Yeah, hanging around with their friends’ younger siblings and cousins has given Arwyn some very bad ideas (which I’ve already guaranteed will never come to fruition 😛 ). I think that she just really likes the idea of being the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How they lay things out is that they’ve got a spot for each grade’s teachers to hangout and meet students, but before the students can get to their current teachers, most of them stop and say hi to every single[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The kids had a great time, as did the adults! We had a fire, roasted hotdogs (and made inappropriate jokes about doing so while the kids were off playing), had s’mores, and chilled out. The kids, on the other hand,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Their son, as it happens, is the same age as Arwyn, but they were both so young that they don’t really have any memories of each other’s family. Their daughter is just a year older than Kia and they had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, Kia remains the queen of the non-sequitor. That aside, the girls did have a wonderful weekend and we happen to really enjoy hanging out with the two birthday-boys’ parents, so we had a great time, too. The movie “If”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They met the boy while they were playing with an exhibit that had a fan blowing up a big, three-foot diameter tube and some very thin fabric sheets that they could effectively launch out of the tube, then play catch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of course, being Michigan, the temps took a nose-dive right before Halloween, so we were out walking in the cold and snow, but the girls kept warm simply by running up driveways. We had to keep telling them to slow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They reconnected with some kids that they’d met before, met plenty of new kids, and had themselves a lot of fun, but the giant bounce pillow was definitely the highlight for them. They had what Kia refered to as their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The girls were less surprised than the boys, but that was just because they kept asking about it and we kept evading the answer (as we won’t outright lie to them). They were all pretty excited about it, and they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Marcus is a long-time friend of mine, but we just finally got our girls together recently, which lead to instant bonding and frequent requests to know when they can see each other again. CCCC (C4? Kaboom?) was a great opportunity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…