The Skarin Family Blog

Warning: Not the typical lighted hearted, full of smiles and laughter post ahead. Some days I don’t feel like a good mom. I find myself getting upset and aggravated quickly, I raise my voice more often than I should and like to, I don’t spend as much time enjoying the moments, which I know are passing too quickly. I realize...

Baby laughs are infectious!

Evan’s LEGO creations have become more and more elaborate lately and they have also really started to look like what he says they are.  Here is a plane that he built today.  Love to see his little mind at work. The zoo keeper as a pilot

Last night after putting Evan to bed numerous times, I told him to get back into bed one last time.  Well unbeknownst to me until I went to check on him before I went to bed, he had made himself a little bed in his “comfy place”, the corner of his bedroom just behind his door.  He brought his friends…George,...

Over the last three and a half weeks, we have seen amazing changes in Logan.  He has started talking a lot and found a new, non-screechy voice with lots of ma-ma’s and da-da’s and tongue flipping.  His movements have become much more deliberate.  You can almost watch the gears turning in his head…“I’m going to grab that ring.  Got it....

Anyone that truly knows me, know that I am OCD operate on the philosophy of a place for everything and everything in its place.  There is a “right” way to load the dishwasher, there are specific places for things in the fridge, there is a particular way to fold the clothes, etc.  I have been forced to tried to loosen up...

We had a play date with the Wheeler’s today.  Everyone was healthy, or healthy enough, so that we could get together for the first time since the middle of October!  We had make your own pizzas and lots of fun playing with all of their toys, especially the Jake and the Neverland Pirates toys. Photo slideshow from the original blog....

Evan asked me to take a picture of him with George and Logan.   My Two Monkeys!

When Bruce and I went to Mohegan Sun at the beginning of December for the Dave Matthews Band show, we stumbled upon Dan’s Place in West Greenwich.  It was a pizza place where we decided to stop for lunch that is so much more than a pizza place.  At our visit we received a coupon for a future visit that...

Logan, are you eating your dinner or wearing it? Well, you're happy so I guess it doesn't matter either way!