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Tuesday was the first day of school in Union County.  Eric started 6th grade at the (brand new) Cuthbertson Middle School, and Jake and Alex are now in 1st and 4th grades at Kensington Elementary.  For some reason, I was a lot happier about it than they were. Eric is really smart, I have no [...]

My kids never had a chance to be eyeglass-free.  I have glasses, Jennifer has glasses, my parents both have glasses and Jennifer’s parents both have glasses.  I’m actually pretty surprised that we’ve gotten this far without needing them yet. Alex got to get them first, and I’m sure he wont be the last. The glasses [...]

Yesterday my little sister got married up at my parent’s house at the lake.  It was nice to see everyone, and I got to take some pictures of the wedding for them.  She married a very nice guy, and I’m sure they’ll be really happy. Here’s everyone on the Loytty side of the family while [...]

The boys were getting kind of shaggy, so it was HAIRCUT DAY.  For some reason, Eric and Alex feel the same way about haircuts as they do about other aspects of hygiene:  they are against it.  Luckily, I have the iron hand, so they got haircuts with a minimum of grumbling.    Before After   [...]

I have no idea how things go by so quickly.  It seems as if Eric just turned TEN, and here is is turning eleven: As you can see, he needs a haircut and a bath.  Yesterday we went to see the movie GI Joe, which was perfect for eleven year olds.  I ate some Milk [...]

A lot of time, I’ll fall asleep, and when I wake up, discover someone has climbed into bed with me.  Sometimes it’s Izzy, other times it’s Jake.  Jakes problem is that he brings legos with him, and it’s not very comfortable to wake up with a hard piece of plastic digging into your side. One [...]

My hair was getting too long, so I needed it cut.  Since Jennifer was gone, and I didn’t really want to go to the barbershop with all 4 of them, I just did it at home. The bad thing about radical haircuts is that when you get halfway into them and decide its not such [...]

Jennifer was in San Francisco this weekend on a combination business/birthday trip, so we were left to our own devices again.  Usually, summer is easy for kid activities because I can take them to the pool and wear them right out.  Unfortunately, this weekend we had a lot of rain, so we had to stay [...]