Recently Ali and I have switched positions with regards to the kids’ bedtime routines. Ali just wasn’t having much luck with getting Lowe to bed, so I took over, was mean for a night or two, and now we have an amazing little-boy sleeper to go along with our amazing … Read More

Ouest likes to get up on the stage at the resort to put on a hoja dance. That’s a dance in which she tears up leaves from nearby plants and throws them in the air while she spins around. If there was a crowd there would be stunned silence.

Late last night Ouest cried out in her sleep, “Me no like that! Me no like that!” I wanted to jump into her head and kill whoever was hurting her in her dream—but then I remembered she is two and was probably just talking to me about the mashed potatoes … Read More

Someday Lowe is going to realize that I didn’t keep up with these videos very well once he came along and it will start a whole second-child syndrome visit to the shrink.

The marina is slowly becoming more lively. Most of the cruisers who left their boats here for the summer are back now. I watch these older childless couples with a little bit of envy as they scrub their boats with toothbrushes, polish stainless, and all the rest of the little … Read More

Late afternoon at the beach.

Lowe took a dip in the marina today. He was playing down on the dock when he suddenly decided it would be funny to throw a bucket in the water. Then throw it in again. And again. It was funny right up until the last time when I picked the … Read More

At the moment Lowe is obsessed with strollers. He wakes up in the morning, walks out of his bedroom door, climbs the steps into the cockpit, walks around to the gate, and proceeds to throw a fit until he is pushing Ouest’s pink doll stroller along the dock. One of … Read More

We don’t spend time on the computers around the kids if we can help it, but lately I’ve been going off to “work” for an hour or two a day. So Ouest woke up this morning and heard Lowe in the other room playing with this little plastic laptop toy. … Read More

One of our Bum friends grew tired of hearing about me doing all my engine maintenance with a flashlight in my mouth, and so took it upon himself to correct the situation. Ouest and I played explorer for at least an hour today, going into her darkened room to “discover” … Read More