It has been a long week of birthdays (rivaled only by the huge birthday surge called April). Shaynee’s was the 14th, and it was a very quiet 40th.

Taking advantage of daddy’s last day of vacation (staycation), and with Nikola at school, Alton had a nice day out and about in Seattle with mommy and daddy. After dropping his sister off at school (which was apparently a bit tearful), we drove to Benaroya Hall for the Seattle Symphony’s Tiny Tots concert series. Afterwards, …

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They say that to make a “staycation” worthwhile, you should visit things in your city that you don’t normal see. For the Chunder household, that means food. With Nikola at school and Alton attending guinea pig school on Wednesdays, we took the opportunity to check out one of the food trucks we’ve only had the …

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Tonight was “math night” at West Woodland School. What a neat concept. The kids and families can go to various stations in the cafeteria to play math-related games and puzzles or read math-related books. Nikola enjoyed the counting and estimating games, although I don’t think she is going to win a free car anytime soon.

After a long and gloomy winter, summer is finally here! (We kind of skipped spring altogether). We did have a few days of pretty unbearably hot muggy days, with temps in the 90-100 range. Enough that we bought a portable room A/C unit. There aren’t enough hot days to justify getting central A/C or even …

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S called me today to let me know, “Your son is such a boy.”When I asked why, she explained. Alton was looking through a picture dictionary and was gleefully identifying every single vehicle appropriately. The next page was farm animals.“What’s this?” she asked, pointing to a cow.“Amimal.”“Okay, what’s this?” now pointing to a horse.“Amimal.”“And this?” …

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Alton: master builder.

Apparently, Alton has taught himself to gargle.

For all his two-year-old craziness and emotional lability, Alton still manages to be very endearing. S was putting some things away upstairs and she noticed him hopping up and down happily. “Are you dancing?” she asked. “I’m dancing!” he exclaimed. “Are you having a party?” “Yes! A dancing party!” “Who is at the party?” “Just …

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