Today is my first project 365 failure. I really wanted to take a picture of my belly (which is not showing at all) because I’m at the end of the first trimester, but the pictures all came out awful. I found a few pairs of maternity pants at the garage sales last week and the [...]
My plan to survive until we move into our house was to get the boys outside every day to burn off energy. The Central New York weather has not cooperated, generally raining at least every other day. Today, we cleaned the bathroom, did all the laundry, and did a little school work, but that did [...]
After hearing a interview with children’s book author, Mo Willems, on NPR two weeks ago, I found a few of his books at the library. So far we have only read books in the Elephant and Piggie Book series, and will continue on to the other series until we’ve read all the books our library [...]
We went to an indoor play yard with some friends. It was $6 per kid to play, which isn’t too expensive for a special day but not something we’ll do all the time. Both boys loved it. Magoo is a fearless monkey, climbing up everything. He followed Bebop around and climbed ladders, rock walls, and [...]
Magoo has been making a face lately that I like to call his face of surprise. He usually makes this face when he does something on accident, and he tries to say, “oops!” Today he made this face when I gave him sushi for a snack. I guess he was expecting something boring and surprised [...]
We had a very successful garage sale weekend. Bebop keeps asking to go back to more garage sales because he wants more toys. Here’s most of the toys we bought: Not pictured is the clothes (maternity for me, pants for Bebop), and two more toys still in the trunk of the car. The boys have [...]
We went to a friends house for a Kentucky Derby party. The kids all had a chance to decorate hats and horses (made from pvc pipe and a paper bag). Bebop loved it and spent most of the night racing his horse. I tried my best to get the boys to eat something resembling a [...]
