Halloween means that our house gets flooded with a ton of candy. We’ve been trying to avoid making candy a central fixation for the kids, so 2 years ago Jen came up with the brilliant plan of introducing the Halloween Witch. When the kids come home with their loot after trick-or-treating, we put [...]
As I mentioned a while back, I’m starting the long slow process of publishing the last year’s worth of photos. It’s a long process partly because I don’t make much time for it, but also partly because Jen and I have to put our heads together and try to remember why we took some [...]
Ally: “Cole, do you want to die?”
Cole: “No”
Ally: “Good. Eat your food and sleep and that makes you grow and turn into mommies and daddies”
10 days later, Cole’s birthday is still going strong. In our house, we have a rule where we open one present a day. This caused Cole no small amount of grief on the day of his birthday party when tons of kids and adults trooped in and deposited a gigantic pile of party [...]