The Banana Mr. Perpetual Mess Ms. Crazy Preschooler I don’t think about belly buttons that often, but when I do, I love them!

A long time ago I think I mentioned that I have several cookie sheets of magnetic poetry under my bed. Sometimes I forget to use them, and so I’ve decided to motivate myself to crawl under the bed and retrieve them more often by publishing (really bad) magnetic poems now…

There are several reasons why I very, very excited about this picture of The Banana that I took this morning. First of all, I’ve been trying to get a picture that shows those two pearly white teeth for weeks, and I have finally suceeded. Second of all, this is just…

Four days ago Mr. Perpetual Mess decided that he wanted to wear underwear. For two days straight he begged to go shopping for undewear. On Friday I mentioned that we were out of milk and needed to go grocery shopping. “Good. We get underwear too.” Since the grocery store doesn’t…

One of the features of our house that I have been most excited about is the laundry shoot. The little door sits in the hallway between the bedrooms on the second floor, and the shaft drops the laundry down two stories to the middle of the basement (it lands in…

All of the sudden, this little guy has become a reader. In the last few weeks he is just soaking up children’s picture books. I love snuggling next to him and reading, especially since for the first 22 months of his life he wanted nothing to do with books. In…

We took a trip to the children’s museum this morning because it was a little rainy out, and very, very wet. The main exhibit right now was all about shoes. It was so neat. There was a giant walk-in playhouse fashioned like the old woman in the shoe might have…