We don’t often manage to make it to events at the children’s museum, especially those that happen in the evening, but last Friday was chemistry night, and Dr. Peds was not working.  My amazing chemist husband thought it would be fun to go, and we had a terrific time.  There…

He’s Jeff.  She’s MaryAnne.  Their “job” is to gather ice chunks and smash them up  with the broom to feed their family.  A lot of bashing takes place.  When the broom handle breaks, it is determined that stronger materials are needed, and so they scrounge around and find the wooden…

Sometimes it is just wonderfully convenient that she is now old enough to walk down the street and up the hill alone to go to her friends’ house to play.  She likes the freedom too.

Although it has mostly melted now, we had some beautiful, powdery snow last weekend, and Mr. Trouble on Feet, who recently learned to sign “snow,” really loved it.  He was thrilled with the afternoon activity of sitting in his sled and having his big brother and sister pull him around…

These images were captured last Friday after an afternoon of beautiful snow falling swiftly from the sky.  I snuggled up on the couch with a blanket while the little kidlets were napping.  When the big kidlets came home from school, we started a few projects, and right at golden hour,…

He loves balls.  He loves balloons.  He loves wearing socks and shoes and is adamant about having them on his feet at all times, and then rushes over to the shoe basket and puts on a few pairs of progressively bigger shoes on each of his feet as well.  He…

YaYa created this yesterday afternoon.  The background and wings are watercolor, and the fairy face and body are color pencil.  I love that she combined techniques, and the dimensional effect is really neat (and maybe easier to see in person).  It’s one of my favorite pieces she’s made.

It’s that time of day, late in the afternoon, as evening begins, that time of day when it’s not quite time to start cooking a simple, quick, supper, and not quite time to have people start cleaning up the colossal mess they’ve created in the chaos of the afternoon over…

This hugglepod has turned out to be a hit, a perfect single Christmas present for all the kids to use.  Every single one of them loves snuggling in this cozy swing that hangs from the ceiling (I should really post a full picture of it.)  Even the cat loves the…

On Saturday evening I asked Mr. Sneaky Pants if he would be interested in going on a date with me to the symphony, since Dr. Peds was on call.  At first Mr. SP was quite skeptical.  He did not like the idea of having to wear “church clothes” for a…