Category Archives: Parenting

You think Derek likes baseball?

I recently started making a list of all the things that Derek likes to turn into a baseball bat.  He’s very good at pitching to himself.  And he’ll take out your eye if you’re not paying attention!  So far it is way too cute and fun for me to stop him from doing this inside [...]

The New Seat Belt Nazi

In 1983 I was four years old.  You may not know this, but right around this time citizens of the USA  started pushing for laws requiring that drivers and passengers wear seat belts to save lives and increase safety on the roads.  About every five minutes there were commercials on TV that showed what happened [...]

Derek is 2 and July 4th in Peru!

Derek turned 2 on Saturday and we had a great celebration with friends here!  Along with his birthday we celebrated July 4th and tried to make it feel like summer as much as possible.  Derek woke up pretty unhappy from his nap and cried the first hour or so of the party and wouldn’t stop [...]

Father’s Day

I’m glad that Peru has a lot of the same nationally recognized holidays as you do in the States.  Mother’s Day and Father’s Day being the most recent ones.  We had a great Father’s Day weekend and even started celebrating how great of a Daddy we have around here a little early.  Like last Thursday. [...]