Chris and Jenni

 
The other day I was at Wal-Mart buying a couple of the essential household items, when I heard this announcement over the intercom, “Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, all Halloween costumes at the front of the store are now, just $2.00, I repeat, all costumes at the…”
$2.00, hey I have some extra cash from cleaning the other […]

The kids and I got outside today again to work on the coop, granted I didn’t get much done. But we went out nevertheless and it was just nice to be out in the fresh air. I realizing though that the kids are going to need some gloves soon, it’s getting really cold out lately!

I […]

Poor Eamon, he has growing pains tonight. Aidan has never, as far as I know, had this before. Eamon’s complaining of his legs hurting. Makes me sad because, on the outside I can’t see that there is anything wrong and looking up his symptoms it appears to be growing pains. He was having are really […]

We’re really flying!
Originally uploaded by Chris and Jenni.

When Chris and I got married, as many of you know, we wasted no time with the babies. I have always wanted to have boys, and Chris has always wanted to have girls, we both got our wishes and both discovered how much we both wanted […]

Here is an email and prayer request from Chris’ mom, Joan:
I’m so glad you could come last night…life is so short.  Grandpa had a tough time after we left. They had to use a special breathing by-pass with mask to help him breath and rest.  They have increased the pain meds and now he’s sleeping.  Dr […]

We are well under way with potty training in the Burns’ household. In fact Eamon isn’t wearing diapers at all! Not even for naps and bed time! He still has at least one accident a day but that’s why we have lots of underwear :) Aidan is now wearing underwear to bed at night. It […]

I clean an office for an hour on Monday nights, it’s actually a nice time to get away for me. When I don’t have any extra errands to do I just leave after the kids have gone to bed, but last night I needed to go to the grocery store as well so I had […]

I’ve just spent a bunch of time on line tonight looking for answers. Eamon has had a hard month or two. His behavior is just plain grumpy pretty much all of his waking hours. I’m not sure what to do with him. I discipline but I know it goes much deeper than a discipline issue. […]

Eamon’s quote of the day, so far.
Eamon, upon seeing Cait’s baby blanket; white embroidered bunnies with pink round circled tummies, wondered out loud, “why do these bunnies have nursing pads?”
The curiousity of little boys.

More songs for sissy from Christian Burns and Vimeo.

You see the picture of our sweet little daughter who has just figured out how to suck her thumb. At the same time we are attempting to help our oldest child learn to stop sucking his. Right now he is crying in his bed because we put a Band-Aid on his thumb to see if […]

Yestday I was cutting the boys hair, Aidan was squirming a bit and I told him that when he is a man mommy wont cut his hair anymore but his wife will so he needs to learn how to sit still so that when his wife does it he can honor her by sitting still […]

Yesterday we had a fun day at the Children’s museum. I was a little distracted. We were the only family there so we had pretty much taken over the place. It was so quiet I could hear all the kids from where I was standing at the front counter talking to the lady. The place […]

Today, like most days, Eamon was asking me tons of questions. He’s at that age where everything is, “why mommy?” Do your kids ever ask questions that make you stop and think, “how in the world do I explain that?!” I was changing his diaper, perfect time for my undivided attention, and he was asking […]

Today we ventured out of the house, just me and my passel of kids ;) Chris brought us the van on his lunch break so we took him back to work and then to downtown Mt. Vernon we went. Sidenote-Aidan, knowing that we were getting ready to go out, was a little concerned when daddy […]