The Skarin Family Blog

Evan has been putting on performances for us recently.  He is always entertaining us but here are two of his more “formal” performances. This first one was one night just before we were ready to have dinner.  Evan insisted that we go into the living room so that he could put on a show for us.  He instructed us where...

Today we finally did something that we have been talking about doing for years…We went to visit Ethan and Stacey and the girls.  We planned to get together a few weeks ago but we were sick with the stomach bug so we had to reschedule.  It was wonderful to see where they live and to see Sofia, who is getting...

What started as a disaster of a day, ended up being a fun one.  All before 11 o’clock we had a 2 AM wake up feeding, a crooked hair cut and a cut ear, a blow out diaper, a bloody nose, a stained carpet and no gift for a sweet little boy for his birthday. (I ordered it but it...

Not only have we been making blanket and pillow forts, we have expanded our fort making skills to foam and snow as well.  Yesterday, Evan and Logan enjoyed the snow fort that Daddy made yesterday after the snow and today we had fun inside the foam fort/house that was big enough for three of us (and some stuffed friends) at...

My smiley little baby burrito!  Looks good enough to eat to me! Evan got a US map game from Papa & Gramma for Christmas.  He has been learning where all the states are and what they are famous for.  He can locate quite a few states and knows where some of the national landmarks are.  He’s a little sponge! And...

Today was a beautiful spring-like day so Evan and I headed outside for some spring-like activities…golf and t-ball.  He is getting really good at hitting and should be a slugger by the time he turns three!  He was even hitting lefty some of the time.  Loving the taste of what is to come…just have to get through the rest of...

We had a very small (3 guests), low-key Patriots party today for their first playoff game.  We were expecting three people but two of the three who were here were different than we expected.  We were happy to see Tara, who is the ultimate trooper having just gotten back from Hawaii last night, and for her to finally meet Logan....

Most days for lunch, Evan will have either a turkey or ham sandwich, a grilled cheese sandwich or mac & cheese.  For some reason I never think to make him peanut butter and jelly.  I don’t know what made me think of it today (or maybe there was nothing else seeing as I hadn’t been shopping) but today Evan had...

Brothers gotta hug Or face rake Or pull hair So many ways to say "I love you, brother!"

Five months old!!  Growing and thriving!! Last night as I was putting Logan to bed, going through the bedtime routine (bottle, read, more bottle and songs) in his room, I began to realize that we haven’t really established a bedtime routine with him yet.  For the most part, we have been keeping Logan downstairs with us until he is ready...