YaYa and The Banana brought the play dishes outside and began making mud pies, mud soup and all sorts of pretend food creations from some dirt in a few unused flower pots, a bit of sand from the sandbox, along with weeds, “bananas” from the caragana bushes, and some dead…

Each evening the past couple of weeks the three big kidlets have excitedly pulled on their swimmings suits around five o’clock and they’ve been off to the UMD swimming pool for lessons.  The great thing about swimming lessons in the summer is that they don’t have to bundle up to…