Today is the day.  The.  Day.  The second Christmas.  The date circled on the calendar.  The biggest day in Tad’s year, after his own birthday. The LEGO Batman Movie opens in theaters today.  The Webmaster is taking Tad and Rerun to see it tonight. Which reminds me of how this whole obsession with Batman got […]

Our new microwave has a great feature!  A child lock! When the child lock is on, you can hit all the buttons you want, and nothing happens!  A certain preschooler, for example, will be unable to cook a Duplo to medium-melt.  All you get is a lot of beeping noise – which is, apparently, what […]

I really should put together a photo series on the strange positions kids sleep in.  They’ve all done strange ones, but Thumper seems to be the most interesting. Here is naptime recently: His head is pressed against the wall, and his feet are hanging out of the bed. I do not understand how this kid […]

We had another snow day!  This was predicted, but I didn’t quite believe it until we were home and the kids were in bed on Sunday night.  It had been sleeting all day long, but there’s a big difference between sleet and stuff that actually sticks. But by the time the Webmaster and I were […]