I zipped around the corner from the dining room into the foyer today, racing around to gather up everyone and their necessary belongings for a trip to the ice cream store and the zoo this afternoon. As I rounded the corner, there was my little guy hanging on the bottom…

Heard from the main floor as I was checking email upstairs: “Mama! Come quick! There’s a green lizard under the stove!” Luckily I had the foresight to realize instantly that this must be the supersized plastic gecko from the zoo animal box. Someone had whimsically flung him to the far…

It was 39 degrees, sunny, with no wind today at the beach. This spring-loving kindergartener was in her element, thrilled to be able to scramble up and down giant sized boulders with her galoshes. As for the cumbersome winter coat? It was thrown aside moments after arrival in favor of…

I came upstairs and found this last night after I was done teaching piano lessons. Obviously extracting the entire contents of his pajama drawer and switching footed jammies in the nosiest possible way causes sleep to quickly overcome a small, growing guy.

The Kindergarten artist-in-residence has been busy!  She's been producing amazingly detailed and imaginative drawings that make my heart swoon.  Ever since her infancy I have been hoping that I would have a childhood artist on my hands, and to facilitate that, I've been very conscious of providing a sure supply…

Right before bedtime tonight some members of the household had the bright notion of doing a little puddle jumping down at the corner, and of course, the smallest tyke couldn’t be left behind, because, you know, she’s just getting the hang of jumping (her feet sometimes clear the floor by…

The crew dyed Easter eggs this afternoon. Chaos. It was so exciting to stir those eggs around in the jars with absolute zeal. And impatience led to a lot of mess, even for a mess-lover like me. Phew. While all the activity was going on, The Banana was in the…

Me: If you were going to write a book, what kind of story would you tell? Mr. Sneaky Pants: There would be a toothy dinosaur skeleton (a tyranosaurus rex) in your ipod. He’d CHOMP up all those singing people because he doesn’t like that fancy racket.

First, beg and beg your Auntie with a camera to lift you up onto the horizontal part of the tree trunk in her backyard. When the Auntie protests that she’s much, much too short, get on your knees and beg harder. When she turns around to chase after your toddler…

We have had fun-filled days with our visiting cousins, and as you might have imagined, my camera has really gotten a workout. There were so many pictures to choose from, and there is so much to say about all the crazy experiences we had that I have uploaded an album…