We went for an adventure in the woods. Mr. SP:  I wish I had a kuhnap sack to carry all my stuff. Later we went out for ice cream. Mr. SP:  I really wanted to get two things to put in my ice cream, but I knew that would…

While the big kids and I were off on our long bike adventure last weekend, it was discovered that Mr. Trouble on Feet can ride a bike all by himself too!  No training wheels.  No assistance of any sort, actually.  Dr. Peds helped him get up on this old bike…

It’s Wednesday.  Wednesdays are not my favorite days.  While Wednesday mornings are usually calm and peaceful, Wednesday afternoons and evenings easily make up for that and quickly make a person wish that Wednesdays had never even been invented.  First of all, Wednesday afternoons are busy around here, but busyness aside,…

We’ve been waiting all summer long for the last stretch of lakewalk to be completed, so that we could ride bikes all the way from the rocky beach down to the lift bridge.  The lakewalk opened a few weeks ago, but we hadn’t gotten a change to use it yet.…

I was super excited to take the kidlets down to the hot air balloon festival late in the afternoon on Friday.  The kidlets were skeptical.  I called Dr. Peds on the phone before we left to tell him to meet us down at the festival when he finished work, and…

It’s an ever changing array of dental wonder! Right now this mouth is a mixture of baby teeth, pristine, sharp permanent teeth and a few new missing teeth too.

Let me start by saying that this was probably the most unplanned and spontaneous, yet busiest birthday ever.  In the end, though, I think our people loving girl who loves a reason to get out and do something had a great day. On the breakfast menu for the bathtub was…

After reading on a blog the story of one family’s newly built Little Free Library, I instantly knew my neighborhood needed one, and that the corner of my yard would be a perfect location.  All sorts of people bike and walk and run past my house, it’s on a corner…

It has been a crazy week of transitions:  back to school, back to a full schedule of piano students, back to regular activities at church, back to getting up at a ridiculously early hour in the morning that totally wipes me out.  It’s only an hour and a half earlier…

He still loves playing his “oboe” all the time.