Thumper loves numbers.  Thumper loves Star Wars.  Thumper has “borrowed” this book from Rerun. It’s pretty adorable to listen to him count as he turns the pages.  He knows that ten comes after nine when he counts out loud, but when he sees it on the page, he sometimes says “one” and “zero.” We’ll get […]

Recently, Woody the cowboy met with an unfortunate accident with a pair of sharp scissors.  And when I say “unfortunate accident,” I mean Woody ran into a 5 year old who was experimenting with his mother’s embroidery scissors. Doctor Mom was paged into emergency surgery. Woody’s injury could have been much worse.  He only had […]

We went for the laid-back, potluck BBQ type of Mother’s Day get-together.  Gichan put a turkey breast into the smoker (and it was GOOOOOOOD), and there was a bunch of potlucky picnic food.  We came, we saw, we ate. And we took pictures.  Unfortunately Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa missed out this year (Great-Grandma is continuing in […]

Exactly two years ago today. How did they get so much bigger in two years??? I have no idea where that time went.