Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Mr. Sneaky Pants and The Banana have the hardest time differentiating between seagulls and eagles.  The words really do sound a lot alike, and even though I explain and explain the difference, they just get them mixed up. It wouldn’t be summer without seagulls.  I know a lot of people…

In addition to giving wonderful hugs and telling me 237 times throughout the day that she loves me and the new baby in my tummy, she actually happily gives squeezy shoulder rubs and foot rubs.  What more could a pregnant Mama want?

I read about this activity in a magazine last year, and then on another mom’s blog, and knew that it would be a great summer project for everyone, but especially for Ya Ya.  A great deal of the credit needs to go to Dr. Peds, because when I explained about…

Swimming lessons continue to be a huge event around here, highly anticipated all day long, by everyone except maybe me:  I feel like I’m in a sauna the whole time I am sitting there watching them swim.  Yesterday Mr. Sneaky Pants jumped in the pool, put on his goggles, and…

This is the first real week of summer here, the first real week of no school.  It’s gone remarkably well, much better than anticipated, but the dynamics have certainly been interesting.  Oh the squabbles!  From sun up to sun down there are squabbles.  The combination of three children together doing…

The Banana is not a fan of vegetables.  She never really has been.  Typically, she’ll eat all of her food except for the vegetables (she’ll even pick around the vegetables if they are hiding in the rest of her food) and proclaim that she’s simply too full to finish her…

It was a grey, grey day.  Although it looked very chilly, it really was humid, hazy and comfortable outside.  I asked the kidlets what they wanted to do, and they unanimously chose the rocky beach.  Away we went.  They climbed, jumped, and scrambled, and I parked myself and my camera…

I didn’t manage to snap many pictures, but the kidlets and I spent the day at the Olde World Renaissance Faire in Twig.  I was the most pregnant person  there.  But, I am not a spoiled sport . . . I still went in costume.  Luckily my Renaissance costume has…

It has been raining, and raining all week, and yesterday was an especially rain filled day.  By mid-afternoon, it was very clear that everyone needed a change of scenery, so we decided to make a trip down to the Depot so the kidlets could be in the children’s museum, and…

Ya Ya:  Mom, how deep is the deepest puddle in the world? Me:  Well, I really don’t know? Ya Ya:  Well, why don’t you know things that I need to know? Me:  Well, I don’t know everything. Ya Ya:  Hrrrrrmmmmph.  I CANNOT wait until I’m in 7th or 8th grade,…