The Banana has figured out the concept of attachment. She fulheartedly believes she should be attached to me at all times during her waking hours and can’t bear that I might be across the room, or even worse need to leave her alone in a room for a minute while…

1. Squishing the last half of the banana all over the table, kitchen counter and pajamas at breakfast. 2. Taking down the blinds on bedroom windows during “nap.” 3. Tipping over the child sized rocking chair in sister’s room and standing on it upside down to “jump into the river”…

It was a warm and somewhat muggy day, and in the late afternoon Ms. Crazy Preschooler got the idea of bringing out the hose to fill plastic buckets with water in the backyard. That soon changed to watering the bushes, creating mudpuddles, and playing thunderstorm, which was a wild drama…

Last Monday I drug out some of the big boxes from moving that I had been saving in the garage for the kidlets to play in and made them a box city, complete with a two room hospital, a church, a post office, a house and the all important dog…

Here are some of our recent reads, for the maybe three book lovers that read this blog: Grown Up Books Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman: I really like Alice Hoffman’s work. This book was not my very favorite novel she has written, but it was still a fun read, very…

The Banana Mr. Perpetual Mess Ms. Crazy Preschooler I don’t think about belly buttons that often, but when I do, I love them!

A long time ago I think I mentioned that I have several cookie sheets of magnetic poetry under my bed. Sometimes I forget to use them, and so I’ve decided to motivate myself to crawl under the bed and retrieve them more often by publishing (really bad) magnetic poems now…

There are several reasons why I very, very excited about this picture of The Banana that I took this morning. First of all, I’ve been trying to get a picture that shows those two pearly white teeth for weeks, and I have finally suceeded. Second of all, this is just…