Squirmy loves sitting in his high chair and chasing Cheerios around the tray.  The Banana is happy to replenish his Cheerio supply as often as he’d like.  She tends to give him a handful and take a handful for herself.  It’s amazing how much work picking up a Cheerio can…

For the past week, Dr. Peds has been working and working and working down in the basement, fine tuning YaYa and Mr. SP’s cars for the Awana Grand Prix that took place this morning at church.  Mr. SP designed a triangular car painted like an Eagle.  YaYa, always one to…

Next Sunday, Palm Sunday, I am a short (but not too easy) piece on my clarinet for an Arrowhead Chorale recital.  It’s nice to have a reason to practice, and I really do enjoy playing the clarinet even though my thumb feels like it’s going to fall off, my right…

In the middle of my teaching day on Tuesdays I have a sweet and adorable kindergartener who comes to piano lessons.  She is a ball of energy with approximately two million ideas and nearly as many opinions about things.  She keeps things very lively and is doing great at piano.…

I recently spotted an art project on a preschool classroom blog that I really wanted to try with the kidlets.  They had a warming tray with paper on it, and let the kids color with crayons as the wax melted onto the paper.  I don’t have a warming tray or…

I know what you are thinking:  Does she let these kidlets jump in puddles every day?  Really, it only averages out to about once a week.  The weather on Saturday was purely scrumptious, and in the late afternoon we decided to walk to the park, kidlets clad in galoshes.  There…

Now that Squirmy has become less fragile and more interactive, the Big Sisters around here spend a lot of time dragging him around.  They drag him away from places he shouldn’t be.  They drag him toward toys they’d like him to play with.  They drag him away from all the…

It’s a really, really good thing I like freshly fallen snow. Yesterday morning the big kidlets had dentist appointments.  I’m glad the waiting room is painted a cheerful yellow.  When we finally managed to leave the house, everyone freshly showered with sparkling teeth, things went well.  It’s just LEAVING the…