May the 4th was not only Star Wars Day, but it's also Naked Gardening Day. It's the day gardeners are encouraged to tend their gardens naked, just like nature intended ..read more

Avery and Emil pretend to be Luke and Leia making their daring escape from the evil Empire ..read more

Today is Star Wars Day, and in my imaginary, alternate universe Luke and Leia were not separated at birth, but grew up together.... ...and one of their favourite things to do was to play with all their Empire action figures... ...and Luke would always defeat all the bad guys ..read more

Another set of butterfly fairy photos featuring little Emily ..read more

The kids were having too much difficulty trying to put on a puppet show behind the sofa, so they made themselves a little 'theatre' by draping a curtain over a broom positioned across two chairs. But everyone wanted to be part of the 'show' so it was still not very organized... But they were all having a lot of fun... ...and that's all that really mattered ..read more

I wasn't sure I liked the new wig I'd given Emily. I had been afraid that her pigtails would hide too much of her wings, but in the end I switched her back to her own original wig, then I followed her around as she explored my garden ..read more

It was another rainy spring day and Byuri had invited a group of friends to come over to play with her puppets... Her brother Aaron couldn't resist joining them... Aaron invited his friend Peach to come join them ..read more

Bianca and Rex had been hoping for another child for a while now, and since I already had the new little Coffee Fenlinger, I thought I wouldn't make them wait, and I'd let Bianca off easy and not have her go through a pregnancy and months of sleep loss with a newborn, and go straight to the toddler stage right away.  Both she and Rex were totally smitten, and they named her Lizbet ..read more

Now that Avery and Emily had wings of their own, they could flit about with their little dragon friends ..read more

April 27 is 'Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work' Day.  So Owen, who was the construction company CEO on a large new housing development...  ....had arranged for Lonnie and Milo to accompany him on site and do some hands-on work.  Milo was excited to be doing some real construction work... "Today you'll be helping with framing and maybe even help nail up some drywall."  "A construction site can be a dangerous place, so don't wander off." "So let's get started ..read more