I volunteered to run a photo booth for a media holiday party recently and tried shooting ‘twitter mugshots’ of journalists. Here’s mine, a selfie!

Here’s a Lego kit you can’t find in stores. Arthur, who just turned 8, is seen here putting together the present Lewis made for him, complete with detailed instructions. There is no patent on this design yet, feel free to copy and make your own.

The other day Jessica and I had a date night and apparently Bailey had a hard time getting to bed with the baby sitter. Art had her sleep in his bed until we got home. Such a lovely sight to come home to

and speaking of date nights, this is a fun photo of Jessica from an event at the art museum we went to the other day.

Usually my family rushes to the table for dinner and flurry, but tonight i was magically able to seize an opportunity for calm and everyone waited for all others to have food and then they even indulged me by taking a moment to think of something they were thankful for.  Lewis is thankful for Charlie and Oscar, his friends, because they can play with him when Ben can not.  Art is thankful for tics and that they aren’t that bad lately, and he is thankful that he has a family and that he is alive.  He is thankful that he is ALIVE!  Bailey and Netta both piped up that they were thankful for Charlotte.  So, there you have it.  I guess we need to get those kids together way more often!

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Jessica

Ben here, updating this nice little post with the funny wrestling scene I came home to today.

These are my new shelves that I’m super proud of. Thank you for the idea, Cynthia! A wall of shelves to hold kids’ books, grown up books, baskets for toys, etc. I selected the lumber, stained it, poly’d them and they came out exactly the way I wanted! I could stare at them all day. (Ben notes I have been staring at them all day!).