• Random Catching Up

    It seems that in my fuzzy headedness, I forgot that some of my blog readers had not yet heard that we are expecting Kidelet FIVE in very early December.  It was a surprise for us, but we have a LOT of experience with surprise pregnancies around here and everyone is…

  • The Recks Stay Overnight

    Our dear friends from residency who now live in Montana are on vacation, and we were thrilled that they could carve out a bit of time to visit us!  We had so much fun and wished the visit could have been longer, but we stayed plenty busy while they were…

  • Summer Night

    YaYa is returning tomorrow from her week at Bible camp.  It seems like she’s been gone a terribly long time, but her absence has left these two with plenty of play time together.  It’s been fun to watch them work together on projects and invent their own adventures.  Sunday night…

  • Toothless

    Both front teeth are GONE!  I’m pretty excited about that gigantic gap.  I was really hoping he’d loose both at the same time, because I love the look of two missing front teeth. I actually love the look of any kid with any kind of missing teeth.  (It’s not QUITE…

  • Crazy

    It turns out that 9 inches of heavy rain in 24 hours will turn even a city built on a steep hill into a flooded mess.  It didn’t help that we had several inches of rain the day before the nine inches, either.  I don’t have dramatic photographs of all…

  • The Penns Visit: Edition 2012

    Half of our friends the Penns came to visit for marathon weekend.  While we (especially Mr. SP) really missed the other half that was fishing in Canada, great fun was to be had with the contingent who came to Duluth! We took a walk to the secret creek, where everyone…

  • Detective Superheros

    It was a few weeks ago, now, that these two dressed up in costumes, leaped around the deck, and proclaimed in dramatic Italian Accents that they were looking for “clues.”  Their clues led them to discover that I was a green bomb, sitting in a chair at the table out…

  • What Goes Up Must Come Down

    Mr. SP was busy flying his airplane around out in the backyard.  After a bit, I looked out the window, and saw that the airplane and the broom were both stuck on the roof.  There was a sigh of discontent.  He climbed on the kid picnic table, but couldn’t reach…