border and it was beautiful. Sadly the water was FREEZING. It wasn't something one could get used to either, it was probably about 45-50 degrees. Karol enjoyed eating sand. He did this last...

I think we are going to Italy. Not anytime soon, but we have a time frame and I picked up Passport applications for me, Toddler K and Baby M. We are most likely going in the late summer/early fall of 2008 for Brother B's Solemn Profession of Vows. Exciting. Other then that, not too much is happening. We are done with...

...well sort of. We have moved. Have you ever moved with at 14 month old and a 2 month old? Wowsers, talk about busy times. Toddler K (14 months old) kept helping by either throwing tantrums or packing away fresh produce in to boxes. (I hope we got all the onions out of the food boxes.) Of course, in keeping with...

Quick history and information about us. We are Catholic. We like to go to Mass. We like to go to Masses that follow the Rubrics. We like when the presiding Priest does EVERYTHING correctly and does not add anything to the Mass. We like it when they leave everything in the Mass that is supposed to be there. (FYI, sign...

Margaret (Baby M) had a weight check yesterday. The midwife was concerned that she wasn't gaining weight fast enough as she only gained 3 oz in 2 weeks. At weigh in yesterday, she was 7 lbs 7 oz. 2 ozs above her birth weight! Yippee! And she gained 10 oz in one week. Piggers. I, for the record, am back down to...

We have been teaching Karol a few signs here and there. Mostly signs that I remember or pick up from my sister in law. Karol has just laughed at us when we have signed words to him though. Milk, ha ha ha. Eat, ha ha ha. You get the picture. Today I fed him his lunch (peanut butter on a tortilla, apples and grapefruit...

I found out earlier this week that our bedroom door doesn't latch. How did I discover that? I am glad you asked! Sometimes when Margaret is hungry, I  go up to the office and nurse her while checking email and reading the news. When I do this, of course Karol joins us. I close the bathroom door, my bedroom door and...

For a while know, Karol has been folding his hands to pray. He just started one day, probably in the middle of December. He folds them when we pray before eating a meal (and looks to us for approval, very cute). And recently, he started doing it during Mass. Well today, as we were leaving Mass, he did what appears to...