It can be difficult to find new books for Thumper to read sometimes.  But sometimes I get really lucky.  While shopping with Thumper at the Amazon bookstore, we found two brand-new releases that we just had to have. First, a Little Golden Star Trek book???  NO WAY.  MUST BUY. It’s a kids’ adaptation of the […]

This is still one of the best Independence Day pictures I ever took. This was from 2011, and they’re all so little… and Thumper wasn’t even born yet! So here he is from his first Independence Day in 2013. He was SO CUTE.

The flag shirts are on!  Let’s grill some food and then blow something up! Grandma and Gichan came over for the food (and to help with another project – more on that later), but left before we blew anything up.  Ane’s friend Katie came over to help with the fireworks – yet another American first […]

It was a weird day.  Thumper had no therapy session scheduled, but Rerun had camp.  So I decided it would be the perfect day to take the biggest boy and the littlest boy to the zoo. There is just something indefinably adorable about this picture. We did a lot of walking around – it was […]