Maegan is heartbroken that her pet rat Pixel died today. She loved that rat and played with her all the time. Pixel died of salmonella poisoning from contaminated pet food sold by Kaytee. The company recalled a batch of its Forti-Diet Pro Health Mouse, Rat and Hamster food, and the bag we were feeding Pixel [...]
I was just sent this photo of Darah in dance lessons. This reminded me of when Maegan took dance lessons. Here’s a photo from a 2005 blog post, which would make Darah the same age as Maegan was at the time:
Last week I got to take the kids to Florida, but Patty couldn’t make it due to her nursing school. We did a lot of swimming, some mini-golf, went to the Palm Beach Zoo, and went to the beach. Here are photos from the trip.
I’m on the bus back from Charlotte now but this weekend I got to meet the latest member of the family. While I’ve been away, Maegan got a pet white rat, which she named Pixel. So now we have both a rat and a rat terrier (bred to hunt and kill rats). This sounds horribly [...]
Meet Peach, Maegan’s new dwarf hamster.On a related note, our dog Boomer is a Rat Terrier, bred to hunt and kill rodents instinctively. May Peaches safely never escape her plastic running ball.
I am now the father of a teenager! Maegan is now 13 years old! (*This was intentionally not posted on her birthday.)
This weekend we did some special things with Patty, Maegan, and Darah. On Saturday we all went to the Washington Monument (Amy and Steve too). We’ve all been there before but I got tickets months ago to go inside and up to the top for the first time. The weather was absolutely perfect and you [...]
My family drove up to visit me for the first time since I began working in Washington DC back in March. It’s taken so long because they needed a time when Patty was between semesters at nursing school and Maegan was not in school or camp either. Patty had her final exam on Monday and [...]
Amy made the following holiday video of us at Jib Jab and then surprised us with it.
Whether it counted as a White Christmas or not, we had 2-3 inches of snow on the ground the day after Christmas and the kids loved it.