At the end of last week it turned cold, but the Saturday before that was warm and beautiful. We headed to the forest to burn off some energy.  This “stickophone” was developed especially for interforest communications.  

I love Mr. TOF’s face on these last three images.  Everyone else was jumping.  He did NOT want to be left out.  He was so scared he wouldn’t make it over the puddle and that he’d get his shoes wet.  He didn’t want to be “the baby” and miss out.…

Our Grateful Tree is up in the dining room.  I found a branch in my neighbor’s forest a few weeks ago and she let me drag it home to plunk in a pot, becoming our November tree in the dining room. Actually, my friend was about to use the branch…

For a bit more than a week Dr. Peds was in Haiti, on the outskirts of Port Au Prince working in a medical clinic.  He came back home late in the evening on Saturday.  The kidlets were excited to see him, of course, and really loved seeing the pictures and…

Mr. Trouble on Feet is always finding something interesting to do. Over the past few weeks he’s taken to building wonderful block structures.  Kids playing with wooden blocks makes my heart sing!  I love coming into the family room on a break from teaching to see what he’s added to his…

A few weeks ago I was driving the car with all of the kids to pick up an additional kid at a friend’s house and deliver all the kids to church for youth group and AWANA.  (While the kids are at church the grown ups have Bible study).  It’s always…

The Banana had plans to go trick or treating as a donut.  We initially planned on making her costume out of cardboard, but then realized that we didn’t have any large pieces of cardboard in our cardboard stash.  We weren’t sure what to do, when our neighbor brought over a…

We’ve been super fortunate to get to attend six preschool Boo Balls throughout the last few years.  It’s always a highly anticipated event in our house.  YaYa and I did not wear costumes because YaYa was on her way to a piano lesson after the ball, and I had come…

Mr. Trouble on Feet was excited to wear a costume for the parade at his preschool.  He elected to be a dragon that morning.  He’s a cute, fuzzy, squishable dragon.   The preschool parade is always completely adorable. We also got to bring a special pumpkin to school the day of…