It’s the day after Labor Day, and Auntie is back in school as a freshly-minted sophomore.
Sunday night, she baby-sat Ane, Tad, the Brain and Head at Friend and Doc’s house while all the grown-ups (plus Best Babysitter) watched Casino Royale with RiffTrax.  Since neither the commentary or the movie are child-appropriate, we had to get […]

Last May, Ane and I put together a list of things that she wanted to do this summer.  I have actually kept this list in the kitchen since it was made, and decided to check it since I knew that we had just completed a big one off the list.
1) Go to the zoo. We […]

While in southern California, I finally got to meet someone who has been a real blogging friend to me - Matthew from ChildsPlayx2.  He brought his lovely wife Andrea and his adorable twins out to meet our whole entourage at the San Diego Zoo while we were there.
He’s already blogged about our meeting, and how […]

All my regular readers know that Tad is a devoted Cars fan.  His favorite car?  Lightning McQueen, of course!
So imagine his delight when we watched the Pixar Play Parade at California Adventure and the first thing (and the “grand marshal” of the parade) to come down the street was this:

Tad thought he had died and […]