The Harmelings

Commercial: ‘women’s basketball championship’ Jack: ‘women’s basketball championship?!?!? What are they talking about? Womens can’t play basketball!’ – DJ

Mary: Jack, what does spooky mean? Jack: dark, not pretty, kinda scary. . . Mary: is it a bad word? Jack: No. Idiot is a bad word.

I was hiding in the hallway evesdropping on Jack and the viking-boy, I am not sure what started it but this is what I heard: Jack: My dad is not the boss of this house. My mom is, and then Otis. Sorren: Does he know? (I dont know if Sorren was referrring to DJ or [...]

4 years old and the wonder boy (as Tari calls him) has started his first organized sport. He is playing soccer on Saturdays (practice and game all-in-one) through the YMCA. His team is called the Green Flash, and they are horrible and wonderful all at once. Come by for the game if you want a [...]

We are loving our new viking neighbors. They moved in early August 08, after being transferred from Michigan and house hunting for several months, but our own summer drama distracted us from getting to know them. We call them the vikings because if their ridiculous Nordicness (that’s word, I swear.) First you have the names [...]

Jack: “daddy isnt even a mamal, sicne he doesnt have hair.” Tatum: “Im even going to invte you to my birthday (which is in 5 months), all of them”

Pumpkin station in del mar, originally uploaded by charmeling. We came for the carnies, not the pumpkin$.

Are you ready to save the world?, originally uploaded by charmeling. Or, at least for Halloween?

Cooking with jack, originally uploaded by charmeling. Tonight he helped make, and flip, grilled cheese!

While on the potty Jack tells me that “poop goes down the drains and pipes out to Mars and then to the space. But the red poop goes into volcanoes to make lava, and that’s hot.”