The Banana’s birthday sometimes gets crunched.  It falls during the second week of school, which is always the week where everything gets crazy because homework starts and activities start, and my music students start, and no one has their “school routine” legs under them yet.  Last year her birthday was…

He was pretty excited when he got home from school and found out that I had saved this perfectly sized cardboard box for him.  He’s got big “making” plans that involve markers, scissors, glue and duct tape.

Mr. TOF had a terrific first week at kindergarten.  His stamina amazed me.  He bounced right out of bed with the sunrise all week, practiced piano before breakfast, and was super organized and responsible about his lunch box, backpack, homework folder.  He loves his teacher.  He loves his class.  He…

They all decided not to bring their swim suits since the weather was not chilly, but not warm, and there was a breeze.  But, of course, by the end of the night all four of them were soaking wet from head to toe because they had completely submerged themselves.  They…

He’s a kindergartener!  And he’s thrilled about it, along with his new green backpack and his lunch box and gym shoes.   YaYa ran out the door right as I was taking pictures before we headed down to the elementary bus stop and jumped in a couple of pictures.  They…

Right after we got married, before we had any kidlets, Dr. Peds and I used to go for walks together sometimes, and we’d pass houses where the entire yard would be littered with toys at all times of the day.  Plastic toys of all sorts would be randomly strewn about…

  On the cello I learned several new kinds of bow articulation.  The cello is also teaching me to just be patient!  Because my ear and head knows what I want something to sound like, I just think I should immediately be able to produce that sound, and then I…

Despite the fact that this Mama was NOT ready for her baby to loose a tooth, he did.  He’s ridiculously excited about it.  As soon as it started to wiggle he was relentless about daily heavy wiggle action, and within days that tooth was out.