Category Archives: Grey

The Life Cycle of A Sand Castle, in Eleven Pictures

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

Yesterday, Declan and I built one of our favorite sand castles, which we call the Tidal Pool Dribble Castle Sand Boat. The TPDCSB has many advantages, including immediate tidal pool ocean water interaction, dribbling opportunities, and comfortable seats in a … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Moment #17: Cloudy with a chance of tickle tornadoes

Posted on January 17, 2010 by

Spent a chunk of the morning bouncing around on the bed and tickling Declan and Grey. So lovely. Tickling is absolutely fascinating as a phenomenon — one of those human behaviors that is so natural and instinctive that we rarely … Continue reading →

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Overlooking Transgressions, Santa Delivers Bat Cave

Posted on December 29, 2009 by

Santa proved magnanimous this Christmas — he ignored a long list of transgressions by Declan and Grey in the last several weeks and delivered a small mountain of toys, including the much anticipated Bat-Cave-with-working-drawbridge-and-retractable-crane. Though Alisa and I succeeded in … Continue reading →

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Water Birth

Posted on December 12, 2009 by

Grey, in his 22-month-old wisdom, has decided that the bath is the perfect place to go number two. He did it a few days ago when Alisa was bathing him, and this morning he did it yet again, this time … Continue reading →

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The Original Workout

Posted on December 6, 2009 by

“Let’s jump on the bed” was, as a child, an un-turn-down-able invitation. My brother and I LOVED jumping on beds — as we got older our favorite version was slaloming back and forth between two twin beds in my grandmother’s … Continue reading →

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