Category: Lila and Eva

  • No broccoli, no ice cream!

    We seem to have hit another phase of parenting: the battle of the wills. Yesterday evening our plan was to get together with some friends and walk down to an ice cream shop together. But, as we were wrapping up dinner and getting ready to go, Lila refused to eat her broccoli. It was just…

  • I was told to relax

    So Chey, Lila, and I were cleaning up our house this morning. Lila, about 2.5 years old, walked up to me and held up her pointer finger. It had a grey smudge on it. “Looks like you got a little dirty,” I said to her. “Yeah,” she said, and started to wipe her finger off…

  • Pics from Indiana Here are

    Pics from Indiana Here are a few pics of Lila in Indiana.

  • “Go kitchen. Cook food.” Lila,

    “Go kitchen. Cook food.” Lila, my two-year old daughter, and I were sitting on our couch a couple evenings ago while Chey was out. Lila, tired from playing, rested her head down on a stack of clean clothes and pointed to a blanket. I tucked her into the blanket. “My sleeping,” she said. Then she…

  • The power went off in

    The power went off in our house a couple nights ago. It went off at midnight; our alarm system let us know. Lila, our daughter woke to the noise, and, as her nightlight was not lit, she wasn’t likely to go back to sleep. So, we brought her into our bed, thinking that she may…