This week, we’ve been lighting the menorah (or hannukiah, if you prefer) in celebration of the Jewish holiday Chanukah. Doing so has been an inconsistent family tradition, hinging primarily on whether dad remembers to buy candles. A friend of mine …
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Nature invades (yes, again?!): Follow the white rabbit
In what seems to be a trend, another creature has found its way into our lives (nay, our hearts). This time, it’s an adorable white bunny…hopping around our backyard!
It all started when R & Z came running up to me …
Cutie learns to use the phone
Naturally, with four girls (plus Mommy), learning to communicate happens early on in our house. So Cutie is almost overdue for figuring out to use the phone. Watch as she mimics her family…almost.
Grover…on a cow?!
This Sesame Street take on the “Old Spice guy” is absolutely perfect. I love the spoof and perfect blend of hilarity and learning content.
Cutie walks!
After months of teasing us with cruising along furniture, frequent bear-crawling, and occasionally standing up on her own, Cutie finally started walking unassisted in the last couple of days! Once she gets a bit more confident, we can hopefully have …
Nature invades our home: our sneaky skink!
Following on the heels of our butterfly adventure comes another chapter in nature invading our home! Coming into our basement last week, I was startled to see a large black lizard sitting on the floor. Find out what happened in our attempts to capture our little visitor! Read more…
Nature invades our home: beautiful butterflies!
For the first time, our family raised Monarch butterflies to the enjoyment of everyone. Read about our adventure, see some wonderful photos we took of the process, and watch as “Amber” stretches her wings in a video. Read more…
Don’t Do Drugs…and Drive (German PSA video)
Never mind that this is in German, there’s enough understandable words that you’ll hopefully be chuckling as much as I was by the end…
The Dad Life! [video]
Thanks to my buddy Josh (a fellow dad) for sending along a link to this hilarious video. I relate to it on so many levels…
Cutie smiles for the camera [video]
One of the funnest (yes, I said funnest) things about raising kids is the hilarious stuff they do – unintentionally. “Cutie” (as I’ll call our littlest one) has somehow picked up on the social norm to smile whenever a camera …