We attended our last Mariners games of the season last weekend – the team is ending the season on a road trip – and we got to go to both Friday and Saturday’s games. I have lots of pictures to share, but I’ll start with this one. Thumper worked very hard on learning two vocabulary […]

As I write this, kids are sleeping with the knowledge that Mom is waking them up at 8 am to start thinking about school. School starts Wednesday, and both Ane and Tad will need to be waking up earlier than that, but it’s a start.  Actually, Tad’s bus driver called and we must be the […]

When we visited the zoo a week ago, the penguins were molting.  There were feathers coming off some of them in large patches. And as one swam by, with bubbles streaming off the feathery down of the penguin’s back, a feather flew off in the bubbles. “LOOK!” Rerun yelped. “That penguin farted out a feather!” […]

When we were at the zoo this week, I commented to Rerun that “you were really tiny when we became zoo members.” How tiny? This tiny. Rerun was about 4 months old at his first zoo visit. Ane and Tad were pretty little, too. And now… Rerun is a lot bigger. And time keeps marching […]