In keeping with our recent collection, now a brimming 11, of tiny toadies, we have added a truly scary invertebrate to the mix. She's a wolf spider , about two inches across including legs. That is to say she could eat any one of our toads for a

We have the most astonishing good fortune when it comes to toads. Maybe a month ago, Isaac was gouging a hole in the garden with the "jet" setting on the hose, when he discovered a wonderful little hop toad. Or maybe excavated him from his

I wouldn't want you to get the impression that just because I tend to write more about Isaac there's nothing going on with Elias. On the contrary. He's quite a little spitfire, a handful, and does it all while looking more cherubic than m

A while back, we were driving along in the car and Isaac piped up from the back seat, "Mommy, what if Hitler were stung by a bee and yelled, 'I'm hit! Oh, lawdy I'm hit!'" The young Dada-ist, with his most unlikely conflatio