Revelry Reverie

“I don’t want the yogurt to go down to my feet. There’s bones in the way.”

Surely nothing can be such an exercise in futility. But wow am I glad for the opportunity to exercise that.

My dad just finished this elaborate step-stool for the kids. You can see more about “learning towers” at this Google search. The idea is that now that they are intensely curious about what’s going on at counter height, and desperately want to crack the eggs for the pancakes and mix the batter and look at…

After a long and stressful day, nothing soothes like order.

After Midway, Eleanor fell asleep in the car almost immediately. Henry stayed up to play with his rocketship. He’ll be too big one day for this sort of thing, so I couldn’t resist letting him stay up. I actually fell asleep before he did, and woke up awhile later with him snuggled next to me,…