The Rankin Zoo

For the first time ever, we cut Pearl’s hair last night. We didn’t cut very much, just enough to keep it out of her eyes.

Today, September 8th 2009, Coral turns 5! It seems like just the other day she was a little baby – and now she seems so grown up. I guess that’s how it works, but it makes me a little bit sad. I know that’s what all parents say – and it’s because [...]

Last Thursday afternoon we drove to visit B’s dad in north western Ohio. On Sunday Coral complained to me that her tooth hurt – but I didn’t think much of it since she fairly regularly complains about various parts of her body hurting. Yesterday morning we started our drive back home. It’s [...]

I have been terrible with the blog. Sorry about that. Here are some updates.
Coral
Coral finished up her first year of preschool. She had a week (or was it two?) and has started a two week summer session. There are a handful of kids in her new class that were in her [...]

Brian’s post the other day about things they won’t remember about their kids growing up has inspired me to try something new. Like Brian, we keep this blog as much for us (and our poor memories) as we do for the people who come and read it. When Coral was younger we did [...]