These were taken more than a week ago now, but I haven’t taken time to share them.  I love so many little details in these images:  the wet pants legs on Dr. Peds (he came from work and was still on call), the change in Mr. SP’s posture between the…

This July I am loving: Squirmy’s squishy baby cheeks that I know will soon disappear slowly over time.  They happen to be the only squishy, pudgy part of his body.  He’s such a lanky thing.  But aren’t those cheeks round and full and lovely in every way? The Banana’s incredible…

This afternoon The Banana and I were reading a book.  In fact, it was one of the Mercy Watson books by Kate DiCamillo.  Mercy Watson is funny, and The Banana loves reading about that porcine wonder.  At one point I stopped and asked her a couple intuitive questions about the…

Today I went to a funeral, a funeral that was a joyous and touching celebration of an amazing life, well lived by a very real person.  I wore my fancy necklace.  When I came home, The Banana snuggled up next to me and touched the necklace and said, “When this…

Rocks!  Look at all these rocks!  I can pick up a rock!  I can pick up another rock!  Rock!  Here’s another rock!  And another!  And another!  And here’s a stick!  And another stick!  Why can’t I hold them all at once? The beach makes grouchy babies less grouchy.

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far.  At my house it was a blistering 92 degrees, complete with hot, soggy air that thickly settled everywhere, making every surface gooey and sticky.  Someone mentioned that it felt like you were wearing lipstick all over your body, which I…

YaYa and The Banana brought the play dishes outside and began making mud pies, mud soup and all sorts of pretend food creations from some dirt in a few unused flower pots, a bit of sand from the sandbox, along with weeds, “bananas” from the caragana bushes, and some dead…

Each evening the past couple of weeks the three big kidlets have excitedly pulled on their swimmings suits around five o’clock and they’ve been off to the UMD swimming pool for lessons.  The great thing about swimming lessons in the summer is that they don’t have to bundle up to…

I had several things ready that I planned on posting today, but really, I have spent much of the day reflecting. I have been thinking and praying  often for Dr. Smith, my college choir director, who is in the final hours of his life, surrounded by close family.  What an…

Last weekend The Banana told Dr. Peds that she wanted him to take the training wheels off her little blue bike.  She didn’t need them anymore.  Dr. Peds looked at me.  We both convinced her to leave the training wheels on the little blue bike.  “Riding without training wheels is…