This picture was taken three years ago, on my birthday. I used to have a little snuggly baby.  Now I have a big preschooler.  He is still snuggly, but it’s different when there are all these long limbs hanging everywhere.

Yes, it was my birthday yesterday.  I got many well-wishes on Facebook, and in person and over the phone, but the day ended with the Webmaster and the boys taking me out to Red Robin for dinner.  (Ane was at youth group, having dinner there, and she’d already said it was okay with her if […]

From Tad’s Monday art class…. Apparently, they do a little art appreciation in the class as well.  They learned about Vincent van Gogh this week, and then replicated his self-portrait.  The kids cut out his head, glued it on the page, and then colored in the background and his clothes.  Tad says they used baby […]

Thumper, like Tad before him, loves memorizing books.  Thumper has become particularly fond of Dr. Seuss, and all the e-books that we have on the iPad. Which means that when you hand him a real book, he will read it aloud to you. His current favorite is “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish,” […]