Mr. Sneaky Pants and The Banana take their goggles to swimming lessons every day.  Mr. TOF likes to feel included, so YaYa located this old pair of half broken blue goggles.  They were a hit.  Not only are goggles fun, but these happen to be blue, which is Mr. TOF’s…

  Today Mr. Sneaky Pants said to me apologetically, “Sometimes you just have to be the Stubborn Mom, don’t you?”  This was in regard to his younger brothers small tantrum about needing to eat his peas prior to a second helping of applesauce. The other day we were eating lunch…

The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants are enrolled in swimming lessons this month at the university.  We’ve done swimming lessons there for years and years.  I think they do a great job, and it’s the closest place to my house that offers swimming lesosns, so that’s where my loyalty stays!…

This image is actually from a few weeks ago now, and sadly even though my goal is to get to the beach as often as I can on Sunday nights, we haven’t been back the past two Sunday nights  because of our trip to Voyageurs and the intermittent thunderstorms that…

Could there be too many pictures of this girl with missing front teeth?  I think not.  Definitely not.  I’m greatly enjoying my toothless wonder.  Side note:  some foods really are hard to eat without front teeth, aren’t they?

Outhouses, when they are available,  are just a part of exploring the woods.  During our last moments on American soil before careening into Canada on the boat for our trip into Voyageurs, Dr. Peds and YaYa took Mr. TOF over to an outhouse to take care of some business.  It…

Cartwheels.  They’re everywhere, all the time.

The big kidlets love this merry-go-round at Chester Park.  They are hard to find these days, and I know I’ve posted pictures of them spinning on it before.  Whenever we go to that park, it’s the first place they head, and it always makes me happy that they enjoy a…

Meet Grandpa Bob.  Grandpa Bob is really the grandpa of our neighbors up the hill, and he’s a great friend of Dr. Peds.  They frequently go out to lunch together and make canoe paddles together.  Grandpa Bob is an extremely nice man, with incredible patience, who knows a lot about…