After I swore off soda and ice cream for the next month and started a workout routine, our kind neighbors brought us two packages of chocolate–one for Daniel and me and one for the kids. . .

I succumbed, and this is the lie Dove told me underneath the melt-in-your-mouth chocolate.

Not true, Dove. My current weight and physical shape proves you wrong.

Okay, I just needed to get that out there.

Now I’ve confessed and I can go forward.

Mara ate her cheese in the shape of a map of the United States, which she recognizes from “playing Google Earth.”

I love my little workout partner! She’s gonna be shredded before I am! Go, Rissy!!

Occasionally those fortunes are right on!

Apparently big brother used the Stools of Death to climb in and join him for Play Yard Time.

How fun when you have someone to play with!