Ike is the class star today. he gets special jobs, does a little show and tell and, well, I’m not really sure what else. But he was excited about it. And he insisted on wearing this shirt for his big day. 🙂 And he took that little robot toy on the floor next to him […]
lid kid everyday life
dragon girl

There’s no way I could wait until Halloween to unveil annas costume. I picked it up this morning at a consignment sale for $3!
soccer debut

it’s the moment i’ve waited for all my life. well, since my sports “career” ended. in 1999. ouch. isaac had his first soccer practice last night. it’s not even really practice. and they don’t actually play games. it’s really just a bunch of soccer fun with secret skill development worked in. he had a great […]
living room campout

A while back, we set up the tent in the living room in an attempt to check off an item on our summer to-do list. Isaac was excited. He made popcorn with his dad. And we set up camp to watch a movie (rio). After the movie, there was a lot of flopping, flipping and […]
first day of school

Yesterday was isaacs first day back to school. It was only for 1/2 an hour to get acclimated and learn some rules and tour the room, but we still took pictures and put on the backpack and pretended it was fer realz. Tomorrow he goes for a full 5 hours!!!
(new) word press iphone app. take one.

I’ve been having a bit of trouble with my wordpress iPhone app. And by “a bit” I mean “a lot”. For a very long time, it crashed uncontrollably. They made a few changes which complicated everything and it still crashed all the time. Then, I couldn’t login, even though I was certain I had the […]
m.i.a.

wow. it’s been awhile since my last entry. sorry. i have no great excuse. after our trip to ny, jake returned with us. he was here for two weeks. we had a lot of fun. he and isaac played hours upon hours of video games. during gaming breaks, they wrestled. or played transformers. jake is […]
colored rice. the making and the playing.

one item on our bucket list was coloring rice. not because isaac wanted to, but because i had seen it in internetland and decided i wanted to try it. once we got started though, isaac was all in and just as happy as if he had come up with the idea himself… shaking the bags […]
indoor tree house.

we have been trying to settle on what to do with the dormer window in isaac’s room ever since we knew we were having him. for the first year or so, it was home to his glider rocker. it’s had a tent squeezed in occasionally. but, we were looking for something with more “wow”. well, […]