25 November 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

"Mommy, maybe I'll be taller than you when I'm 35"

25 November 2013 :: 8:12pm

03 November 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

When Daddy's out of town, I always have 1-3 little visitors over the course of the night.  Last night I had two. Though you are all rather violent sleepers, I do love waking up to sweet little sleepy faces. 

03 November 2013 :: 7:03am

16 October 2013 ::

:: Brothers ::

"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage"

 - CS Lewis

16 October 2013 :: 3:33pm

17 July 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

You: Daddy, when we ride bikes we can stop and get some frites, ok?
Daddy: Not today, son, we don't have the money for that right now.
You: Oh, that's ok! We'll just stop at the cash machine and get some more!

If only the cash machine worked that way...

12 July 2013 :: 12:45pm

29 June 2013 ::

:: Brothers ::

The view from our window on a typical Summer night ...

29 June 2013 :: 9:27pm

26 June 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

You have been so good at avoiding me when I take photos as of late. I was lucky to catch you, however, at your very first bowling night.  You loved it and spent most of the night vacillating between organizing the balls coming back and begging me to give you both my turns. We will definitely be doing it again - but maybe next time we'll get the lanes with the bumpers. 

26 June 2013 :: 8:44pm

06 June 2013 ::

:: Brothers ::

Being a Lowrie is exhausting.

 06 June 2013 :: 5:19pm

03 May 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

Son, you amaze me.

03 May 2013 :: 7:19pm

30 April 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

Today I came home to a little man riding his bike without training wheels! You were so proud of yourself and wanted to show me how fast you could go now.  

According to Daddy, you came inside and asked if he could take your training wheels off.  He was making dinner so Danny offered to do it for you.  30 minutes later you were riding your bike like a pro!

You crashed twice tonight and smashed your face both times, which produced a fat lip and bloody knees, but you got right back on your bike (after some band aids, of course).

I'm so proud of you!

30 April 2013 :: 6:56pm

28 February 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

Scrolling through FB pictures, we come across a photo of Dutch and Bella as babies.  

I ask "and who's this?"

Dutch answers without hesitation "That's me as a baby, and Tites when he was a girl."

10 February  2013 :: 2:56pm

13 February 2013

:: Dutch Soren ::

"Mommy, when this house starts getting old, we'll move to a new one?"
"Not for awhile; we won't move until you are at least 8"
"8?!"
"Yep"
"That's a lot of sleeps"

11 February  2013 :: 12:56pm

10 January 2013 ::

:: Dutch Soren ::

Grammy would be so happy - you like games.  No, I take that back, you LOVE games.  You've inherited a double portion of competitiveness from both your parents.

10 January 2013 :: 7:33pm

17 December 2012 :: 201

:: Brothers ::

Overhead whilst getting dressed for school this morning..

Dutch: Tites, you smell like fish!
Titus: Only in my mouth!

It's true, you did.  We might be switching to a more powerful toothpaste.

10 February 2013 :: 12:12pm

11 December 2012 :: 195

:: Dutch Soren ::

You got this clown nose at Vivi's house.  You wore it all night until bedtime and then all the following morning up until you got to school, when you took it off and kept it in the car "to keep it safe". 

You're a funny little guy sometimes. 

11 December 2012 :: 6:56pm

10 December 2012 :: 194

:: Brothers ::

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Today Dutch turned 5 and Titus turned 3.  Last night I stayed up blew up a million (20) balloons and strung bunting all through the hallway so you'd have a party when you woke up.  Your sleepy eyes disappeared the minute you walked out of your room and you both refused breakfast so you could play with your balloons until school. 

After school we had your birthday dinner at El Greco and then of course, prezies!!

10 December 2012 :: 06.56am

09 December 2012 :: 193

:: Dutch Soren ::

Today you ran into the living room and asked me to turn on "the song that's in Daddy's head."  Knowing your father, it could be any number of songs, so I asked you to be more specific.  You proceeded to sing the entire chorus of Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks".

I thought that was awesome!

09 December 2012 :: 1:36pm

27 November 2012 :: 181

:: Dutch Soren ::

Today your best bud, Judah, moved back to Texas. You two have always had each other at school to play with, speak English with, and stand up for.  

We are all sad to see your little buddy leave.

26 November 2012 :: 7:44pm

20 November 2012 :: 174

:: Dutch Soren ::

You have a new favourite game to play, where you ask me how to say a random word in French.  I nearly always reply that I don't know and you suggest that I "tweeter" it.  "Tweeter" is your Google, and so we plop down on the comfy chair and look up random words like "window sill", "ottoman", and poo poo in google translate and giggle at the robotic pronunciation and, of course, then practice it ourselves.

Sometimes I try to guess how to say the word before the robot voice and when I get it wrong, you make me look up how to say "I was wrong" in French.  You are just like your Daddy in that you like to be right. 

20 November 2012 :: 5:33pm

16 November 2012 :: 170

:: Dutch Soren ::

Fridays are swim days. Which means you get to ride on the big white bus and go to the swimming pool with your class. This also means you get to haul two backpacks (or "packpacks" as Tites call it) to and from school. 

It's so funny to pick you up from school on Fridays - you run out of your class all happy and crazy and your backpacks go in opposite directions and nearly knock you over. It is quite the spectacle!!

It doesn't, however, hinder you from trying to scale the brick wall by Tites building. every. single. day.

16 November 2012 :: 3.27pm

13 November 2012 :: 167

:: Dutch Soren ::

There's been a lot of talk around the house lately about what foods are good for our bodies and what foods are not. Dutch you ask me everytime you eat something if it is good for you. Tonight, we threw health out the window when you requested pancakes. Our dinner table conversation went a little like this:

Dutch: Mommy, pancakes are good for us, right?
Me: No, not so much.  Pancakes have sugar, so they aren't all that good for us.
Dutch: Yah, I know... but, pancakes are good for ME.
Me: They aren't even good for you.
Dutch: But they ARE good for me because I like "surger", so I'm going to eat a lot of them, ok?

I just can't argue with that logic.

13 November 2012 :: 4.14pm