We had Tad’s family party over the weekend, and I discovered that he really didn’t believe that he was 12 years old until this party.  Blowing out 12 candles is apparently THE moment. Since the theme was “LEGO Batman Movie,” there were a lot of LEGO sets. Did I say a lot? I meant it.

This was a most unusual weekend/week/homestand for us.  We as a family, attended 5 out of 7 games in the last week. It all started with the Saturday game.  The Webmaster and I had bought tickets back in March to go to the Edgar Martinez number retirement game. And that ceremony was marvelous.  The game, […]

This was Tad’s breakfast on Saturday morning. Nothing says “happy birthday” like a shortstack of pancakes with a lit candle.  (The maple syrup went on AFTER he blew out the candle.)

Thumper really hates haircuts.  He generally does okay with them, simply because we haven’t given him a choice to skip them – and the stylists at our salon are extremely tolerant of him.  Seeing as a good majority of them have known him since he was born. But we’ve finally hit upon a workable way […]