Terrible

Happy Birthday to Lillian, who just turned two years old. To be honest, it wasn't much of a birthday party. I guess that's what happens when your selfish parents take a trip to Europe during your birthday. Luckily for her parents, you can still get away with such things at this age.


Not knowing the difference, Lily was quite pleased with her princess toys and her cheap, store-bought cupcakes. If only she had known that her parents were so homesick for her that they would have done anything to make her happy. She really could have milked this birthday for all it was worth had she been a teenager.

Happy Birthday Lily! Welcome to the not-so-terrible twos.

Birthday Party

Just a few pics from Eric and Lily's friend McKenna's birthday party.

Chubby Bunnies

Family Home Evening at the Brown home is not a model to be emulated. The best two things that can be said about it are, 1) we faithfully ensure that our children's diets are rich in the ice cream group, and 2) some kind of something-or-other that can loosely be referred to as Family Home Evening happens almost every week

Case in point; this was our activity for Family Home Evening last week:

Bad Karma?

We're not sure what Eric has done to accrue it, but he seems to have had a major dose of bad karma working against him lately. Maybe he's been roasting ants with a microscope when we haven't been looking. Or maybe it was something he did in a past life. Perhaps he was Little Bunny Foo Foo in a past reincarnation, and its time to pay up for the "bopping field mice on their heads" incident.

Whatever the cause, he's had a rough few weeks. All told he's had a total of about 12 days of miserable illness. Then, to add insult to injury, a girl ran into him at the 24 Fitness "Kids Club" and cut a hole in his lip with her teeth. We tried to hold the cut shut with a home-made butterfly bandage (see below), but every time he smiled it would pull open.


When he woke up the next morning, the cut was infected and his lip was huge. Convinced that our medical expertise wasn't cutting it, we took Eric to the doctor, who closed it with a prescription strength adhesive. It seems to have worked well. Our only complaint--it looks like he has a glob of snot permanently plastered to his lip.

Alec put this clip on the family exercise blog that his cousins are doing and I thought it was hilarious! It certainly beats the inappropriate Japanese clip we posted a few weeks ago.