The Banana’s kindergarten class has had a lot of field trips this year!  Dr. Peds and I have had fun helping on several different occasions.  On Tuesday, the antepenultimate day of school, all four kindergarten classrooms were scheduled to ride a bus down to the Rose Garden, and then walk…

This is perhaps the coldest spring I can remember.  Ever.  While I consider myself a patient person, it is starting to get hard to watch everyone else move into spring and summer, and here we are, most of our trees without leaves or perhaps just the beginnings of leaves starting…

The Annual Cougar Chase race, put on by a foundation that supports our elementary school, has become a big deal at our house in recent years.  This year all four kidlets and Dr. Peds were signed up to run, and this is what our chalkboard looked like the day before…

  He came rattling up, driving a yellow plastic dump truck with a red bucket on the back and screeched to a stop on the sidewalk.  He looked over at me and said,  “AHA!!!!!”  He grinned wide, hopped off his truck and scooped a handful of dandelion heads (no stems)…

  This is how I felt last week regarding the passport application process.  Dr. Peds has planned a mini vacation to Voyageurs National Park in a few weeks.  He neglected to mention that we were going across the border into Canada for our accomodations on this mini vacation.  He thought…

Unlike his little brother, the super cautious kid who doesn’t like to do anything even remotely dangerous, THIS boy loves risky things, and even better, sharp tools.  Dr. Peds gave him an ax and a saw (shaped like a gun!) and told him he could tear apart some branches and…

The Banana had double front teeth on the bottom for several weeks, and finally a few days ago the baby tooth popped out, with a little traumatic help from the resident dad.  Not even 24 hours later, her wiggly top front tooth came out at school!  She was incredibly thrilled…

Mr. Trouble on Feet has been talking more and more, and it is so wonderful to finally hear about what goes on inside his little head.  Currently he signs about one third of what he wants to communicate and uses his voice to speak the other two thirds.  I have…

As expected, I had a busy week filled with evening rehearsals with the symphony as the Arrowhead Chorale joined with the DSSO chorus to sing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.  It was a crazy difficult piece, definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever prepared musically, and terrifying in many regards, but in the…