Well… maybe. Our first dance class… didn’t go so well. She is going through a phase where she wants “to go home” from activities she would normally love.  We are going to keep it up and hope it gets easier once things are more familiar. Things got much better when cousins arrived, though. Alex is […]

Jo’s (and mine!) favorite show to watch right now is PBS’s Peg + Cat. Peg and her cat solve all kinds of problems using math! There are lots of great games on the PBS website associated with the show. Her favorite one is called Peg’s Pizza Parlor. Characters from the show tell how many of […]

We started today with a trip to the Austin Zoo for a milk donor appreciation event put on by the Mother’s Milk Bank of Austin.   I thought seeing mama and baby peacock at this event was appropriate. 🙂     We wore him out!   I love this little girl!!!!!!!!   My boys 🙂 […]

Right now Jo wants to read this book every night.    Daddy is Mr. Cowlander “That’s me and brother Jack… and ‘Pernicus.” 🙂

                        Jo’s first trip to the theatre!

So many ruby red slippers…

Our first date was cooking food we got at Central Market’s annual Hatch Chili Festival and almost burning down my apartment off Bee Cave. Today, 7 years later, we took our 2 kids, all shared hatch chili gelato, and played on the playground. 🙂

Yesterday Jo and I sat down on the couch with a couple of library books to read, first one she picked was Perfect Square by Michael Hall. I read the title and the author, and Jo said ‘same as the cat book.’ I had no idea what she was talking about, so I looked up […]