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Tomorrow, John will be six. He isn't a little guy anymore. I miss the little chubby guy, but am enjoying the tall, intelligent big boy he has become.
One of his new loves is chemistry. So, for his birthday, we have tried to come up with a little child-friendly-kitchen experiment chemistry kit. Should be loads of fun for him and lots of mess for me!!
Grandpa is right, John is a keeper!

Today, we celebrated Adam's 13th birthday with the last day of swimming lessons, lunch at the park with Daddy, movies and computer time at home, gourmet dinner,Bible time, game time, family walk, family reading and late-night time with his parents.

We gave him a birthday card with many verses for him (and us)to ponder for the coming year.

He is off tomorrow afternoon to St. Louis for two nights with his Daddy. They are going to have some special guy-time, looking over his verses, praying together and just enjoying each other.
We love you, Adam!!

Thirteen years ago, I was in a delivery room at Cox South, awaiting the birth of our first child.
We checked in around 6 p.m. and spent the evening watching the summer Olympics, held in Atlanta.
Little did I know then, how different my life would be in 13 short years.
On Sunday, I passed on some advice (to a very young mom with a three-week-old) that I have heard many, many times during these 13 years, from those ahead of me in the parenting journey:
"Enjoy them now, because before you know it, they will be grown."
She had just asked how old my Sweet P was, and I said 52 weeks. Hard to imagine.
And now, here I am, on the eve of the Big Guy's big day...676 weeks...and I can't believe it.
Some days seem to never end. Discipline issues, messes, etc. But the years have truly flown by. I wouldn't want to do any of those years over, except to fix my parenting mistakes. The Lord has been kind to me and has, just this year, made some changes in my heart, that I hope will bear fruit in the lives of my sweet children.

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We're getting our stuff together to go to the hospital tomorrow to have baby-half-dozen. I just setup a twitter account (heironimus) so a few people can monitor progress. I'll try to post something here too.

Well, this is my first post for the Heironimus Family website. Kyle has been asking me for some time to do so and finally I have overcome my inertia.
My motivation is a chance to win neat books and products from one of our favorite catalogs (VisionForum.com) Kyle didn't care why I posted, he was just happy I finally took the plunge!

Adam just entered a contest today to guess how many products Vision Forum would have in their new catalog. The closest guess receives a gift package worth over $700.

If we post about it on our blog, we are entered into a second drawing. Here is the link to the contest (it does end tomorrow).

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I'll let you know if we win!

If you were a dog, you would be dead now.

This was told to me a while ago by Luke, apparently after he was told that person/dog years is about 7 and he did a little math.

I just sent an update to my MIT alumni group and thought I would share it here. It basically summarizes our lives in a few words.

My wife Beth and I are happily living in Springfield, MO with our 5 children, Adam (10), Luke (8), Rachel (5), John (3) and Isaac(1).

I have been working at DMP, a security systems manufacturer, for over 13 years in various positions, designing software, designing electronics, and various types of management. My job title and responsibilities change almost monthly.

Beth keeps busy homeschooling our oldest 3 and they are thriving with it. I cannot imagine schooling any other way.

We bought a house "in the country" about 2 years ago with 2 acres, lots of open space, lots of trees, and a big patch of woods behind it that is owned by the state. Our children love playing on every square inch of the land.

We recently joined a reformed Baptist church and have been loving the fellowship we have with other like-minded, large, homeschooling families. Our main goal is to serve God and teach our children to do the same and its great to be with other families who think the same way.

Yesterday, I was replacing an old, leaky, 10 gallon (or so) per flush toilet in my house with a new, barely uses any water whatsoever model.

Here are some pictures from Rachel's birthday.