Landry is 4.5 today! He likes to play made-up games

And long established ones

Here he was cracking his sister up, somehow, by sneezing

Now that both kids are in Level 2 swimming classes they are in side-by-side classes

We drove with a Christmas tree on top of our car this morning!

At ages 4 and 7 the kids are terrific tree trimmers

All done, looking good

Kitty enrichment to the max today!

It has been hours and hours of creative play with yesterday’s Home Depot sleigh and reindeer creations

Spinning dreidels on the first night of Hanukkah

The big guy in red showed up at the kids’ Home Depot build!

Delicious Christmas cookie of the week: peanut butter blossoms

Back on the wall of fame at the new aquarium

Hey, we know that person too!

There’s some kind of bedtime zombie haunting Hazey’s room

A new outlet for Landry’s coin obsession

Describing something new she ate at the Ancient Greece end-of-unit celebration at school

The after school scooter gang, together again

Pausing mid-puddle to wave to a neighbor

That’s Mrs. Hoopes in the background!

Hazel and a pal practically hydroplaning

Hamming it up for the camera

Ruston was our fourth beach in four days (We saw marine mammals at each one: up to five animals at a time!)

Smiling on the stairs with Grandma

Calm waters at Kopachuck on our third beach park in three days

“Look what Landry found!” — there was an enormous crab claw hidden behind his back

The kids called me over to take a picture of their cuddle. Landry described it as “like this letter,” then drew the letter T in the air

Nature Landry

The sun was starting to set on Titlow beach this afternoon

The tide was rising, and the kids enjoyed the narrowing expanse