Super Rachel Zana's Spot

All four corners of all four molar teeth have cut through finally! I think we’re on our way to happier times! The Banana has been very busy singing, dancing, and pushing buttons on anything that has a button lately. She loves the cheesy canned music that this toy cell phone…

I usually hate New Years, but I think I had the best New Year’s Eve of my life this year! Our friends from up the hill invited us to a kid friendly New Year’s Eve party at their home, along with several other young families. There was kid food, grown…

Mr. Sneaky Pants has been working on thank you notes for his arsenal of Christmas presents. Although I think thank you notes are enormously important, I must admit, I was extremely frustrated by trying to help Mr. Sneaky Pants with his notes. I was so frustrated, in fact, that I…

This afternoon Sarah was riding with my husband to the retail section of town (again . . . my husband just can’t seem to stay out of the retail section). In the car they were having some great conversation. Sarah was asking all kinds of thought provoking questions (or so…

Happy Birthday Sarah! The Banana woke the birthday girl up long before the crack of dawn. We watched a litlte episode of Old School Sesame Street (a new and terrific DVD that Gregory acquired yesterday . . . all episodes from before we were born, and hilarious ones at that.…

Because I was feeling a little cooped up today, after The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants woke up from their nap, I decided to take them for a sled walk. We walked down to one of our favorite hiking trails, and into the forest for a short while. It was…

In Gregory’s family there was the tradition of siblings sleeping under the Christmas tree and playing Uno (or HUNO, as Mr. Sneaky Pants refers to it) together into the late hours of the night during the Christmas season. Sarah heard about it, so we told her that she and Mr.…

Mr. Sneaky Pants searches for “the little guy” in the laptop. Side note: “The Little Guy” is a dancing little thumbnail icon that appears when my husband runs his anti-virus software.

During nap today Sarah lined up our wooden people onto block risers to sing Christmas carols. Note the wooden conductor in front.

We zipped down the street and up the hill to do a little sledding with our friends who live at the top of the hill yesterday afternoon when Sarah got home from school. Our friends have a perfect preschool-sized hill in their yard, and glee was beheld by all as…