He does love to sing the alphabet.  Mr. TOF has the melody down pat, and just substitutes random letters in a completely random order.  The beauty of this is that the performance is always fresh for the audience, with an improvisational feel.  The flat rocks at the beach apparently seemed…

On Friday afternoon  Mr. Trouble on Feet and I drove to Hartley Nature Center to pick up The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants from their afternoon classes (which they loved).  I parked the car and happened to look over at the start to one of the hiking trails and saw…

Inspired by Emily at Chatting at the Sky who has been making a list of things she’s learned each month, I decided to join in with her other readers and blog about my own list of things I have learned during the month of June this year. 1.  A Troika is…

He accidentally spilled a watering can filled with water on his orange pants, and that made him hopping mad.  I tried calming him down, and redirecting.  No success.   I tried explaining that it was only a few minutes until it was time to take a shower and put on…

It was warm and muggy at the top of the hill. After a squabbly and grouchy sort of Sunday, we packed an ultra simple picnic, and headed down to the rocky beach.  YaYa was off to camp, so it was just the three smaller kidlets.  The beach was cool and…

As far as I could tell the night we went to play down at the waterfront park the playground was just filled with random families with kids.  That did not stop the school age kids from joining up for a giant game of freeze tag.  Mr. SP and The Banana…

YaYa is at Bible camp this week.  She was beyond the moon excited to go, and since there is a whole slough of kids from our church going this week, they put a van together to transport everyone there and back.  On Sunday evening Mr. Trouble on Feet and I…

Mr. SP  spent the better part of last week trying to convince The Banana that they keep sharks in the deep end of the UMD swimming pool when they aren’t having swimming lessons.  He told her they just net the sharks and store them somewhere else during swimming lessons, but…

Last summer we had the sewer line to our house replaced.  Over the fall, winter and spring, part of the yard that was dug up and refilled with dirt sank down as the earth settled again, so Dr. Peds has been working out some plans to fill things in again…

That slobbery, slimy extra long tongue? It’s still his tactical advantage.