Hold Your Head High

My little big man is getting pretty strong. It takes otherworldly neck muscles to support a Vogelsberg melon even for just a few seconds ...

Do-It-Yourself Pool Time

When life gives you a water table, make a swimming pool ...

Being a Big Sister ...

Lola likes to help with Baby Finn, including showing him the ropes on how to correctly use the playmat that she used to spend hours on ...

Worst. Game. Of. Hide. And. Seek. Ever.

If this closet's a-gruntin', don't come a-huntin'.

Lola has taken a shine to playing hide and seek just before bed. This usually entails her telling me, “Daddy, I’m gonna hide in the closet, try to find me.” So I count to 10, feign searching all over her room and eventually zero in on the incessant giggling coming from the closet in her room.

The other night, this game took a rather disturbing turn.

Immediately upon entering her room, Lola blurts “I’mgonnahideincloset!!!” and races into the closet. Amidst a background of grunting, she peeks out, closes the closet door and in a muffled tone, informs me, “I’m pooping!”

Moments later, Lola emerges, red-faced and sweating, marches over to her bookshelf, wordlessly selects a book, and heads back into the closet, closing the door behind her.

I am left to glean from the need for reading material that Ube is, well, not done. And as if announcing to me where she is hiding, then highlighting that spot with outright laughter doesn't make the task of finding her easy enough, she has now added smells to make my job of tracking her down even easier. To make matters worse, when she finally emerges, she is wearing pink fairy high heels and a tail.

I will never look at her closet the same way again.

Finn's First Trip to the Park

Well, technically he slept through the trip, but someday these pictures will be proof to him that it happened, and we didn't just stand on the back porch for a while and tell him it was the park.

My two beautiful girls.

The park? No, it's awesome, seriously. I loved it.

Notice that Finn has woken up at this point.

Nothing gets Lola fired up like some good ol'-fashioned illegal duck feeding.