Author: Cindy

On Sunday, Uncle Tim told Ricky a joke about a family of tomatoes taking a walk.  Tim was sitting in a chair and held Ricky’s hands while he told the joke.  After Tim finished and Ricky did his courtesy laugh (because he really didn’t get it–which we quickly learned), he told Tim that he wanted […]

Kevin has been playing astronaut with the boys the last few days.  Here they are looking for the next moon or planet to land on. Kevin and Ricky kept talking about riding in their rocket ship and we couldn’t figure out why Billy kept saying “boat.”  Boats have nothing to do with space!  After about […]

I haven’t put any pictures on of Rusty in a while.  Wanna see some? I see this cranky face a lot. Rusty generally wakes up twice a night – about 1 and again at 4.  I’m tired a lot. This is his way of loving me back. Baby yawns are so sweet. Ricky just loves […]

by Richard Olds Pendleton (Ricky) Written with Poppy’s help on March 7, 2009 Once upon a time, there was a little Lightning McQueen and he always wanted to win the race.  And he always loved Mater, too.  He loved Flo, Luigi, and Guido, too.  Lightning McQueen liked his tires and he used them to race […]

Did you know that a fever in a baby less than 2 months old constitutes a medical emergency?  Fortunately for us, I was practicing my smoker’s cough, so the physician seeing Rusty last night decided he probably just had a touch of whatever I had and let me take him home.  I’d taken him to […]