Dear Rerun, We have just wrapped up your first “kid” birthday party at Pump It Up, and you told me that “this was so awesome.” “What part?” I asked. “All of it.” I really don’t feel adequate to trying to explain the changes of this last year (but it might be because I got a […]

There has been an influx of new and younger students into art class, which is good (the class is slowly finding a stable ground after the tragedy of this fall, and adjusting to a new teacher), but it also means that these younger ones are in need of some basic instruction. So there was a […]

Thumper, as a general rule, has not been very good at “pretend play.”  He is a very grounded little boy.  When he plays with a thing, it is whatever that thing is.  A phone is a phone.  A block cannot be a phone.  A spoon cannot be a wand.  Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. […]

We usually have dinner with Grandma and Auntie on Thursday evenings, after swimming lessons.  Sometimes, Auntie announces that she wants dessert, and then we do a dessert run somewhere. Good thing the Webmaster is kind of a sucker for his little sister-in-law.  And good thing that Thumper loves ice cream and is willing to go […]