Yes, Tad was very excited when he started opening presents. The bat is foam, by the way. Grandma and Gichan aren’t crazy. We just put his chair in front of the fireplace, and I handed him presents. The hard part was keeping him going once he opened something that he really liked. I think Auntie […]

Doesn’t this look yummy? Our birthday boy certainly thought it was yummy. We had Tad’s family birthday party on Saturday, in hot, muggy weather. The grill was fired up, Tad actually napped before the party (though waking him up and getting him to be happy was a chore, which eventually only Grandma could take on […]

They are quickly turning into impossibilities in this house. Until the broken femur, my goal was to wear Tad out early and often, so he would take a decent nap right after lunch and then go to bed at a decent hour at night. It is nearly impossible to do anything physical with him right […]

It’s hard to believe, but we’ve already started paying Ane’s tuition for this coming school year (her last year in preschool!), and we just got a letter from her new teacher. The teacher is someone I recognize from the school, but don’t know. To get to know each of the kids in the incoming class, […]