Super Rachel Zana's Spot

He’s the busiest little person I know.  He literally doesn’t stop for a second the entire time he’s awake!  There is so much to explore!  So much to do!  I get the biggest kick out of watching him.  He’s lost a little of his tumble bumble motions since I got…

I was taking a picture of one of her sisters when she said to me, “You know, Auntie Rachel, you really should tell her not to look at the camera.” Intrigued, I asked, “Hmm.  Why do you say that?” “The best pictures are always when someone isn’t really looking, and…

After supper, all the corn cob waste was loaded into this little red wagon.  While everyone was busy cleaning up, Squirmy toddled right over there to investigate and have a little dessert.  The cobs were wonderfully slimy with used butter, salt and pepper, and had such a magnificent texture.  Plus,…

It’s the most comfortable place to be at the cabin, that wonderful hammock on the front grass:  terrific with a buddy and so relaxing by yourself. I loved watching Auntie Dot’s baby cat, Mercertio jump up and tousle with the ropes.

The Banana enjoys a nice jetski ride, and sometimes she even gets to do a little steering as they zip around the lake.  You might recall that The Banana loves to be with people.  She can hardly stand being alone and playing by herself.  No matter what she is doing,…

Of course there were smores!  There were traditional smores with graham crackers and a new smore experiment involving keebler fudge striped cookies, which got rave reviews.  There were nicely toasted marshmallows, and marshmallows burned to smitherines.  There was a minor, but a bit traumatic burn on one child’s hand, lots…

Everyone has crazy hair after a fast and furious jetski ride, but we couldn’t help but to giggle at Mr. SP’s remarkable do.  The wind whipped that crazy mop into a most perfectly feathered version of a ridiculous 80’s hairdo.

“You put it on like a dress, and then you hold onto the boat rope and you swallow a lot of water,”  one of my nieces explained, when the summo skirt was first inflated.  There were a couple of times that the summo skirt was actually used in the water,…

They had so much fun going for a midmorning wagon ride with Grandma Kathy down the road at the lake.  Wagons are extra fun when they have two seats and you can ride with a buddy almost your same size.

In the fourteen years or so that Dr. Peds and I have been going to the cabin, we haven’t really encountered leeches in the lake before.  Usually all the fish right around the dock eat them up and the kidlets can swim worry-free.  This year, however, each of the big…