Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Our neighborhood raised money to install a playground in our park this summer, and we have been appreciating our newfound ability to walk to the park and have fun playing.  The park has always been a wonderful little park on a grassy square that rolls downhill, with a view of…

While he is a marathon sleeper at night, he’s the worst napper I’ve ever seen.  He’s still spitty, oh so spitty. He hangs around with soggy clothes next to a soggy Mama most of the time (even though we change clothes five times a day at least!)  He coos just…

We were incredibly blessed that our good friends from residency in Wisconsin who now live in Montana could come and visit us in the middle of the week.  They were in Minnesota for a wedding, and were able to make time to come up and spend the night on Wednesday…

Birthday breakfast in the bathtub comes oh so early when your big brother and big sister need to catch the bus for school.  The Banana was tired, so tired she could hardly totter into the bathroom, and she just wasn’t up for the idea of crawling into the tub, so…

The Banana began preschool yesterday.  She’s been looking forward to this for what seems like forever.  It had been an especially excruciating wait from the time that the biggest kidlets were in kindergarten and third grade until her school began yesterday.  She was nearly bubbling over with anticipation about having…

We arrived at this soccer game approximately 45 minutes late.  And I thought I was doing so great, getting us there on time, only to arrive and discover that the game had started at 5:15 instead of 6:00 like I had thought.  I looked at the calendar wrong.  Fortunately, though,…

All of my babies have worn this super cute red fleece hooded jacket.  They are always fun to snuggle when they wear it, and Mr. SP is no exception. I used the last zucchini my mother-in-law sent home with me from the cabin almost a month ago to make zucchini…

When I was a child and a teenager, I loved the first day of school.  I waited all summer for it, and the first three weeks of August were always excruciatingly long.  I could barely stand it.  I counted the days until school would start.  There was nothing better than…

My family came to visit over the weekend!  Even my brother came.  I was excited to see all of them, but I was most especially excited to see my nephew, Jack. I think he is probably the most adorable creature to ever walk the earth.  He’s just hilarious.  A ham.…

Ya Ya made one robot. Mr. Sneaky Pants made two robots. The Banana made three robots.