Because of all of the hills and super narrow streets, there are NOT many good places for kids to ride a bike in my neighborhood.  This spring, however, we’ve been getting together with our friends up the street and taking the bikes to the duck pond at the cemetery nearby.…

After extensive practice, Ya Ya has figured out how to snap her fingers, which is something that I actually have never been able to figure out how to do.  It takes way too much coordination for me.  Anyway, she takes great delight in walking around snap snap snapping her fingers.

Dr. Peds, Mr. Sneaky Pants and The Banana are in North Dakota for a super fast trip to see family (Auntie Amy Texas and the cousins from Iowa, and Baby Alex, of course).  Ya Ya thought hard about the amount of time she would be spending in the car versus…

Ya Ya’s Kids Choir had their program last night at church.  It was fantastic.  Ya Ya was especially excited about it this year, and the play was super neat, and so well done.  I hesitate to even write this because it’s just going to break Grandma Robbie’s heart into tiny…

Dr. Peds had three days off from work this week (it’s just how the schedule works) and took upon himself to complete several fix-it jobs outside the house.  He fixed the cement steps on the sidewalk up to the front door, repaired the brickwork on the front, and discovered a…

I’ve been down and out and battling bronchitis AGAIN.  Bronchitis is one of those things you just shouldn’t have to contract when you are pregnant.  It is seriously painful and wiped me out for several days, but things got a little better yesterday, and I went to the doctor and…

1.  I love these tiny purple flowers that grow in the wild in early, early spring.  Sometimes they pop up in bunches on people’s lawn, sometimes in the forest, and sometimes they seem to be purposefully planted under bushes and in flower beds.  I have no idea what they are…

They’ve been conspiring again over the last few days.  Two of their brains together is a scary thing.  It’s a miracle that there is any food left in my refrigerator and any stuffing left in the cushion for the papasan.  They delight in being up to something.

It’s been kind of a crummy day.  Ya Ya had a major case of post-sleepover syndrome.  Right now I’m missing an excellent symphony concert that I had really been looking forward to because I searched and searched and never did manage to find a babysitter to come and take care…

There were so many relatives we spent time with in North Dakota that I didn’t manage to get a picture of, and so many stories I could tell about the time spent with all of them, but in the interest of space and time, I’m going to to a mass…