Journaling

So here goes. I've tried to journal about/for my kids in all manners. I started off really well with Wyatt - I had a website, didn't like it, so then just kept my own digital journal on Word and inserted pictures. I wrote fairly regularly, until he was about 18 months. Then it was patchy. I figured that was fair, I could surely keep up a journal for the first 18 months of each of my kids' lives, and whatever was written about them from then on was great effort, but not an expectation. My goal was/is to have about the same effort for each kid. You know, Matthew is #4 and he has nothing! I'm serious...it was hard to find a baby picture of him (I've seen one or two). Thank goodness for the annual school pictures!


Then Annabelle came along. I did start a journal for her in Word, but with far fewer entries. I beat myself up about it because there are so many great things that she has done that is not written down anywhere. I moved my writing to a regular spiral bound notebook- have one for each, thinking that if I just had it handy, I would surely pick it up regularly just to jot down the little things. It worked that way for a little while, but has trickled off. I think the last time I wrote in it was about 6 months ago!


So here is a fresh new start. This one is much more public, which is frightening to me! Much of what I write will be extremely boring to most...but at least I will be making a new effort towards chronicling the great and not so great things my kids do, that I will want to hold on to once they are grown.

Here are a few cool things about the kids that you might not know:

Annabelle

• went potty in the toilet for the first time last night!


• has a funny personality - likes funny faces, laughs easily and with gusto


• loves to sing and will tell you if the song you're singing is what she wants to hear, or if she had something different in mind


• is exhuberant about almost everything!


• LOVES her papa


• copies everything her brother does


• could live off of Kraft mac-n-cheese and itty bitty beanie burritos from High Tech Burrito


• actually loves most kinds of cheese


• calls the telephone the hello


• smart, smart, smart - but in a different way than her brother
  

Wyatt

• favorite color is still red


• gets more and more into Star Wars every day (thanks to his papa)


• naps almost every day (thank you!)


• easy-going and very eager to do what's right


• has a friend in one of our garbage collectors (yesterday was the garbage man's last day before retiring and he was sad that he didn't get to see Wyatt to say good-bye)


• LOVES to play bad-guys


• smart, smart, smart


• an observer

There's always more I could write, but, as always, the little stories escape me right now. I am going to try to be more diligent about taking the time to write the tidbits that happen as they happen so I don't forget the way I do!