I have been thoroughly enjoying this child the past few weeks.  There is so much to love about age three and a half. I love how she mothers the cat, her stuffed puppy and her dolls, wrapping them up in blankets and cooing in a motherly, reassuring voice to them…

Mr. Sneaky Pants had been asking and asking for Dr. Peds to help him ride his bike this spring.  (I am certainly not in ANY shape to chase after a bicycle, and he has noted how I move at a pace slower than a tortoise . . . so my…

They came to me after lunch yesterday begging to get out the yellow plastic wading pool.  You might recall my struggle with loving the yellow plastic wading pool (even though it is cheap entertainment for them all summer long) from this post last year.  I groaned.  It couldn’t be time…

This is my son’s face right after I told him I wasn’t exactly sure if there was a sequel to the book Julie and the Wolves. We listened to the audio book on our way home from North Dakota last month and he really, really loved the book and talks…

Dr. Peds takes a bit of pride in knowing a lot about computers.  He is very good at fixing and setting things up on computers around here and for other people too.  He’s on the up and up with technology. Yesterday afternoon, I was resting on the couch, recovering from…

Opening up fun Mother’s Day Presents with my mom and three wild kidlets early in the morning Eating French toast for breakfast at my favorite “french toast making restaurant” with my mom.  Just my mom.  Dr. Peds got the kids ready and off to church for the first service. Hearing…

She was snuggled up in a big fuzzy blanket reading library books out loud to her stuffed rabbit while I was working in the kitchen.  Her story was dramatic and exciting, and quite frankly, better than the real story in the book.

The Banana and I spent about an hour making turkey dumpling soup from scratch this morning.  We turned off the burner and drove to Mr. SP’s preschool to pick him up.  He got in the car in a terrific mood.  Everyone buckled in, and we turned the first corner on…

Because of all of the hills and super narrow streets, there are NOT many good places for kids to ride a bike in my neighborhood.  This spring, however, we’ve been getting together with our friends up the street and taking the bikes to the duck pond at the cemetery nearby.…

After extensive practice, Ya Ya has figured out how to snap her fingers, which is something that I actually have never been able to figure out how to do.  It takes way too much coordination for me.  Anyway, she takes great delight in walking around snap snap snapping her fingers.