Yes, it was my Dad’s birthday today – and that means cake! And this is what happens when Auntie orders the cake. Auntie: “Well, we call him Dad, the kids call him Gichan, so I just went with ‘Old Man.’  And the Avengers.”

As I’m preparing to commemorate this day, I realized that I had not updated the blog on the big news in my brother’s life.  My brother, who has been known as the Major for the a while on this blog (after being known as The Captain), has now been given a new blog name.  The […]

The floor is finally ready, so Auntie, Gichan, and Grandma have all been over here for the last couple of days, putting the finishing touches on the new bedroom for Rerun and Thumper. Auntie put up the numbers on the “outfield wall,” and Gichan got the molding cut and nailed into place. And today, the […]

Can you see it now? That would be an outfield wall, complete with foul poles, painted on the walls of the bedroom.  The rest of the room is the same blue as is painted above the outfield wall.  We’ll be decorating it up to be a really fun baseball room for Rerun and Thumper, who […]