Super Rachel Zana's Spot

My favorite season is still rolling along.  Every year I am surprised at how long the autumn season actually lasts here.  In my childhood autumn colors literally lasted four or five days, but in the forest trees change in their own sweet time, some early and some late, which means…

We got a new outdoor table!  I am so excited because it is BIG, and now we aren’t so squished when we eat outside.  We eat outside every opportunity we have throughout the year.  We could still squish around our round table, but anytime we had even just one extra…

This is what happens when the aviation loving  oboist-in-residence spots a plane flying above the meadow.  Not only can she identify birds with ease, she also knows her airplanes, this girl.

Me:  You are getting so big! Mr. TOF:  I know! Me:  Stop all this growing!  That’s it!  No more vegetables for you! Mr. TOF:  But I can’t stop.  God made me to grow.  He does it when I’m sleeping. Me:  But if you get too big, who is going to…

Here are some of my favorite paintings that Mr. Trouble on Feet has brought home from preschool.  He completely and utterly adores preschool, and he has been loving having the opportunity to paint there.  These papers make my heart happy.  

I’m pretty sure I was not finding the perimeter of triangles in second grade.  

This week I have loved watching Mr. Trouble on Feet take all the details that he paid such close attention to at the Applefest parade and incorporate them into his play.  I love how watching all those marching bands has inspired such great pretending.  There was a band that marched…

About a week ago we worked really hard to clean up and reorganize the basement.  It had gotten catastrophic.  Not only were things just sort of dumped down there randomly all summer long because they didn’t have a spot to be put away, but Dr. Peds and YaYa decided (against…

Last spring The Banana decided to become a vegetarian.  It’s a long story, worthy of a post in and of itself.   Ever the determined girl, she is sticking with her dietary choice, which means that if the rest of us are having hamburgers, The Banana is eating quinoa burgers,…