Last Saturday I had an emergency sneeze out of the blue on the grapes at Walmart. I bought a bag closest to where I sneezed to try to protect the average consumer, however, the sanitary police are probably staking out my house preparing to raid. If you have any good…

My mom made Ms. Crazy Preschooler and The Banana coordinating Easter dresses. I dressed them and wanted to leave them dressed up all day, they were so adorable (but we didn’t want to get the dresses messy so we took them off before lunch). Mr. Perpetual Mess has been playing…

Look who’s sitting up all by herself! She’s quite thrilled with herself, too.

Learned from observing the expert millipede rescuer, Ms. Crazy Preschooler: 1. Search all the corners of the basement until you find a somewhat squished millipede that can move, but only slightly because you don’t want it to move too much. Millipedes that move too much are not only startling, but…

Because of the amazing summer weather we had last weekend, the big activity at our house was playing Stew Shop. Ms. Crazy Preschooler was the chief cook. She gave extensive orders to her assistant, Mr. Perpetual Mess, and together they cooked up some amazing mud concoctions, like this lovely “chocolate…

At our favorite park, just off the bike path, is this wonderful fire truck set up on springs. It jiggles when you step and jump, and results in hours of fun and imagination.

The joys of early spring! Even though this winter was pathetically mild, it is still so wonderful when the very first bulbs peek out of the ground. Every thing is so brown and dead when the snow melts that I even get excited about the first green weeds peeping through…

There is just something special about babies from ages 4-10 months for me. I love this Banana so much somedays that I want 12 more. (No Mom, I’m not going to have 12 more).

. There are no bumps to suggest impending teeth yet, but The Banana has taken up the recent hobby of chewing anything she can grab, and if she can’t grab anything there’s always her shirt, and better yet, her thumb inside her shirt