It only took us three years, but we finaly found the best place for your birthday party: Kidventure. It’s an indoor playground with an inflatable slide, a climbing wall, skeeball, and a pirate ship. We had the entire place to ourselves, and they let us bring in our own food, which meant that the parents [...]
The other Sunday, after Eli got dressed for church, I realized that he looked like someone.
If I get him a buff jacket, maybe he can appear on the Tonight Show like Carl Sagan.
In honor of Dr. Suess’s birthday this week, Eli’s school has activities planned every day. Today is crazy hair day. Stephen and I decided he looked a bit like an Anime character but since I don’t know anything about Anime really, I have no idea which one.
He started asking me this morning at 6:03 when [...]
This is a fine example of how Liza will sometimes say “I dunno!” reflexively.
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Turtle is a small plastic turtle who “swims” in a tiny bowl thanks to magnets and a small child’s belief in magic. Liza likes Turtle a lot.
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Despite her loud protests, [...]
As Stephen posted earlier today: Life! it is busy! We have a wounded hot water heater that we’re dealing with. I have a root canal scheduled for Tuesday. My blood pressure has been crazy high and I’m dealing with that. And in and around all these other things, we’re trying to get Eli’s birthday party [...]
As usual we spent our Christmas vacation in Arkansas. You may recall that Liza had her first milkshake last year in Arkansas. Her reaction?
We didn’t go back to the Purple Cow, but we did go to Cheeburger Cheeburger, another retro diner that serves milkshakes. What was Liza’s reaction this year?
At least Eli did different things [...]
When we first moved Liza from crib to toddler bed, everything went well. In fact, it went amazingly well: she slept through the night, and when she woke up and was ready to come out, she knocked on the wall until we came and let her out.
Then she discovered that she can open the door [...]
These photos looks like we lived at the beach this year. That’s not far off the mark, actually.
From time to time I’ve mentioned Eli’s futile attempts to threaten his sister by saying things like, “If you don’t do what I want, I’m leaving!” He’s moved on from that; instead, now he tattles. He tells us every thing Liza does that’s wrong, where “wrong” is defined as “things Mom and Dad have said [...]
The past two weekends we’ve been busy, busy, busy. And I’ve got the photos to prove it!
Space and Rocket Center
Some friends came to visit for the day and we played at Rocket City’s biggest attraction.
Halloween
This year Eli finally got “trick or treating” and Liza thought carrying her bag of candy was almost not worth the [...]