~Welcome To The Tucks Nursery Full Of Boys~

~Our Sweet Babies~

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Shhhhhhh!! Lil Al is napping. He looks so cute when he's sleeping!! I know you see two cribs. Why 2 you ask? Well after the heart break of losing our baby by miscarriage before Thanksgiving 1997, God blessed us not once but twice!! Sutton was born June of 99 and before I got him out of diapers, Lil Al came along December 2000!! Click on their names to visit their rooms!!

Sun

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Crib ~Whose Sleeping In My Crib~ Crib

Shane

Brandon

Lil Mark

Sutton

Lil Al

Our Little Angel

Bedtime Bible Story

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Children Learn What They Live

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to feel shy.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns patience.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to
find love in the world.

Dorothy Law Nolte

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50 Ways to Tell Your Child "I Love You"

1. When your child is participating in an athletic event or musical performance, be there watching.

2. Help your son or daughter learn a new skill such as riding a bike, making a cake, or fixing a flat tire.

3. Leave an "I Love You" note in your child's school lunch box.

4. Read a chapter together from your child's favorite book.

5. Find a new way to trust your child by granting a new area of responsibility that her or she would both enjoy and benefit from.

6. After your teenaged son or daughter comes in from a date, have popcorn together.

7. Go out in the snow together and throw snowballs at a target (even a few at each other).

8. Listen to your child - with all your attention

9. Help your child wash his or her bike (or tricycle).

10. Snuggle in bed together as you tell a good-night story.

11. Have a water-pistol fight (let your kids drench you).

12. Make up a secret code language and write messages to one another.

13. Say "I'm Proud of your."

14. Prepare your child's favorite dinner menu twice in one week.

15. Make up and tell stories with your kids as the heroes.

16. Bring home your child's favorite candy bar.

17. Take an evening walk together.

18. Have a pillow fight together some night at bedtime.

19. Play games together (e.g. Old Maid, Concentration, Candyland, Sorry, Pictionary).

20. The Bible's love chapter says that love "is kind" (1 Cor. 13:4). Think of a special way you can show kindness to your child today.

21. Take nature hikes together and collect leaves, acorns, rocks, moss, sticks, or whatever.

22. Spend a special time praying together for others-for the leaders and teachers in your church, for government officials, for any missionaries your child knows, for neighbors, for friends, for family members.

23. Keep a scrapbook of your child's awards, newspaper clippings, photos, and so on. Get it out often and look at it together.

24. Invite you son's or daughter's friends to your home to spend the night.

25. Build a "Faith Growth Chart" on which you list prayers and answers in one column and memorized Bible verses in another. See your child's faith grow!

26. Make popcorn, curl up together on the couch, and watch your son's or daughter's favorite video for the 20th time.

27. After a scolding, tell your child,"Did you know I love you even when you're naughty?" Then give him or her a hug.

28. Build an fly kites together.

29. Show your child a special card or picture her or she has given you that you've kept for a long time.

30. Give your child your full attention when he or she tells you what happened at school today, and provide a thoughtful response.

31. Compliment your child's attempt to keep a tidy room.

32. Show your child one of his or her baby pictures and tell why it's one of your favorites.

33. Help your daughter fix her hair in a special way.

34. Take a winter's afternoon off and do a puzzle together.

35. Take your child out to breakfast (just the two of you) before school.

36. Before a big event in your child's life-a birthday, a competition, a big test at school-decorate his or her room with crepe paper and posters.

37. Allow your child to plan the day for your family.

38. Go on a bike ride together around the neighborhood.

39. Take your child out for bowling or miniature golf, and go out for dinner afterward.

40. Display (on refrigerator or in another prominent spot) the artwork or other creations your child made at school, Sunday school, and so on.

41. Ask for your child's opinion on a big family decision.

42. Cook breakfast together on Saturday morning.

43. Tell your spouse how proud you are of your child for something he or she did, and let him or her overhear your remarks.

44. As you notice your child making or doing something creative, call other family members to come and see.

45. Give your child a hug when he or she is feeling down.

46. Make sack lunches for you and your child, and enjoy them together at a local park.

47. Plant flowers or vegetable seeds with your child. As you together see the plants sprout and grow, talk about your child's own growth-physically, intellectually, socially, and spiritually.

48. Talk with your child about what you believe about God.

49. Talk openly with your child about your most significant convictions, and ask for his or her opinions in response.

50. In a relaxed moment together, talk about favorite memories. (Even younger children enjoy this-their "past" may be short in years, but relative to their ages it seems just as long as ours.) Talk about favorite gifts, favorite toys, favorite surprise.

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You know you're a mother when...

1.You count the sprinkles on each kid's cupcake to make sure they're equal.
2. You have time to shave only one leg at a time.
3. You hide in the bathroom to be alone.
4. Your kid throws up and you catch it.
5. Someone else's kid throws up at a party. You keep eating.
6. You consider finger paints to be a controlled substance.
7. You've mastered the art of placing large quantities of pancakes and eggs on a plate without anything touching.
8. Your child insists that you read "Once Upon a Potty" out loud in the lobby of Grand Central Station and you do it.
9. You cling to the high moral ground on toy weapons; your child chews his toast into the shape of a gun.
10. You hope ketchup is a vegetable, since it's the only one your child eats.
11. You can't bear the thought of your son's first girlfriend.
12. You hate the thought of his wife even more.
13. You find yourself cutting your husband's sandwiches into cute shapes.
14. You can't bear to give away baby clothes - it's so final.
15. You hear your mother's voice coming out of your mouth when you say, "NOT in your good clothes!"
16. You stop criticizing the way your mother raised you.
17. You donate to charities in the hope that your child won't get that disease.
18. You hire a sitter because you haven't been out with your husband in ages, then spend half the night checking on the kids.
19. You use your own saliva to clean your child's face.
20. You say at least once a day, "I'm not cut out for this job", but you know you wouldn't trade it for anything.