Ane has finished up her first session of ballet at the Lynnwood Rec Center and loved every second of it. We have a week’s break before the next one starts, and parents were invited to the last class of this session to see what the girls have learned. Aside from not really learning to follow [...]

After two broken bones, I have absolutely forbidden Tad to play football when he’s older. No no no no no. Fortunately, he’s made his own decision. Not that baseball doesn’t have its own hazards. The Webmaster got his two front teeth knocked out by a grounder when he was in high school. Both the Captain [...]

Tad is doing very well in the individual and group speech therapy that he is getting at school. We get nothing but good reports back from the speech therapist. One of his new skills is the ability/desire to repeat words. This was one of the hardest things to get him to do a year ago, [...]

Ane knows about the baby. After dinner last night, Tad was doing one of his favorite things – headbutting me in the gut. While fending off the boy with the steel skull and trying to direct him toward his father, I said, exasperated, “Tad, you have GOT to stop doing this!” Without even breaking her [...]