Speed, Brown and Family Fun– all for you, Little Two

Aidan woke up from his nap in his typical groggy, clingy state, so as a birthday treat Muma took him downstairs to have his gummies and watch his favorite video “My Favorite Pets” in hopes that he’d come upstairs his chipper self ready for partytime! Indeed.  With Grammy and Grampapa, Continue Reading

This little boy is four!

Well, it’s hard to believe how quickly time flies in a year, and never seemingly so fast as from birthday to birthday. Alexander is so entirely such a little boy now, riding his two-wheel birthday bike (still with training-wheels of course), singing a million songs, and such a little helper Continue Reading

Baking, and Frosting, and Sprinkling– oh my!

We’ve had a good baking week this week.  Sunday Alexander and Muma made her favorite Linzer cookies– happy little jam filled stars cookies with cloves, cinnamon, and pecans.  They look like this (though I didn’t take a picture of mine before we ate most of them :0 !) Tuesday, after Continue Reading

Fall in the Forest- a spontaneous “welcome fall” event.

It was a couple of Thursdays ago when Alexander came up to me after several minutes of playing by himself (gasp!) and asked. “Muma- what can we do?” “I don’t know, what would you like to do?” “We should have a party!” We occasionally have little pretend birthday parties for Continue Reading

A Camping We Will Go…

Last weekend we headed over to Pinckney Recreation Area for another family camping adventure.  I don’t know if it was such the relaxing and laid-back weekend as our anniversary getaway sans munchkins, but it’s always fun to watch them in their adventures and wonder at all their new experiences.  We Continue Reading