I set The Banana on the floor today to take some pictures, but she suddenly really figured out how to roll over, and by the time I’d get my camera ready to go, there she’d be on her back, grinning at me like she was playing a game.

The Banana, this morning.

Before going to church yesterday morning it was very evident that Destructoman would need to have a bath. He had been slurping a bowl of oatmeal, and doesn’t have a lot of precision with a spoon yet. It didn’t help that 3/4 the way through the bowl of oatmeal he…

Ms. Crazy Preschooler is officially 5! We had toast in the bathtub for breakfast. She played with Kidpix on the computer. Her choice for lunch was baked string pasta, and after nap (while I ran around like CRAZY trying to make the house presentable) her friend Natalie and Natalie’s sister…

I just not domesticated. I’m bad at decorating. Everything. Especially cakes, it turns out. And I knew this before I started. I have always said that I will not make decorated cakes for my kids. My mom is terrific at decorating cakes, and I have had absolutely no desire to…

Mr. Desctructoman, tired out from playing with all those Christmas presents. He fell asleep reading at nap.

Ever since I was a little girl, one of my favorite things about winter has been sledding. Nearly every Christmas vacation that I can remember has included sledding. When I was small, we slid down the hill in the heifer corral behind our trailer house and down the monster snowpiles…

For Christmas Dr. Peds and I found a used 1.3 pixel digital camera on ebay for Ms. Crazy Preschooler. After Hannah was born and we gave her a disposable camera to take pictures of her new baby sister, it became apparent that Ms. CP was very, very into documenting EVERYTHING…

I’m somewhat of a scrooge when it comes to Christmas carols. I like Christmas carols, I really do. I especially like them when other people are singing and playing them. And I don’t MIND playing them and singing them myself, it’s just that I don’t often want to because I…

After lunch I went upstairs and couldn’t help running into what Ms. Crazy Preschooler had been working on all morning, a deluxe, luxury stable for Baby Jesus, complete with a full kitchen, shower, couch and recliner set, not to mention a lovely queen sized bed for Mary and Joseph to…