overheard | personal

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-10-05T19:13:47-05:00October 5th, 2014|Jonah, My Family|

Jonah has been talking so much. His vocabulary is just insane to me. This afternoon, he woke up from his nap and wanted to nurse for a few minutes. When he was ready to get up, he looked over at the rocking chair in my bedroom. Jase had left a pair of jeans flung over the edge with his belt still in the loops. Jonah immediately says…

“Daddy, where Daddy? I need to bring Daddy his pants.”

I told him Daddy wasn’t home, he was at the store.

“Daddy not home?? Daddy at the store?? WITHOUT HIS PANTS?!?!?”

I had to explain that Daddy was wearing pants at the store, just not *those* pants. All while cracking up. Funny kid.

And if you didn’t

one cheesy face grin | leander photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-09-11T08:28:18-05:00September 11th, 2014|Jonah, My Family|

A new haircut, fresh jams straight out of the bath, one cheesy face grin and a whole bunch of bubbles before bed last night.

diy backyard digger construction zone for kids | personal

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-09-09T20:02:46-05:00September 4th, 2014|Jonah, Jude, My Family, Our House, Taryn, Ty|

After 7 years of living in our house and having our backyard be a boring empty slate….we’ve started a few projects in our backyard. Ty decided he wanted in on it and build our first project, a backyard digger construction zone for the little kids. He did an amazing job on it too! You can see the before shot HERE. This was a low cost DIY project, coming in at around $75 for the whole thing, including new digger trucks, the wood frame, pea gravel and stones! And Ty did it all, start to finish, including purchasing all the materials (driving his new truck […]

distraction of the day

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-08-22T20:40:12-05:00August 22nd, 2014|365, Jonah, My Family|

This has definitely been our most challenging year so far homeschooling. I knew going in that it would be. With Jonah being mobile and just super busy, its been challenging for sure. Being able to teach Taryn and Jude with him underfoot has required a lot of patience and creative distractions for him. As his attention span get longer by the day, things are getting easier. Today’s distraction was chalk. It went great until I realized mid way through fixing lunch that he was drawing on the leg of my black yoga pants. In his defense, they did need some sprucing up and they were black just like the chalk board! Ha!