We managed to locate six candles in the drawer to celebrate Andrew’s 6th birthday. He was very excited, and especially liked the brontosaurus from Poppy. Camille made an awesome cake from scratch. We were all very impressed. The kids got an extra birthday surprise when the #snowpocalypse began. We got a total of about 22 [...]

Drew lost his first tooth today. He is very pleased with himself. Make sure to ask him to smile for you!

Drew is 4 today. You still have time to ship things FedEx same day.

Hello friends and family! Good news. The surgery is done and went very well. The tubes are inplace and everything looked great to the doctor. He said he drained alot of fluid out of Andrew’s left ear. Thanks much for all yourprayers. He was calm and composed the whole time. I’m thankful thateverything went so [...]

Wanted to write a quick note asking you to pray for Drew this Thursday. It’s been a long roundabout story, but the short is that he is scheduled for (minor) outpatient surgery this Thursday AM. The ENT doctor (ears, nose, throat) we saw yesterday diagnosed Drew with some chronic fluid in his left ear. They [...]

After assembling Anne’s new bed I had two rather large boxes. Hmm, what to do with two large boxes. A fortress of course! But that took only one box. A tunnel with portcullis! Still 1/2 a box left… Ok, knee padding in the tunnel. one princess bed for $20 (original price $250) extra boxes $0 [...]

Here is the run down for the past couple months: Anne graduated from Preschool today. She had two excellent teachers this year and is sad to be done. Makes me wonder if she will be like Jason in Foxtrot. She was very beautiful in the dress her Grandma got her. We have been house hunting [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are now all settled in Maryland. I drove up to Ithaca and brought Camille and the kids back down at the end of October. I am so glad we are all together again. I’ll try to have Camille give a larger update about how things are soon. We [...]

My kids take great joy in squishing bugs. They stomp around gleefully in our driveway squishing and squashing all that crawls.

So some kids form attachments to stuffed animals, blankets, pacifiers, their thumbs. Our son is attached to a sushi mat.