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Category Archives: Ben
New Year’s Eve at Inks Lake
January 1, 2012 – 10:35 pm
Prickly pear Some kind of sotol? or yucca? Deer track in our campsite Great Blue Heron, on the lake near Devil’s Waterhole Camp kitchen Cooking pouches of camp fire apples on New Year’s Eve! Playing “sink or float?” in small pools of water in the gneiss rock After dinner Pencil cactus White-tailed deer Playing in [...]
Decorating gingerbread
December 18, 2011 – 3:07 pm
Ben’s preschool classmate Torin and his mom Erica hosted a gingerbread decorating party last weekend. Ben and his pals dressed their gingerbread cakes with white frosting, marshmallows, sprinkles, red hots and red and green gumdrops: Here’s Ben’s finished creation: And here are some of his friends’ gingerbread people. I don’t remember who made this one: [...]
trimming the tree
December 4, 2011 – 8:33 pm
We decorated our Christmas tree this afternoon, just the four of us. Then we went out for dinner at a new Indian restaurant near our house. Then we drove around looking at Christmas lights, while the children enjoyed the dum dums that the owner of the Indian restaurant kindly gave them when we left. If [...]
Halloween 2011
November 7, 2011 – 8:19 pm
At a pumpkin carving party, Ben and one of his preschool classmates: Maddie Roo in a patch o pumpkins: (Who declined to wear a costume at all this year, sharing that she “might be a little bit scared.”) Ben, post-trick-or-treating on Halloween night:
Willow
November 7, 2011 – 7:43 pm
On the day before Halloween, we adopted a 6-month old black kitten from Austin Pets Alive. We named her Willow. Willow didn’t come home with us until Nov 1, since solid black cats aren’t re-homed just before or on Halloween. Then, after we brought her home, there were several days when we were concerned that [...]
on the playground
November 4, 2011 – 3:19 pm
At our neighborhood playground late yesterday afternoon I stood under a cedar elm with mistletoe Maddie went down the slide Ben filled a discarded water bottle with pea gravel And then Maddie sang an impassioned song about cats to this triceratops while Ben piled pea gravel on its back. Lovin’ this weather.
at the park
October 24, 2011 – 1:38 pm
playing at Balcones District Park this morning: “I see a airplane!” playing with rocks under the live oaks:
back to school
September 8, 2011 – 3:34 pm
Ben got to go back to the Co-op today, in the Younger 4s classroom, after more than a month of asking when he could. He proudly chose a special clothing ensemble for the morning, which included a green John Deere ‘Dirt Rocks’ t-shirt, blue camo shorts and orange crocs. When I took him to his [...]