Because people napped at weird times for various reasons, we needed an evening outing to expend a bit of energy, tire some small people out.  To the beach we went! He was hiding from me.   Walking in sand is tricky. All six kidlets were in and out of the…

We went down to watch some tanker boats go through the canal, and while we were waiting for the boats to enter the canal, we stood underneath the up and down bridge so we could see it move.  Before the bridge moved up, we watched cars go right over us!…

Auntie Dot, Cousin Alex and “Kah Kah Kah” drove across the state of Minnesota to visit us last weekend.  Auntie Dot took Mr. Trouble on Feet and Cousin Alex to see Thomas the Train Engine, which was visitng the train depot here.  Mr. TOF had a GREAT time, and Alex…

It was just a bit of sibling love on an evening trip to the sandy beach.  Silly Kidlets.

  YaYa and Mr. SP swam out to the big rock at the secret beach.

I love deckle edge paper!  It feels like such a luxury to read. It goes without saying that when I title a post “What We’ve Been Reading” my silent reading kids are reading a lot more than I am.  In fact, these days they devour books at an incredible rate…

The Banana and Mr. TOF set up a little restaurant on the deck with a few spare frying pans (old ones), some plastic dishes, and other accessories from the play kitchen inside.  They brought over some sand from the sand box, got some water out of the water barrel and…

I learned how to use our new bike rack to transport bikes on the back of the van.  We’ve had some great mini-adventures with our bikes! I FINALLY learned and am remembering how to tell the difference betweeen white pine trees and red pine trees.  I just didn’t grow up…