For those interested, here's a picture of the snake I mentioned last week, as it crawled up our window. 1. Last week, we spent Mond...

1. Early this week, I went in to get Second Son out of his crib in the morning and found him in the downward dog position. 2. Second Son s...

Did you notice I didn't post last week? At all? My parents were in town and we took a bit of a spring break. I had intended to schedule ...

1. First Daughter lost her first tooth! Last Wednesday night, Kansas Dad started to brush her teeth and realized it was missing. She hadn...

1. Early this week, Grammy treated us to the movies: The Muppet Movie. It was surprisingly good. The 8 year old, 5 year old and 3 year old ...

1. Second Son's 15 month well child appointment. The appointment itself was uneventful other than the fact that it happened. Due to vari...

Our timeline card for the resurrection has disappeared. Nothing like missing the second half of the single most important episode in history...

1. Halloween night - We had a wonderful time at Grammy and Paw Paw's house: pizza for dinner and then trick-or-treating in her neighborh...

1. Her sleeves and shirt front are soaking wet. 2. Little bits of toilet paper are strewn around on the floor, many of them damp. 3. A p...

Illnesses (kids and mine) kept me from posting anything much last week, but I was determined to get a few pictures up for Monday. Here are a...

We celebrated Second Daughter's baptism anniversary last week with one of her favorite meals: hot dogs and cheese puffs (ice cream for d...

First Son and First Daughter were signed up for soccer this fall (and next spring). Grammy and I took them to pick out shin guards earlier t...

What does it say about my children that the older three fight constantly over who gets to talk with the baby, who gets to move him when he...

Second Daughter was pretending to be a whale. She would belly crawl across the floor saying "Mwim! Mwim!" (That's "swim...

I happened to look through our old camera and discovered over 300 pictures on the memory card. A few of them were ones Kansas Dad or I took ...

Recently, Second Daughter has taken to preparing for every journey in the van. First she puts one of her babies in the "car seat" ...

Sunday morning was a battle. This was our compromise.

Saturday was bath night. I helped First Son and First Daughter take showers. When I came out for Second Daughter, I found this mess. She ...