The Banana is back from college, and just like that, our house has been filled with a bustle of activity and extra people in and out! Everything is just more exciting with The Banana around!

To play rehearsal, you need to get your rehearsal uniform on, and in most cases, this means wearing a cape of one sort or another backwards like an apron. Then you need instruments. Sometimes that means drums, or resonator bells in a portable case, or boomwackers that you pretend are…

When 5:00 just gets to be too much . . . He gets up early, and he’s often not interested in sleeping during rest time. This means that things get pretty tricky about 5:00 each day. Sometimes that means a meltdown. Sometimes it means he falls dead asleep in the…

Mr. TOF performed in a low brass ensemble concert last night, and Peanut Maximus was excited to be an audience member. The leader of the group programmed some great choices of music, and the low brass instruments played with organ too. Peanut Maximus was a little wiggly, but he was…

The library had the excellent idea to sponsor a tiny art show for all ages. They had little envelopes available with small canvases inside to take home and make art. The canvases were brought back to the library and placed on display at each of the branch libraries and main…