This is my second cousin Scott and me! I’m holding Big Bird, and Scott (always known to me as Scottie) is holding Cookie Monster. Some of my very first memories of life that I can clearly remember involve Scottie, who as a child was one of my very favorite people…

My camera goes a lot of places with me, and the other day we ran into these beautiful roses in full bloom growing on a chain link fence next to where we parked to go to the beach. They were so lovely. But here are some images that I didn’t…

Dr. Peds and Mr. TOF were driving back from baseball in Iowa, so it was just the three of us at the beach. It was the warmest night at the beach so far this year, and the temperature was absolutely perfect. Earlier in the day there were some thundershowers, so…

So much imaginative pretending is happening around here! The beanbag is a swimming pool and his underwear is a swim cap. Anything long and skinny is a baseball bat. Oven mitts are baseball gloves (although Grandma Kathy found him a preschool sized baseball glove at a garage sale, and it…

Last Saturday The Banana rowed in a team scrimmage, and Peanut Maximus and I headed down to watch. Watching went much better than I expected. Peanut Maximus was in the stroller for several hours, but he was pretty entertained by boats going into the water and boats coming out of…