Like his biggest sister, Mr. Trouble on Feet is a bird appreciator.  He likes robins.  He likes crows.  He likes ducks and geese, and he especially enjoys those noisy, white seagulls with an extra dose of personality.

The Banana has started a dead butterfly collection.  The neighbors happily gave her this beauty that was stuck to the front grill on their car.  It has been joined by a couple of others she found stuck in crevices and corners next to the curb of different streets we’ve walked…

Mr. SP was a reluctant book report writing machine this year.  He loved reading.  He loved writing books reports much, much less.  Yet, he always met or exceeded the required quota of 8 reports a month.  During the months of May and June, his teacher invited those who had handed…

My piano student recital was last Monday evening, and YaYa and Mr. SP made their debut.  They remained calm, cool and collected despite my own neurosis regarding recitals.  I used to be a grumpy, nervous wreck before my own recitals, from a beginning piano student all they way through college,…

We were super duper excited when we heard that Grandma Kathy and Auntie Dot decided to make a weekend road trip east to see us! Of course they brought those delectable cousins along, and we all just had a wonderful, relaxing time together.  They arrived late in the night on…

The Congdon Park Cougar Chase is a morning filled with running races for kids and adults that serves as a fundraiser for the big kidlets’ school.  The event had been greatly anticipated in our house, with three kidlets and one dad registered to run.  The Banana ran a  .5 K…

I took a lovely seven minute shower the other day, and upon exiting, clad in a towel and on my way to find real clothes, I looked over and saw Mr. Trouble on Feet sitting so nicely and quietly on the steps going down toward the landing.  Half a second…

Over Memorial Day Weekend it rained and rained and rained.  And it had been raining for days and days previous to that.  Don’t quote this as an official number, but if I’m adding things correctly, I believe that in less than a week we had well over seven inches of…