Benjamin has been holding our hands to walk for several months. During the past week, he’s been practicing standing up without holding on. Yesterday he linked up the two skills; he could suddenly…

Benjamin had become a shaggy dog, and there was no way I was letting Dave trim his curly hair. We had to cancel our first try at a haircut because he had hand,…

When we got back from Missouri, we went to work for a couple of days. My parents arrived at our house on Thursday evening (they’d spent the first part of the week touring…