Posted in holidays on December 12, 2007 | 9 Comments »
With apologies to the lovely person who first wrote the American spiritual “This Train is Bound for Glory,” we present our afternoon project today…
…the beginnings of the coal tender…
…filling the coal tender…
…the finished train with its chocolate chip “coal” and stockpile of extra “coal”…
…we left poor Kieran with only a tube of wrapping paper [...]
Posted in cute conversations, holidays on November 22, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Liam: “Mommy, why do we not have school tomorrow?”
Me: “Tomorrow is a big holiday. It’s called Thanksgiving.”
Liam: “What is Thanksgiving?”
Me: “Well, it’s a day where we have a big family dinner and think about all the things we’re thankful for.”
Liam: “What is ‘thankful’?”
Me: “‘Thankful’ means being happy about all the people and things in our [...]
Posted in holidays, pictures on November 1, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Happy Halloween from SuperLemur!
(PS - Note the long, ringed tail. He’s very proud of it!)
Posted in Kieran, Liam, everyday stuff, holidays, pictures, school on October 7, 2007 | 11 Comments »
In six months we’ve gone from a little boy and his newborn baby brother to a full-fledged pre-schooler who has a little brother almost half his size:
Don’t they just look like they’re up to something?
Liam dyed this silk at his school’s Michaelmas festival. He brought it home and promptly used it to transform himself into [...]
Posted in Kieran, Liam, cute conversations, holidays, imagination, milestones, pictures on June 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Kieran is now twelve weeks old. He’ll be three months old next Saturday. It always amazes me how pregnancy seems to take forever and a week, but then things speed up to the point where if I blink I’ll miss a bunch of stuff. I did manage to get some pictures in the last couple [...]
Posted in holidays, pictures on June 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Posted in holidays, weather on February 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Normally Valentine’s Day is not something we really do anything about in terms of celebration here at the Menagerie House, but we had a confluence of circumstances that led to at least a nod towards the day this year. You see, Schnorpfest ‘07 is entering it’s third and hopefully final week, and has expanded [...]
