Yesterday I was on my way home to Knoxville from visiting family in Northwest Ohio.  I figured I’d take a detour and try to find the origin of my Cochran ancestors.  The first record I’ve been able to find of any Cochrans puts a James and John Cochran in cabins in what would become Higginsport [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2010 by Zach
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I realized awhile ago that Isaac thinks the defining characteristic of a hug is to have your cheeks touch.  So you can hug without using your arms.  I’ve noticed that sometimes when he has been asked to give someone a hug, he just lean towards them with his face.  He brought home this picture that [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2010 by Kathleen
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His favorite thing to do is build or create.  He has three sizes of Legos and many other kinds of building sets.  Recently he has been interested in ‘building’ is art projects.  He doesn’t care much for coloring or other traditional art project staples, he is much more interested in creating something out of the [...]

Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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I decided to make pie the other day for an impromptu get together with some friends (who happen to also be relatives), but when I looked in the cupboard I only had one of each kind of pie filling, so this is what I did:And it worked out perfectly! I made a lattice top, [...]

Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Kathleen
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She’s a funny little girl.  She seems to really like Ila, but she’s not quite two and can be a little rough in her attempts to be kind.   I generally try to avoid laying Ila anywhere Nicole can reach her when Nicole is awake, but today I thought Nicole was distracted so I laid Ila [...]

Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Kathleen
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I’ve never been that good at documenting my kids milestones, but I’m trying to blog more often and I’m too tired to write a longer blog so here it is. 
Minor Milestone = Ila has just started to have an interest in toys and has been holding them.  She has been calmed down with a [...]

Posted on March 13th, 2010 by Kathleen
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This was my solution for allowing the kids to have popcorn while watching a movie without making a huge mess.  They are sitting on a towel and Nicole was asleep, so it actually worked out quite well.The movie they have been choosing lately is “The Sword and the Stone” because they’ve been listening to the [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I think my favorite treat as a child was homemade fruit leather.  Both my mom and my Grandma O’Bryant made it.  I remember them making it in strawberry and in raspberry.  I loved the flavor and the texture of it and I never thought I got enough of it.

Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Kathleen
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So I went out with the kids to play, even though I had cleaning to do inside.
Nicole enjoyed laying on her tummy in the dirt with her arms reached out as if to make upside-down dirt angels, she also tasted the dirt.

Posted on March 9th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Since moving to Tennessee and adding one more child, I’ve noticed some changes in how the kids relate to each other.
Isaac and Charlotte still get along very well and play together all the time.  It seems like they’ve been conspiring more and getting into more trouble since the move, but maybe I just think that [...]

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Kathleen
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There were eight people (6 kids, 2 adults) in my family growing up, but most vans only had seat belts for 7 so space was always an issue.  A car top carrier seemed like the perfect solution for baggage and it worked ok for us for a little while.  The straps would make this [...]

Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte has missed all the little girls her age back in Utah.  In primary, there are no  girls in Isaac’s class and she’s the only girl in her class.  So the closest girl in age is in the class one year younger than her and ironically that girl’s name is also Charlotte.  If that wasn’t [...]

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I came into the living room to find this scene, luckily I always have a camera close by. Editor’s note: Nicole is trying to sit in a tiny doll-size high chair.

Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Kathleen
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