Grandma Kathy, Auntie Dot, Cousin Alex, and KaKa came to visit for the weekend.  The weather was rainy and stormy, which meant that we couldn’t always get outside like we might have liked, but when I realized that the wind was coming from the perfect direction to make some big…

The leaves are beautiful this week!  When I read the weather forecast for last weekend:  gale force winds off the Lake and heavy rain, I inwardly groaned, sure that such a combination would blow down all the beautiful maple leaves before I got to enjoy them.  However, because the leaves…

It was the hike that lasted long, but went nowhere!  At least we had fun going nowhere at a snail’s pace.  The maple leaves were just starting to turn a bit last Sunday evening.   They ran across the bridge about a thousand times, dragged their walking sticks on the…

To make up for stopping at Home Depot (again) when no one wanted to,  so he could  ” buy random things,” or so the kidlets grumped from the back of the van, Dr. Peds brought a package of glowsticks back to the car.

  We went for an adventure in the woods. Mr. SP:  I wish I had a kuhnap sack to carry all my stuff. Later we went out for ice cream. Mr. SP:  I really wanted to get two things to put in my ice cream, but I knew that would…

While the big kids and I were off on our long bike adventure last weekend, it was discovered that Mr. Trouble on Feet can ride a bike all by himself too!  No training wheels.  No assistance of any sort, actually.  Dr. Peds helped him get up on this old bike…

It’s Wednesday.  Wednesdays are not my favorite days.  While Wednesday mornings are usually calm and peaceful, Wednesday afternoons and evenings easily make up for that and quickly make a person wish that Wednesdays had never even been invented.  First of all, Wednesday afternoons are busy around here, but busyness aside,…

We’ve been waiting all summer long for the last stretch of lakewalk to be completed, so that we could ride bikes all the way from the rocky beach down to the lift bridge.  The lakewalk opened a few weeks ago, but we hadn’t gotten a change to use it yet.…

I was super excited to take the kidlets down to the hot air balloon festival late in the afternoon on Friday.  The kidlets were skeptical.  I called Dr. Peds on the phone before we left to tell him to meet us down at the festival when he finished work, and…

It’s an ever changing array of dental wonder! Right now this mouth is a mixture of baby teeth, pristine, sharp permanent teeth and a few new missing teeth too.