When the boys have some video game/iPad time, this is how they often end up--on the couch, all touching each other.

The boys have been taking swim lessons on Tuesday evenings and we often stop for ice cream at Gannon's on the way home. We are forced to drive past not one but TWO ice cream stores on the 5 minute drive home, so it's hard not to stop.

Beckett and Reed came with me a few weeks ago to a community meeting about nonpartisan redistricting. Shockingly, the gerrymandered demonstration map and scintillating conversation about electoral map redrawing did not hold their attention, so they took the car keys and went out to the van, where I found them reading books together in the front seat.

In October there were two weekends when Daddy and I were invited to weddings so Grandma Joanie and Grandpa Stu have been holding down the fort. Theo and Grandma Joanie have been having a great time playing the piano together.