Super Rachel Zana's Spot

At lunch today Greg penned this poem on a piece of scratch paper and gifted it to me as I ate my cottage chese: Surly Ray Surly Ray was upset today Kids, you see, were getting in her way Keeping all her age appropriate learning activities at bay It’s her…

In addition to swiping all of the cardboard boxes we have around our house, Sarah has begun to sneak treasures out of our recycling stash. She created this lovely sculpture yesterday afternoon. It was entirely her idea, and she was ever so thrilled with how it turned out.

Mr. Sneaky Pants hates looking at pictures of himself as a baby. Today I gave him and Sarah some photo books to look at while I was attempting to cook lunch. My goal was to keep them busy and out of the kitchen. In one of the books Mr. Sneaky…

All four corners of all four molar teeth have cut through finally! I think we’re on our way to happier times! The Banana has been very busy singing, dancing, and pushing buttons on anything that has a button lately. She loves the cheesy canned music that this toy cell phone…

I usually hate New Years, but I think I had the best New Year’s Eve of my life this year! Our friends from up the hill invited us to a kid friendly New Year’s Eve party at their home, along with several other young families. There was kid food, grown…

Mr. Sneaky Pants has been working on thank you notes for his arsenal of Christmas presents. Although I think thank you notes are enormously important, I must admit, I was extremely frustrated by trying to help Mr. Sneaky Pants with his notes. I was so frustrated, in fact, that I…

This afternoon Sarah was riding with my husband to the retail section of town (again . . . my husband just can’t seem to stay out of the retail section). In the car they were having some great conversation. Sarah was asking all kinds of thought provoking questions (or so…

Happy Birthday Sarah! The Banana woke the birthday girl up long before the crack of dawn. We watched a litlte episode of Old School Sesame Street (a new and terrific DVD that Gregory acquired yesterday . . . all episodes from before we were born, and hilarious ones at that.…

Because I was feeling a little cooped up today, after The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants woke up from their nap, I decided to take them for a sled walk. We walked down to one of our favorite hiking trails, and into the forest for a short while. It was…

In Gregory’s family there was the tradition of siblings sleeping under the Christmas tree and playing Uno (or HUNO, as Mr. Sneaky Pants refers to it) together into the late hours of the night during the Christmas season. Sarah heard about it, so we told her that she and Mr.…