"I feel taller than last night."

Happy birthday, Emma. We love you.

Master and apprentice

For his fans

I am thankful for...

...indoor plumbing, when it works.

Brain freeze

Ethan and I are at DQ celebrating spell bowl.

He won't hold still for the camera

Those cheeks.

He likes to raise his eyebrows when he tells us a story

Overheard

SOPHIE: When they made the world they should have put more lights all around us.

(Last night she fell on some dark stairs outside and skinned her knee.)

Overheard

SOPHIE: You can't put pennies in the toaster. They'll get lost.

Andrew's team made it to the finals

They're losing to some high school kids though.

We're at Andrew's robotics smackdown

The kids made some amazing robots that pick up plastic rings and deposit them onto a horizontal pipe.

Overheard

ETHAN (coming into my office an hour after we put the kids to bed): Dad, can you print off a picture of Miss Piggy? I need to prove to Andrew that she has snake eyes.

It reminded me of this. He must have had some crazy bad dreams about muppets when he was little.

Overheard

SOPHIE: Is tomorrow Christmas?!!
ME: No.
SOPHIE: But then why is it supposed to snow?