Those of you who follow me on twitter may have noticed that the family took a trip across the country, and I posted about once a day about the trip. We drove about 4250 miles over about 16 days. Went from California to Iowa, spending nights in Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska on the way. Then, went to Minnesota, did a festival in Decorah, IA. ( Read more... )

A while back, I posted something about how Corwin would say to me "I don't love you, Daddy". Well, by now he's mostly grown out of that sort of emotional blackmail. Now, it's Kjersti's turn.

She's telling me, usually in a shout "Daddy, I don't like or love you!". Somehow, I find this easier to deal with than when Corwin did the same thing - and ( Read more... )

Finally! We managed to get her on video, singing the "Baby Coffee Bean" song.

Here is the family, showing off a couple of Christmas items.

The wooden track is from drarwenchicken. The marbles I got for Corwin. The camera is a present from me to the family.

We've been having a lazy week, staying in pajamas all day.

Sung to the tune of Frère Jacques

Belladonna, Belladonna,

Fur of black! Fur of black!

Though you sleep all day, though you sleep all day,

I love you. I love you.

Sung to the tune of "Brining Home A Baby Bumblebee"

I'm picking out a baby coffee bean ( Read more... )

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• Stash some sunscreen somewhere in the nice convertible. Days when you want to go tooling around with the top down, you are going to get a lot more sun on your face than days with the top up.
• Also, find some dang do rags to keep your hair back, and keep them stashed in the convertible.

And a related item - three year old girls can and will fall ( Read more... )

My little girl does any number of things which boggles my mind. One of them is that she will adopt as a pet (for a day) a coffee bean ( Read more... )