Driveway Games

In an ongoing effort to keep the kids (and, frankly, Yen) occupied, they created a live-action video game on the driveway. The rules? Stay in the circles and keep moving!…

Exercise

It’s important to keep fit. That’s why Mina is making sure we all know proper burpee technique.

October 13 – November 22, 2020

I think we’ve all heard reports of unusual wildlife sightings during these locked-down months. I’m skeptical that it’s because the animals are roaming more, and thinking it’s really that people…

Milestone

Linus has announced that we may no longer call him Nana. Moment of silence, please, while I wipe away a tear.

Chopstickery

One of the baberies got stuck and the kids used chopsticks to extract her. Then they showed off their superior chopstick skills by pretending to eat her!

Dentist

Have you ever seen someone looking so cool at the dentist?

Walking Wounded

Poor Nana! Last Saturday he closed the sliding glass door a little too fast in just the wrong place and sliced open his little foot. We tried to manage with…

Riding Lesson

I signed Mina up for a riding lesson today. It turned out to be more like an “animal experience” lesson. She got to meet a wallaby, Vietnamese pigs, an emu,…

A Halloween Poem

Linus has been having Writers Workshop at school, in which they learn about stories. He’s gotten very interested in stories and today he decided to write a story – all…

August 18 – October 12, 2020

What a strange thing it is to look back on these photos and see how much has passed. Linus hadn’t started school. There were leaves on the trees. Mina was…

Bartleby’s Grand Day Out

I completely forgot about this set of photos – which is ironic because we took them to surprise Yen. The kids and I were alone one sunny weekend afternoon and…

Family Photo Shoot

At some point every year, Yen moans about how few family portraits we have. We decided we should try working out something with our lovely fall garden. It turned out…

Halloween for Manatees

The seacows are trick-or-treating. Roundnose is a ghost, Bartleby is a skeleton, and Paddlehead is a zombie. They crawl up to Mina’s bed and she says, “What wonderful costumes!” before…

Halloween Songs

The kids made Halloween videos. The first is a classic. The second is a Linus Tran original.