What’s wrong with this picture?

If you guessed that it looks like a monkey with some school scissors got busy, you’d be right.
He said he had to cut it twice because he didn’t get enough hair the first time.
I asked him what he did with the hair and he said, “I just dropped it.”
I’m still looking for it.
Apparently he was [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words…

Then you’re going to have to be content with a thousand words.
‘Cause I got no pictures.
What a week.
I blame the baby. She started off the week sick and decided to cry off and on during the night a few times, sleep in our bed a few times, kick people in the face a few times [...]

What you can’t see won’t hurt you.

Mr. French went out to the car last week and made a little discovery.
He had his suspicions.
Just to make sure it wasn’t the boys, he brought them out for a consultation.
He asked them if they had or knew who had torn this tissue into little itsy bitsy pieces.

C looked at it thoughtfully and said, “No, [...]

I’m on a roll.

The boys have started drinking hot tea with milk. Or as Mr. French likes to say, “Milk with a little tea.”
He doesn’t really approve, even though he claims to be an anglophile.
The other night, one of the boys had a cup of tea and since we were with some friends, one of whom is a [...]

It may not be obvious, but the blue still outnumbers the pink around here.

I’ve been feeling guilty about all the Miss F posts lately. I do have three other kids, afterall.
Who all happen to be BOYS!
So, what have they been up to lately? Well…
1) They’ve been making and dressing up in the fiercest battle gear of any knights around.

They’d probably look doubly dangerous if they could shake that [...]

And now you know his real name.

Not sure why he decided to write it on his leg, but it might come in handy if they are ever separated.

(If you’re taking my picture, does that mean I’m not really in trouble?)

The moments of our lives

There are those moments in your life when you actually realize, at the time they are happening, that your life is changing forever.
That, from this day onward, things will be different.
For the better, you hope.
Graduating from school, getting married, having a baby.
In those moments, you’re usually astute enough to take a picture.
This was one of [...]

Fishing is for the birds.

(My best blog post titles are never acknowledged.)
(Just thought I’d point that out.)
(And now you’re beginning to think that this post is about “fishing” for compliments.)
(But then you’d be wrong.)
(Sort of.)

My Dad invited all his children to come for the weekend so that all the guys (his son and sons-in-law) could go fishing on Lake [...]

Orange you glad it’s not your birthday cake?

If you can’t guess, J’s favorite animal is a monkey.
His favorite color is orange.
When it’s not yellow and green, that is.

He wanted a monkey cake, but he does not like chocolate so we decided an orange monkey would be perfect.

I think he was okay with it. In his reserved sort of way.

Blowing out five [...]

Growing up is hard to do.

The other day I got out the rest of our summer clothes to sort through. I had the boys try on shorts and t-shirts to see what fit whom. C found a pair of shorts and a shirt that he remembered from several summers back. Size 4T. (He’s a size 6-7, 8.)
He told me it [...]