Overheard last night: Stacie: “Sennet, how would you like to take a bath?” Sennet: “No.” Stacie: “Let me put it another way, go take a bath.” Sennet: “Let me put it another way. No.”   [FYI: a bath was taken]

Sennet is in carpentry this year, as one of his after-school activities. Originally he said he wanted to do it, so Stacie signed him up, and then when it was about to begin, he began whining about it and saying he didn’t want to do it. He even told Olive (classmate) that “his mom is making […]

We went to the Medgar Evers pool today, and true to form, Sennet spent most of the time working on his cannonball off the diving board in the deep end. A lot of the other time was split between just swimming and relaxing in the sauna. (He loves the sauna!)  

The other evening Sennet asked what was for dinner? Stacie told him potato soup, and he sighed and said he didn’t like that. We both told him that he did like it, and he ate it all last time. He asked if it had carrots in it, and we told him no. He said, “Good, […]

Deep Breath.  This is not just a cupcake.  This is the first cupcake that Sennet went to buy by himself.  He has been asking to do lots of things on his own.  Ride his bike around the park.  Run the route solo he walks with Kevin and the dogs sometimes (about a mile), go to […]

sennet has been watching cupcake wars on his ipad and today he just had to make cupcakes.  He was very inspired and wanted filled and toasted and caramelized- with marshmallow frosting.  We settled on chocolate with buttercream filling and chocolate fudge frosting.  It was fun baking with him but the end result wasnt worth the […]