after years of fighting with a stupid mound that runs along the length of our property, this weekend we FINALLY rented a skid steer and removed it. by we i mean derek. and by removed i mean leveled it into our yard. the freshly leveled ground proved to be a wonderful play area for a […]
isaac
anna on a blanket in the shade
while derek tended to some much needed yard work, isaac and anna and i camped out in the yard, observing. anna was being exceptionally cute (and isaac exceptionally camera shy), so i took advantage of the natural light and anna’s cute socks and snapped some pics…
summer vacation friends
a few weeks ago, we headed to the park with some friends (cora and kate) whose parents (doyle and gretchen) both teach. their summer vacation was winding down, so we grabbed them while we could. isaac and cora are good pals. kate is still a little unsure about us lidboms. and anna doesn’t really care […]
official kitchenaid supervisor
isaac and i made some chocolate chip cookies yesterday (at his request). he’s a very good helper for all of the mixing. then, he abandons me, only to return when the cookies are warm out of the oven. here’s some pics of him at work, supervising the mixing phase:
education: day #1.
today was isaac’s first day of preschool. he wasn’t up for a cute stand-in-front-of-the-house-all-dressed-and-ready-to-go-on-the-first-day-of-school picture. instead, i snapped these, despite his best efforts to avoid the camera. he cried all the way there and grumbled all the way from the car to the door. then, he slipped into the classroom without even saying goodbye. when […]
blue ridge village, round 4.
last friday, we headed out for our annual trip to banner elk, north carolina, for a little downtime in the mountains. it was a lot different this time, thanks to a little 13.5 lb addition. we didn’t get out adventuring too much and it got a little boring more quickly than i had anticipated. we […]
“How was the day?”
Derek here… While our kids are usually decent during the day (aforementioned exceptions excluded), Anna’s lack of post-midnight sleeping takes its toll on Sarah. I often ask how the day was when I get home. This evening, I realized that there is a non-verbal indicator of how the elder lidkid behaved during the day… Yep…the […]
Preschool Tote
Isaac needs a tote bag for preschool next week. I was feeling craftastic. So, I hacked my way through this reversible tote bag. Isaac could care less. And I think it might be a bit big for him. Oh well.