Christmas kids

Present Jenga

Favorite presents

Evolution of Christmas morning

Enormous piles of presents

Taking the ice for the first time

We had a blast!

John's first model car

Learning from the master

Christmas morning at our house

Before and after

Dreidel time

Ms Fran would be so proud!

Helpful elves

They address cards, too.

Christmas cookies!

Those elves are paying off.

Almost nice pictures of our family

Selfiestick highlights

Another Friday night

At the library

Nerd kids

Christmas elves and their da

Preps are underway.

Christmas elves

Helpful elves

It is snowing in the kitchen, which is odd.

Artist at work

His favorite media are cardboard and gingerbread.

Baa, by Miss Julia

It's a page turner.

Time for new shoes

I guess.

Another Friday night

At our home away from home, the YMCA.

Basketball camp!

We once again upped our basketball skills at North Central's Hoop Troop camp. 

Illinois Academy of Family Physicians annual meeting

A confluence of events led us to spend 7 hours at work with our Mom this weekend.

We loved it. It was mostly uninterrupted screen time, with a little admonishment to Stop Smoking in the interim.

Julia, pragmatist

NaNoWriMo

Is underway!

Animal handlers

A in a box

Where cat people come from

Go Flyers

Baseball

This seems like a good time to revisit this prescient moment in our lives.

Happy Halloween

From the ghost, the princess, and Batman

YMCA Halloween

We had a great time at YMCA Halloween. The haunted pool experience started out awesome, with this trip through the men's showers,

and ended up even better, when we were evacuated out the emergency doors thanks to a fire alarm.

Firefighters!