Multitasking

Sometimes I pull things out of Henry’s backpack, and I just have no idea what the backstory is. This says “I can run and juggle at the same time” (or, actually: “I can ran and jagl at the sam tim”) which took me a while to decipher before...

Happy bath girl

Last night we put Zuzu in the regular bathtub for the first time. She was so incredibly excited to be out of her in-sink lounge chair and was all grins. The boys were totally fascinated by the idea of Zuzu in the bath, and now everyone keeps asking for more baths, all...

Kid snippets from this week

Eli: “I find sidewalks to be quite boring. I think we should buy a sidewalk plow.” ******* Henry came downstairs, and his pants were on backwards. I said, “Hey, your pants are on backwards.” He looked down, saw the two back pockets right there...

Piglet

I don’t think I can put into words how much I love Henry’s drawing of Piglet.

That’s not what I would have come away with

When the boys were sick last week, I let them watch Babe (the only kid movie we own, which was a complete bargain at $1.99 from Goodwill, and which I could watch a million times and I’ll still cry at the end). About halfway through, Henry came running to find...

Quarantine

Why do I always think that if we can make it through February without getting sick, we’ll be fine? But the first week of March we had Round One of Colonel Cough-n-cold, and now we’ve got something else. It’s some kind of overnight illness, where...