The BoneBlog

"I think Michelangelo was kind of a jerk."

It's about teaching responsibility. Laurel lost (another) library book. Greg and I decided she should pay for the lost book and include a donation equal to the cost of the lost book which would go toward the purchase of another. She agreed, and I sent her to her room to write a letter to the librarians...

Penitence. →

Our son makes a lot of noise. Sometimes that noise tends to fade to the background because he just makes so much of it. A few days ago I was going about my business ignoring that background noise even while it became increasingly fervent. It's been my experience that Ethan becomes very passionate about...

Distress! →

Images on old blog posts should be back.  Not perfect yet as the thumbnails are just shrunk rather than resized, but at least there are images..  Wanna see how?  Not the prettiest thing in the world, but it's my first Graffiti Plug-in from scratch.

We have images... →

Ethan received a bit of a belated Christmas gift Friday evening in the form of a Tonka dump truck. By Saturday afternoon he had put it to good use. (please excuse the Taco soup in the general vicinity of his mouth) Please observe the Hot Wheels cars in the bed of the smaller truck as well....

What to do when you get a bigger dump truck... →

Yes, I have neglected this blog. Yes, I know. I've been very busy with work and school and home, but I'll soon no longer have work to worry about -- at least not the 9-5 kind, or the 8:45-4:15 kind, which is what I'm leaving. After much deliberation and agonizing, I have chosen to leave work and come...

Neglect and Television. →

Should have posted this a while back but life has been busy. We were able to spend some time with my friends from college, Brian and Erin, over the holidays. They were on a whirlwind tour visiting Brian's family here in St. Louis, Erin's in Columbia, etc. but were able to hang out with us at our place...

Fun with the BBC, and Erin too →

Moving the blog to a new platform, as you can see things look different. The look will likely be changing more as we play around with things and get it the way we like it. You will also notice old images (except for the one I played with) are broken for the moment. The import didn't quite as well as...

Changes... →

Today it was 65 degrees. Greg and I, in a moment of intense bravery or intense insanity, made a spontaneous decision to take the kids on a spur-of-the-moment bike ride. I'm not sure how spur-of-the-moment one can be when one must put air into every single bicycle tire, then try to finagle the kids' bikes...

Hallelujah, Hip Hop Hooray. →

Thought we would have fun.
Time with nuclear fam'ly.
Dog made other plans.

Vinnie fouled the rugs.
Big day of carpet cleaning--
Great spectator sport.

We are triumphant.
That jackass is in his crate.
Maybe forever. 

Ethan has been able to do this for a couple of months now, but this is the first time we've caught him in the act:...

Ever-Increasing Abilities. →

Last Sunday we took the kids to the Missouri Botanical Gardens for the annual model train show. We took them because Ethan is infatuated with anything with an engine, and it's too dadgum cold to take him to the Museum of Transportation . We paid $25 for admission and were sorely disappointed to find...

Winter Gardens. →

More about our festivities later. We keep this blog as a chronicle of the small stuff -- those things you always wish you'd written down somewhere so you'll remember them someday. It includes things our kids do and say, trips we take, people we encounter, and situations that serve to brighten...

Happy New Year! →