We started the day out with breakfast in the bathtub, standing room only! On the menu: bagels with cream cheese. Unfortunately, the Devious Snail’s favorite type of bagel (cinnamon sugar) was not available, so we made due with other varieties. To wash it down, the Devious Snail gleefully poured a…

Grandma Kathy brought this excellent pilgrim hat created by Cousin Janzie in first or second grade, and it still looks good on her now! Thanksgiving was a bustling time of tremendous activity. There were board games, trips to see Christmas lights and ships in the harbor, excursions to thrift stores…

They spent a lot of time banging each other with foam coated swords in the front yard, and then Cousin Miranda swept in to join the fray.

Every year I make a fancy rice pudding dish at Thanksgiving. An almond is tossed in, and whoever gets it in their dish wins a special prize. Sometimes the prize is something really great. Sometimes it is something really silly. Dr. Peds had been saving this year’s prize in his…

We were all waiting for the Devious Snail to arrive on Thanksgiving morning, but The Banana in particular could not stand that he was a few minutes behind his scheduled arrival time to the extended family celebration. She held watch at the window. “He’s missing important minutes with ME!” she…

We are making the most of the unseasonably warm temperatures this week! He had so much fun swinging this morning.

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In the last week or so he discovered how to turn pages in books all by himself, and he has been sitting with stacks of books, opening them up and looking at two or three pages before moving onto the next book. It is pretty adorable. We’ve been reading a…

I walked into the kitchen and discovered a small bandit had gotten into the snack cupboard and found the bag of peanut puffs. The entire contents of the bag were scattered on the floor, and he was effectively stuffing his mouth with them as fast as he possibly could. I…

Hair ties. A Bracelet. A watch. Worn down stickers. Hundreds of aluminum can tabs. What else could be on a water bottle? This is the water bottle that goes to swimming with The Banana, and probably other places too. The collection of aluminum can tabs has something to do with…