We arranged for a “playdate” (is it still a playdate when you’re 14?  I guess so) for Tad and a friend of his at a local park on Sunday afternoon.  Because it was such spectacular weather (and who knows how many more of these days we’ll have), I brought Rerun and Thumper along as well.  […]

It’s the first Friday of October!  Time to look down memory lane at Halloweens of years past. Oh my goodness, who are those tiny munchkins???  This is from 2007. Ane wanted to be a ballerina that year, and Tad wasn’t talking enough at the time to express a preference, and I found this costume in […]

Occasionally, Tad will get really annoyed with his younger brothers.  They get into his stuff, they bother him, he bothers them back – you know, all the basic complaints of any sibling. Well, on Tuesday night, Tad was fed up.  And he began ranting at me.  “WHY do I have three brothers??” he demanded. I […]

Tad finished his still life painting! I do like that he chose to paint the more uniquely colored pumpkin, but I do feel like he rushed the paint a bit – you can see where it isn’t as clean on the lines as he could have made it.  But he apparently wanted to jump into […]