Every waking moment he’s busy.  Either he’s on the go on the floor, scooting all over on his hands and knees, climbing up on small platforms (like the trampoline) and chasing the people he loves, or he’s busy picking up things with his tiny fingers. He still does not like…

I love these pictures.  She loves holding him and he loves being outside and getting attention.  I love both of them.  There is a bit of drool involved because Squirmy is working hard on cutting some top teeth.

We made a spontaneous decision to go to the park late Saturday afternoon and called our neighbors up the hill to see if they wanted to come a long.  They did.  We all walked to our neighborhood park.  I love having a neighborhood park that has a playground.  Last summer…

Last fall Dr. Peds pulled out some prickly crawling bushes that had been nothing but trouble for us since we moved into our house four years ago.  In place of the nasty bushes, he planted tulips, crocuses, and maybe some daffodils ( I can’t quite remember).  He planted lots and…

Squirmy loves sitting in his high chair and chasing Cheerios around the tray.  The Banana is happy to replenish his Cheerio supply as often as he’d like.  She tends to give him a handful and take a handful for herself.  It’s amazing how much work picking up a Cheerio can…

For the past week, Dr. Peds has been working and working and working down in the basement, fine tuning YaYa and Mr. SP’s cars for the Awana Grand Prix that took place this morning at church.  Mr. SP designed a triangular car painted like an Eagle.  YaYa, always one to…

Next Sunday, Palm Sunday, I am a short (but not too easy) piece on my clarinet for an Arrowhead Chorale recital.  It’s nice to have a reason to practice, and I really do enjoy playing the clarinet even though my thumb feels like it’s going to fall off, my right…

In the middle of my teaching day on Tuesdays I have a sweet and adorable kindergartener who comes to piano lessons.  She is a ball of energy with approximately two million ideas and nearly as many opinions about things.  She keeps things very lively and is doing great at piano.…

I recently spotted an art project on a preschool classroom blog that I really wanted to try with the kidlets.  They had a warming tray with paper on it, and let the kids color with crayons as the wax melted onto the paper.  I don’t have a warming tray or…

I know what you are thinking:  Does she let these kidlets jump in puddles every day?  Really, it only averages out to about once a week.  The weather on Saturday was purely scrumptious, and in the late afternoon we decided to walk to the park, kidlets clad in galoshes.  There…