AKA “the blog” – this is a hodge-podge mixup of everything else I feel like posting.
“What’s for breakfast, Mom?”
“Banana Milk!”
In unison: “Doot dooo de doo do!”
Because that’s how we roll 
They love this recipe, and it’s breakfast, fast, so I thought I’d share: if you ever have bananas that are just past the point of an enjoyable snack, just throw them in a blender with some milk — we do one banana per 8oz of milk for a 12oz serving. Add a few drops of vanilla extract if you’d like 
She says she still has to color it, but just the fact that my seven-year-old daughter made her own tron poster is pretty rad, IMHO
She apparently drew this in her free time at school
So you probably don’t remember my little post about chatting with Mary. Today I had the opportunity to chat with my less talkative child, via Gmail, in Spanish. Go figure. He’d just discovered gmail chat, and this is what I got.
E: ;-p como estas?
V: Bien, gracias!
… short pause …
E: [y tu]
E: fantastico gracias
V: oh! Y tu?
E: lol
The best part is that I really get to hear him LOL in the next room.
Remember the good old days when animated images were RAD? (more…)
I don’t know when I started using this phrase with my kids as a way to hurry them out of bed in the morning. Incidentally, it’s lost its magic. This morning Mary responded, “So what is a pop up anyway?”
I guess I’d always pictured gophers when I said that, but I laughed and told them about the pop up windows we had to endure back in the day. “But most modern browsers take care of them for you, so you guys probably don’t know what I’m talking about.” My oldest isn’t nine yet and I’m sure pop-up blockers have been around at least that long!
“Oh, I’ve dealt with pop ups before,” Mary sighed. “Especially if I can’t get Firefox out of Safemode and I have to use Internet Explorer. It’s so annoying when I’ve got ten windows to close”
Ethan nodded. “Internet Explorer IS a pop up.”
To do when they’re home again: Check for malware & install Chrome. :-p