Exciting news! M's bottom tooth, which was loose, has come out! It happened a few minutes before I got home from work. Imogene was drying off M, and the towel must have caught on her tooth, because a second later,…

We had a very busy weekend with lots of activities for M&A. Ballet Saturday morning -w hich ran 15 minutes over and was supposedly "not too hard" this week. Kennedy Center Multicultural Festival after ballet – which was just OK.…

Today I picked the girls up at school and told them that I had a number of surprises. They were: balloons within balloons from Trader Joe's new library books, including Tabitha's Terrifically Tough Tooth in honor of M's wiggly tooth…

We are nearing the end of a long week, which only felt like a long week, but was in fact a four-day week of which we are at day three. The girls are enjoying having, and doing, homework. Daddy asked…

Tonight I came home from work to find the girls deep in their homework assignments for the night: some shape sequencing games, connecting capital to lower case letters, and putting some images in order that show a girl planting and…

We've had a fun Labor Day weekend since the aborted sleepover on Saturday night. Yesterday, we hung out at home in the morning and I went for a longish run, and then we headed out to the Bethesda pool. It…

I was so tired last night that I fell asleep without posting. I tried, but I fell asleep. So now it's Saturday at lunchtime. We are back from ballet. The girls said it was a good class and that they…

Last night was Back to School Night. We really enjoyed getting to know the school a little better and hearing more about how the girls spend their day, what they will learn this year, what the classroom is like, etc.…