On the first day of Christmas break Peanut Maximus got his first taste of solid food. Both Mr. TOF and The Banana took turns running the spoon. It was a highly anticipated event. Squash was on the menu, and it was well accepted. In fact, even though we’ve tried a…

When we brought down the Christmas decorations last week, we brought Farmland down from the attic as well. Farmland is an exersaucer-type baby apparatus that is a complete two decades old. Can you believe I’ve had it sitting in my attic for TWELVE years!?! After Mr. TOF outgrew it, I…

He sleeps so nicely when he’s attached to a person. If someone is holding him, he will nap for hours. If he is snuggled into his bassinet, he lasts fifteen minutes.

When your mom is helping your brother with the viola, and your sister needs to practice her harp, you get a close up view! Peanut Maximus still loves being next to someone who is practicing, or in the middle of a few people practicing different instruments.

One of the highlights of every visit from Grandma Kathy is that she saves all of the comics sections from her newspaper and brings a whole stack for everyone to enjoy. Even Peanut Maximus is a fan!

I asked YaYa if she would please draw a nativity scene on the outdoor chalkboard when she was home for Thanksgiving, and she made this by flashlight in the dark! I am loving looking at it every day out the window of the family room.

Grandma Kathy, Auntie Dot and the Cousins arrived on Tuesday night for Thanksgiving and the long weekend. They brought YaYa with them. We had kids around the bend and in every corner, and it was terrific. There were board games, sword fights outside, shopping trips to every thrift store in…