Category Archives: Jessica

The Three Year Old Contains More Food than Physics Has Previously Allowed For

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Last night our little baby girl puked up everything that could possibly have been contained in her gut and probably her left leg.  Jessica and I both got to help clean up puke on beds, floors, pillows, blankets and surfaces that I didn’t know could get puke on them.  Evie was volatile and while I’d love to make jokes so that we could all laugh, it broke my daddy heart.

Jessica was an amazing wife and let me stay in bed on multiple ocassions.  She soloed some of the cleanup herself.  Then, this morning Abby got up with a cold and cough.  Hopefully this morning small doses of various things will help them both.  I love my family and this was not the return from a short trip to TX that I had hoped for 🙂

Look, There’s a Blog Here!

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Sorry to not have posted in some time.  I am alive and we’re all better from the sickness.  I’ve been working long hours for the last couple weeks to help several clients get things done.  Still have lots more hours to put things into play like they need to.  Right now here’s what’s going with the family immediate and extended:

Jessica: well and working hard as usual on all of the fun stuff

Abby: doing pretty well at school and we’re working on Bible verses and such in the mornings.  She’s precious and I love her dearly.

Evie: continuing to blow us away with how she’s growing and learning.  She amazes me and I love her.  Her cuteness makes me wonder how I will ever get away with not owning several guns and a surveillance system when they get older.  Also looking into splice wire.

Kelsey: Working.  Many, many hours of working.  Also, rocking the auntie position.

Dad (Vern): in Uganda on a missions trip.  Keep up with his doings (a few days left) here: nancypeterman.wordpress.com.

Nancy (and Becky & Nadia): in California with various relatives and friends.

Also: you rock for sticking around.

My Wife Laughs At My Beard

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Yesterday I noted to Jessica, “My beard is really growing in full now.”  I did this because it has taken it over ten years to get to the state that it is in: almost, kinda, sorta full.  She just smiled and brought up the need I had to exercise.  It’s good to be married to a woman who can artfully redirect the conversation so as to help me not feel bad for having the facial hair growing capacity of a hairless chihuahua.

As for needing to exercise I try to exercise every day, but she’s usually playing We Cheer these days while the kids are down, so it makes it hard to break in and get some time on the treadmill and watch a show at the same time.  [do you like how I artfully deflected that with an excuse?]

The Burninator

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Jessica discoverd that while I like fresh, hot coffee her leg does not.  She’s got a substantial second degree burn down her left thigh and has been out of commission since Friday morning.  Since Jessica has been out of commission, I have partially been out of my normal commission so as to take care of her and the girls and attempt to fake my way through housework.

All is well and the wound is healing, but I’d appreciate prayers for my bride’s body, my sanity, and the girls to be the most obedient two and nearly six year olds on the planet.

They’re Merely Five and Two

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Tonight we went looking for a present for Jessica’s upcoming thirtieth birthday.  Abby and Evie and I went out on the ‘hunt.’  Abby kept eyeing rather expensive jewelry at the Target.  “That looks beautiful, lets get that!.”  I had to gently tell her no because the budget was not in the $120 range for the girls’ gift.  Evie liked everything that sparkled.  Upon discovering that Target didn’t have anything but a Wii, which I wanted to buy “for Jessica” but did not, we headed off to Kohl’s to find some jewelry there at Abby’s request.

At Kohls she spotted a pair of ear rings that had a strand of rainbow colored glass embedded in them.  A rainbow that certainly catches the eyes of the young onlookers.  I totally disappointed her by saying that mommy would probably not have an outfit to go with the ear rings.  Needless to say we did not find any jewelry at Kohl’s either because what the five year old liked the two year old didn’t like.  What the five and two year old liked daddy didn’t like.  And what daddy liked the five and two year old were sure would make mom look ‘boring’.  Next time we go out I’m bringing cash and eash one of them will get to pay for their respective gifts, and it’ll help them learn that the $400.00 necklace is really out of their reach.

We walked to the register with Abby telling me that she had enough money in her piggy bank at home for the gift she wished we were buying.  I love her confidence, we just need to work on the financial math 🙂