August 15, 2010 – 4:03 pm
We celebrated with family and friends at our neighborhood pool and park.
Nathan grilled hot dogs, and I made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing, at Ben’s request. (Me: “Ben, do you want vanilla icing on your cupcakes, or chocolate?” Him: “Actually, I think I’m going to have a little bit of chocolate.”)
How can it be? My [...]
with Great-Granny Edith
and Great-Pawpaw Tutt. My grandparents visited Austin on Monday to see us and our new house for the first time. It was their 12th anniversary. We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar about 20 times, and Ben gave them a tour of the house. Monday night we made a spaghetti dinner, and sang Happy [...]
In the car on the way home from preschool co-op today:
Me, to Ben: “Did you read books at co-op today?”
Ben: “Yeah.”
M: “Which ones did you read?”
B: “A Treasure. What a Treasure!. And Are You My Mother?, Mom.”
M: “Did you like them?”
B: “Yeah.”
M: “I like those books, too. Did you make a craft today?”
B: “Yeah.”
M: “What [...]
I scored a new-to-us sand and water table on Craigslist recently.
Ben and Maddie are spending lots of time playing with it in the backyard. The first time we used it, I brought out a handful of toy cars and trucks, and we used it as a car wash. Today I threw in a handful of [...]
February 23, 2010 – 2:46 pm
in Austin! Whole inches of it.
Ben made snowballs with our friend Kristin and smashed them against trees.
His first time ever to play in snow. Who knows when we’ll see this much of it again?