Back in January, this happened. This was a large section of our backyard fence that, thanks to the passage of time and a big windstorm, got knocked over.  The Webmaster and the neighbors propped it back up, nailed some support planks in place, and shored it up with some of the loose wood, but we […]

Yesterday was my birthday, and I got a year older.  And I got a few gifts.  The older I get, the more I just want a meal I don’t have to cook and kids that behave as a gift for the day. I got that (good effort by the kids on their end of that […]

I still can hardly process it, but my Thumper is 18 months old. Here are some pictures of the other kids at 18 months. Ane: Tad: Rerun: And finally, Thumper: I kind of think that by 18 months, they were all beginning to look like their own little person!

Thumper likes books.  Or at least, he likes looking through them.  Even if they are a little too advanced for him. He’d picked up one of Tad’s library books and was just casually “reading” it, much to our amusement. I love how serious and focused he is when he sits down to “read” – it’s […]