Rapping the freaks

Back during the summer, the fam was out late at a local park. The sun was disappearing. Time to be heading home. Gabby was busy on the swings. She wasn’t hip to leaving. She wanted to stay!
GABBY: Why do we have to go home?
ME: (Thinking fast) Cause the freaks are coming out soon! (Singing) The [...]

You break it, he fix it

I take Big G to the base of his obsession. I have to goad him into describing what he does when the windmill is “broken.” (ie. the times when, for some odd reason, it is not spinning). He came up with this story on his own.

Boomerang Boogie

Gabby spent last week at her third VBS of the summer. The theme here was “Boomerang Express.” The commencement was Friday, which opened with the week’s theme song. As expected, she got really into it.

As for that football purse, Gabby brought it on her own. Her teachers told the class whoever [...]

Too cool for shades

I didn’t think to take too many videos while at the beach (I hear water and cell phones don’t mix). Here’s one of the few, as I try to get Big G to go into Cool G mode at the oceanside pool.

Chick-fil-A Play

Excerpted from the never-to-be-released book, “Free Time with the Kids: How to have fun when time AND money are tight.”
Chick-fil-A has it all, really. A playroom. Bathrooms. No pressure sales atmosphere. Free balloons. And, if you do get hungry, one heck of a vanilla milkshake. (with cherry!)
This is a favorite place to go when the [...]

He let them eat cake

Behold the masterpiece created by my wonderful wife – the long awaited and highly anticipated Spider-man bithday cake! My wife mixed red velvet cake mix with white mix (dyed blue) for a neat red and blue swirl effect. She spent more than two hours on the icing, tracing a design on wax paper. Freezing it. [...]

Soccer ball cake serenade

This was last night after dinner. Big G got a soccer ball brownie cake! And, of course, Gabby had to help with the candles. Not sure if you can make it out, but Gavin is singing, “Happy birthday to me.” The big party – with Spider-Man cake – is tomorrow. (The [...]

Park place

Been spening a lot of time at parks lately. Both Gs love running around aimlessly. This is from last Thursday at the “big” park. We heard frogs around the pond. They thought it was cool.

Face full of butterfly

The Gs and I went to a mountain festival Saturday. It was a fundraiser for the local Montessori School. While there, we found facepainting. And, well, ain’t she cute???

The facepainter was a parent volunteer working her first public event. (She has a still underdevelopment website). Her work of art needed just seven minutes to go [...]

Silly geese

More classroom silliness. Gabby is a natural ring leader.