Super Rachel Zana's Spot

There was a lot of running from here to there and back again.  There was also a lot of roaring and peals of infectious laughter.  He’s been playing up a storm outside every day and ending each day with layers of grime, grub and unidentified sticky substances, so evening bathing…

Although she’s gone again, this time to North Dakota to spend time with Grandma Kathy and Auntie Dot and some beautiful horses, YaYa returned from Bible Camp and talked up a storm for the two days she was home.  She loved  camp even more this year than last year, and…

We were up and out of bed, and ready to decorate bikes!  The Banana wanted a flag to go across her handlebars, and helium balloons to attach to the back of her banana seat.  We filled in the rest of the bike with streamers. This year several of our neighborhood…

Because we have rough and tumble bike riders around here, some of our ultra-cheap-acquired-at-garage-sale bikes have deteriorated to the point of not being able to be fixed up.  Specifically, Mr. SP’s bike is in pretty bad shape, according to Dr. Peds, so he has been on the lookout for reasonably…

He does love to sing the alphabet.  Mr. TOF has the melody down pat, and just substitutes random letters in a completely random order.  The beauty of this is that the performance is always fresh for the audience, with an improvisational feel.  The flat rocks at the beach apparently seemed…

On Friday afternoon  Mr. Trouble on Feet and I drove to Hartley Nature Center to pick up The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants from their afternoon classes (which they loved).  I parked the car and happened to look over at the start to one of the hiking trails and saw…

Inspired by Emily at Chatting at the Sky who has been making a list of things she’s learned each month, I decided to join in with her other readers and blog about my own list of things I have learned during the month of June this year. 1.  A Troika is…

He accidentally spilled a watering can filled with water on his orange pants, and that made him hopping mad.  I tried calming him down, and redirecting.  No success.   I tried explaining that it was only a few minutes until it was time to take a shower and put on…

It was warm and muggy at the top of the hill. After a squabbly and grouchy sort of Sunday, we packed an ultra simple picnic, and headed down to the rocky beach.  YaYa was off to camp, so it was just the three smaller kidlets.  The beach was cool and…

As far as I could tell the night we went to play down at the waterfront park the playground was just filled with random families with kids.  That did not stop the school age kids from joining up for a giant game of freeze tag.  Mr. SP and The Banana…