The Banana’s kindergarten class has had a lot of field trips this year!  Dr. Peds and I have had fun helping on several different occasions.  On Tuesday, the antepenultimate day of school, all four kindergarten classrooms were scheduled to ride a bus down to the Rose Garden, and then walk…

This is perhaps the coldest spring I can remember.  Ever.  While I consider myself a patient person, it is starting to get hard to watch everyone else move into spring and summer, and here we are, most of our trees without leaves or perhaps just the beginnings of leaves starting…

The Annual Cougar Chase race, put on by a foundation that supports our elementary school, has become a big deal at our house in recent years.  This year all four kidlets and Dr. Peds were signed up to run, and this is what our chalkboard looked like the day before…