All the kidlets have been home all week for winter break.  There has been no school, and no preschool.  There has been a lot of cooped up “self entertainment,” and a lot of squabbling.  Just as we’re getting the hang of making things function smoothly with everyone home, the week…

It was evening.  Squirmy was fussy, and I was standing next to the high chair feeding him.  The Banana tromped in with a fine toothed comb and declared that she was going to do my hair for me.  She crawled up on a chair and stood on the seat and…

I could tell, on my way to my choir concert yesterday afternoon, that the waves were big on Lake Superior.  There was an East wind rattling everything, including the windows of the old cathedral downtown, and there were large whitecaps visible down on the water from the top of the…

Our elementary school celebrated the one hundredth day of school last week on Tuesday.  In Mr. Sneaky Pants’ kindergarten class, there were many wonderful 100 activities.  They counted by tens to string together 100 fruit loops (maybe it’s spelled froot loops?) into a necklace that they could bring home and…

The Banana says to me, “Hmmmm.  Maybe you’d like to take some pictures of me jumping in that great big puddle on the street.” Why yes, dear.  I’d love to.

Squirmy is big enough to sit in a snowbank all by himself.  I must confess that I have been waiting for this since last November, when I splurged and bought this blue elf-hooded snowsuit just so I could take pictures of him wearing it and sitting up in the snow.…

There was a lot of plotting and planning that went on to make Daddy’s birthday special, even though it came at the start of a super busy week and in the middle of a super busy month, and even though Daddy was working on his birthday.  The Banana helped make…

He gives hugs!  I like getting hugs!  It’s a great arrangement. He’s a happy guy almost all the time, except when eating green vegetables and when he’s stuck in a room with only a boring Mama. A runny nose is not our friend, and he’s had one for a long…

Squirmy was amused, very amused.  He loves it when the big kidlets get down right next to him.  He also likes trying to eat their fingers.  Mr. Sneaky Pants is working on loosing a tooth.  Squirmy is working on getting a tooth.

Our Valentine project, cards to take to preschool for Valentines Day, was a conglomeration of everything she likes to do:  colorful sort- of washable paint (in shades of pink) mixed with glue, markers to write her name, and scotch tape.  She loved searching in the crayon basket for broken crayons…