The Rankin Zoo

Coral has a few fish (thanks for getting us started, Kirstin) and as everyone knows, fish aren’t always the hardiest of animals. She’s had the same brown fish for a fairly long time. We got an orange fish to go with it a while back and then more recently we got another orange [...]

The other morning Coral and I were lying down on the couch watching some Blue’s Clues. She had her head on my chest. After a few minutes she sat up and exclaimed, “I can hear your heartbeep!”

Feel free to ignore.
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Finally, our counter tops have been installed. We’ve been waiting so long and this is the big moment we’ve been looking forward to! Yes! Uh… wait… hmmmm.

I thought we were getting more than that.

That’s right, we have about 1/15th of our counters. We have a stove, but no microwave. We [...]

We have been loosely encouraging Coral to use the potty for a while now. Our standing offer is that she gets one M&M each time she uses the potty. First of all, it’s amazing to see how she can savor one single M&M. Second of all, it’s equally amazing how much chocolate [...]