They’re practicing dribbling and passing here because we have no hoop at the moment. James saved up to buy a new one and so the old one has been removed and the cement must dry for three days before they can put the taller pole on the portion that gets buried in concrete. There were problems […]
Here are a few old pictures, John, from your 12th birthday, which you said was about the finest birthday celebration of your entire life. Do you see Ryan? He was so tiny. Anyway, looking at these feels like looking at someone else’s life almost, it was so long ago. I loved then, and I love
b.g. and his bald headed brother are going to be babysat at their aunt’s house starting next week. So today is the last of the regular days of going nuts at Grandma’s. We’ve been doing this since he was a wee baby, so it’ll be strange to not. It’s going to be pretty quiet around here.
Okay, I love crunchy mama stuff. I do. I am crunchy in some ways, and can’t deny that–the home births, nursing toddlers, sleeping together. But today emails showed up in my inbox about the wonderful-ness of cloth diapering. Good God. Pffflllbt. I did that for eight kids. Back in the day disposables were expensive and
First thing this guy did around 9am? Yep, that. It was warm in the room, so I didn’t really cover him up, but that nightgown was by his legs, and he gathered it up to himself. Here’s a crowd out by the swings. This is Lydia, aka Kari, inspecting his flaky scalp. My sister came
There they go. As soon as they decided to get all this tubing crap out, the clouds arrived. Okay there they are, specks across the lake. Sam paces. And the rope broke, so they had to tie that back together. And then we loaded up all this mess and made our way home. Thank goodness
It was both–quiet and sunny, and everything that’s June. Football? Is that what’s going on here? We launched the paddle boat. My mother bought this for us a few years ago and it has provided endless hours of entertainment for many, many kids, not just these guys. There they go to cruise past the tooth
Does it get any better than a combination like that? We’re trying to get ready to go shopping here, and Julia’s helping Tim out with his hair tuft. Here we are back from shopping–all the new shoes. Awww, we found a really tired plumber on our patio. Okay, this is a picture of slobber. Probably
