Month: July 2011

We spent Ricky’s birthday driving toward home.  Not the most exciting way to spend your seventh birthday.  To try and make it a bit better for him, we did a little celebrating the night before we left.  A favorite meal (baked ziti), a bit of cake (decorated with Angry Birds), and a few gifts. We […]

The weather feels like summer and that means the wading pool. With a cool and wet spring and an extended family trip, we haven’t had a chance to pull out the $10-old-fashioned-plastic-wading-pool-from-Kmart this summer.  That is … until last week.  The boys were thrilled! Okay, Tommy wasn’t thrilled.  He wouldn’t go near the thing.  He […]

Ricky’s top two front teeth have been loose for months.  He doesn’t wiggle them.  He doesn’t touch them.  He pretends nothing is different with them.  He smiles with them. Until a couple of weeks ago … One morning I was in the kitchen, just doing my thing, and I heard some bumping and meowing from […]

We had mini-corn dogs for dinner with root beer float popsicles for dessert.  Just so you know. Mid-way through the meal, Rusty started pointing, “Want some!  Want some!”  Kevin asked what he wanted, to which Rusty replied, “More eggs!”  Those are actually mini-corn dogs, son, but if you’ll eat more by calling them eggs, be […]

This post is not about the kids.  I apologize for that.  But since Kevin and I had so much fun kayaking, I didn’t want to leave it out. The boys were all perfectly safe and mostly happy back at the vacation house in the trustworthy hands of their aunts and grandmother. Kevin and I went […]