He accidentally spilled a watering can filled with water on his orange pants, and that made him hopping mad.  I tried calming him down, and redirecting.  No success.   I tried explaining that it was only a few minutes until it was time to take a shower and put on…

It was warm and muggy at the top of the hill. After a squabbly and grouchy sort of Sunday, we packed an ultra simple picnic, and headed down to the rocky beach.  YaYa was off to camp, so it was just the three smaller kidlets.  The beach was cool and…

As far as I could tell the night we went to play down at the waterfront park the playground was just filled with random families with kids.  That did not stop the school age kids from joining up for a giant game of freeze tag.  Mr. SP and The Banana…

YaYa is at Bible camp this week.  She was beyond the moon excited to go, and since there is a whole slough of kids from our church going this week, they put a van together to transport everyone there and back.  On Sunday evening Mr. Trouble on Feet and I…

Mr. SP  spent the better part of last week trying to convince The Banana that they keep sharks in the deep end of the UMD swimming pool when they aren’t having swimming lessons.  He told her they just net the sharks and store them somewhere else during swimming lessons, but…

Last summer we had the sewer line to our house replaced.  Over the fall, winter and spring, part of the yard that was dug up and refilled with dirt sank down as the earth settled again, so Dr. Peds has been working out some plans to fill things in again…

That slobbery, slimy extra long tongue? It’s still his tactical advantage.

Mr. Sneaky Pants and The Banana take their goggles to swimming lessons every day.  Mr. TOF likes to feel included, so YaYa located this old pair of half broken blue goggles.  They were a hit.  Not only are goggles fun, but these happen to be blue, which is Mr. TOF’s…

  Today Mr. Sneaky Pants said to me apologetically, “Sometimes you just have to be the Stubborn Mom, don’t you?”  This was in regard to his younger brothers small tantrum about needing to eat his peas prior to a second helping of applesauce. The other day we were eating lunch…